{"author_link":"\/author\/fiona\/","author_name":"Fiona","author_uid":"150","comments":[{"author_name":"Thores","author_uid":"1965","time":"Aug 22, 2010 @ 9:10pm","epoch":1282511100,"text":"First the compliments. I love the creature designs, the game was really cute and funny, and the music was really good too. Three tunes made in that short a period was enough variety so none of them got old either. Also, the LD community cameos that I noticed made me laugh too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Now the criticisms. The game's pretty unbalanced. Either everyone's attack is too high or everyone's defense is abysmal, but I could never weaken a Daremon enough to catch it, I'd just end up OHKOing them, so I went through the whole game with Spork. Also Level 13 Pixees would OHKO me at like level 30.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And also after you become an Elite, is that the end of the game? I got congratulated but I didn't get a THE END or anything.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall though I liked it. Really impressive and ambitious effort, and it's got a lot of charm. :]"},{"author_name":"Almost","author_uid":"1168","time":"Aug 22, 2010 @ 10:05pm","epoch":1282514400,"text":"Creatures are cute. \r<br\/>I just started, and a lot of little things are bothering me. game uses Arrows, Enter, and Mouse. There is no comfortable way to fit your hands to these keys. WASD [any key near WASD] and mouse would be way more to my taste. Or even WASD ENTER nomouse\r<br\/>One hits everywhere, and things always get away. Captures seem to be very unlikely on creatures at full health, and weakenign them is harder still. Anyways, Either enemy 1 hits me, or I 1 hit it. There is very little concept of weakening \r<br\/>Music is cool, but sound effects are really annoying. That victory noise bothers me a lot."},{"author_name":"Osgeld","author_uid":"828","time":"Aug 22, 2010 @ 11:17pm","epoch":1282518720,"text":"&quot;&quot;There is no comfortable way to fit your hands to these keys.&quot;&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>unless your left handed like me :) but yea I always try to include both sides of the keyboard for that reason"},{"author_name":"bartbes","author_uid":"2498","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 1:13am","epoch":1282525680,"text":"Even though I gave up at the first town, I have to say it was pretty fun(ny). The spork alone makes it a game everybody needs to play.\r<br\/>The biggest problem with the game was the almost guaranteed one hit KO, as mentioned above."},{"author_name":"ThibG","author_uid":"2432","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 2:42am","epoch":1282531020,"text":"Funny game, very well done!\r<br\/>The musics are nice (although the victory one is quickly annoying), the creatures are funny and all, but the keybindings are really annoying, the game is pretty unbalanced, and I had performance issues in all but the first place (however, I haven't a &quot;real&quot; 3D driver, that might be the only cause)."},{"author_name":"AndrewBC","author_uid":"2578","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 6:57am","epoch":1282546320,"text":"I really liked the humor, (&quot;Now it's all over my shoes...&quot;, &quot;Spork&quot;, etc), and the battle music made me want to dance. A lot of what I have to say has been said already. Annoying victory sound, unbalanced.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Though, I did notice strange black squares in the tiling every now and then that were consistent. I didn't play far enough in to figure out if that was a joke or not. But you have a very nice game there that seems to only need some tweaking. Good job."},{"author_name":"madpew","author_uid":"2196","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 12:10pm","epoch":1282565100,"text":"I never played any pokemon game, but after trying this I guess I will. Well done (a little hard though)"},{"author_name":"Hellfang","author_uid":"1074","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 2:27pm","epoch":1282573320,"text":"Really cute and funny game. Loved the art and the music. I think the game suffered a little from balance issues, I seemed to always one hit kill every wild Daremon, unless I tried to catch them, in which case they would one hit kill me. I don't really like having to switch between arrows keys and mouse like that either. Other than that, really great game!"},{"author_name":"TenjouUtena","author_uid":"22","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1282578900,"text":"This game was very fun!  It was a cute idea, and very fulfilled your purpose in making a pokeclone.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I don't have a lot to add to what was said below.  I was annoyed by the lack of saving (Which you commented on) and the switching between the mouse and the keyboard for the various functions."},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"Aug 24, 2010 @ 3:31pm","epoch":1282663560,"text":"Hilarious."},{"author_name":"benjaminum","author_uid":"2511","time":"Aug 27, 2010 @ 1:29pm","epoch":1282915440,"text":"The funny dialogs and the daremons make this game worth playing."},{"author_name":"Covenant","author_uid":"326","time":"Aug 28, 2010 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1282998540,"text":"Awesome game! Although I'm not a big fan on Pokemon-type games, this one is an impressive feat for 48 hours... a bit unbalanced, I had to play with Spork the whole time, and creatures with less 10 levels than me would own me constantly... :\r<br\/>Battle music was very neat, got me pumped! :)"},{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Sep 3, 2010 @ 5:40am","epoch":1283492100,"text":"I am going to have to nitpick cause this game was pretty awesome ( serious kudos for making all this content in 1 weekend :) in almost every area.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>- Imbalanced monsters\r<br\/>- Not innovative"},{"author_name":"stqn","author_uid":"2181","time":"Sep 3, 2010 @ 9:40am","epoch":1283506500,"text":"I tried running it under Arch Linux but I got this just after the resolution change (which I hate, please, never start your games in fullscreen, they usually crash and leave me unable to do anything or at least screw up the resolution, and 800x600 on a wide screen looks wrong anyway.)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>OpenGL.error.GLError: GLError(\r<br\/>\terr = 1281,\r<br\/>\tdescription = 'invalid value',\r<br\/>\tbaseOperation = glTexImage2D,\r<br\/>\tpyArgs = (\r<br\/>\t\tGL_TEXTURE_2D,\r<br\/>\t\t0,\r<br\/>\t\tGL_RGBA,\r<br\/>\t\t800,\r<br\/>\t\t600,\r<br\/>\t\t0,\r<br\/>\t\tGL_RGBA,\r<br\/>\t\tGL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,\r<br\/>\t\t'xc1xfexb8xffxc1xfexb8xffxc1...,\r<br\/>\t),\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Not sure what the problem is, maybe the driver (Radeon 9700) doesn't like non-square non-power-of-two textures."},{"author_name":"Doches","author_uid":"562","time":"Sep 5, 2010 @ 6:03am","epoch":1283666280,"text":"Hilariously cute, deliciously weird. &quot;Can't you see I'm having a whizz here?&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>One-hit kills makes it a bit hit-or-miss (as it were). Other than that..."},{"author_name":"Jonny D","author_uid":"654","time":"Sep 6, 2010 @ 7:11pm","epoch":1283799960,"text":"That took forever...  Really, I would have voted for this, but the voting ended while I was playing!\r<br\/>You accurately captured many annoying features of Pok&eacute;mon.  My kids loved the battle music and I liked the avatar cameos.  Innovative?  Of course not ;)\r<br\/>I ended up with a level 35 Biscuit, btw."},{"author_name":"Jonny D","author_uid":"654","time":"Sep 6, 2010 @ 7:12pm","epoch":1283800020,"text":"Wow, LD can't handle UNICODE.  No surprise :)"}],"images":["ld18\/150-b2735b63fa6f36265a83d2072d59a664.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/justfiona.com\/media\/daremon\/daremon-ld18-win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/justfiona.com\/media\/daremon\/daremon-ld18-source.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/justfiona.com\/media\/daremon\/daremon-ld18-source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"33667","g_author":"150","g_event":"LD18","g_eventkey":"4","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"33697","g_title":"Daremon","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"35","g_commentcount":"17","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\/\/22150\/150-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"(Disclaimer: This is a long game, I decided to make a whole RPG with a beginning, middle and end. As a result I have been unable to test it thoroughly enough so I cannot guarantee that winning the game with the current set of rules is feasable. Also there's no save feature, which is necessary for such a long game. I hope to make a Jam version with this in.)\r\n\r\nDAREMON - A Pokemon Spoof\r\n\r\n-Overworld controls-\r\nArrow keys - move\r\nSpace\/return - confirm\/look\/talk\r\n\r\n-Battle controls-\r\nMouse driven.\r\n\r\nYou can carry one Daremon at a time. To get a better one, find a wild one and try to capture it. The weaker the Daremon the higher chance of capture!\r\n\r\nGood luck!<\/p>","title":"Daremon"}