{"author_link":"\/author\/lizzip\/","author_name":"Lizzip","author_uid":"22200","comments":[{"author_name":"ashdnazg","author_uid":"21623","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:14pm","epoch":1367237340,"text":"After a 120 seconds or so I ate all the food, and there was nothing left to interact with. The timer said I have 100 seconds to wait, so I just quit :S"},{"author_name":"Lizzip","author_uid":"22200","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:18pm","epoch":1367241180,"text":"That's annoying, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Food spawns in sets of 10, when you eat all 10 the next 10 appear and its infinite until time runs out. There's also a bug where "Him" is no longer drawn after ~150 seconds survived or so. I shall fix these and update later today"},{"author_name":"Cheshyr","author_uid":"20497","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1367252640,"text":"It would have been nice to have some indicator between positive food and negative food. Fun idea though."},{"author_name":"Cirrial","author_uid":"1620","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1367255820,"text":"I agree with the previous comments on the lack of distinction between rotten and okay food."},{"author_name":"@SamPotasz","author_uid":"21972","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1367260860,"text":"I kind of like the lack of distinction esp. as a minimalist meditation on the pointlesness of feedback, videogames, life, love, etc."},{"author_name":"Lizzip","author_uid":"22200","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:35pm","epoch":1367263800,"text":"The two bugs mentioned above are fixed\/poor workaround. If you cannot find the last food item of a set of 10 (i.e you've found 9 but cannot find the 10th, 19 but cannot find the 20th) press 'R' to spawn 10 new food items and remove the missing one.\r\rIn the context of this game it wouldn't make sense to make the good\/bad food items distinguishable as this game is based on randomness. If you only got the good stuff you would have infinite time and wouldn't have respawning food. In this game it's your choice to eat the food in the hopes of elongating your time. But I do agree, in a more fleshed out game based on skill instead of randomness then food should be noticeably good or bad"},{"author_name":"rainblade studios","author_uid":"18642","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:05pm","epoch":1367265600,"text":"Can't play, don't have windows :("},{"author_name":"Lizzip","author_uid":"22200","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1367268600,"text":"Sorry :( My next LD submission will hopefully be on web to stop OS dependencies"},{"author_name":"Egan","author_uid":"20800","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:18am","epoch":1367287980,"text":"Very interesting game. Enjoyed the mechanic that you can't see the world around you. Would have preferred a WASD control scheme than point and click but that is just me.\r\rGreat effort."},{"author_name":"crneumre","author_uid":"22848","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1367350740,"text":"Good game,had fun playing it.\rAwesome mood."},{"author_name":"Gremlin","author_uid":"12047","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 2:52pm","epoch":1367678820,"text":"Interesting. It seems like you were going for a survival or horror\/suspense feel?\r\rI didn't feel like I had too much control over planning my survival--my survival depended more on my ability to keep running. It's skill in execution rather than skill in strategy. I could see that part getting pushed a little further. If the running around was fine-tuned some more it could be a bleak little survival horror game.\r\rThe enemy\/scary threat in the darkness is a little too arbitrary to be really scary. There are probably a bunch of different ways to help with that...maybe have the time-stealing happen after a moment, so the player has a split second to get further away? Probably lots of ways to do it."},{"author_name":"MinionStudios","author_uid":"22273","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 6:42pm","epoch":1367692620,"text":"I survived and missed item spawn three times! Interesting game!"},{"author_name":"HD408","author_uid":"12948","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 12:50am","epoch":1367801100,"text":"Tense feeling, and nice work with audio.\r\rAfter you restart the game, it feels like you just continue the game with new time."},{"author_name":"RawBits","author_uid":"5167","time":"May 17, 2013 @ 6:41pm","epoch":1368815760,"text":"Minimalistic indeed.\r\rI can't understand why one "food" gives 20 and others take away 10. And why that thing appears that take away seconds and how to counter.\r\rAlso never ever use installers for small games and the ones people only plays once! Very annoying!"}],"images":["ld26\/22200-ca9d1fe4a96dd18addcbecc6c392733c.jpg","ld26\/22200-02f487eff4a76e5bc240ef7ee6e0fbb0.jpg","ld26\/22200-4e8b14a2cc9319dfea40bb3fbca107be.jpg","ld26\/22200-cd14f3a93dfd8769d264506b7241d0d0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.magicsheepgames.co.uk\/Garm.zip","text":"Windows (.zip)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.magicsheepgames.co.uk\/Garm.rar","text":"Windows (.rar)"},{"url":"http:\/\/magicsheepgames.co.uk\/GarmSource.zip","text":"Source (.zip)"},{"url":"http:\/\/magicsheepgames.co.uk\/GarmSource.rar","text":"Source (.rar)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UE2Bdy60kB0","text":"Video Playthrough"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26700","g_author":"22200","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26730","g_title":"Garm","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1132","g_commentcount":"14","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\/22200-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/22200-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/22200-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/22200-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Roam around in the darkness eating food to stave off (or quicken) your demise. Survive as long as you can. If you see \"Him\" you lose 10 seconds, because he's just so damn scary!\r\n\r\nFood spawns in sets of 10. 10 spawn, then when you eat all 10 a new set of 10 spawn in random places. Food is infinite.\r\n\r\nAvailable on website http:\/\/magicsheepgames.co.uk\/LD.html for download and gameplay\/development videos.\r\nWindows and source code both downloaded as a .zip or .rar\r\nSource code is zipped\/rar c# visual studio 2010 project\r\n\r\nCurrent record I have seen so far is 290 - Feel free to post screen shots if you beat this\r\n\r\n\r\nFixed bugs:\r\n\r\n - Food sometimes does not respawn (or 1 food spawns outside of map and is unreachable) *WORKAROUND* If you cannot find the last food item, press 'R' (only works if 1 item remains to be found of the set of 10)\r\n\r\n - \"Him\" model does not draw, so he is invisible (maybe that's a super power?) *FIXED*\r\n<\/p>","title":"Garm"}