{"author_link":"\/author\/householdutensils\/","author_name":"householdutensils","author_uid":"10923","comments":[{"author_name":"blob","author_uid":"12252","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:12pm","epoch":1335211620,"text":"Is there a specific key to hit to quit talking to someone ? Instead I just killed everybody."},{"author_name":"Mach60KAS","author_uid":"5788","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:31pm","epoch":1335212760,"text":"I quite enjoyed this, though I was left unsure at the ending scene."},{"author_name":"householdutensils","author_uid":"10923","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:53pm","epoch":1335221280,"text":"@Blob q cancels dialog, and also quits the game. It's a little unwieldy and I totally meant to change it but ran out of time :( :P\r\r@Mach60KAS I appreciate the feedback ^__^ I did have a more elaborate ending planned, but time conspired against me :("},{"author_name":"Hazematman","author_uid":"10252","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:28am","epoch":1335230580,"text":"I have to say I found this game very interesting, but I was a little unsure about the end, you should have spoiler for the mystery somewhere :P It make me think of "And Then There Were None"\rOh and I think that the secluded mansion on the small island in the depths of space fit the theme really well!"},{"author_name":"schizofunky","author_uid":"11944","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:24pm","epoch":1335269940,"text":"I like the mechanics and i think you've done a good job, not sure if there was a way to recheck the controls once you have started, but i kept forgetting them and having to restart :("},{"author_name":"netmute","author_uid":"11213","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:28pm","epoch":1335270180,"text":"Nice little roguelike.\rI had no idea what to do. So I slaughtered everybody, got down the stairs and the red C told me I solved some kind of mystery ;)\rWas fun, thought."},{"author_name":"daandruff","author_uid":"3244","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 7:54am","epoch":1335340140,"text":"Nice roguelike. Not a lot of mechanics, but nice nonetheless. Would have loved some more details to the rooms."},{"author_name":"LFleck","author_uid":"12123","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 11:53am","epoch":1335354480,"text":"This made me feel nostalgic, great game."},{"author_name":"spiral","author_uid":"5765","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 9:58am","epoch":1335520380,"text":"Was kinda lost and took a while to figure out what I was doing. I didnt memorize all the controls and had to restart to get another look... but still couldn't find the fire button on my macbook :'("},{"author_name":"Steve Cochrane","author_uid":"12266","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 8:52am","epoch":1335689220,"text":"I liked the "character portraits" made of huge @ symbols :)"},{"author_name":"Datamosh","author_uid":"10942","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 6:46am","epoch":1336027260,"text":"haha, I think I just killed everybody. Fun game, but the visuals confuse me a little."},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"May 5, 2012 @ 6:16am","epoch":1336198260,"text":"I couldn't seem to do anything but kill people... and no one seemed to notice."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 12:45am","epoch":1336264800,"text":"I have no idea what the end meant. gameplaywise... a bit boring, I almost rage quitted while trying to find how to quit the dialogue. (not being able to check controls again without quitting and running again is really unfriendly).\r\rIf I get it right, I have to unblock the stairs and kill a spy. Not much of a puzzle, if there's some stronger meaning, I'm not seeing it."},{"author_name":"schnerble","author_uid":"11560","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 11:04am","epoch":1336301940,"text":"Interesting, unique idea; I haven't seen anything similar in LD yet. I like roguelike styles in general, and I'm sure it would've been fun to write :) My suggestions would be to make it a bit clearer at the start what players are trying to do; add some more descriptions of what the keys do (including what the options are - e.g. where 'look' will do something different); plus maybe a bit more variety in the talking and such. Still good work to fit the whole thing into 48 hours, though."},{"author_name":"Will Edwards","author_uid":"10313","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 7:18am","epoch":1336720380,"text":"Nostalgic at one level, but the actual layout had a horridly school cafeteria -like layout to me, which wasn't such a nice thing.\r\rA key to bring up the help would have been useful.\r\r(Bugs:\r* you can out into the garden from the right-side of the very first room, and then you can go off the side of the map and crash it\r* I seem to have killed quite a few people called Rex - are the names deliberately reused?\r* it seems that if you repeat an action already on-screen its not shown again; this is a pain with things that ought to be shown again, e.g. that a *different* door opens or whatever\r)"}],"images":["ld23\/10923-a3526eacdbe2693576b48813cd02017c.jpg","ld23\/10923-aceec7d30858589a6a738e997ed0bf6b.jpg","ld23\/10923-cfec7e04189be3081dec2d9ed31bbd03.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/sparkles.rootsecks.com\/TheMansion.jar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/sparkles.rootsecks.com\/TheMansion.jar","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/sparkles.rootsecks.com\/TheMansion.jar","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/sparkles.rootsecks.com\/TheMansion-src.7z","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31037","g_author":"10923","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31067","g_title":"The Mansion","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"618","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\/\/123793\/10923-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/10923-shot1.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/10923-shot2.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Can you solve the mystery of The Mansion?\r\n\r\nRequires: Java JRE :)<\/p>","title":"The Mansion"}