{"author_link":"\/author\/lingmops\/","author_name":"lingmops","author_uid":"3712","comments":[{"author_name":"lingmops","author_uid":"3712","time":"Feb 14, 2011 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1297707420,"text":"Hello encoding issues. Sorry about the wacky symbols where apostrophe's should be. I copied and pasted where I should have tippity typed."},{"author_name":"LegacyCrono","author_uid":"3093","time":"Feb 14, 2011 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1297715340,"text":"Nice, simple but creative! Great job! Only problem is that it took me some time to understand when I should chew and swallow. Oh, and I think that there's a bug where his mouth will get full and won't change no matter how much you press space...\r<br\/>My highscore is 51100. Huzzah!"},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"Feb 14, 2011 @ 9:23pm","epoch":1297718280,"text":"lol... awesome banana action!"},{"author_name":"lingmops","author_uid":"3712","time":"Feb 15, 2011 @ 12:09am","epoch":1297728240,"text":"Okay, basic mechanics of it:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Points are scored when the monkey stuffs his face with fruit.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If his mouth gets too full, he chokes and loses half the fruit in his mouth.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Swallowing removes the fruit in his mouth.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If he tries to swallow too much, he chokes.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Swallowing takes time, based on volume of mouth contents\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Chewing reduces the mouth content VOLUME but not MASS, for a quicker swallow. Yes I know this is not right, they are aero bananas... or... something... :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Chewing also introduces a score bonus, multiplied by the mass eventually swallowed, which increases per chew so long as the volume can be reduced.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The amount the volume can be reduced lessens as the mass of content increases. So, you can't just keep packing in food and never swallowing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>\r<br\/>This game has *barely* been playtested, so it's as balanced as an unballanced individual stood on a rotating log, which is itself wobbling. During an earthquake. And a food fight is happening. With jelly."},{"author_name":"rik","author_uid":"1070","time":"Feb 16, 2011 @ 9:35pm","epoch":1297891800,"text":"I like it, though I'm not very good at it!  Some kind of diagram of what's happening in the mouth might have helped!  XD"},{"author_name":"lingmops","author_uid":"3712","time":"Feb 17, 2011 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1297959960,"text":"The intention was that you should be able to tell what's going on by the size of the mouth, though I accept that wasn't executed terribly well."}],"images":["mini24\/3712-38d837a6b7f9c4ddd30b58d59ff548bf.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/lingmops.net\/?p=113","text":"Interweb"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"34957","g_author":"3712","g_event":"MINI24","g_eventkey":"49","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"36735","g_title":"Mr Grimmond's Mastication Simulation","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"6","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\/\/40360\/3712-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Theme: True Love <-- yes, this was only tenuously adhered to\r\n\r\nLimitation: Game must end in 60 seconds\r\n\r\nLimitation: 2 Button Input\r\n\r\nLimitation: All audio must be your own voice <-- partial, all the *sound effects* are my voice.\r\n\r\nRule: Work with a partner <-- as in \"in Crime\", don't have one of the other kind, she did the music and came up with some of the ideas, everything else was me by my merry self.\r\n\r\nYeah, I neglected to make an actual title screen, I didn\u2019t want to lose the intro text and was already way over time.\r\n\r\nThis is the very first original game I have finished. Hell, it's the first original game I've worked on in about 14 years. Was fun. I went over 48 hours by a little bit, however I am ill so bugger it. It\u2019s close enough.<\/p>","title":"Mr Grimmond's Mastication Simulation"}