{"author_link":"\/author\/crowbeak\/","author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","comments":[{"author_name":"Malor","author_uid":"26140","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:55am","epoch":1377485400,"text":"I don't understand what to do, but i used to play this game for five minutes!"},{"author_name":"Kaldrick","author_uid":"25225","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:09am","epoch":1377507840,"text":"Awesome ;D I loved the music at the end, and the 'arrrn' sound when something went wrong ;P"},{"author_name":"Spotline","author_uid":"11703","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:15am","epoch":1377508200,"text":"A bit hard to understand what you're doing but quite fun :)"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:52am","epoch":1377510420,"text":"Hey - something gone wrong... I'm getting an error with promise when the game loads: &quot;4 Uncaught Error: failed in Deferred&quot;."},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:53am","epoch":1377510480,"text":"Fantastic use of sound effects! Great job! This game might prove to be better if you could make levels. Start out with just one machine, and work your way up to four?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>By the by, I fixed the OS X download on my game!"},{"author_name":"Sinuath","author_uid":"3045","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:57am","epoch":1377510720,"text":"It wouldn't load, just hung there at around half way. using firefox."},{"author_name":"Tundmatu","author_uid":"15492","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:08pm","epoch":1377522180,"text":"Really fun game even though i panic when i'm about to fail. Top notch audio as well!"},{"author_name":"Surrealix","author_uid":"215","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:48am","epoch":1377571380,"text":"I have no idea what was happening, but it was hilarious and I played it for 10 minutes anyway! The audio was brilliant too."},{"author_name":"cardboard","author_uid":"16294","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:55am","epoch":1377579000,"text":"I love your sound effects. The little dude is pretty funny. I like the gameplay, but it seems like it is impossible to last super long, since once I use of the Fix-It-All there's not really any way to lower my Frims, Pazzles, or Gonks. The gameplay was still fun though, and I enjoyed my time with your game :)"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:51am","epoch":1377582360,"text":"Yeah... I didn't have time to balance it properly. I want it to be fairly manageable, but make it so that having a needle in a red zone affects one or both of the other gauges. xD"},{"author_name":"kristof","author_uid":"11354","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:57pm","epoch":1377618720,"text":"I played this like ten times just for the game over jingle :D"},{"author_name":"PTSnoop","author_uid":"11718","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 9:15pm","epoch":1377637800,"text":"I don't know why I love this game so much, but I do. The first game this LD to make me actually laugh out loud!"},{"author_name":"zillix","author_uid":"2460","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 6:31am","epoch":1377671160,"text":"what a bizarre game. I love it!"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 7:46am","epoch":1377675660,"text":"^_^ I really appreciate the kind words, folks. I'm glad people have as much fun listening to the sound as I had making it. :3"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 11:28am","epoch":1377688980,"text":"Those harmonies are to die for. *snicker*. Hey, the firefox-loading version works for me. Great game: very stressful when everything starts going at the same time. I need a lil' lie down."},{"author_name":"N0_Named_Guy","author_uid":"5344","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1377721680,"text":"Video review: http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/n0_named_guy\/c\/2833788"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 10:54am","epoch":1377773340,"text":"Sweet, thanks for the link to the video review ^_^"},{"author_name":"RoyBatty","author_uid":"27802","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1377896280,"text":"My gonks be all 'splodin', yo :'-) \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great Ka-Boom! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>-thatwhichis, team RoyBatty"},{"author_name":"mutilator","author_uid":"26566","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 9:04pm","epoch":1377896340,"text":"I was confused on what to do. Liked the sound effects. Overall the game could use some improvement."},{"author_name":"larb","author_uid":"17860","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 12:54am","epoch":1377996540,"text":"I think I understand how to play, but it's hard. I'm wondering how far you can go. Funny audio. Nice entry."},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 6:01am","epoch":1378014960,"text":"Interesting and simple."},{"author_name":"Cryovat","author_uid":"19066","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 7:05pm","epoch":1378062000,"text":"That was haaaaard. The core gameplay is solid, but it's a bit hard to keep track of what the switches do. Apart from the wall of text at the start, there's no indication what effects they have ingame (or on the game over screen).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Would help a lot if it said +Pazzles under the Frimurderer, etc. Apart from that, great job! :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh, and because of the Game Over jingle, you now owe me a new keyboard. Shouldn't have been drinking water while playing. D;"},{"author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 11:29pm","epoch":1378077840,"text":"Sounds and the music at the end are great!"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Sep 9, 2013 @ 6:34am","epoch":1378708140,"text":"@cryovat: Haha, sorry about the keyboard, man. ^_^\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Yeah, I know there are some improvements to make in UI understandability. ^_^ Post-jam version is in the works, but I have a bug to squash, too, so I'm refactoring code so I can find the frelling thing."},{"author_name":"X-0r","author_uid":"25053","time":"Sep 9, 2013 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1378737300,"text":"Argh... the character's movement speed is so slooooow. Doesn't really make it easy to reach everything in time. Or I just suck at this game^^"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Sep 10, 2013 @ 8:56am","epoch":1378803060,"text":"The game needs balance, but having the character's ability to move from switch to switch be something to take into account was planned ahead of time."},{"author_name":"Zerkruemler","author_uid":"27446","time":"Sep 10, 2013 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1378837320,"text":"Quite strange game mechanics. Hard to understand what to do. The sounds are quite funny."},{"author_name":"Urfoex","author_uid":"5888","time":"Sep 15, 2013 @ 9:10am","epoch":1379235900,"text":"Kaboom!\r<br\/>You exploded!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh so true..."},{"author_name":"Vile Smile","author_uid":"26636","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 1:59am","epoch":1379296440,"text":"The game was very hectic, trying to keep me pazzles and gonks from overloading. I gerked them many a time to keep them under control. But unfortunately, I exploded (according to the song, which is always true). Very innovative and I liked the sound effects. Good gerk!"}],"images":["ld27\/16689-fab9a862af0a1bb47ce93fbf7c8a2e4f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.lenaleray.us\/ld27\/","text":"Web (Buggy in Firefox D:)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/x1cnr55ds3du7k9\/Worst_Gnome_LD27.zip","text":"Offline (Bring Your Own Browser)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Crowbeak\/LD27","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2013\/08\/25\/worst-gnome-at-the-factory-postmortem\/","text":"Postmortem"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24409","g_author":"16689","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24439","g_title":"Worst Gnome at the Factory","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"610","g_commentcount":"29","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\/16689-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are the worst gnome at the factory. Everyone likes you -- you're nice enough and you make the BEST explosions. But... well... even THEY think you cause TOO MANY explosions. Before you came along, they didn't think there WAS such a thing.\r\n\r\nGood luck not exploding the machine. You'll need it.\r\n\r\n\r\nBrowser compatibility issue: Game usually loads in Firefox, with the special Firefox version, but still hates life. *headdesk*\r\n\r\nKnown bug: timers can stop working. :(","title":"Worst Gnome at the Factory"}