{"author_link":"\/author\/kakuremino\/","author_name":"kakuremino","author_uid":"8853","comments":[{"author_name":"GrimGary","author_uid":"27000","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1377534600,"text":"Loved text adventures back in the day.  When I had a C64, it was text adventures that got me into programming.  Can't say I got far, but I will keep trying =)"},{"author_name":"osthekake","author_uid":"25639","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1377535080,"text":"Very dark and mysterious! \r<br\/>When I was at the part with the timer, I typed &quot;go north&quot; and the game ended. (crashed?)\r<br\/>Nice graphics and audio."},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1377535860,"text":"Link is broken, cant download :\/"},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1377537000,"text":"Whop, forget that, was a problem of my ISP, sry.."},{"author_name":"kakuremino","author_uid":"8853","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:18pm","epoch":1377537180,"text":"Thanks for playing!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Osthekake, the game does indeed crash when trying to &quot;go&quot; somewhere at that part. I've fixed this bug (the rules seem to allow this). The links are updated and now point to the fixed version.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Larzan, the links work for me now. Hopefully it was a temporary problem."},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1377538260,"text":"Great idea, like the visuals, remembered me of the good old days :)\r<br\/>I didn;t get the theme connection though...\r<br\/>But well made.."},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1377538620,"text":"I get the &quot;dangerous download&quot; warning in Chrome, sorry."},{"author_name":"autlos","author_uid":"17768","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1377538980,"text":"I love your textures and the game in general. If I were you, I would show the available commands all the time, so the player can't think in the command at the same time as he reads the room description and avoid typing &quot;help&quot;.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Cheers :)"},{"author_name":"handCraftedRadio","author_uid":"1094","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:09pm","epoch":1377543840,"text":"Wow I love the atmosphere to this game. Very creepy and mysterious."},{"author_name":"skarab","author_uid":"25221","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1377544140,"text":"I enjoy the beginning. Feel to hear the dogs.\r<br\/>But I got stuck to the fridge, &quot;read note&quot; didn't work, noticed I had to type examine\/look, I think those are a bit confusing. Nice game, which I'll examine\/read\/look again later on :)"},{"author_name":"stephan_h","author_uid":"3707","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:21pm","epoch":1377544560,"text":"This is a wonderful game, although I did not finish it. I like the mood, the graphics and the descriptions.\r<br\/>I too often had to type &quot;help&quot; because I could not remember all of the commands."},{"author_name":"Zerkruemler","author_uid":"27446","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1377544920,"text":"Somehow spooky. Although I played a lot ot text adventures back in the old C=64 days I prefer modern adventures more. I will try this later again since I did not get too far. Cool graphics by the way."},{"author_name":"BradleySmith","author_uid":"14944","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:53pm","epoch":1377560880,"text":"Very interesting take on the theme. :)"},{"author_name":"Clurect","author_uid":"11597","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 12:17am","epoch":1377562320,"text":"It was kind of cool, but I couldn't figure out the statue. The sound was spooky which was cool, but there were parts that were weird. The art was nice."},{"author_name":"nikkesen","author_uid":"27549","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:44am","epoch":1377567540,"text":"Beautiful art. It suited the ambient music nicely. Interesting premise for the story."},{"author_name":"JellyMan64","author_uid":"25427","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1377613800,"text":"Loved the game alot."},{"author_name":"Tainted_Code","author_uid":"5752","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 10:28pm","epoch":1377642180,"text":"That's pretty awesome, well done! :D"},{"author_name":"KhaoTom","author_uid":"7425","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 10:49pm","epoch":1377643440,"text":"Didn't figure out how to complete it, but i really liked the journey"},{"author_name":"Joxno","author_uid":"25136","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:04pm","epoch":1377644340,"text":"This is really cool, I love text adventures and this was really fun, I like it how you combined both text and imagery, works really well!"},{"author_name":"SnoringFrog","author_uid":"20952","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1377647040,"text":"Very nice looking game. I can't help but feel that I'm missing something, even though I dug through the source code after playing to see what I could fine and didn't find anything particularly interesting that I'd missed."},{"author_name":"Kragnir","author_uid":"26709","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 12:24am","epoch":1377649140,"text":"Nice idea, nice implementation of the idea. Really like how you see the clock in the end."},{"author_name":"Yell0w","author_uid":"7009","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 7:23pm","epoch":1377890280,"text":"Very nice hand drawn images! The mix of downloaded art and hand drawn was so-so, but all in all cool! Not sure what the smooth rock and the knife was for tho ... hmm :)"},{"author_name":"kakuremino","author_uid":"8853","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 10:06pm","epoch":1377900060,"text":"Thanks for all the nice comments!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Yell0w, I'm not sure what you mean by &quot;downloaded art&quot;. No downloaded images are in the game. Almost all the images were hand drawn (by me) and then digitally processed with Gimp. The rest I drew from scratch digitally (mostly Gimp again)."},{"author_name":"ellipticaldoor","author_uid":"24027","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1377903000,"text":"Good art &lt;3"},{"author_name":"Almax27","author_uid":"21581","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 10:56pm","epoch":1377903060,"text":"Nice mood but same problem as mentioned before : I typed help, then I couldn't see the description of the room anymore, had to restart to reread."},{"author_name":"kakuremino","author_uid":"8853","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 11:00pm","epoch":1377903300,"text":"Almax27, the &quot;look&quot; command (or just &quot;l&quot; for short) will give you a description of the room."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1377981060,"text":"Found this game very interesting but some what difficult. I featured it in my Ludum Dare 27 video compilation series, if you'd like to check it out, http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MGdyZZ8iT10"}],"images":["ld27\/8853-c19d6ec470604976d6d22aa1ea8e8c43.jpg","ld27\/8853-4fc6486dc96eeb4f13cba8248010cb68.jpg","ld27\/8853-2b5684d3a3a864cf0dff308c169ebaeb.jpg","ld27\/8853-bdcfe0baacf0e570d7a28b44af971a2c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/tg3Tkn","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/nOMbWg","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23432","g_author":"8853","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"23462","g_title":"Dead Man","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"435","g_commentcount":"27","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\/\/273708\/8853-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/8853-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/8853-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/8853-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Edit: I fixed a crash (hopefully) that occured when trying to \"go\" somewhere at a certain place. This seems to be alright according to the rules:\r\n\"We allow you to fix crash or win condition bugs after the deadline (in a sense, like \"porting\" to support more players).\"\r\n\r\n------\r\n\r\nThis is a text adventure with visual elements and sounds. To play, download the zip file and extract the contents to the desired location. Run game.exe.\r\n\r\nTo the people not using Windows: You might be able to run the game from source. What is needed is Ruby 1.9.2 (the game might run in previous or later versions but I'm not sure) and the Gosu gem (see http:\/\/www.libgosu.org\/), which is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Please tell me if it works (or if it doesn't).\r\n\r\nThe game was made using Ruby with Gosu and Ocra. Gimp, Paint and colored pencils were used for the graphics. Audacity and MilkyTracker for sounds and music.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nYou control the game by typing commands. Enter \"help\" in game at any time for the following list of all available actions: \r\nCut, drop, eat, examine, give, go, help, inventory, listen, look, open, quit game, read, say, sleep, smell, take, taste, touch, use.","title":"Dead Man"}