{"author_link":"\/author\/jeremias\/","author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","comments":[{"author_name":"MTO","author_uid":"11361","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:31pm","epoch":1367238360,"text":"Very serene little game, I think you captured the theme pretty well."},{"author_name":"Joror","author_uid":"15925","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:10pm","epoch":1367258700,"text":"Like the look and feel, very cleanly done."},{"author_name":"Moist","author_uid":"16352","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1367259000,"text":"This looks and feels absolutely amazing. Well done!"},{"author_name":"TheSambassador","author_uid":"3936","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:17pm","epoch":1367259120,"text":"Very nice!"},{"author_name":"Geoege","author_uid":"13360","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:21pm","epoch":1367259360,"text":"Very peacefull and interesting game.\r<br\/>Maybe a bit repetitive but it works very well.\r<br\/>Nice done."},{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1367259540,"text":"Solid game !"},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1367260020,"text":"I like the unique idea and the nice graphics. This game fits the theme very well."},{"author_name":"fysx","author_uid":"10726","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:05pm","epoch":1367337600,"text":"Very smooth game. It's a very minimalistic yet challenging turn-based strategy game. Awesome balance!"},{"author_name":"MRvanderPants","author_uid":"20836","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 11:34am","epoch":1367407740,"text":"Good looking game, with fine gameplay. It's fairly easy to figure the game out and is fun to play. Nice graphics too."},{"author_name":"GetFun","author_uid":"8548","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 11:46am","epoch":1367408460,"text":"cool art, very cool art =D"},{"author_name":"shotiris","author_uid":"21355","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:25pm","epoch":1367410800,"text":"Pretty cool!"},{"author_name":"DaanVanYperen","author_uid":"22396","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:08pm","epoch":1367413380,"text":"Minimal but effective! Liked it a lot."},{"author_name":"gregdevice","author_uid":"8124","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:33am","epoch":1367476080,"text":"Great little game! Some added features and bonuses would make this really fun. Maybe an overall goal as well. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"Zhrack","author_uid":"20741","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 3:55pm","epoch":1367509800,"text":"Great game! Just some other elements and it can be a good non-jam game"},{"author_name":"IceCliff","author_uid":"23152","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 9:20am","epoch":1367658900,"text":"I love games with a good atmosphere!"},{"author_name":"Szedouu","author_uid":"21102","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 9:55am","epoch":1367661000,"text":"Clean work, new and fresh look on survival kind."},{"author_name":"Covenant","author_uid":"326","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 10:01am","epoch":1367661360,"text":"Excelent game design, awesome graphics...\r<br\/>The only drawback for me was no full screen mode, and on the UI, the elements you must &quot;catch&quot; should be more clearly separated from the your resources... Good job!"},{"author_name":"Dir3kt","author_uid":"12434","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 7:08pm","epoch":1367694180,"text":"What to say? I liked it a lot! I don't have any criticism to give, quite the perfect game."},{"author_name":"CMaster","author_uid":"10609","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 7:50pm","epoch":1367955900,"text":"Gorgeous looking resource management puzzler.\r<br\/>Be good if the tool tips could update without having to mouse away and back again though."},{"author_name":"recursive frog","author_uid":"8342","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 2:48pm","epoch":1368024180,"text":"Unfortunately I can't rate this one since I don't have Windows"},{"author_name":"1WeekEndStudio","author_uid":"23446","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1368027120,"text":"Great work! This game have a very high level of finition."},{"author_name":"juaxix","author_uid":"10960","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1368209820,"text":"Love hex games, would like to change the way of playing to another not secuential...it's hard to understand the rules but it is simple...\r<br\/>nicely done"},{"author_name":"HelkeGames","author_uid":"20522","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 6:33pm","epoch":1368210480,"text":"Nice game, very minimalist great job! :D"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 8:10pm","epoch":1368216300,"text":"Beautiful presentation."},{"author_name":"multikorv","author_uid":"8028","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 10:22am","epoch":1368267420,"text":"Looks really nice! Definitely got some minimalism there. Also quite addictive gameplay. :) Nice job."},{"author_name":"Siewart","author_uid":"10724","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1368284700,"text":"Ahh, the first turnbased game I found, also a very enjoyable one :)"},{"author_name":"ashdnazg","author_uid":"21623","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1368284760,"text":"The game feels very &quot;polished&quot;!\r<br\/>I also really liked the music."},{"author_name":"cakemonitor","author_uid":"5357","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1368285060,"text":"great graphics and an impressive game :) good job"},{"author_name":"wolf","author_uid":"2364","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 10:33am","epoch":1368354480,"text":"I couldn't get this to run on my Windows 7 64-bit machine. The mouse does the hour glass briefly then nothing happens."},{"author_name":"wolf","author_uid":"2364","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 10:36am","epoch":1368354660,"text":"Ignore my last comment. I didn't have XNA redist installed :)"},{"author_name":"Taro Omiya","author_uid":"20557","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 4:38am","epoch":1368419580,"text":"A lot like the board game, Catan.  Enjoyed it while it lasted.  Made it to level 8, yo!"},{"author_name":"brantkings","author_uid":"7556","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 12:38pm","epoch":1368448380,"text":"Great game. Had fun with it. Particularly the graphics and little animations are very well put together."},{"author_name":"MinionStudios","author_uid":"22273","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 4:37pm","epoch":1368462720,"text":"Really fun and very simple. The resource management is challenging and rewarding!"},{"author_name":"JonathanG","author_uid":"11515","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 9:31pm","epoch":1368653160,"text":"It took me a little while to figure out what was going on, but once I got the hang of it (thanks to rollovers) I enjoyed it. I cruised through most of the levels, so much so that I started to get a bit bored, but then the difficulty suddenly ramped up in level 9 (It seems the levels are random, I don't know if it's possible to win).  The gameplay is good, and I appreciated the audio. If you intend to expand on this idea, I'd add some more tiles that get introduced over time, and maybe some story or extra puzzles of some kind. All in all though, a very impressive effect for 1 person in 48 hours!  Also, the graphics were lovely!"}],"images":["ld26\/7211-77c496604f3ed3ec246b231136f51630.jpg","ld26\/7211-39565079fe7eb9d91f1399ccee016092.jpg","ld26\/7211-b5e385f0b45653a5124b3bcf80021feb.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.stevencolling.com\/downloads\/ld26\/TheProspector.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.stevencolling.com\/downloads\/ld26\/Source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26161","g_author":"7211","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26191","g_title":"The Prospector","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"139","g_commentcount":"34","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\/7211-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/7211-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/7211-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"My take on the theme is the minimalistic lifestyle of an outsider, a prospector and scout in specific. You range the woods for resources like deep fishing grounds, spots of rare herbage and valuable ores. While you mark them on your map for your client, you need to stay alive. Your only enemy is you: don't starve, don't die of thirst and don't freeze to death. Every landscape has its natural resources which you must find.\r\n\r\nTo play this game, you need to have .NET 4 and XNA 4 installed. You can get them here:\r\n\r\n.NET 4\r\nhttp:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=17851\r\n\r\nXNA\r\nhttp:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=20914<\/p>","title":"The Prospector"}