{"author_link":"\/users\/harark","author_name":"harark","author_uid":"1000189","comments":[{"author_name":"FireSlash","author_uid":"1000025","time":"2019-05-01T06:04:55Z","epoch":1556690695,"modified":1556690695,"text":"I played a bit and honestly have no idea what I'm supposed to do. Are there instructions somewhere that I'm missing?","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"luckyDaisy","author_uid":"1104771","time":"2019-05-01T06:08:45Z","epoch":1556690925,"modified":1556690925,"text":"Initially was a bit confused about what I was doing with my turns of life but really enjoyed the idea of creating an challenge for yourself based on your current life situation.\n\nThe music+mood really matched the overall decision making the game forced on you each successive turn. Would like to see named incidents creep into the turn system but understand that time constraints make that difficult.\n\nWell done","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Aleph Null Productions","author_uid":"1143923","time":"2019-05-01T06:12:23Z","epoch":1556691143,"modified":1556691143,"text":"I would say this is a wonderful life simulation, in so far as it is kinda fun, very confusing, and I am not sure if I won or not.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Evan Minto","author_uid":"1020346","time":"2019-05-01T06:25:13Z","epoch":1556691913,"modified":1556691913,"text":"Took me two or three tries to figure out how to actually do anything, but once I did I ended up getting pretty into this.\n\nThe big issue is that there aren't clear perceived affordances on anything. I had no way of knowing that I could pick up the cards, and even when I did there was no indication of where I was supposed to drop them. Something as simple as circling the drop area or graying everything else out would have been enough to indicate what I was supposed to do.\n\nI like the two-step choices you have to make: first to unlock the cards, then to change the probabilities. I found myself stopping to strategize about the optimal cards to use at each step. That said, once I figured out the patterns it became a bit too easy to play the game on autopilot.\n\nAnd I appreciate the philosophical bent to this. Using time and support to unlock trauma is a nice touch, and it was interesting to try the game starting with a lot of cards vs. a little to see the difference in difficulty. Walking a mile in another person's shoes, you know?","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"OhFiddleDiddle","author_uid":"1014772","time":"2019-05-04T15:17:44Z","epoch":1556983064,"modified":1556983064,"text":"This game definitely requires a tutorial, but when I figured it out I thought the core mechanic and concept was pretty cool. :D\nI would love to see this game with a new UI and maybe a little more gameplay around it, but it was pretty cool overall.\nWell done, keep it up. :D","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"aCactus","author_uid":"1141414","time":"2019-05-04T19:50:55Z","epoch":1556999455,"modified":1556999455,"text":"I like that you can choose to let life take you where it wants to go.","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/144400-36d2b1f7d9c1091b9434cdd118f0cceb.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/andersfranklin.net\/games\/Is%20it%20a%20drag\/index.html","text":"HTML5 (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"43379","g_author":"1000189","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"256036","g_title":"Is it a drag?","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"6","g_site2_node_id":"144400","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.392083"},"nds":{"n_key":"144400","n_urlkey":"256036","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/is-it-a-drag","n_slug":"is-it-a-drag","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"189","n_created":"1556033917","n_modified":"1556547343","n_version":"448850","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":144400,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":189,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2019-04-29T14:15:43Z","created":"2019-04-23T15:38:37Z","modified":"2019-04-29T14:15:43Z","version":448850,"slug":"is-it-a-drag","name":"Is it a drag?","body":"Simulate the life of... well, you decide.","meta":{"author":[189],"grade-07-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/db\/z\/21e8a.jpg","link-01":"https:\/\/andersfranklin.net\/games\/Is%20it%20a%20drag\/index.html","link-01-tag":"42336"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/is-it-a-drag","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":6,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-04T19:50:55Z","grade":{"grade-01":8,"grade-02":8,"grade-03":7,"grade-04":8,"grade-05":8,"grade-06":8,"grade-08":8},"magic":{"cool":104.16843970122,"feedback":5,"given":6.375,"grade":7.8571428571429,"smart":6.2800759571358}},"text":"Simulate the life of... well, you decide.","title":"Is it a drag?"}