{"author_link":"\/author\/devenger\/","author_name":"Devenger","author_uid":"2661","comments":[{"author_name":"SelectricSimian","author_uid":"19392","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:43am","epoch":1355715480,"text":"Refreshing to be able to play as the level for once instead of being killed by it :)"},{"author_name":"donmilham","author_uid":"14442","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:58am","epoch":1355716380,"text":"Congrats, Great game! Very solid and expandable design. I can imagine many scenarios, trap types, and enemies. I would very much enjoy playing a further developed version of this game."},{"author_name":"tcql","author_uid":"15433","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:05am","epoch":1355716800,"text":"I thought this game's take on the theme was really great. Great sense of humor... I had a hard time balancing trying to read my monologue and watch out for guys coming to get me.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I felt like gameplay-wise, it was a bit difficult; I had trouble juggling monologuing, and spiking things. I rarely had time to go collect money because I was too busy squishing bad guys... er.. good guys."},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:34pm","epoch":1355765340,"text":"Ha ha... monologuing for cash. Genius. I think you should be able to squish while monologin' (like tcql said - it's a bit too tough to juggle them. If you could do both then you'd get more traps (and to balance it you could just send more baddies ;)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great work though - audio made my day."},{"author_name":"Casino Jack","author_uid":"11139","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1355775900,"text":"Very original concept - I like it. Is there any way to get more cash though?"},{"author_name":"Devenger","author_uid":"2661","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1355780880,"text":"The phone (under the Infamy bar; the villain starts standing next to it) can be used to trade Infamy for cash. This has been added to the game's notes on this page; apologies for not making this clearer before."},{"author_name":"Mava","author_uid":"17949","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:43pm","epoch":1355783880,"text":"I love tower defense like games, very nice :)"},{"author_name":"arhpositive","author_uid":"11575","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:45pm","epoch":1355784000,"text":"Ok, here comes my first 5-star Overall rating. :) Avesome game, every aspect is well thought out and the outcome is a funny game which is also challenging and addictive. :)"},{"author_name":"Patrick64","author_uid":"18563","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:50pm","epoch":1355784300,"text":"Ha, very amusing. I've never heard monologuing as a verb before. I think you must made this game in some volcano lair."},{"author_name":"EatenAlive3","author_uid":"15753","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:53pm","epoch":1355784480,"text":"Loved it! It was fun balancing between monologue and smashing! My only complaints are: It was really easy once I decked out everything with spiky plates, and eventually when the villain started saying &quot;Muahaha!&quot; over and over, the only option was to let them get me. Fun while it lasted!"},{"author_name":"Edocentrique","author_uid":"18304","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:06pm","epoch":1355785260,"text":"Exceptionally fun, playable and original ! 5 stars !"},{"author_name":"Winterblood","author_uid":"4051","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:10pm","epoch":1355785500,"text":"Very, very slick - solid idea, good use of theme, well presented...I played it for ages :)"},{"author_name":"Gravity Games","author_uid":"17764","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:52pm","epoch":1355788020,"text":"Alright, this one is really cool. The whole micromanagement thing is challenging, but not to the point of being annoying, so it kept me playing for a while. The graphics and music remind me a lot of an Atari game. If I had to pick one thing as my favorite however, it would be the things the villain says. Its all of that pretentious and witty dialouge you'd expect from one of those hilarious to watch villains in the media. The only problem is its sometimes a bit hard to move back and forth between everything. You should probably be able to squish the good guys at all times. All in all, its a really great game, and I hope to see more."},{"author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 1:03am","epoch":1355792280,"text":"This is a wonderful concept! The only thing was that once I afforded all the traps it became a little too easy. I got 190s before I got bored and let the enemies overtake me. Still, I'm giving it 5 stars just because I was so enamored by the concept. Great work!"},{"author_name":"Eniko","author_uid":"15439","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:02am","epoch":1355803020,"text":"I really liked the monologuing, unfortunately I liked it so much that it kept making me lose the game. I suppose that's a good sign though!"},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:43am","epoch":1355805480,"text":"Great game! Humorous too. Graphics probably were the only lacking part of this game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>UNIONISATION\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Got 163s before letting them win"},{"author_name":"PIXEL^3","author_uid":"10948","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:35am","epoch":1355808600,"text":"Haha. One of the top games I've played thus far. It fits the theme perfectly, and the humor was great, and pretty fun to play. Though for some reason I felt the difficulty was off a tad. It's probably just me though.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>~AlucardX60"},{"author_name":"SmallDeadGuy","author_uid":"7143","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 8:47am","epoch":1355820120,"text":"I don't really understand it but hey, it was pretty fun"},{"author_name":"Husky","author_uid":"17464","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 12:23pm","epoch":1355833080,"text":"This is pretty fun!!\r<br\/>I love the expression of busy action and interrupted speak, that's really funny, it's not so easy to be bad guy lol.\r<br\/>Great work!"},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 12:54pm","epoch":1355834940,"text":"I had a similar experience to EatenAlive3, the concept is good, but I found it too easy to the point where I just gave up and let them come to get me because otherwise I felt the game could just last forever."},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:56pm","epoch":1355853060,"text":"This is such a great concept, I'm not sure I'll find another game that fits the theme as well as this does.  To have Monologuing at the captured hero be the main goal... genius.  I really like it as a cross-section tower defence game too, not something I've seen too much of.  Great old-school style."},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1355929560,"text":"Really fun, but I think I would have liked it better if I didn't have to walk to the panel before being able to use the traps. I understand that's part of how the game works with the monologuing and all, but I guess I'm just not able to plan that far ahaid and I just want to click on those traps NOW:p"},{"author_name":"Matt Tuttle","author_uid":"3934","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 4:35am","epoch":1356064200,"text":"Really enjoyed the game. I wasn't very good at smashing all the guys below. It might have been interesting if the spikes were automatic like a tower defense game but only when you're at the control panel.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh, and I love the music loop! Very fitting."},{"author_name":"Claite","author_uid":"18425","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 6:10am","epoch":1356069900,"text":"I wish I could enjoy the text more than worrying about the traps and killing the people, but really good stuff! well done!"},{"author_name":"Birchmountain","author_uid":"10933","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 12:37pm","epoch":1356093120,"text":"A wonderful concept, a little hard to understand at the beginning. But you quickly get a hang of it. Good job!"},{"author_name":"pfirsich","author_uid":"14778","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 10:32pm","epoch":1356128820,"text":"A way to get more money would be cool. Also talking to the green guy doesn't seem very rewarding. I'd rather crush more incoming yellow guys to be honest."},{"author_name":"jfroco","author_uid":"2085","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 5:04am","epoch":1356238740,"text":"One of the best I've played so far. Great gameplay mechanics. Excellent idea and theme use. A little too easy, but the potential of the game is huge!!! Kudos for using Haxe. Congrats."},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 9:51pm","epoch":1356299160,"text":"Managing time between the monologue, and dropping spikes on rescue agents entertained me.  If you continue to develop this, do you imagine that later, additional traps and agents would deepen the choices?"},{"author_name":"joecarrot","author_uid":"18779","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 11:57pm","epoch":1356306720,"text":"Great Job. Nice and difficult, and reading the monologue makes it worth playing longer."},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1356374520,"text":"Excellent game, thank you!"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Dec 25, 2012 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1356443640,"text":"Mwahahahaha, Mwahahaha! Mwahaha!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Mwahahahahahahahahahahah!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great game man! Perfect use of the theme, and very good humor. The game play is quite fun as well, although a bit on the easy side. It would be cool if there were a few more enemy types (jumping? randomly changing speed?) so the game could be more difficult.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But thanks for the great game!"},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Dec 27, 2012 @ 12:47pm","epoch":1356612120,"text":"Oh my! One of the most innovative and fun game I've played! I really really really love it! And it's even funny! The idea is funny, the monologs are funny and the 5 bullets in the end are funny too! (I would have given one bullet only, just for the fun) \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Of course, the problem is the game gets boring after a while because the monologs turn into &quot;muahahaha&quot; and the difficulty isn't really incresing, (it even decreases). So I just gave up at 160s or something, and that's where the bullets made me laugh! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Please get some medals and make a bigger game out of it! (Oh yeah...and the Audio isn't that cool. Only flaw)"},{"author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","time":"Dec 29, 2012 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1356802920,"text":"Wow, you actually use the time as an unit! It's also very cool as a villain simulator! Well done!"},{"author_name":"BNeutral","author_uid":"10889","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 3:54am","epoch":1356839340,"text":"Really interesting, although I would have liked a bit more challenge, called it quits after 300 seconds."},{"author_name":"AdricZero","author_uid":"822","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1356886080,"text":"It was a little hard to get into the game at the start, but enjoyed it after playing longer. I felt more tension as more and more rescuers starting coming and I had to quickly click the right traps at the right time."},{"author_name":"SamoojaMies","author_uid":"11043","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1356898800,"text":"Got 202s then I gave up. Fun game. Good job!"},{"author_name":"DTG","author_uid":"18600","time":"Jan 1, 2013 @ 7:03am","epoch":1357023480,"text":"Love the game, full points for theme. The score-based on monologue time alone is a fantastic idea.\r<br\/>Tiny variation with the faster minions gives it just enough going on to be interesting, even if after a little while you'll work out a system to win easily.\r<br\/>Great execution."}],"images":["ld25\/2661-95ec9196fcc711394aa1fdc69a8c80e6.jpg","ld25\/2661-35b466fe39f337854164bd8b4b734485.jpg","ld25\/2661-257bc8d943262e39b5346525dfb0fa54.jpg","ld25\/2661-feff11c12976858f5d65ade43f30d725.jpg","ld25\/2661-5397fa12e32b9c65ff76db3fe9472653.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/12753061\/Monologuer-48h.swf","text":"Web (Flash)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/12753061\/Monologuer-48h.zip","text":"Source (req. Haxe + HaxePunk)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28375","g_author":"2661","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28405","g_title":"Monologuer","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"40","g_commentcount":"37","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\/2661-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/2661-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/2661-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/2661-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/2661-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"SUPER-USEFUL HINT: Move your villain to the phone on the left wall to convert Infamy into money!\r\n\r\nMaximise your monologuing time before Green Man's rescuers shut down your operation! Multi-task between talking at your victim, and activating your array of spike traps to defend your lair. Just remember: only monologuing increases your score!\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nMouse - click the phone, Green Man and the control panel to move your villain to them. When at the control panel, click on ceilings to place traps; click traps to activate them.\r\nM - turn off music loop (recommended for extended play)\r\nS - turn off sound effects\r\nP - pause\r\nR - restart once game has been lost\r\n\r\nTips:\r\n- Once you've scored some kills, you'll have some Infamy (shown in the Infamy bar in the left of the villain's chamber); click the phone (below the Infamy bar) to move the villain to it; while he's there, he'll make phonecalls to trade Infamy for $$$.\r\n- Spread your traps all around your lair; that way, you can thin out lots of enemies every time you use the control panel.\r\n- Don't panic if you let a couple of those pesky invaders through; your villain has a gun with 6 shots, sealing the fate of the first 6 rescuers to reach him.\r\n\r\nThanks to ChevyRay and everyone behind FlashPunk, Matt Tuttle (and co?) for porting it to Haxe to make HaxePunk, increpare and co. for Bfxr, and DrPetter for musagi (even if I didn't use it very well!).\r\n\r\nP.S. If you want to feel you've 'completed' the game, get the villain to run out of dialogue. If he isn't cut off mid-speech too much, this only takes 2-3 minutes of monologuing. Of course, you'll have to deal with the invaders in between all that...<\/p>","title":"Monologuer"}