{"author_link":"\/author\/sos\/","author_name":"Sos","author_uid":"1405","comments":[{"author_name":"Tyro","author_uid":"12708","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:34am","epoch":1387171740,"text":"The visuals are amazing, no joke. From a technical standpoint, it's pretty impressive too. Recommended."},{"author_name":"zzzev","author_uid":"12191","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:57am","epoch":1387180320,"text":"This looks really cool, but as a Mac user I'm not sure if there's a way for me to run it?"},{"author_name":"Lythom","author_uid":"7763","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:28am","epoch":1387182180,"text":"I'm... of two minds about your game.\rThe game experience is good : one click play, instant immersion in an old dos game exotic universe I missed so much, global "wtf this is so weird and cool!".\rOn the other side... Is there any "good" end ? If no please make clearer than the only two game buttons are "left" and "right" because I just got stuck wondering "What am I suppose to do ?". The starting screen ask you to press space button but this key doesn't seem to do anything in game => This is misleading the player you should either say "anykey" or one of the buttons used to play. If space key does something (I missed) somewhere, you should really give player a feedback when using it at a wrong place.\rThanks for the game =)"},{"author_name":"Tao","author_uid":"23135","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:40am","epoch":1387186500,"text":"The use of DosBox makes me all tingly inside.\rThe atmosphere was dark yet fascinating.\rBrings me back to the good old days."},{"author_name":"feiss","author_uid":"8733","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:33am","epoch":1387189680,"text":"A dos game, way too cool! A brave effort. What did you used for it? Plain C? allegro? Sdl? Graphics are great."},{"author_name":"pereubu","author_uid":"16143","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:40am","epoch":1387193700,"text":"lol D:"},{"author_name":"TheSheep","author_uid":"11694","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:20pm","epoch":1387196100,"text":"Very nice, buy any instructions?"},{"author_name":"Jilt","author_uid":"18468","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:45pm","epoch":1387197600,"text":"Haha this is epic.\rYour game has such an amazing graphic style ! Love it."},{"author_name":"DeathBySnail","author_uid":"2507","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:39pm","epoch":1387200840,"text":"Impressive."},{"author_name":"netguy204","author_uid":"5044","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:47am","epoch":1387244520,"text":"Yesssssss! Felt great to break out DOSBox. Wish I still had a proper old school box and CGA monitor around to experience the full glory. Wonderfully executed. Laughed at the end... I assume that was the end.... hm...\r\rMusic was wonderful (and contextual!)\r\rGraphics were evocative and brought back great memories."},{"author_name":"Pol","author_uid":"18149","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:25am","epoch":1387272000,"text":"Wow, I really love the music ! Is there a way to get it somehow ?"},{"author_name":"Tyu","author_uid":"18467","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1387283040,"text":"Really love the style! I'm struggling with the innovation note though. Is using DOS innovative or sooooooo old fashioned? Hmm."},{"author_name":"soy_yuma","author_uid":"7620","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1387316700,"text":"So cool! I wonder what did you use to make it. I like the graphics and in general its smell of old..."},{"author_name":"Daniel Debert","author_uid":"25682","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 1:01pm","epoch":1387371360,"text":"I really liked it!"},{"author_name":"Makdaam","author_uid":"17280","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1387391940,"text":"I liked the pre-release palette (black-green-red-yellow) more :) but this is nice too. Going to go play Colorado now."},{"author_name":"rxi","author_uid":"16007","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1387397040,"text":"Really lovely artwork and really impressive achievement, You said you coded this in assembly?\r\rI can't seem to find the source code for it, am I missing something?"},{"author_name":"PTSnoop","author_uid":"11718","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:22pm","epoch":1387397820,"text":"It's amazing how much atmosphere you can get from just three colours. Great artwork!"},{"author_name":"peacegiverman","author_uid":"13850","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:04pm","epoch":1387486740,"text":"Your CGA art and music are great! I didn't quite understand the connection to the theme, though. Also, controls would occasionally hang for me (windows .exe download)."},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1387489980,"text":"Sos, you mad scientist! You are always entertaining. This game amused me and I lol'd at the ending.\r\rCGA.\r\rNever forget. :)"},{"author_name":"nyytroh","author_uid":"19152","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 7:51pm","epoch":1387568760,"text":"Ok, graphics and music are amazing piece of old school game dev. But aside from that, am I missing the point (or am I super dumb)? It's like Dear Esther in DOS?"},{"author_name":"JohnnySix","author_uid":"20903","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 3:44pm","epoch":1387640340,"text":"Loved the CGA graphics, impressive stuff, really dug the DOS music too. Am tempted to try dig out an old 286 from the loft and try load it up. :D"},{"author_name":"samooJAM","author_uid":"11043","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 7:49pm","epoch":1387741440,"text":"trotting through the scenes stirs nostalgia vibes"},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 2:33pm","epoch":1387808880,"text":"awesome, this art style just might be the next big thing. again."},{"author_name":"dudsen","author_uid":"27029","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 9:41pm","epoch":1388352960,"text":"Fuck, I need a faster CPU to play ;)\rThanks for that great stuff!"},{"author_name":"BradleySmith","author_uid":"14944","time":"Jan 4, 2014 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1388864940,"text":"This is pretty damn awesome."},{"author_name":"keyboardmonkey","author_uid":"26303","time":"Jan 6, 2014 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1389040080,"text":"Stunning! The gameplay is lacking but the run animation is mesmerizing - I'd love to see the source for this!"}],"images":["ld28\/1405-5add50f0144fcbcba4c84512e1cbdfd1.jpg","ld28\/1405-bba64402482c2ef0bd1b74de3844b12e.jpg","ld28\/1405-c1dab174a6c273e1321d9ac6e7a00de4.jpg","ld28\/1405-f7691dd0537df90d3b9cf0b57d96c1ed.jpg","ld28\/1405-63562a5e4635370677cbe4943d190bf8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/sos.gd\/ld28\/downloads\/matchbox.zip","text":"DOS"},{"url":"http:\/\/sos.gd\/ld28\/downloads\/matchbox.exe","text":"Windows (.EXE)"},{"url":"http:\/\/sos.gd\/ld28\/downloads\/matchbox-boxer.zip","text":"Mac (Boxer)"},{"url":"http:\/\/sos.gd\/ld28\/downloads\/matchbox-img.zip","text":"Bootable 3.5" Image"},{"url":"http:\/\/sos.gd\/ld28","text":"Website (more)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"22048","g_author":"1405","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"22077","g_title":"Matchbox","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"202","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1405-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1405-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1405-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1405-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1405-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I don't know what kind of game this is.\r\n\r\nI made a DOS game, yay! It should run smoothly on anything starting from 8MHz 8088. It's supposed to work flawlessly on any DOS distribbution or under DOSbox. It should also run pretty well on an actual old-school PC. If you have that, I'd appreciate any reports regarding that!\r\n\r\nFeatures 4-colour CGA graphics and PC speaker tunes!\r\n\r\nMac version requires Boxer - http:\/\/boxerapp.com\/","title":"Matchbox"}