{"author_link":"\/author\/hume\/","author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","comments":[{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:03am","epoch":1335149880,"text":"If anybody finds a bug...or finishes the game...I'd love to hear about it.\r\rThere are seven levels.\r\rIf a level is really annoying you, download the source and remove lines from the CSV in resource\/data\/csv."},{"author_name":"Krisjet","author_uid":"5486","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:30am","epoch":1335180300,"text":"Forcing you to restart from the very beginning after failing a level sadly stopped me from finishing the game :P"},{"author_name":"nihilocrat","author_uid":"2014","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:38pm","epoch":1335187980,"text":"Got to level 3. Here I thought Kamehameha was just something from Dragonball Z. I like the "Washington was burnt in revenge" because hardly anyone probably knows about the War of 1812 and the burning of York (Toronto)."},{"author_name":"laubori","author_uid":"4660","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 5:43pm","epoch":1335202680,"text":"nice game!"},{"author_name":"ComaToes","author_uid":"12890","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 6:01pm","epoch":1335203760,"text":"Good game. I had to give up at level 2, but that's only a reflection of my terrible geographical knowledge ;P"},{"author_name":"piterlouis","author_uid":"10856","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1335204180,"text":"Funny, It would be better if order of cities were random."},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 6:14pm","epoch":1335204540,"text":"Piterlouis -- I agree; I wanted to do this. My playtester said no. \r\rEverybody else wants it easier; we want it harder :)"},{"author_name":"chinchang","author_uid":"4201","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 6:42pm","epoch":1335206220,"text":"m kinda bad at geography..but nice look."},{"author_name":"Suese","author_uid":"8361","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 7:00pm","epoch":1335207300,"text":"Learning game, ahhh! RUN! Great game, once I realized there was a second level I was pretty happy about this one. Better graphics and animation \/ style choices would have improved this game as well as music. \r\rThank you for this."},{"author_name":"kelp","author_uid":"7833","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 7:11pm","epoch":1335207960,"text":"Nice game, tough it gets a bit tedious running from one side of the world to the other, causing me to not want to retry after failing on level 3."},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1335208140,"text":"@Suese Agree wholeheartedly with all. Style took a left turn and I didn't update the sprites. Wrote an .XM for background music but the decoder was hanging my game and I didn't have time to convert the music to something else.\r\rThanks very much for the feedback."},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 7:19pm","epoch":1335208440,"text":"Interesting idea, I don't know why but this game scares me in some way. Thanks to you I will now always remember where is Sudan (I was looking for it so long) :)"},{"author_name":"ReddogStone","author_uid":"12333","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:23pm","epoch":1335212280,"text":"Looks like the site is busy... I can't get neither the source nor the applet to load :("},{"author_name":"jeffreybiles","author_uid":"11886","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:31pm","epoch":1335212760,"text":"Shows a blank screen (after taking a while to load). I'm running chromium on ubuntu linux. I have a java runtime environment installed."},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:58pm","epoch":1335221580,"text":"I think that's my hosting provider letting me down :( sorry. Working for me now."},{"author_name":"SidetrackGames","author_uid":"12036","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:34pm","epoch":1335223740,"text":"I like it!"},{"author_name":"Datw","author_uid":"11318","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:19am","epoch":1335230040,"text":"Good game, really innovative! But I do find the lack of saving relly disturbing. And, those sounds are really, really annoying hehe."},{"author_name":"sharbelfs","author_uid":"3689","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:23am","epoch":1335233880,"text":"nice game and great idea, I liked"},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:18am","epoch":1335244380,"text":"That's pretty brutal having to start over at Egypt every time. Really cool earth though."},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:41am","epoch":1335260160,"text":"I like the educational value, but damn, the game is hard."},{"author_name":"lanoiadimuu","author_uid":"7264","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1335286260,"text":"Geography was my worst score while at school, so this game is extremely hard for me. But it's an interesting idea and it taught me where lots of cities are. :D"},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 6:53pm","epoch":1335293280,"text":"Your comments are loud and clear. \r\rI'm going to make a DO NOT RATE THIS version, a less brutal version. Time limits will be raised a little, and you will get to continue from the same level after you lose.\r\rI can't link it here, because I don't want any confusion in the rating process. I didn't spend enough time playtesting. Fair is fair.\r\rThanks for all the feedback guys. You are all great."},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 6:54pm","epoch":1335293340,"text":"...one...stupid...line of code...\rGameOverScreen:\r\/\/ context.currentLevel = 0; noooooooooo"},{"author_name":"Jacic","author_uid":"5267","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1335302340,"text":"Unique idea, but hard!"},{"author_name":"Darkfrost","author_uid":"7085","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 1:16am","epoch":1335316260,"text":"Nice idea :) Sadly, my geography is terrible! And I did badly! :p Seemed like a nice concept though, albeit a tad weird ;)"},{"author_name":"the8donut","author_uid":"10453","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 9:15am","epoch":1335345000,"text":"Very nice! Turns out I'm not that bad at geography either :D Graphics run very smooth, simple and effective. Good job!"},{"author_name":"orgarus","author_uid":"11198","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1335460980,"text":"HI HUME!\rNice game, you could sell it here in spain so the new generations could be less ass than the pasts.\rThe thing that I dislikes a little is the color of the map.\rCheers!"},{"author_name":"spiral","author_uid":"5765","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1335875340,"text":"My ears hurt!"},{"author_name":"azurenimbus","author_uid":"12119","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1335992400,"text":"Really cool idea! The game over sound was driving me crazy. But I enjoyed it overall :)"},{"author_name":"azurenimbus","author_uid":"12119","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1335992400,"text":"Not game over, the "error" sound."},{"author_name":"Hazematman","author_uid":"10252","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 5:08pm","epoch":1336323780,"text":"Very cool idea! Went with the theme very well! Sadly I couldn't get past the second level, need to study my geography more :P\rI liked the game ALOT!"},{"author_name":"Make A Game","author_uid":"5631","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1336330260,"text":"Edutainment, on Ludum Dare? Hehe, it was fun, but the collision detection on the cities screwed me up a couple of times."},{"author_name":"asfdfdfd","author_uid":"2404","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 9:01pm","epoch":1336337760,"text":"Love this idea!"},{"author_name":"Datamosh","author_uid":"10942","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 3:09am","epoch":1336446240,"text":"Hard game! Definitely i dont know anything about geography. lol"},{"author_name":"cobrajs","author_uid":"11192","time":"May 9, 2012 @ 2:15am","epoch":1336529400,"text":"Game won't load for me... just an empty frame with a link to download the source. I'm using Firefox, in Linux, and I have a Java runtime installed."},{"author_name":"Drabiter","author_uid":"8337","time":"May 9, 2012 @ 4:02am","epoch":1336535820,"text":"Wow it's really hard, especially for have to repeat lvl 1 which is tiring. Thanks to this now I'm smarter a bit :)"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"May 9, 2012 @ 8:13pm","epoch":1336594080,"text":"Wait, how do I play this? Game won't load and I just get big white box with blue "download the project source" link on it."},{"author_name":"Oye Beto","author_uid":"7933","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 3:26am","epoch":1336706460,"text":"I'm SO bad at geography :("},{"author_name":"Pacifist Games","author_uid":"10510","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 4:25am","epoch":1336796400,"text":"Beat the compo version, took me several tries, but I did it! The dialogue was a little confusing but I love the concept. Could be a good way of teaching geography if the map was better. :)"},{"author_name":"orangepascal","author_uid":"12805","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 6:19pm","epoch":1336846440,"text":"some better visual effects to show the resetting or finding a city could have made it more clear.. even a bigger font would have done that.. but I like it! could be a great learning-game for kids!"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1336935060,"text":"This is a fun concept, but the game was a little frustrating from having to restart by getting one city wrong. Nice work for 48 hours though."}],"images":["ld23\/11218-b828b7ede3794496b8267c4e93c90240.jpg","ld23\/11218-ba3f344e511409a302603b008a57eabf.jpg","ld23\/11218-2cd660cc799486aaebc5f551d87abb7d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/humespeaks.tumblr.com\/ld23-conqueror","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/humespeaks.tumblr.com\/games\/conqueror","text":"Web (post-comp, more fun)"},{"url":"http:\/\/humespeaks.tumblr.com\/post\/21631781353\/here-is-a-time-lapse-of-my-ludum-dare-23-entry","text":"Timelapse"},{"url":"http:\/\/ld23-conqueror.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30855","g_author":"11218","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30885","g_title":"Conqueror","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"556","g_commentcount":"41","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\/11218-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/11218-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/11218-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Everybody has their traumas. Some people withdraw into themselves. Some people push themselves to get better.\r\n\r\nSome people take over the world.\r\n\r\nThis is a game of knowledge. It starts easy, then it kicks your butt. For higher levels, you will need to look this stuff up.\r\n\r\n** UPDATE ** I've moved the game off my tiny web server onto a CDN. I hope that from this point forward, everyone gets to play.\r\n\r\n** UPDATE 2 ** Way less frustrating post-comp version posted. You know the rules. Rate the comp version.<\/p>","title":"Conqueror"}