{"author_link":"\/author\/lcmw_spud\/","author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","comments":[{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1472416380,"text":"SO SORRY ABOUT THE MUSIC, SORRY"},{"author_name":"kndx123","author_uid":"49988","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 4:14pm","epoch":1472486940,"text":"Fun game! The programmers art is true art. The volume levels could use a bit work. But I did manage to save to universe from being deleted."},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 4:21pm","epoch":1472487360,"text":"@kndx123 Great to hear you enjoyed it, I had some music but it wasn't public domain and had to rush that...mess together rather quickly XD"},{"author_name":"DiegoCTorguet","author_uid":"112135","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1472487420,"text":"Original idea but this needs more polish in the design part to make it funnier and more challenging."},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 4:30pm","epoch":1472487900,"text":"@DiegoCTorguet Thanks for the advice, I was a little unhappy with the levels but they used to be a lot worse :)"},{"author_name":"onyon","author_uid":"112297","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1472488440,"text":"Cool idea, read a lot, kids :D jk, nice little game you got there, sir :) Thumbs up!"},{"author_name":"videogreg93","author_uid":"50988","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1472489520,"text":"Programmer art at its finest! I just wish the character would move just a tad faster."},{"author_name":"lekiy","author_uid":"18703","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1472489820,"text":"When running the game either pressing Y or N seems to quit it."},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 5:06pm","epoch":1472490060,"text":"@lekiy Do you have the res folder in the same folder as the jar?"},{"author_name":"lekiy","author_uid":"18703","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 5:17pm","epoch":1472490720,"text":"Okay I forgot to extract it. It seems that if you die, and you restart books you already read disappear but you lose all the knowledge you gained for them. I do like the Idea though."},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1472490960,"text":"@lekiy Yeah, the library I used has some little quirks like that :)"},{"author_name":"pixzleone","author_uid":"44497","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1472492040,"text":"It could maybe use some kind of twist to the gameplay, but overall it's good!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well done! :D"},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1472492520,"text":"@pixzleone Yeah, a twist would be fun but I felt I didn't have time"},{"author_name":"rudinskiz","author_uid":"97662","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:02pm","epoch":1472493420,"text":"I didn't really know what was going on"},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1472494020,"text":"+rudinskiz Haha, neither did I"},{"author_name":"Vaiaphraim","author_uid":"55795","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1472494800,"text":"Oh wow, I got deleted way too often... my best result was 180 knowledge.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I think you need a bit of a grace zone when moving, even touching the dark tiles barely makes you lose health (I think top and left), you can only overlap a bit on the other directions. :( I.. I think I won't save the universe that way...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Music is really fun, reminds me of myself when I did some experimental stuff. :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I hope you'll be around for the next LD!"},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1472494920,"text":"@rudinskiz Haha, neither did I (Sorry for messing up the reply there)"},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1472495220,"text":"@Vaiaphraim Firstly, I was aware the lack of balance of the game and I did indeed shrink the player from 32x32 to 28x28, alas that wasn't enough.\r<br\/>The music is probably my proudest moment was indeed the music....aside from all other things :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I will be sticking around for the next one, I loved the experience and the responses of the game, I'll try not rushing next time as well."},{"author_name":"lcmw shaker","author_uid":"113392","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:50pm","epoch":1472496300,"text":"10\/10 ign\r<br\/>Great idea, needs more polish."},{"author_name":"rjhelms","author_uid":"39055","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:57pm","epoch":1472496720,"text":"I like the idea here. I've spent a lot of my life at a command line and I'm still worried that something like this is going to happen to me.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I agree with some others that the game could use a bit more polish: tighten up the movement, tweak the level design, etc. But that's the hardest thing to get right during a game jam for sure.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Hope to see you in the next Ludum Dare!"},{"author_name":"sn0uk","author_uid":"110068","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 7:07pm","epoch":1472497320,"text":"I liked the idea alot"},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 7:09pm","epoch":1472497440,"text":"@rjhelms The idea came from my fear as such of how unstable and massive the Unix command line and it's undiscovered nature.\r<br\/>I do indeed agree completely with the fact the game needs more polish, it's my first LD I didn't have any real concept of the amount of time I really had.\r<br\/>I will be sticking around for the next compo."},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 7:09pm","epoch":1472497440,"text":"@sn0uk thanks"},{"author_name":"AWOL","author_uid":"81286","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 7:13pm","epoch":1472497680,"text":"Not bad I did a top down shooter. If you want to check it out?"},{"author_name":"lordvorath","author_uid":"83452","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 7:22pm","epoch":1472498220,"text":"Nice idea, i found the strategy element to be the most entertaining part of this game, deciding, whether to read that red book or not. A pity for the music. Also it would have been nice to have a clearer indication for the doors, it took me a while to realize they existed, i was waiting for new books to spawn XD Keep it up"},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 7:28pm","epoch":1472498580,"text":"@lordvorath Yeah, I did say in the decription that the doors where hard to find XD\r<br\/>Also yes, the music was terrible, yes.\r<br\/>And I hate this sort of advertising but I'm developing an open-source 2D game engine and posting updates of my game on my twitter (as well as some other crap) if you'd like to pop over"},{"author_name":"yotam180","author_uid":"108140","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1472560980,"text":"The story is pretty cool and interesting , but sound is very poor , graphics aren't amazing either"},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 1:13pm","epoch":1472562480,"text":"@yotam180 Yeah, I focused mainly on the gameplay and story, I used like 4 sprites through the entire game and the music was thrown together like 4 minutes before the deadline :)"},{"author_name":"epb9000","author_uid":"14828","time":"Sep 1, 2016 @ 5:15am","epoch":1472706600,"text":"I had a little trouble spotting doors at first... I think they're doors anyway.  I like the idea. Especially the strategic suicide runs across deleted areas.  Rescued the universe from my own stupidity a couple of times."},{"author_name":"LCMW_Spud","author_uid":"111759","time":"Sep 2, 2016 @ 11:05am","epoch":1472814000,"text":"@epb9000 Glad to hear you enjoyed it. Yeah the doors are the worst asset in the game :)"}],"images":["ld36\/111759-9e06b990ca7fe904e19080ac513b062a.jpg","ld36\/111759-406930d00bbf311288ad20827c00b95a.jpg","ld36\/111759-d3f4457ae05440caac8718bcbdcbf0c8.jpg","ld36\/111759-7db6829e02ccad864b23f11127c77d8b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/u2wcohtxrnid98h\/game.zip?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/dcmkpdlhgg6p6pm\/rmSource.zip?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"438","g_author":"111759","g_event":"LD36","g_eventkey":"35","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"522","g_title":"Rm -universe","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"30","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\/\/570486\/111759-shot0-1472416664.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/111759-shot1-1472416664.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/111759-shot2-1472416664.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/111759-shot3-1472416664.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Rm -universe is a game made in Slick2D with Java and is a decision making maze like game.\r\n\r\nThe game is about a 21st century kid who stumbles across an old DOS pc and finds a book with some dodgy looking commands, as they all do, he enters one that deletes the entire universe through a UNIX bash wrapper (hence the name). You must find your way around a library being deleted by the bit, find enough books, gain enough knowledge and reach a computer to cancel the command with your command skills.\r\n\r\nGameplay is rather simple, W, A, S, D to move and press R to read, you cannot move while reading. You cannot step into deleted (black and blue) space, different coloured books have different values of knowledge and the little brown thing is a door....thanks.\r\n\r\nThis is my first Ludum dare entry and I may find myself re-entering next time, thanks for playing.","title":"Rm -universe"}