{"author_link":"\/author\/thristhart\/","author_name":"thristhart","author_uid":"3164","comments":[{"author_name":"Tumaini","author_uid":"11729","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:16pm","epoch":1335186660,"text":"Well thought-out game.\rWorks well on FF (though no sound, as stated).\rIt's fairly challenging and could probably be replayed many times while still being interesting."},{"author_name":"cornedor","author_uid":"4506","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1335191460,"text":"Nice concept. You need to think in this game."},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1335197400,"text":"Very fun! I love having the different choices for the towers when they're placed. It's a very interesting variant on normal tower defense games."},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:50am","epoch":1335260700,"text":"Very interesting game.\rConcept is very good, I really had to think things over during gameplay.\rYou could add removing wrongly placed towers though."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:09pm","epoch":1335269040,"text":"Interesting take on tower defense. Good use of theme."},{"author_name":"Proch","author_uid":"10221","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1335269400,"text":"really nice ;)"},{"author_name":"SidetrackGames","author_uid":"12036","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1335366720,"text":"I like it, different take on tower defense games :)"},{"author_name":"Fireblend","author_uid":"10166","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1335370800,"text":"I like the idea! There seems to be lots of room for expanding upon the concept, and I think it's quite original :)"},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1335372540,"text":"Liked the spin on tower defense games, it was interesting. :)"},{"author_name":"Miltage","author_uid":"8745","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 9:04pm","epoch":1335387540,"text":"Nice game, I'm impressed with the level of complexity you managed to achieve in the time frame. A nice take on tower defense games.\r\rI kept losing, but on my third try I managed to build a maze that was unsolvable by the AI so they just sat in spawn and let me pick them off. I had almost lost that round too. http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7ePjG.png"},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 11:36pm","epoch":1335396660,"text":"It's one of the best tower-defense games I've played, mechanics-wise. It's very, very fun - I've spent just over half hour playing. I've noticed that if one survives the beginning, it's pretty easy later. One bug: when constructing a specific one tile width path from blocks and towers, bacteria keeps getting stuck on the start tile. A pity there's no end condition. Very entertaining game, anyway."},{"author_name":"raarlac","author_uid":"11711","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1335459900,"text":"The idea is very interesting. I liked it."},{"author_name":"racarate","author_uid":"10426","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1335460200,"text":"I tried to play without going through the tutorial and it was a real trip. After the tutorial though, I enjoyed it. It was sort of hard to tell when the towers transitioned from one phase of their plan to the next. Also, I didn't realize where the healthbar was until the second game, it's kind of strange that it is on the opposite side of your base. Overall, I liked it. This is the first tower defense game I have ever played, I can see why people go for this kind of thing! Oh, also the music was funny and good. Very nostalgic."},{"author_name":"demonpants","author_uid":"531","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:19pm","epoch":1335460440,"text":"Decent tower defense. I felt that the instructions for the towers made it overly complicated though, and I never felt I had enough money to do anything worthwhile."},{"author_name":"Drabiter","author_uid":"8337","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1335531120,"text":"My small advice is try to simply the tutorial, it took some time to learn. On other side it's a neat game."},{"author_name":"artefon","author_uid":"10965","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 2:52am","epoch":1335581220,"text":"Nice game, fits the theme really well. I had fun playing it. Nice sounds too."},{"author_name":"chambers","author_uid":"11981","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 6:04am","epoch":1335592740,"text":"I found it kind of confusing, but I'm not so much used to strategy games. The phase programming was neat though!"},{"author_name":"Rectifier","author_uid":"89","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 6:38am","epoch":1335767580,"text":"A fellow TD maker!\r\rI like the AI choosing element, although the inability to change it after creation is a little arbitrary.\r\rThe difficulty, however, doesn't scale very well. I always leaked the first wave or two with no chance of stopping them, and after that it was spawnkilling central."},{"author_name":"cltatman","author_uid":"12674","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 1:35am","epoch":1335835800,"text":"An interesting mechanic, something the tower defense genre needs more of. If anything I wish it had been a little simpler, more polished.\r\rCongrats!"},{"author_name":"netmute","author_uid":"11213","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 7:37pm","epoch":1335900720,"text":"Slightly overwhelming, but cool tower defense game!"},{"author_name":"Wyzfen","author_uid":"87","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1336336080,"text":"Played on FF (so no music). Nice take on tower defense."},{"author_name":"dr_soda","author_uid":"8342","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 7:10am","epoch":1336374300,"text":"Played in Chrome, but none of the towers actually did anything even though I gave them all kinds of shoot commands.\r\rMusic died after the first wave as well."},{"author_name":"Valeour","author_uid":"2679","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1336832280,"text":"Enjoyed it, took me a while to understand how it works though."}],"images":["ld23\/3164-c4a7a2fc83ba53ec7229090fb8c9fb44.jpg","ld23\/3164-b1e9f5f996239b2cad26452ad6b97591.jpg","ld23\/3164-a85ec9d84cbbd83a4e32ec2674889af0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/5227720\/LD23\/release\/game.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/5227720\/LD23\/release.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30595","g_author":"3164","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30625","g_title":"Brevity","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"524","g_commentcount":"23","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\/\/123793\/3164-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/3164-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/3164-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"HTML5\/Canvas. Tested fully on Chrome, somewhat in FF. Sound doesn't seem to work in FF, so that's weird.\r\n\r\nNot really finished, but good enough! Control your tiny world of bacteria and nanobots.<\/p>","title":"Brevity"}