{"author_link":"\/author\/lansiir\/","author_name":"oldtopman","author_uid":"5874","comments":[{"author_name":"oldtopman","author_uid":"5874","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:44am","epoch":1313984340,"text":"FIRST!!!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Yes, I firsted my own game's comment box. Why? I've never done this before. Its a new experience. And the only person to get mad is me :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The page looks a little sad with no comments :("},{"author_name":"BlueShaman","author_uid":"4891","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1314046860,"text":"It's mildly entertaining.. With most of the early choices leading in death, and me just randomly picking a path shortly afterwards leading to winning... It's sort of a frustrating game.. Even when I won I didn't get the satisfaction I expected."},{"author_name":"foobaz","author_uid":"5725","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 12:11am","epoch":1314057960,"text":"Pretty funny although too short (with everything except one path leading to death). And you've taught me that running a command-line application in wine actually runs it in the terminal. And now for some things I feel the need to reply to (spoilers ahead).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>&quot;*You'd have to recompile me to add a giving functionality, you fool!*&quot;\r<br\/>modprobe giving\r<br\/>\r<br\/>&quot;KILLALL -KILL YOU&quot;\r<br\/>bash: KILLALL: command not found\r<br\/>How could you be so case-insensitive!\r<br\/>Oh, wait, shouldn't that be -u?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>&quot;&lt;Insert Ascii art here&gt;&quot;\r<br\/>banner -w 80 ascape\r<br\/>(or `banner -w 80 ascape`)"},{"author_name":"johnfn","author_uid":"3187","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 4:05am","epoch":1314244800,"text":"Yay, the first command line game I've played! Congrats on finishing. Consider adding more interactivity next time - the game is pretty straightforward as is."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 7:57am","epoch":1314345120,"text":"Bonus for humor (some lines almost made me chuckle), but otherwise... the length, quite total randomness of the responses... I noticed you wrote that you've learned the C on the day of the competition, but even then you could give it a bit more - judging by the source size I'd guess you spent about hour (two at max) making it including the &quot;learn C&quot; part"},{"author_name":"summaky","author_uid":"1885","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 4:58pm","epoch":1314463980,"text":"I am sorry, but this is very boring.  I just had to try at random the options.  Also the length........."},{"author_name":"Sanguine","author_uid":"4159","time":"Aug 30, 2011 @ 7:24am","epoch":1314688740,"text":"The game felt a bit like trial and error. Every time I had to just try. It might be easier if there were a few different paths, instead of just one. It would also make the game different each time you play."},{"author_name":"ratking","author_uid":"3663","time":"Sep 2, 2011 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1314996600,"text":"Sorry, the source code was funnier than the game. ;-)"},{"author_name":"angrygeometry","author_uid":"5579","time":"Sep 5, 2011 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1315235100,"text":"quite frustrating and short, but hey you finished!"},{"author_name":"oldtopman","author_uid":"5874","time":"Sep 13, 2011 @ 6:37pm","epoch":1315938720,"text":"@foobaz: I'll be sure to add that into version 2.0 (along with real ascii art)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@johnfn: I will be doing that should I make another text based game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@shigor: You underestimate my incompotence ;)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@ratking: Glad you liked it!"}],"images":["ld21\/5874-d4e171bea3ae7704b484aa2d2c135167.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/topcraftia.no-ip.org\/games\/ascape\/ascape-all.zip","text":"All"},{"url":"http:\/\/topcraftia.no-ip.org\/games\/ascape\/ascape-osx.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/topcraftia.no-ip.org\/games\/ascape\/ascape-linux.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/topcraftia.no-ip.org\/games\/ascape\/ascape-windows.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/topcraftia.no-ip.org\/games\/ascape\/ascape-source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32785","g_author":"5874","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32815","g_title":"Ascape","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"492","g_commentcount":"10","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\/5874-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This game has been written from scratch in C, which I learned the day of the contest. The source code is straightforward and I encourage you to take a look.\r\n\r\nIf my personal server should go down, use the DropBox links.\r\nhttp:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/32084539\/ascape-all.zip\r\nhttp:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/32084539\/ascape-osx.zip\r\nhttp:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/32084539\/ascape-linux.zip\r\nhttp:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/32084539\/ascape-windows.zip\r\nhttp:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/32084539\/ascape-source.zip<\/p>","title":"Ascape"}