{"author_link":"\/author\/jonneh\/","author_name":"Jonneh","author_uid":"2530","comments":[{"author_name":"migimunz","author_uid":"5196","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 1:15pm","epoch":1314018600,"text":"This game is awesome, great job!"},{"author_name":"daandruff","author_uid":"3244","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 1:56pm","epoch":1314021060,"text":"Nice game, awful music! I didn't feel like the puzzles became harder in the pace that they should though."},{"author_name":"BoernerMan","author_uid":"5978","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:12pm","epoch":1314025620,"text":"nice but kinda buggy"},{"author_name":"maxx","author_uid":"5660","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1314026160,"text":"Awesome! nice puzzles, i i hadn´t to vote 500 games i would keep playing it. Congratulations, but the music made a hole in my head."},{"author_name":"Jacic","author_uid":"5267","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1314028080,"text":"Great game! The music gets a little annoying after awhile, but the gameplay is amazing."},{"author_name":"Pvaiun","author_uid":"5071","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:13pm","epoch":1314029280,"text":"Game is really fun, but like others said, the music loop is way too short. Unique gameplay though, love it."},{"author_name":"Milo","author_uid":"2934","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:13pm","epoch":1314029280,"text":"I really like the concept (although I have to agree that the puzzles don't get hard fast enough). Excellent game."},{"author_name":"ointment","author_uid":"5551","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1314030000,"text":"This stands out from the average entry. A bit liberal take on the already loose theme, but it's worth that sacrifice. \r\rSome of the upgrades and instructions are unnecessary because memory slots are plentiful. This tones down the difficulty and variation.\r\rThe music does get annoying quickly, I think this game could do better without it."},{"author_name":"dramble","author_uid":"5254","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 5:12pm","epoch":1314032820,"text":"Pretty fun, wish I had more powerful instructions and there were a number of bugs but fun."},{"author_name":"Mstrp2ez","author_uid":"1881","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1314043560,"text":"Great and innovative game, atleast i havent seen this done much before."},{"author_name":"panzermancer","author_uid":"5826","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1314046140,"text":"Pretty good for 48 hours, but the levels didn't really seem tha tdifficult until the very last one. Not to complain, given your time constraints, but it would have been much more interesting if the puzzles went further than "turn this way, move x squares, that this way, move y squares, so forth and so on." And yeah, the music loop was pretty bad, nothing you can't fix by muting but even then what would be the point of including it at all. The graphics are pretty solid, though, and the interface ran quite smoothly."},{"author_name":"foobaz","author_uid":"5725","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1314048840,"text":"Good polish. Nice sound\/music\/gfx.\r\rI think the levels are too easy (it is possible to win with just advance and turn) except maybe 16.\r\rMy final score was 36725.\r\rSome bugs I've found:\rBugged on first load (control panel was in the middle of the screen!). Reload and was ok.\rSeem to precaculate when "play" is pressed resulting in a long delay for long sequences (even the music "freezes").\rA mine did not explode on level 16 after the first one was destroyed by a laser."},{"author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 4:17pm","epoch":1314115920,"text":"It seems to get easier in the later levels."},{"author_name":"elbowroom","author_uid":"3590","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1314122040,"text":"Pretty cool, nice graphics, a bit too easy?"},{"author_name":"Daniel X. Moore","author_uid":"2816","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 9:52pm","epoch":1314136020,"text":"The music is brutal but the game is pretty fun."},{"author_name":"ToxicLogic","author_uid":"4898","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 10:24pm","epoch":1314137940,"text":"A cool concept and a nice polished game. I didn't see any bugs here. :) I would suggest that as you introduce new instructions, that you immediately follow up with a level that requires the player to use that new feature. It's also possible to beat the game without using the laser command and the step forward command, though I'd love to see puzzles that require this!"},{"author_name":"demonpants","author_uid":"531","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 2:25am","epoch":1314238800,"text":"A pretty good remake (I can't recall the name of the original game that did this mechanic), but I didn't feel like it added enough beyond that. I also didn't really have much desire to keep playing through the levels, I'm not sure why. You did an excellent job getting a bunch of levels in here and the overall design is great. Just didn't quite do it for me, though."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 1:12am","epoch":1314320820,"text":"Karel (programming language) strikes back with vengeance and really, really annoying music. Good job for 48 hours, my only disappointment (apart the music which forced me to mute the sound) were the levels. Too easy and quickly boring. If you make a postcompo version with some interesting and devious levels I'd love to play it"},{"author_name":"N0_Named_Guy","author_uid":"5344","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 12:06am","epoch":1314403260,"text":"Great game I must say! It reminds of those LEGO Mindstorms kits... The puzzles were nice! But one complaint... Sometimes the game would consume all my CPU for no apparent reason... And that was annoying (not to mention the loopy tones...). On a CRT monitor it is REALLY hard to read the tooltips. If you will improve this game, improve the tooltips readability. Keep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"skelethulu","author_uid":"1159","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1314455700,"text":"LOGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},{"author_name":"BlackBulletIV","author_uid":"3915","time":"Aug 30, 2011 @ 1:20am","epoch":1314666900,"text":"Great concept! I really like the idea of programming a robot with instructions. If it the idea was fleshed out some more it would be a pretty awesome game.\r\rThe audio wasn't good though, especially the music, which was really annoying. Also, I didn't play all 16 levels, but the ten I did play seemed to only increase in instruction count rather than using any new instructions."},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Sep 4, 2011 @ 9:34pm","epoch":1315171740,"text":"Very nice graphics - music is a bit annoying, but the game is really good. I'd kinda would like to know what were your influences: any games like this, or is it Logo after all?\rI'd really like to see this idea developed into something more difficult, as the puzzles were pretty easy. Other than that, this is a very good entry."}],"images":["ld21\/2530-1f39c0ab6d44569127cbc038d92bb539.jpg","ld21\/2530-4813a9a3463dc71cff2107ffb505979b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.jonathanedgecombe.com\/LD21\/","text":"Play! [Web]"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32569","g_author":"2530","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32599","g_title":""EscapeBot"","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"60","g_commentcount":"22","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\/\/62148\/2530-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/2530-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Program your robot to escape the tests, drag and drop the instructions into the memory slots to give step-by-step instructions on what the robot should do. Get from start to finish while avoid being blown up by mines. There are 16 levels, see how much $$$ you can get before the end. Progressing through levels unlocks some more instructions and gives extra memory slots.\r\n\r\nTested and working in the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome (Although it should work on most older versions fine too). Doesn't work well at all in any version IE.\r\n\r\nFor the smoothest gameplay play it in Google Chrome.<\/p>","title":""EscapeBot""}