{"author_link":"\/author\/deepnight\/","author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","comments":[{"author_name":"Meedoc","author_uid":"5207","time":"Aug 21, 2011 @ 8:23pm","epoch":1313957880,"text":"oh I'm sad :( I thought you were dealing the theme as "Escape from your mother's wombe".\r\rWell I'll still try it later ^^"},{"author_name":"astrkl","author_uid":"5798","time":"Aug 21, 2011 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1313959680,"text":"Very sad story :("},{"author_name":"VDOgamez","author_uid":"1634","time":"Aug 21, 2011 @ 9:25pm","epoch":1313961600,"text":"So... is there a good ending? I don't have the patience to exhaust the tree."},{"author_name":"stoz","author_uid":"5677","time":"Aug 21, 2011 @ 9:37pm","epoch":1313962320,"text":"Awesome concept! It's like a choose your own ending novel, though a bit more true to life... since your only options are to try to keep doing what you're already doing, or quit."},{"author_name":"ButtercupSaiyan","author_uid":"4948","time":"Aug 21, 2011 @ 11:12pm","epoch":1313968020,"text":"That's ... depressing ... =(\r\rI like your pixel art!"},{"author_name":"Tulrath","author_uid":"4703","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:40am","epoch":1313984100,"text":"I think I tried pretty much every option, even the really crazy ones. I couldn't always draw the line between choices and their outcome -- like I couldn't figure out exactly how not sleeping with a woman got me fired. Probably just missing something in the conversations, though. \r\rArtwork was great, but it really made me sad :\/"},{"author_name":"madflame991","author_uid":"5035","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 5:21am","epoch":1313990160,"text":"Really nice story-game. Please make more after this LD"},{"author_name":"Jorjon","author_uid":"5268","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 8:46am","epoch":1314002460,"text":"Looking forward for the timelapse!"},{"author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 9:16am","epoch":1314004260,"text":"Timelapse released!"},{"author_name":"degtyarev","author_uid":"5862","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 10:12am","epoch":1314007620,"text":"Pretty depressing. But looks nice."},{"author_name":"dseidl","author_uid":"5524","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 10:55am","epoch":1314010200,"text":"Very nice game! :)"},{"author_name":"kevglass","author_uid":"5134","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 12:06pm","epoch":1314014460,"text":"Emotion reaction was high - has to be good right? Very cool game. Excellent art."},{"author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 1:04pm","epoch":1314017940,"text":"At first, it should have been a quite fun and positive game. But the lack of time made it quite depressing at the end : didn't have time to include all the subtleties I had in mind, nor the happy ending branches...\r\rSorry about that ! :)"},{"author_name":"Benjamin","author_uid":"2952","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:12pm","epoch":1314025620,"text":"The timelapse is great ! Add a depressing piano tune and you'll have a fantastic rival for Noah : http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo\rI especially like "the party" picture drawing : "I met myself And I turn out to be a woman !! "\r\rFantastic game by the way but the dropbox link is down most of the time ( same problem for my entry... )"},{"author_name":"Pvaiun","author_uid":"5071","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1314027120,"text":"I liked it, great art and interesting concept. However, I didn't read all the way through your post to realize that there was no happy ending. I spent a good 15 minutes exhausting every option only to find that you always die a sad death."},{"author_name":"Bogdan6","author_uid":"5719","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:40pm","epoch":1314030900,"text":"funny"},{"author_name":"Josh @ Dreamland","author_uid":"5818","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:49pm","epoch":1314031440,"text":"Good concept, well executed. The graphics were simple, but you shaded the pixels to make it look deliberate, and that's pretty good. Waiting through the slides is a little annoying--I'd like to quickly gather the jist of what happens and move on. Other than that, pretty good."},{"author_name":"lilserf","author_uid":"5800","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 6:48pm","epoch":1314038580,"text":"I really like the art style. Yeah, kind of all bummer endings right now though :)"},{"author_name":"Andrew","author_uid":"5432","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1314039660,"text":"Because no matter what you do you still end up in the same place"},{"author_name":"Winterblood","author_uid":"4051","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 10:01pm","epoch":1314050160,"text":"Nine hours!? Fantastic. Nice reductionist approach to choice, and (of course) superb art stylings."},{"author_name":"James Paige","author_uid":"4779","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 4:28am","epoch":1314073380,"text":"Your pixels are fantastic. This game made me laugh out loud, but it also made me sad.\r\rMinor complaint: I had to keep clicking with the mouse to get it to accept my keypresses"},{"author_name":"nitram_cero","author_uid":"937","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 4:32am","epoch":1314073620,"text":"I played it like 6 times.\rNice artwork!\rToo pesimistic story. Funny sometimes, but I don't like the concept of such a linear life and that no matter the choice you always end up a f*ck up."},{"author_name":"johanp","author_uid":"608","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 6:05am","epoch":1314079200,"text":"It is quite pretty but a bit too static for my taste. Also the consequences of choices sometimes felt random."},{"author_name":"LumdumDareisCool","author_uid":"5950","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:11am","epoch":1314083160,"text":"I liked your game a lot."},{"author_name":"superflat","author_uid":"849","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 11:00am","epoch":1314096900,"text":"Very nice work. I wished for the interactive moments to be better signposted, but otherwise great."},{"author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:16pm","epoch":1314126660,"text":"It doesn't register my keypress when I press escape. C and "any key" works."},{"author_name":"Cirrial","author_uid":"1620","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 8:28pm","epoch":1314130980,"text":"Nice art, depressing fatalistic storylines, and generally an interesting interpretation of the theme. Personally, though, I didn't find there to be a great deal of interesting gameplay here. This is almost the purest form of narrativism I've found, but I'm only beginning rating, so I might find more. Excellent work given the timescale, though!"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 3:09pm","epoch":1314198240,"text":"Neat idea."},{"author_name":"jonbro","author_uid":"1187","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 9:15pm","epoch":1314220200,"text":"nice visual comic book... I wanted to exhaust the tree, but I didn't want to wait for fade ins. I wonder if there is a way to fix that without killing the mood."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 2:24am","epoch":1314325140,"text":"Good job, especially for 9 hours wonder :) Not sure if i'd call it a game but anyway, one of the more interesting entries I've encountered (I'm a sucker for emotions it seems :)"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 12:30am","epoch":1314404700,"text":"This is delightfully depressing. Well done."},{"author_name":"DrPetter","author_uid":"10","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 9:19am","epoch":1314522840,"text":"Pretty and sort of charming, but do make it happy next time! At least some funny deaths would have been a nice twist. Maybe just a souvenir item next to the grave could add a sense of needed humor there. Also, time is never too short for sfx, but I suspect token bleeps wouldn't really add to this sort of game. Could be interesting with looped environmental noises that match each situation. Heartbeats, footsteps, ticking clock, creaking bed, etc."},{"author_name":"Orz","author_uid":"5282","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 5:12pm","epoch":1314551220,"text":"It took me a while to warm up to it, but I like it. I kind of wish there were more games out there in this style."}],"images":["ld21\/2982-fbaf89c8fbb96429a6cdd65ce2225d12.jpg","ld21\/2982-0a66eeb74f2a2edc15643ef2a30156a6.jpg","ld21\/2982-7e9a218bf0aa0951792d68e4fa8a0329.jpg","ld21\/2982-0c786030a65155b75294e683385c4f03.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/deepnight.net\/games\/ld21-looserlife\/","text":"Play! (flash)"},{"url":"http:\/\/deepnight.net\/games\/ld21-looserlife\/source\/source_ld21_deepnight.zip","text":"Source (Haxe)"},{"url":"http:\/\/deepnight.net\/games\/ld21-looserlife\/source\/mt.deepnight.zip","text":"Source (extra libs)"},{"url":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xMcW-66UDWI","text":"Timelapse"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32713","g_author":"2982","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32743","g_title":"A tale about life, death and a looser.","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"79","g_commentcount":"33","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\/2982-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/2982-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/2982-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/2982-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This game was made within 9 hours (from Sunday 11:30am to 8:30pm) ^_^\r\n\r\nI couldn't participate to the whole 48h LD, so I decided to try to make a game in really short time (I had my Sunday free). \r\n\r\nAlso, I wanted to try to make something complete within one normal business day (8h), just to see what I can achieve, when I really commit to it.\r\n\r\nSo here it is ! I didn't have time to add any SFX, that was definitely too short for that... I hope you will appreciate this game anyway!\r\n\r\nCONTROLS :\r\n C - Continue your life,\r\n ESCAPE - Try to flee the current situation,\r\n ANY KEY - skip current dialog\r\n\r\nHope you'll enjoy it :)\r\n\r\nNote : I'm sorry I didn't have time to include the happy ending branch :) The assets where almost ready (they are in the PSD source file), but I was running short on time to include it... Maybe a later version ? Check http:\/\/blog.deepnight.net for any update :)\r\n\r\nEDIT : timelapse released!\r\nEDIT 2 : changed the hosting (dropbox had some downtimes, sorry about that!)<\/p>","title":"A tale about life, death and a looser."}