{"author_link":"\/author\/doctor-broccoli\/","author_name":"Doctor Broccoli","author_uid":"15882","comments":[{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:37am","epoch":1346146320,"text":"Cool game, I died at first but then I was rocking some kind of apocalyptic gatling-laser and spawn camping the space commies.  The melee attack seems kind of pointless... maybe if enemies evolved armor -- and different kinds of armor protected against different attacks -- that would be cool.  Love the graphics, the screenshots don't do it justice, you need to see it in action."},{"author_name":"kyyrma","author_uid":"8424","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 10:40am","epoch":1346150100,"text":"Really sweet graphics. The enemies should come in wawes though, give the player some downtime to pick his upgrades."},{"author_name":"Benjamin","author_uid":"2952","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 11:41am","epoch":1346153760,"text":"Great game but the game balance need some tweaking. It's too difficult to take the time to upgrade at start and in later game, the enemy waves are still linear so the game become easier. Ho and this upgrade-bundle pods idea is genius, I think I want to use that in my games sooner or later ! :)"},{"author_name":"chumez","author_uid":"11809","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 11:50am","epoch":1346154300,"text":"Can't run it on XP, it says &quot;the procedure entry point_ftol2 could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll&quot;. I probably don't have something installed."},{"author_name":"Khayet","author_uid":"9592","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 11:56am","epoch":1346154660,"text":"Really nice combat feel. I love how strong the upgrades are, they make it a little too easy later on though."},{"author_name":"Pixelbear","author_uid":"7477","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 12:05pm","epoch":1346155200,"text":"Found it great fun to play! Like previously stated, it needs some difficulty tweaking. Also: I'm not seeing any connection to the theme - am I missing something?"},{"author_name":"Zoomyzoom","author_uid":"7301","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 12:45pm","epoch":1346157600,"text":"Pretty swag! I found it hard to find a time to upgrade"},{"author_name":"bvanschooten","author_uid":"14520","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:53pm","epoch":1346183280,"text":"The ragdoll effects are interesting, but there does not seem to be an awful lot of gameplay."},{"author_name":"Kumquat","author_uid":"14739","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:05pm","epoch":1346241600,"text":"Liked the idea, but could not really see the upgrades changing game play.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Problems removing game files. Bug with losing health below zero (spaceship)"},{"author_name":"imef","author_uid":"9591","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1346242620,"text":"I actually liked that!"},{"author_name":"90sml","author_uid":"14122","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 5:20pm","epoch":1346260500,"text":"I liked the idea but it's really because enemies don't spawn in waves, so we don't have any rest and I wasn't able to choose easily upgrades for my character :s"},{"author_name":"DaveDobson","author_uid":"10977","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 2:53am","epoch":1346467680,"text":"Interesting game.  The gameplay was fun, although I think needlessly complex - there wasn't really a need to jump, and the targeted aiming wasn't as useful as just shooting in the direction you were facing would be, so you could have left those out.  I found it pretty hard to aim using a trackpad mouse, where left and right clicking are tough to do for a game.  The graphics and upgrades were interesting, though lo-fi; I liked the background spinning squares a lot.  I couldn't really figure out what I was meant to do, but I gathered after a while that I was supposed to defend the blue thing on the left.  Nice work; felt like it was on the road to being something pretty cool."},{"author_name":"Josh @ Dreamland","author_uid":"5818","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 9:12pm","epoch":1346533620,"text":"Makes WINE explode. =\\"},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"Sep 13, 2012 @ 8:05pm","epoch":1347566400,"text":"can't run it on WinXP"},{"author_name":"creative630","author_uid":"8156","time":"Sep 14, 2012 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1347625740,"text":"Awesome game, looked really good but was kinda easy in the end."}],"images":["ld24\/15882-c39a629edaaf79a9c28c6d93c62e4509.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/yy9dup62a7eceyy\/Magentaman.rar","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28990","g_author":"15882","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"29020","g_title":"The Amazing Adventure of Magenta-Man","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"155","g_commentcount":"15","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\/\/163678\/15882-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I wrote a postmortem! Find it here: http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/08\/27\/magenta-man-a-postmortem\r\n\r\nYou are Magenta-man, an elite mercenary trained in the various arts of killing\r\nthings and taking their stuff. You have been hired to protect a spaceship from\r\nthe evil robotic space-communists.\r\nLucky for you the ship carries a variety of weapons and upgrades that are yours\r\nto use. For a price, of course.\r\nUnlucky for you the communists also have access to various kinds of advanced \r\nweaponry. They will equip themselves with whatever equipment has proven \r\nsuccessful in the past.\r\n\r\nAre you a bad enough dude to stop the endless waves of space-commies?\r\n\r\n\r\nCONTROLS:\r\n\r\nWASD: Move\r\nE: Purchase upgrade\r\nQ: Destroy upgrade (You can do this to make the store generate a brand-spanking \r\nnew one. NOTE: This will cost you 10 capitalist spacebucks)\r\nLeft click: Melee attack\r\nRight click: Ranged attack\r\n<\/p>","title":"The Amazing Adventure of Magenta-Man"}