{"author_link":"\/author\/boredomist\/","author_name":"Erik Price","author_uid":"17804","comments":[{"author_name":"maackle","author_uid":"3579","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:28am","epoch":1355707380,"text":"Nicely done! There's a lot in this game for a short jam."},{"author_name":"caasi","author_uid":"17875","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:42am","epoch":1355715420,"text":"Need hot keys!"},{"author_name":"Blooperly","author_uid":"18930","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:43am","epoch":1355715480,"text":"Hahah love the name."},{"author_name":"fakeshadows","author_uid":"8550","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:52am","epoch":1355716020,"text":"Wow, nice concept and execution :)\r\rGreat tutorial too!"},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:08am","epoch":1355716980,"text":"Fun, but challenging. I never seem to have enough to pay for a refinery -- I tend to go bankrupt once I have 10-15 rigs built -- it's just hard to find the juicy spots. I'm willing to bet once you get to that stage things start to slide into place.\r\rIf you intend to keep working on it, I'd recommend highlighting squares high in resources so there isn't as much "mouse hunting"."},{"author_name":"gigimoi00","author_uid":"8560","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:12am","epoch":1355717220,"text":"Very nicely done, Definitely needs hot keys."},{"author_name":"Jiggawatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:52am","epoch":1355719620,"text":"I like management games, and this is reasonably functional for an LD game. You could use a graphics artist, though."},{"author_name":"Freakill","author_uid":"14167","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:07am","epoch":1355720520,"text":"I really liked the game. The managing is really well balanced for being a challenge. One has to keep track of money really carefully as it is "easy" to spend it in seconds jejeje."},{"author_name":"shiftingParadigms","author_uid":"4002","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:08am","epoch":1355720580,"text":"Awesome game. Don't know how you pulled it off. Outstanding."},{"author_name":"Xheis","author_uid":"18674","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:14am","epoch":1355731740,"text":"I found it quite hard to extract da monies in the first playthrough, but the second game went well. Awesome game man."},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:17pm","epoch":1355771520,"text":"Wow. A tutorial. Great work.\r\rI think I would have made the last selected build option "always on", since having to go back to the bar and select it again was a bit of a pain. Then again, I am a lazy bastard so that could be coloring my opinion somewhat."},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 12:40pm","epoch":1355834100,"text":"Hey, we had the same-ish idea! (uid=9199)... your gameplay is more complete, but mine spins in a circle ;) Great minds!"},{"author_name":"haxpor","author_uid":"647","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1355858520,"text":"I can see myself not building any windmill or recycle, only probe then squeeze out !\rReading text description on each building gives good sense of humor, like the word "useless"."},{"author_name":"loren","author_uid":"17687","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1355868660,"text":"great content, awesome name!"},{"author_name":"leafo","author_uid":"4321","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 1:45am","epoch":1355881200,"text":"cool game, you did a lot here. Thanks for the tutorial."},{"author_name":"evilseanbot","author_uid":"7902","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 12:31am","epoch":1356049560,"text":"I got a 404 error."},{"author_name":"Sestren","author_uid":"10343","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 10:53pm","epoch":1356216480,"text":"Winning seemed fairly straightforward, but overall I like the concept and the basic gameplay. The activism meter for me never seemed to come into play, and the improved oil rig never seemed worth it to buy. That said, I'd love to see this idea expanded and refined further."}],"images":["ld25\/17804-8efd3cb3cf7c5a424721a1bafd459ebe.jpg","ld25\/17804-16d111bc4900f383720d406afaf20fea.jpg","ld25\/17804-015baeb0d959d7012856484a46c1cb3d.jpg","ld25\/17804-41d2cdfc1414a3ae835e3ebf187bfa40.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/erikprice.net\/ld25\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/boredomist\/ld25\/","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/kfTUo-GWE48","text":"Timelapse"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28507","g_author":"17804","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28537","g_title":"A Game in Which You Attempt to Squeeze as Much Oil","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"181","g_commentcount":"17","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\/17804-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/17804-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/17804-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/17804-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Yes, I'm completely awful at naming things.\r\n\r\nI suggest not tossing any money at windmills or recycling centers until you absolutely need them, they're expensive, and if you run into a dry spell, you're going to run out of money quickly.\r\n\r\nPress escape to go back to the menu screen if you get stuck with not enough money. \r\n\r\nAnd watch that ACT meter, refineries push it up quickly!<\/p>","title":"A Game in Which You Attempt to Squeeze as Much Oil as You Can Out of a Poor Island Nation."}