{"author_link":"\/author\/porglezomp\/","author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","comments":[{"author_name":"MrBlade","author_uid":"23232","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:15am","epoch":1377483000,"text":"Nice job!\r\rThis is a pretty great game all around. Nice use of unity, great visuals, and a pretty solid story.\r\rIf I did have to gripe about one thing, it would be the sound, except for the the one blip at the beginning, I didn't hear anything. (Maybe it was just the route I took or something.)\r\rCan't wait to see if you do a Post-Mortem! \r\rKeep it up!"},{"author_name":"Pestodesign","author_uid":"26221","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:36am","epoch":1377509460,"text":"Man, this was really nicely written! I like how you used the 10 seconds to push the player forward. Simple but good!"},{"author_name":"OkayHughes","author_uid":"23107","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:58pm","epoch":1377525180,"text":"An excellent entry. I think the timer would have been better if it gave you a sound for the 5 second warning or something. \rThe visuals were quite consistent with each other and the story was extremely well done. \rNice entry."},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:55pm","epoch":1377528600,"text":"@MrBlade, the sound only beeps if it forces a choice for you.\r@Pestodesign thanks! One of my friends told me "This fixes all the problems with Choose-Your-Own-Adventure games."\r@OkayHughes I tried to make a warning sound, but it never really worked."},{"author_name":"KristinnEs","author_uid":"25925","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1377528780,"text":"Great game :) I love the artstyle."},{"author_name":"Todnut","author_uid":"26167","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:02pm","epoch":1377529020,"text":"Wow awesome art and so much of it! It was a bit too much reading for me, but that's how I am."},{"author_name":"Dioiminik","author_uid":"16076","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1377529140,"text":"Overall one of the best entries i've seen so far :D\rFits the theme very well, has awesome graphics and it's innovative too"},{"author_name":"agumaster","author_uid":"17834","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1377529560,"text":"this is AWESOME ! its perfect of a new hollywood movie, and the quick choises are a great form of put the player into the story."},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1377529860,"text":"This is absolutely amazing. The most fun I had out of the 15 games I have played so far. The time presure and nice pictures really pulled me into the story."},{"author_name":"cafeine","author_uid":"14795","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:28pm","epoch":1377530580,"text":"Very good graphics, the story is well done. I'm not a fan of the "10s to choose" gimmick, but that's just me, and it's really well-employed here. Congratulations!"},{"author_name":"Latency","author_uid":"25407","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:54pm","epoch":1377532140,"text":"That was really cool, like the narrative and art."},{"author_name":"PTSnoop","author_uid":"11718","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:59pm","epoch":1377532440,"text":"Well written - which isn't something I often find myself saying with LD games. And the artwork works really well. Just one thing, though - the Unity web player doesn't work on Linux, so a separate build would be useful."},{"author_name":"graytest","author_uid":"11705","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1377533040,"text":"I like the graphics and the story. Gripped me even though I didn't play long. Good job in general and with the story and graphics especially!"},{"author_name":"Ghostik","author_uid":"6198","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1377534420,"text":"Really cool stoyline!"},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:37pm","epoch":1377534720,"text":"@PTSnoop, I'll put up some offline builds right away."},{"author_name":"withoutpillow","author_uid":"27525","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:17pm","epoch":1377537120,"text":"great writing and visuals! really impressive, it's only the ending that i didn't quiet like, but overall a good story and interesting setting. nice use of the timer to, simple but effective."},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1377547380,"text":"I really, really liked this. I ran through the game twice... the story was pretty standard though very engaging... in the end I got the jerk high-profile job! The graphics are of course polished and great... audio would have worked wonders, too bad you didn't put any :(\r\rGood luck!"},{"author_name":"skywing","author_uid":"15682","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:44pm","epoch":1377553140,"text":"Very impressive. The art is nice and it tells a full story blow by blow. Pretty funny to boot."},{"author_name":"kantieno","author_uid":"27278","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:46pm","epoch":1377553260,"text":"I enjoyed the story."},{"author_name":"randomelginguy","author_uid":"16596","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:46pm","epoch":1377553260,"text":"Really funny"},{"author_name":"Vasileiadis","author_uid":"25993","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1377553500,"text":"Intriguing storyline(s) ;)"},{"author_name":"SamC","author_uid":"26905","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1377553500,"text":"Nice idea, great visuals."},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1377553680,"text":"Really nice! Interesting story, it never started to drag because you had checkpoints covered. Good job!"},{"author_name":"kristof","author_uid":"11354","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:42pm","epoch":1377560220,"text":"Wow! That must have been a lot of work. One of the best games I have seen thus far. Sometimes the text was a bit long to read in ten seconds. But that is a minor complaint."},{"author_name":"avh4","author_uid":"24856","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:21am","epoch":1377566160,"text":"Nice story. Playing it again, there don't seem to be that many different paths to take, but when I played the first time, it felt like a huge world. Nice job with that :)"},{"author_name":"Tanser","author_uid":"27381","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:08am","epoch":1377568980,"text":"I like the entire mood of the game and the style of the art.\rGood job."},{"author_name":"ShitAndSon","author_uid":"27763","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 12:33pm","epoch":1377606480,"text":"Great game but the 10 secondes to choose look like you introduced that just for respect the theme and not create the game for the theme. Anyway it's a really greatgame and."},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:51pm","epoch":1377621960,"text":"The 10 seconds to choose was the initial idea of the game, but it ended up playing a more minor part than I would have liked.\rIf I work on it more, I'll change where the timer shows up, instead of being every single choice."},{"author_name":"Canobie","author_uid":"16998","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 8:48pm","epoch":1377636180,"text":"The best game I've played so far by far! Good job!"},{"author_name":"N427","author_uid":"7563","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 2:19pm","epoch":1377699240,"text":"WOW, really awesome dude! Great story and setting and I loved how forced I was to make decisions!\r\r>"Pack your things and leave"\r\r"You have no things here""},{"author_name":"mitkus","author_uid":"12293","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 3:34pm","epoch":1377703740,"text":"Wow, what a story!"},{"author_name":"fgielow","author_uid":"26275","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1377703920,"text":"Well made and very nicely write.\rGreat submission for 48 hours"},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 3:39pm","epoch":1377704040,"text":"@N427 The pack your things and leave was one of my favorite jokes. If you chose to pack your things and leave it just sticks that "You have no things here" card inbetween."},{"author_name":"ratalaika","author_uid":"25607","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 4:52pm","epoch":1377708420,"text":"good job"},{"author_name":"blackotus","author_uid":"19282","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:40pm","epoch":1377711300,"text":"Nice story-telling and mood. Really enjoyed it.\rGreat work!"},{"author_name":"ellipticaldoor","author_uid":"24027","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 12:06am","epoch":1377734460,"text":"Really nice art and design :D"},{"author_name":"Atmospherium","author_uid":"24518","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:16am","epoch":1377742260,"text":"Nice job turning a choose-your-own-adventure into a game. I wish that there was slight movement in the scenes, but that's pretty nitpicky for a 48-hour jam. Good execution on the story."},{"author_name":"angrygeometry","author_uid":"5579","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:23am","epoch":1377749880,"text":"crazy use of unity, worked out really nice"},{"author_name":"ConflictiveLabs","author_uid":"15810","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:50am","epoch":1377751500,"text":"Good job! loved the mood and it was quite fun!"},{"author_name":"Nick Weihs","author_uid":"21927","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 8:50am","epoch":1377765900,"text":"I got vaporized into a pool of carbon dust.. : ( I'm really liking this game so far man I think it's been years since I've played a cool choose your own adventure (Used to like reading them when I was young though) 5 stars from me."},{"author_name":"rxi","author_uid":"16007","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 12:13pm","epoch":1377778080,"text":"Nice work. There was a surprising amount of art work, I found the style of it consistent and really well done.\r\rThe use of the theme via the count down timer didn't end up effecting me much, since I tended to read the text, look at the image and make a decision before the timer got in the red.\r\rFound it an enjoyable experience overall, good job."},{"author_name":"Almax27","author_uid":"21581","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:59pm","epoch":1377795240,"text":"Nice story and use of the theme. :) Good job!"},{"author_name":"Nerlin","author_uid":"26281","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1377801480,"text":"Nice job! Some sounds could be nice."},{"author_name":"BradleySmith","author_uid":"14944","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 8:05pm","epoch":1377806400,"text":"Really enjoyed playing, nice storytelling and pixel art style you have, rated highly. :)"},{"author_name":"Ciaran54","author_uid":"8247","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 9:44pm","epoch":1377812340,"text":"Ha, pretty funny and nice drawings ;) I kind of like the rush that the 10 seconds creates too ;)"},{"author_name":"panurge","author_uid":"21166","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 9:56pm","epoch":1377899460,"text":"Nice work! Really effective storytelling, both text and visuals, given an extra boost by the 10-second mechanic. I thoroughly enjoyed playing this."},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 12:49am","epoch":1377996240,"text":"I liked this! Normally text\/decision games bother me, but not here. You checkpointed me and reduced loss. Things were also very very fast so no time for short attention span to kick in. Plus, aliens... I got a They Live vibe from it. Good stuff. Loved all the art and changing locations. For a game with no sound it had mood."},{"author_name":"Capro","author_uid":"16077","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 10:24am","epoch":1378030740,"text":"This is great. Very well done!"},{"author_name":"Teejay5","author_uid":"16615","time":"Sep 2, 2013 @ 4:59pm","epoch":1378140840,"text":"Great story :O"},{"author_name":"Sestren","author_uid":"10343","time":"Sep 5, 2013 @ 2:21am","epoch":1378347360,"text":"The visuals and the writing are both pretty good. I like that you let the player pick different choices after dying, that saved me a lot of clicking and helped keep me in the moment of the choice that was made."},{"author_name":"Dry Tree","author_uid":"5357","time":"Sep 12, 2013 @ 7:03am","epoch":1378969080,"text":"Excellent use of colour, and captured the mood just right."},{"author_name":"Starspell","author_uid":"1791","time":"Sep 12, 2013 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1378995480,"text":"A very nice little game with good visuals. I like your use of the theme. The only things I would change would be to make it a little more obvious when you had infinite time so that you could sit back and read slowly and to add sounds.\r\rNice to see a good text adventure which was actually engaging."},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Sep 15, 2013 @ 5:37am","epoch":1379223120,"text":"Great game! I played it a few times, and got two different "true" endings.. and died in three different ways. Good stuff!\rThe graphics are very nice, and the story is decent.\rGood job."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Sep 15, 2013 @ 6:37am","epoch":1379226720,"text":"Nice design but with some typos.."},{"author_name":"TobiasW","author_uid":"2587","time":"Sep 15, 2013 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1379263860,"text":"Thanks a lot for your comment on Lost in the Darkness! I understand what you mean - well, they were actually supposed to look small and helpless in the light and quickly scuttle out of there. But then I never came to make the more menancing enemies... :) (Post-compo version later!)\r\rA choose-your-own-adventure game with simple, but great art? In 48 hours? Sweet! The mood's there (I especially love the meeting scenes), I just wish there were music and sound effects to underline it - but then again, 48 hours, right? The timer was a nice idea, but since there wasn't much text, I never felt really rushed.\r\rPretty good job overall!"},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1379359320,"text":"Great game! It would have been nice if there was a more obvious link between the story and the fact that you only have 10 seconds to decide what to do."},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Sep 17, 2013 @ 1:04am","epoch":1379379540,"text":"Hey everyone who rated me, thanks for rating me! You guys are all awesome!"}],"images":["ld27\/21051-f7e82d13ebbcd5929150fb2753763261.jpg","ld27\/21051-e3edfc71de96bf2736044dfb51a16af0.jpg","ld27\/21051-612f46d2be7808c04554f65113a92bc6.jpg","ld27\/21051-9690cf569a0ecdc02b907d61b28103ca.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47802619\/LD\/LD27\/LD27\/LD27.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47802619\/LD\/LD27\/TheAliensCameMac.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47802619\/LD\/LD27\/TheAliensCameLin.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47802619\/LD\/LD27\/TheAliensCameWin.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47802619\/LD\/LD27\/LD27.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24912","g_author":"21051","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24942","g_title":"The Aliens Came (10 seconds to choose)","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"174","g_commentcount":"57","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\/21051-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/21051-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/21051-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/21051-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This game is a Choose Your Own Adventure Game with a 10 second time limit on all your choices.\r\nYou play as an average citizen in a post-invasion society, but all the while circumstance seems to conspire to drive you toward rebellion. \r\n\r\nThe CYOAG engine was built inside Unity3D.\r\nI used TextWrangler to write the story.\r\nBFXR to make the timer-end beep sound effect.\r\nI used Photoshop for the art.\r\nFontstruct was used to create the ingame font.\r\n\r\n","title":"The Aliens Came (10 seconds to choose)"}