{"author_link":"\/author\/xmmmx\/","author_name":"XmmmX","author_uid":"16565","comments":[{"author_name":"ParaPup","author_uid":"18322","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:12pm","epoch":1355753220,"text":"It wouldn't launch"},{"author_name":"Gemberkoekje","author_uid":"5952","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:13pm","epoch":1355753280,"text":"Putting this one on a list to play at home."},{"author_name":"XmmmX","author_uid":"16565","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1355753520,"text":"@ParaPup\r<br\/>What do you mean with &quot;It wouldn't launch&quot;?\r<br\/>Did you install the XNA Framework?"},{"author_name":"TheCze","author_uid":"17841","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:30pm","epoch":1355754300,"text":"I had some problems with the controls but it's a good game. More traps would have been nice."},{"author_name":"Fonserbc","author_uid":"16828","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1355754900,"text":"Great game!\r<br\/>What was tifficult to figure out is that the red blocks are the boss battle room and that you are only able to modify the gray blocks :P\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The battle animations are great and fun!"},{"author_name":"XmmmX","author_uid":"16565","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:52pm","epoch":1355755620,"text":"@TheCze\r<br\/>Thanks for your review.\r<br\/>I am sorry, I couldn't finish the game entirely but maybe I'll do a post-compo. ;)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Fonserbc\r<br\/>Thanks for your review. :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Yeah,I think I should mention it in the description that you can only place new tiles on gray walls next to gray tiles.^^"},{"author_name":"Ace","author_uid":"10247","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:54pm","epoch":1355755740,"text":"Not too bad a game but the gameplay was a bit boring, you never seemed to have enough gold to really expand your dungeon or do anything fun.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The boss battle controls were a bit confusing at first too, considering that you're able to move at will during normal play but not boss battles."},{"author_name":"delpes","author_uid":"8513","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:56pm","epoch":1355755860,"text":"Nice. Made it to lvl 11.It took me some seconds to figure out where i could build things and that i need to be in front of the hero to begin the fight."},{"author_name":"Aswissrole","author_uid":"17864","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:57pm","epoch":1355755920,"text":"Can't seem to get it working. Seems to be my virus scanner going crazy. Damn you Norton!"},{"author_name":"DeathBySnail","author_uid":"2507","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:09pm","epoch":1355756640,"text":"A bit confusing at first, but once I found out how to build stuff, it became much more clear. Like it!"},{"author_name":"lorancou","author_uid":"8588","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:27pm","epoch":1355757720,"text":"Good entry. Fits the theme, this is actually close to one of my initial ideas :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I didn't find how to place furniture on my first run. Not very intuitive, things should just pop on the map once you've clicked them in the inventory. Also it took me a while to figure out how to start the boss fights, there should be a red spot &quot;go there now&quot;. But nice effort overall, art, sound, gameplay, this all fits very well, just misses a bit of in-game guidelines."},{"author_name":"XmmmX","author_uid":"16565","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:36pm","epoch":1355758260,"text":"@lorancou\r<br\/>Thanks for your review. :)\r<br\/>I am sorry,I thought I explained it well enough in the Help\/Controls menu. I will try better next time."},{"author_name":"Rex Peppers","author_uid":"4914","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:45pm","epoch":1355758800,"text":"Can't play windows only games.  :-("},{"author_name":"arhpositive","author_uid":"11575","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:46pm","epoch":1355758860,"text":"Lasted for 6 rounds and 3205 points. Second Level 13 in a row killed me with just little hp left. I enjoyed the game. Graphics and audio were right on the spot. Overall, it was a fun game to play. Well done."},{"author_name":"tumoxep","author_uid":"13912","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:55pm","epoch":1355763000,"text":"Awesome idea. Game itself is very enjoyable and makes a lot of fun to play.\r<br\/>It would be nice to see character customization in post-compo version."},{"author_name":"Devenger","author_uid":"2661","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:01pm","epoch":1355763360,"text":"Pretty cool idea, but the combat was needlessly frustrating (sometimes you'd just teleport onto the hero's sword...) and placing dungeon tiles is so expensive, I can't work out how you could ever place enough tiles to hide any treasure. Perhaps if the hero's pathfinding was worse\/more exploitable?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'd love to see this tweaked (or better explained?) so that I could have some fun with dungeon layout; I'll be on the lookout for a post-LD version of this, if you make one!"},{"author_name":"SmallDeadGuy","author_uid":"7143","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:07pm","epoch":1355763720,"text":"Controls are slightly awkward, in terms of buying things. I don't like the actual boss fighting much but maybe because I'm not used to it. It seems like I use more money in preparation (like treasure) than I gain in a fight"},{"author_name":"NiceAlexanderAS","author_uid":"7045","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 11:45pm","epoch":1355874000,"text":"Wow nice work man! :D i also like how you can build your own dungeons which is awesome :DDDD"},{"author_name":"gameXcore","author_uid":"7049","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1355948400,"text":"Fun, but there are definite balancing issues with the cost of placing things, tiles should be almost free!"},{"author_name":"Freakill","author_uid":"14167","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1356021600,"text":"Nice idea with some little reminiscences to Dungeon keeper for the Dungeon building and decoration. The only thing is that Arena fighting feels unnecessarily limited, I do not understand why I cannot move while fighting :( Also it is difficult to expand your dungeon in a wide way. I saw that the best mechanic to follow was creating corridos to force hero to advance in a twisted way on traps. Did to 8 level :D."},{"author_name":"jmaasing","author_uid":"10838","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 9:41pm","epoch":1356039360,"text":"Sorry, can't rate since I don't have windows."},{"author_name":"h.attila","author_uid":"8403","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 9:46pm","epoch":1356039660,"text":"Great idea, good presentation."},{"author_name":"BrothersT","author_uid":"12722","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 3:08am","epoch":1356145380,"text":"Couldn't seem to place anything in the dungeon :("},{"author_name":"Grungi Ankhfire","author_uid":"3168","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 7:32pm","epoch":1356204420,"text":"Sorry, cannot play XNA games on Linux (using Wine). Maybe my Wine knowledge is just not up to snuff, but this wouldn't run for me. Sorry :("},{"author_name":"ceronman","author_uid":"4896","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 1:41am","epoch":1356226560,"text":"Nice game, I also had problems with the controls during play."},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 3:34am","epoch":1356233340,"text":"There's a good start to a game here."},{"author_name":"Spelchan","author_uid":"15656","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 4:22am","epoch":1356236220,"text":"Fun game but Dungeon tiles are way too expensive making the dungeon building experience less than it should be. Buying stuff should be easier. Prefer zip files as zip utilities come with every OS, rar utilities don't."},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Dec 25, 2012 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1356447540,"text":"Very interesting game, it has a lot of potential! I really loved the boss battles. At first, I thought it was a little limiting that we couldn't control where we will teleport to, but after a while that style of battle grew on me.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>On the other hand, the game felt a bit repetitive. You probably need other furniture for the dungeon. Reducing the price for placing tiles would also help a lot.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I loved the boss death animation! I hope you have some time to work a bit on the other graphics of the game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for the game!"},{"author_name":"lotusgame","author_uid":"19058","time":"Dec 25, 2012 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1356455820,"text":"I like the Dungeon Keeper way, the ambience but not your graphics. Anyway, your game is fully playable and has many features. Congrats !"},{"author_name":"MortalWombat","author_uid":"14060","time":"Jan 4, 2013 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1357309800,"text":"Doesn't start for me on Win 7."},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 12:08am","epoch":1357344180,"text":"Crashes on start on my WinXP with DX9 VM. The &quot;windows encountered a problem&quot; dialog."},{"author_name":"XmmmX","author_uid":"16565","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 2:25am","epoch":1357352400,"text":"@MortalWombat\r<br\/>@zenmumbler\r<br\/>Have you installed the XNA Framework?\r<br\/>Has this happend in both (compo &amp; post-compo) versions or just in one of them?"},{"author_name":"Amos Wenger","author_uid":"4598","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 11:22am","epoch":1357384620,"text":"I've never seen weirder controls :) It was still fun to play though!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Looking forward to your next LD entry!"},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 2:38pm","epoch":1357396380,"text":"@XmmmX, yep, XNA installed, have run a lot of other XNA entries.\r<br\/>I can't run the ones that are not compiled with the Reach profile but then I get a warning that my video card is rubbish, not a crash.\r<br\/>If the app is 64-bit, I will get another error dialog for it. This is really an honest to god crash at startup.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Same result for the post-compo version.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>FWIW, I uploaded the first bits of the crash report here: http:\/\/logic-dream.com\/ext\/evilkeepercrash.png"},{"author_name":"XmmmX","author_uid":"16565","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 4:37pm","epoch":1357403520,"text":"@zenmumbler\r<br\/>Thanks for your feedback and the screenshot.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I have done a little reasearch on the internet but I couldn't find a good solution for this kind of crash\/error.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I tested my game on my old pc with Windows XP and on my newer one with 64-Bit Windows 7 and it worked both times without a single crash so I can only guarantee that it works under w7 and wXP.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Even though you said you get a different error message when a game is compiled with the HiDef profile I uploaded a new post-compo version which is compiled using the reach profile.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I will try my best to fix this error as soon as possible."},{"author_name":"XmmmX","author_uid":"16565","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1357403640,"text":"@zenmumbler\r<br\/>And I forgot, have you tried running it in administrator mode?"},{"author_name":"Doublecaster","author_uid":"8935","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1357417740,"text":"That was awesome! I got to round 11. I liked it when you had low hp and you could spam the abilities."},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Jan 7, 2013 @ 10:36pm","epoch":1357597860,"text":"@XmmmX, yes it's run with an Admin user. I tried your latest update, same result. I fear there may be some weird incompatibility with my install. It's a VM running in VMware which may trigger something obscure, even though all other entries work fine and I haven't had any issues with it. Thanks for your help but it's probably better not to put too much time into this. Best of luck!"},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Jan 7, 2013 @ 10:53pm","epoch":1357598880,"text":"Oh wait, I redownloaded the original entry, I got you 0.01b version and it worked! Huzzah. Got to level 8. Fun and quite a big game. I wish I got more money and more time per round to build out my dungeon. It's a fun section and now I can only break a few brick and set a few chests with traps. Art is clearly programmer art but you added details like the slowly down-drifting hat when you're defeated and other touches to add polish. Very nice entry and thanks again for your trouble."}],"images":["ld25\/16565-afb2d19af8657e5df8a83c0348eb46cc.jpg","ld25\/16565-42fd1aac0aab97518d858930f551a41d.jpg","ld25\/16565-8e76b91edfb0d2611139486ce400ea3e.jpg","ld25\/16565-fdf1c0815425da030b916cf026f7ba52.jpg","ld25\/16565-2b3e687298e3309b8682f885c883bddd.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bhit.at\/EvilKeeper.rar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=20914","text":"XNA Framework"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bhit.at\/EvilKeeperSource.rar","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.blua-games.net\/downloads\/ld\/ld25\/Evil_Keeper_v0.01b.zip","text":"Windows (Post-Compo)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27338","g_author":"16565","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27368","g_title":"Evil Keeper","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"387","g_commentcount":"39","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\/\/201083\/16565-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/16565-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/16565-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/16565-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/16565-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be the endboss of a game? Well, here is a game that answers your questions.\r\n\r\nIn Evil Keeper you have to build your own dungeon and fight every hero who dares to enter your lair. Each hero tries to find as many treasures as possible before he challenges you to an epic fight to the death.\r\nClaim the victory, take his money and expand your dungeon!\r\n\r\nFind more detailed information ingame.\r\n\r\nProgramming Language: C# (XNA 4.0)\r\nSound: sfxr\r\nMusic: SunVox\r\nGraphics: Paint.NET\r\n\r\nThis is my second ludum dare entry. The code is really messed up this time because I had no time to comment and optimize it so if you have any questions concerning the code feel free to ask.\r\n\r\nInfo: If you have some performance issues press 'V' ingame once to disable frameskipping.\r\n\r\nIf there are any bugs or glitches please inform me by posting a comment. I will fix them as soon as possible.\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease enjoy my game as much as I did making it.\r\n\r\nEDIT: You can place new dungeon ground on gray walls next to grey tiles. The red area is the bossbattle arena. You cannot build there.\r\nEDIT2: Ok, I am going to make a post-compo version.\r\nEDIT3: Added the first post-compo version. I am sorry, I haven't had much time so it only contains small changes. But there is still more to come. The changelog.txt contains all the changes.<\/p>","title":"Evil Keeper"}