{"author_link":"\/author\/spigot\/","author_name":"Rectifier","author_uid":"89","comments":[{"author_name":"frr171","author_uid":"1675","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 2:18am","epoch":1314065580,"text":"I've never seen anybody break the fourth wall like this before, this is really a great concept!"},{"author_name":"Jorjon","author_uid":"5268","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:25am","epoch":1314084000,"text":"I'm a big fan of console games (Nethack, Dwarf Fortress and Liberal Crime Squad), so I was surprised by this entry. A very fun game, reminds me of Uplink, which I spent hours playing on. I got the feeling I was really trying to escape, rushing commands to go as far as I could. But the Purge action is somehow broken, I don't know if that is intended but every time someone purges me from a node, I can't play anymore because it raises an NPC exception."},{"author_name":"wbobeirne","author_uid":"5193","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:27am","epoch":1314084120,"text":"I keep running in to a bug where it says ERROR: Cannot travel to a node you are already connected to. in the home node, which makes me unable to travel at all since I can't back out. Maybe I'm just doing this wrong."},{"author_name":"Spigot","author_uid":"89","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 5:13pm","epoch":1314292080,"text":"There was a game-ruiningly severe bug in NPC purging; I've uploaded a fixed binary. I believe it's allowed by the "fixing crashbugs" clause, but I kept the original up just in case."},{"author_name":"Rudy","author_uid":"4807","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1314293460,"text":"Indeed reminded me of Uplink. But that also points out one of the downsides of command-line tedium. Very well implemented for 48h game. "neighbors" is a bit of a pain to type though :P"},{"author_name":"Spigot","author_uid":"89","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 6:29pm","epoch":1314296640,"text":"@Rudy:\rAs soon as you narrow it down to a single legal command (which the autocomplete is supposed to help with), it'll run. By the time I implemented that I never did anything but "nei" or "nei -s".\r\rI'll add that to the documentation here."},{"author_name":"Shadow","author_uid":"4250","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1314315540,"text":"Quite a good game. I loved the concept and your approach to the theme. I kinda missed the ability to scroll through the console log though. I also didn't know exactly what to use as ID for things like defending a node. There's no "ID" next to each entry in the tunnel list (although I assumed a zero-based index). A VERY good job nonetheless, I actually enjoyed it a lot. One of the best games I've tried so far."},{"author_name":"Jedi","author_uid":"4799","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 12:00am","epoch":1314316500,"text":"It seems really cool but really involved. I'm going to have to give it another look later. One thing I really wish for is a faster way to input commands. Being able to press the up and down arrows to scroll through previous entries would help loads.\r\rAlso, I had a hard time understanding quite what was going on. It seemed like I was getting updates about teams that had nothing to do with nodes I was connected to. Is this intentional? I'd especially see weird Purged messages that didn't seem to apply to me. I couldn't tell who was being purged but I wasn't taking damage. The messages will be cut off sometimes too.\r\rAlso, you use a really tall display! I just now noticed that I can scroll to the top and see my condition. (1440x900 desktop over here).\r\rAll-in-all, it's very cool and I'll be giving it a closer look next time I want to get immersed in a hacking game (pretty soon) :)."},{"author_name":"siebharinn","author_uid":"1450","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 1:00am","epoch":1314492900,"text":"This is one that I want to go back and spend some more time with after the voting round. Nicely done."},{"author_name":"Jedi","author_uid":"4799","time":"Aug 30, 2011 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1314708360,"text":"...This one is pretty addictive. The RPG element is cool. My display problems were from my console using a bigger font by default. I also realized that you can type just the beginnings of commands :).\r\rMy biggest complaint is that it's too hard. Especially leveling up. I've played the game probably 20-30 times now and always go after high storage systems but I was only able to find programs that were of use 3 times. I also died once hacking into the first node I was connected to :\/. Maybe I could've lived if I tunneled through it? I die a lot in this, not sure if I'm still missing some strategy.\r\rIt's a problem that you're dumped to the desktop every time the game is over. Also, if you over connect to your home node circuitously, you're totally screwed.\r\rProblems aside, I like this but never feel like I'm making much headway before I die with each play. I'd really love to see this balanced and developed further."}],"images":["ld21\/89-9e55bde93393a5077fd65b5ac192d51c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/33587464\/ld21-spigot-fixed.exe","text":"Windows Binary (Fixed)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/33587464\/ld21-spigot.exe","text":"Original Binary"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/jtruscott\/ld21\/tarball\/master","text":"Linux Tarball"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/jtruscott\/ld21","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32849","g_author":"89","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32879","g_title":"On The Run!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"275","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\/89-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"NEW: Linux support with curses! (Do note that it requires a very large terminal window; you may have to mess with your prompt to get it to fit)\r\n\r\nThe story is described in-game, but in short: You are an AI in a Shadowrun-style futuristic setting, trying to evade those who wish you destroyed.\r\n\r\nWritten in Python using only the stdlib and WConio.\r\nPurely console based, Windows-only.\r\n\r\nI was extremely happy with how the UI turned out - it captured that Movie Interface feel quite nicely. Much of the gameplay itself was coded in under 12 hours, and there's so much more I wish I could do, but I'm satisfied enough.\r\n\r\nYou can view a screenshot progress archive at https:\/\/github.com\/jtruscott\/ld21\/tree\/master\/snapshots\r\n\r\nNotes:\r\n- Please use the Windows Binary (Fixed) link! \r\nThe original submission would get completely wedged if you got purged from a node.\r\n\r\n- Typing long command names can get tedious. However, once you've disambiguated a name to only have only matching command, it'll happily run it. For example, 'neighbors' can thus be shortened all the way down to 'n'.\r\n\r\n\r\nHappy hacking!\r\n\r\n- Spigot [Rectifier on IRC]\r\n\r\n<\/p>","title":"On The Run!"}