{"author_link":"\/author\/finefin\/","author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","comments":[{"author_name":"Perry","author_uid":"15778","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:38am","epoch":1367227980,"text":"Oh my god, the people explode? How utterly macabre. I thought it was going to be like frogger, but it's like frogger on meth."},{"author_name":"Panda313","author_uid":"21694","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:00am","epoch":1367232900,"text":"I really liked the humor and the ambiance. But I didn't find it fun to play. However this is a nice try and still a god job"},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:16am","epoch":1367233860,"text":"see if you can find all endings ;)"},{"author_name":"ZeroDivide","author_uid":"20934","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:36pm","epoch":1367238660,"text":"How does he take all those potatoes home without making them explode? Did the curse have a secret clause about potatoes? :)"},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:40pm","epoch":1367238900,"text":"good point. I guess it has something to do with the guy's DNA because he's a couch potato himself. :P"},{"author_name":"rogueNoodle","author_uid":"21449","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:40pm","epoch":1367238900,"text":"Pretty interesting stuff, and I really enjoyed the writing. Somehow I missed the instructions about the arrows at first and tried to use the WASD keys. Oh well - at least that helped me find an ending I probably wouldn't have gotten otherwise ;)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>How many endings are there, by the way? I found three..."},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:46pm","epoch":1367239260,"text":"Well, first I didn't read the texts and just played along, thinking it's another violent game which I'm not very fond of. But, for the 2nd play, it was nice to notice it's at least sort of designed so that you're actually supposed not to touch others, so you can play it w\/o the violent part. :)"},{"author_name":"quill18","author_uid":"7862","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:47pm","epoch":1367239320,"text":"I found three endings and enjoyed the whole thing. Great stuff!"},{"author_name":"Supermomo","author_uid":"20881","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1367239560,"text":"Awesome !"},{"author_name":"omaromeir","author_uid":"23110","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:31pm","epoch":1367241960,"text":"This is a pretty funny game. Fun one too :). I got two endings :D."},{"author_name":"kyyninen","author_uid":"21389","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1367245800,"text":"I got two endings. Restart button should skip the intro screens. Also some potato-related texts overlap. Otherwise neat!"},{"author_name":"HeyChinaski","author_uid":"11211","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:48pm","epoch":1367246580,"text":"Pretty disturbing but very funny.  Nice work on the sound too."},{"author_name":"numpad","author_uid":"17264","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1367252400,"text":"Great game! Love the graphics and the humor at the begining (also the potato shop)!"},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:27am","epoch":1367310120,"text":"Nice work... simple and surreal. Enjoyed the style."},{"author_name":"Royal Railway","author_uid":"6155","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:28am","epoch":1367313780,"text":"I liked it! Figuring out what to do and then experimenting was fun. Graphics and music fit the grim theme."},{"author_name":"pereubu","author_uid":"16143","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:07am","epoch":1367316120,"text":"That game kept me playing a long time, I love it. The narration at the beginning is just hilarious, great job, probably the funniest game so far :D"},{"author_name":"anatolat","author_uid":"20525","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:02pm","epoch":1367333820,"text":"Love style and story of the game. Are you going to make a sequel or any kind of continuation? I was a little bit disappointed the game was to short)"},{"author_name":"Mikel","author_uid":"19855","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:46pm","epoch":1367444460,"text":"Funny :-) 4 endings, are there more?"},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:51am","epoch":1367473560,"text":"@Mikel &amp; anatolat: you found them all, but I plan to add more actions and endings (before I submit it to kong + NG). I just need some time and muse."},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:53am","epoch":1367473680,"text":"(which is a rare good since my apartment is full of craftspeople right now...)"},{"author_name":"meszka","author_uid":"21212","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1367532360,"text":"Nice mood and dark humor. The music was great :)"},{"author_name":"daniel2357","author_uid":"21129","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:03pm","epoch":1367603880,"text":"The introduction is very humristic . Nice music . I liked the game very much."},{"author_name":"ShellfishGames","author_uid":"23164","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 8:46am","epoch":1367656860,"text":"Not particularly fun, but other than that a great entry. Beautiful presentation and mood and it's pretty funny."},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1367706000,"text":"Muahahahaa... That was crazy. Got four endings.\r<br\/>Was a little disappointed when it said &quot;mostly&quot; not killing anyone when I managed to not kill a single person.\r<br\/>Didn't actually see the countdown until my third playthrough."},{"author_name":"little_polygon","author_uid":"19295","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 5:05am","epoch":1367902800,"text":"Aww, this game makes me... have... feeeeeelings."},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 5:08pm","epoch":1367946180,"text":"Interesting game. Well done. :)"},{"author_name":"Sebastian","author_uid":"20818","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1367951940,"text":"What a bizarre premise for a game lol!\r<br\/>I just kept bumping into people on the way to the potato shop. Creepy."},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 4:07pm","epoch":1368374520,"text":"It's a rather strange game but still, the graphics are well done, the audio is pretty nice and I love how you managed to inject some subtle humour into MiniMale's rather unfortunate backstory."},{"author_name":"psc1997","author_uid":"20890","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 4:27pm","epoch":1368375720,"text":"&quot;MiniMale made game for Ludum Dare&quot; - haha :D\r<br\/>But.. This game is veery good :)\r<br\/>I loved that game! &lt;3\r<br\/>Really BIG congratulations to You finefin ;-)"},{"author_name":"nathanj439","author_uid":"18590","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 8:22pm","epoch":1368389820,"text":"Nice game. I liked the multiple playstyles and endings."},{"author_name":"AndyBumpkin","author_uid":"1735","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1368395100,"text":"Found 3 endings so far!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I love the fact that if you decide to kill everyone, more people appear to kill! Brilliant :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Enjoyed it, nice entry!"},{"author_name":"mtrc","author_uid":"12174","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 10:47pm","epoch":1368398520,"text":"Lovely idea with the variables and ending."}],"images":["ld26\/16498-90709f9ab901f3e366cdecc7ad3f46c3.jpg","ld26\/16498-a89d412a3ff0910e536d9bdcb663269e.jpg","ld26\/16498-6f872f53d3505f1b58c50bcb31c20f1d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/4175049\/LD48\/taleOfMiniMale.swf","text":"Web (Flash, original release)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/finefin\/tale-of-minimale","text":"v0.2.2 (Flash on Kong)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25537","g_author":"16498","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25567","g_title":"Tale of MiniMale","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"303","g_commentcount":"32","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\/\/233892\/16498-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/16498-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/16498-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"no preloader, yet. sorry.\r\n\r\nyou can grab the music here https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justfinefin\/transform-this\r\n\r\nTools used: \r\n- Adobe Flash CS5\r\n- SFXR\r\n- NanoStudio\r\n\r\n\r\nEDIT:\r\nI was too tired yesterday night. So here's some blah blah:\r\nThis is my very first LD entry. I was thinking about making an LD game for a long time now and I'm glad that I did it, finally!\r\n\r\nThis game took about 10 hrs to make, with many real life interruptions. I had a strange sickness lately and I'm kinda frustrated because things I used to love taste like shit now. HOW DO ONE MAKE GAMES WITHOUT COFFEE?!?!\r\n\r\nSo to compensate this frustration I needed to create some gory shit. To be honest: most of the time I worked on that splatter engine. I use bitmap blitting to display the floor to make the game perform nicely even if you have killed hundreds of enemies.\r\n\r\nThe first idea was to make a game where you win when doing nothing (minimalistic gameplay)... but then I decided to have different endings depending on how you play, \"do nothing\" is just one of them, and to follow the theme, there is no \"winning\" ;)\r\n\r\nSo have a look, I hope you like it!\r\n\r\n\r\nEDIT 2:  \r\nA small update to adress what has been written in the comments:\r\n- you can skip the intro now\r\n- the text popups are now properly displayed\r\nnew version: https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/4175049\/LD48\/taleOfMiniMale_v021.swf\r\n\r\nI will keep the main link (Web) to link to the original LD48 release.\r\n\r\nEDIT 3:\r\nI uploaded a new version to kongregate\r\n- preloader\r\n- minor tweaks + fixes\r\n\r\nThanks for the great feedback!\r\n\r\n<\/p>","title":"Tale of MiniMale"}