{"author_link":"\/author\/deathray\/","author_name":"deathray","author_uid":"17861","comments":[{"author_name":"deathray","author_uid":"17861","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:47am","epoch":1460954520,"text":"I fixed 3 bugs: framework should no longer completely die if it can't load all components in the right order; population calculation no longer counts missing citizens; character can no longer switch parties."},{"author_name":"mountainstorm","author_uid":"83448","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:48am","epoch":1460965380,"text":"Awesome idea, not a lot of gameplay but very enjoyable"},{"author_name":"mutonizer","author_uid":"91240","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:00am","epoch":1460966100,"text":"Took me a while to get the hang of it but was good fun. \r<br\/>Works as intented as far as I played it. Won after wiping out a lot of poor non green shirt people for them skin power.\r<br\/>Not much to say, it just works, kinda fun and cute.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Kudos? :)\r<br\/>++"},{"author_name":"sirtetris","author_uid":"26418","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:07am","epoch":1460966520,"text":"Lizard people! Nice idea! :)\r<br\/>I didn't quite get the &quot;collect human-suits&quot; idea. It seemed to be sufficient to just jump into the ufo and back to refill the suit. Moving by ufo seemed to have to merit.\r<br\/>I think I once got over 50% approval but I was hacking away on the spacebar, a notification popped up (did I win?) and it instantly disappeared (because I was hitting the spacebar)."},{"author_name":"Syldarion","author_uid":"20279","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:36am","epoch":1461040260,"text":"I had a really good time scaring away all of the citizens. Getting them all on my side proved to be difficult."},{"author_name":"namrog84","author_uid":"4313","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 3:31am","epoch":1461727560,"text":"ahhh the alien!"},{"author_name":"mike.cullingham","author_uid":"49890","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 4:34am","epoch":1461731340,"text":"Was very confused for a long time.  Didn't realize I had to hold space, not just push it.  After that, I saw it was a rather neat concept.  Would be interesting to be able to have some reason to use the lizard form rather than just a failure condition that I carefully avoided.  Nice job."},{"author_name":"ogre","author_uid":"12735","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 4:51am","epoch":1461732360,"text":"Couldn't figure out how to win.  Had more than half the bar green with many people still alive.  Tried wiping out most of the population, got 100% green with only two people still alive.  Still no win.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really needs sound.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Cute and funny idea.  Also the second entry I've played this compo that features a lizard-person president!"},{"author_name":"icefallgames","author_uid":"11319","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 4:52am","epoch":1461732420,"text":"Oh man, almost got to halfway green, but then I turned back into an alien because I was too far away from my ship, haha\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The blinking eyes are a nice touch, and the beam effect is pretty cool :-)"},{"author_name":"lumscum","author_uid":"51911","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 5:43am","epoch":1461735480,"text":"Really liked the concept! UI and goal was a bit confusing to figure out though!"},{"author_name":"thegoofromspace","author_uid":"18653","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 5:51am","epoch":1461735960,"text":"Man, this is the SECOND politicians-as-secret-reptile-aliens game I've played so far this LD, but I haven't played ONE where you involuntarily turn into a were-whatever at certain times! In fact... the closest to that idea is THIS GAME, 'cause you involuntarily turn back into a reptile!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway: this was a neat idea and it was pretty fun. I only won when I realized I should use the UFO laser to shoot people who wouldn't join up with the reptile party, and having to figure that out made the &quot;win&quot; feel satisfying.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Speaking of making the wins feel satisfying? A &quot;You win!&quot;*screen would've been better than the &quot;You win!&quot; alert, and the game could've used sound, but this was pretty well done overall.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I think if I were to dream up a full release of this, I'd make one where you campaign against other, AI-or-player-controlled politicians. Seems like a fun enough idea to expand on."},{"author_name":"TheBreakfast","author_uid":"62232","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 11:03pm","epoch":1461797880,"text":"Haha this is awesome. Immediately when &quot;shape shift&quot; was announced as the theme, I thought of &quot;They Live&quot; and wanted to do something like this. Good job!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Could have used a few sound effects, but it's an awesome achievement for a compo entry!"},{"author_name":"masterkrepta","author_uid":"57229","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 2:39am","epoch":1461810840,"text":"Really love the concept, all thought the controls do feel kinda laggy on my system, (might have just been me though, ill try again later.)"},{"author_name":"Orion Dev","author_uid":"38603","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 2:47am","epoch":1461811320,"text":"Cool game bro! Really love that art style, a little more instruction would make the game easier to pick up though :)"},{"author_name":"Sabina Lis","author_uid":"52062","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 2:58am","epoch":1461811980,"text":"It was fun, abducting people on the spaceship specially, i liked the use of theme"},{"author_name":"pixelpotions","author_uid":"63064","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1461863340,"text":"Solid entry! Had some fun but I totally missed the win message because of tapping spacebar at the same time. Nonetheless great fun and awesome concept!"},{"author_name":"AnaGF","author_uid":"56020","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 9:16pm","epoch":1461877860,"text":"At first it was hard the understand how to play.\r<br\/>But later, it was cool! I love the idea of the shapeshifting UFO beam."},{"author_name":"Karl Schmidt","author_uid":"49158","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1462139100,"text":"Hilarious idea - was fun once I figured out all the controls and UI. The improvements you made in the post-comp version addressed most of my issues :) I'm still not sure if I hold down space or not? Great job!"}],"images":["ld35\/17861-2ce9ccf50af3ee1b68480bf3fd292123.jpg","ld35\/17861-8bcddce0ba2b37eca4fdcf2404a711d2.jpg","ld35\/17861-20b94418e71aafbbe422b61ea816b281.jpg","ld35\/17861-0144e939f9636a9ea0fde2e5ae8a9645.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/deathraygames.com\/play-online\/reptilian-president\/ld35\/","text":"Play Compo Version (web, html)"},{"url":"http:\/\/deathraygames.com\/play-online\/reptilian-president\/","text":"Play Post-Comp Version"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Lukenickerson\/reptilian-president\/tree\/master\/ld35","text":"Source on GitHub"},{"url":"https:\/\/deathraygames.tumblr.com\/tagged\/ld35","text":"Related Posts on Tumblr"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"4102","g_author":"17861","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"4103","g_title":"Reptilian President","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"618","g_commentcount":"18","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\/\/542293\/17861-shot0-1460944329.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/17861-shot1-1460944527.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/17861-shot2-1460944527.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/17861-shot3-1460944527.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Due to the success of previous reptilians running for public office, you've decided to run for president. The only thing holding you back is your itchy human-suit, and it's tendency to decompose, exposing your true, alien shape. Luckily using the LASERs on your UFO it should be easy to harvest more human-suits; hopefully this won't make the humans panic too much.\r\n\r\nLeft\/Right\/A\/D = Movement\r\nTab = beam up\/down from UFO\r\nSpace = give speech or fire UFO laser to collect human-suit\r\n\r\nGreen\/Red\/Blue bar = voter decisions (you are green)\r\nBrown bar = The durability of your human-suit\r\nOrange bar = The level of fear among the citizens\r\n\r\nReturn to your ship to use one of your human-suits to shapeshift back into a human.\r\n\r\nTo win: Get over 50% of the vote for the Reptilian Illuminati Party!","title":"Reptilian President"}