{"author_link":"\/author\/slothmachine\/","author_name":"Slothmachine","author_uid":"30979","comments":[{"author_name":"justinooncx","author_uid":"38380","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1450110240,"text":"Uh... There's no link, no game."},{"author_name":"SineGlitch","author_uid":"64615","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1450118520,"text":"can't find a link."},{"author_name":"davesoft","author_uid":"46316","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:18pm","epoch":1450120380,"text":"Phantom game?"},{"author_name":"Slothmachine","author_uid":"30979","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:07am","epoch":1450144920,"text":"Link added! I started submitting before I had the build online. But now it's done :)"},{"author_name":"dos","author_uid":"52499","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:16am","epoch":1450145460,"text":"I drew a heart. It was beauti-something."},{"author_name":"Acerio","author_uid":"55163","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:25am","epoch":1450149600,"text":"Great game, love the graphics, and clever idea!"},{"author_name":"ryandali","author_uid":"52327","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:31am","epoch":1450149960,"text":"Visuals and audio look great, very calming. \rWould prefer more options in terms of gameplay, maybe colors?"},{"author_name":"SkullPixel","author_uid":"43898","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:33am","epoch":1450150080,"text":"Well thought out game with pretty and somewhat minimalistic graphics, in a good way, and a VERY sentimental little tree. ;)"},{"author_name":"BoxedMeatRevolution","author_uid":"47669","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:34am","epoch":1450150140,"text":"Love the ambience"},{"author_name":"Nega Drive","author_uid":"26098","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:06am","epoch":1450152060,"text":"Pretty experimental, but cool. Very chill. The tree's talking was cute. It did crash for me unfortunately, I guess because of Unity's WebGL stuff still being a bit wonky. Oh well, good stuff anyway."},{"author_name":"blohod","author_uid":"61724","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:08am","epoch":1450152180,"text":"very charming, nice atmosphere and fun too."},{"author_name":"Rufson","author_uid":"65594","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:49am","epoch":1450154640,"text":"Love"},{"author_name":"TheMeorch","author_uid":"44776","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:17am","epoch":1450156320,"text":"This was lovely -- I could see this mechanic used in a more traditional game, but it's also great in this form. The art style and audio match the mood perfectly.\r\rI hit a freeze during two playthroughs, but I really enjoyed this nonetheless!"},{"author_name":"alvaromartin","author_uid":"60100","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 6:32am","epoch":1450160820,"text":"The game froze for me as well, but I must say the mood was awesome. I loved the weird theme and the soundscape."},{"author_name":"Slothmachine","author_uid":"30979","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:42am","epoch":1450172220,"text":"Hmm. I get a freeze too, but it continues after a while. Does anyone have ideas what could cause such a thing?"},{"author_name":"Slothmachine","author_uid":"30979","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:12am","epoch":1450174020,"text":"It comes randomly in mid way through the game. 2-5 second freeze. Then it continues normally. Nothing special is instantiated or done when this happens."},{"author_name":"misteak","author_uid":"31670","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:26am","epoch":1450178460,"text":"such a kind little tree :')"},{"author_name":"Webravenz","author_uid":"15961","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:53pm","epoch":1450183680,"text":"amazing mood, cutest little tree ever"},{"author_name":"Ildfuglen","author_uid":"47768","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:53pm","epoch":1450187280,"text":"This game is a gem, a piece of art, I love it! It's really refreshing to play games like these. This game is not really a game in a normal sense, it's more of an interactive experience that showers you with compliments.\r\rGreat job on this, it's beautiful. This is one of the best games I have played in Ludum Dare so far, well done!\r\rThanks for the game, I hope to see you make more games in future Ludum Dares!"},{"author_name":"Patacorow","author_uid":"6685","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:55pm","epoch":1450187400,"text":"Very polish entry!\rThe mood is perfect, the graphics are neat and the overall idea is lovely.\rI wish there was a way to see other's plants online.\rGood job :)"},{"author_name":"local306","author_uid":"55445","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:56pm","epoch":1450216260,"text":"Cool story bro (it actually was :D)"},{"author_name":"adamk33n3r","author_uid":"35043","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:57am","epoch":1450241520,"text":"*Victory Dance*\r\rMusic was amazing"},{"author_name":"candlesan","author_uid":"42159","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 9:31am","epoch":1450257960,"text":"Very interesting take on the theme! Liked it! Calming and peaceful and a funny joke at the end :) Enjoyed myself."},{"author_name":"GagaPete","author_uid":"16147","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 11:39am","epoch":1450265640,"text":"No audio in Chrome but in Firefox it works flawless. Great execution, lovely music. I like that experience. I guess you should try to make the result sharable on Twitter or alike, so people could share their "drawings".\rAlso it sometimes don't let you grow a pixel directly between two black pixels, that makes it hard to create really great art. :)"},{"author_name":"Akhera","author_uid":"60697","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1450301580,"text":"Not much of a game, but the atmosphere is relaxing."},{"author_name":"VitasaMode","author_uid":"63629","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 3:53am","epoch":1450324080,"text":"didn't load at all for me on chrome but worked after some loading time on firefox. \r\rClever concept and the visuals as well as music tied showcased the mood really well. in terms of gameplay it was more open ended and artistic which didn't feel too much like a game, nevertheless I enjoyed it for what it was. \r\rYou could potentially expand this further and add some mechanics to turn it into more of a game per se. Either way I think this was a good entry that could have been pushed a bit more."},{"author_name":"Aglavra","author_uid":"38572","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1450470780,"text":"I really liked your approach to the theme."},{"author_name":"Pusty","author_uid":"55076","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 8:40pm","epoch":1450470900,"text":"Nice graphics very good!"},{"author_name":"Troma","author_uid":"63170","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1450471320,"text":"Good graphics and sound!"},{"author_name":"tinyworlds","author_uid":"10000","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 10:01pm","epoch":1450475760,"text":"Hm, interesting idea! I love how you tried to create a calm yet lively atmosphere with the camera movement and the particles.\rI felt a bit like the lines screamed to make a penis or something bad with them ... I wonder if it would have felt differently with little round bushes to create your plant out of or something similar."},{"author_name":"Zeriver","author_uid":"51756","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 10:02pm","epoch":1450475820,"text":"I had to, im sorry\rhttp:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Wpnp1Yy.png\r\rInteresting experience. I liked graphics and music, really matching together. Fun game."},{"author_name":"jsmars","author_uid":"3933","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 10:43pm","epoch":1450478280,"text":"Beautiful idea and take on the theme.. would be awesome if all trees were saved and you you got to see a forest full of all creations at the end."},{"author_name":"alpha_rat","author_uid":"39704","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 10:43pm","epoch":1450478280,"text":"Really touching little game! i loved it"},{"author_name":"jeroenwimmers","author_uid":"63759","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 1:09am","epoch":1450487040,"text":"it crashed to times for me at: "sometimes people are beautiful". I wanna see what happens:("},{"author_name":"Rfdshir","author_uid":"62241","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 2:40am","epoch":1450492500,"text":"Wonderful experiment! Really like it ^_^"},{"author_name":"publicidadeba","author_uid":"63879","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 4:22am","epoch":1450498620,"text":"Thank you for being so nice to me."},{"author_name":"rijnswand","author_uid":"22564","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 4:38pm","epoch":1450542780,"text":"Good idea, that was a nice and relaxing experience."},{"author_name":"Jwatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 5:09pm","epoch":1450544640,"text":"No se oli sitten vissiin vaan semmonen. Ilmeisesti aika helkutin tärkeitä puhekuplia kun pitää aina tulla hiiren tielle. Eipä mulla muuta."},{"author_name":"rnlf","author_uid":"30930","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1450561680,"text":"Lovely little non-game :-) Great style, great audio, great little story.\r\rGood job!"},{"author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 1:21am","epoch":1450574160,"text":"Awesome! I love the atmosphere :D"},{"author_name":"roaringcatgames","author_uid":"58120","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 2:39am","epoch":1450578840,"text":"Yes this is a game. I had a good time making the tree grow. I felt good about giving the tree weirdo limbs. Sometimes I was not able to shoot my tree particles the way I wanted, but it didn't matter. I wish I could export the tree. Tweet it or something."},{"author_name":"LeReveur","author_uid":"7170","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:14am","epoch":1450591740,"text":""Think through the hights is like a zen garden, but a vertical one."\r- Loa Stue\r\r"Straight minds can make twisted things. And vice versa."\r- Jan Cloud Vindom\r\r"What the hell am I doing in a quote ?!"\r- Mimi Mansho"},{"author_name":"mike.cullingham","author_uid":"49890","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:45am","epoch":1450593600,"text":"Like the zen nature of this. A nice relaxing "game" to end my night of playing LD games. Would be neat to see a forest of everyone's creation. Thank you for this."},{"author_name":"inbetweengames","author_uid":"56968","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 7:17am","epoch":1450681920,"text":"Very relaxing. Could be expanded into a longer experience for sure!"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1450701420,"text":"Interesting little experience! :)\r\rThe aesthetics are great! I really liked how simple but effective the graphics are."},{"author_name":"lurils","author_uid":"16303","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 12:42am","epoch":1450744620,"text":"really nice experience"},{"author_name":"Radnap","author_uid":"59824","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 3:52pm","epoch":1450799220,"text":"ThReally nice graphics, i love the ambiance ! The dialogues are well written and i found it quite charming.\rThe only downside is the sound which are a too noisy and masked the music while not really corresponding to the overall mood. Well done anyway !"},{"author_name":"A-Flat Miner Studios","author_uid":"42150","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 3:47am","epoch":1451878920,"text":"What a charming little tree.\r(Animating the pixels wooshing into place was a nice touch.)"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Mar 28, 2016 @ 3:06am","epoch":1459134060,"text":"Really lovely game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/MR4ln4T3mFk"}],"images":["ld34\/30979-46ae1984f0facfd9a5464ded335b919b.jpg","ld34\/30979-01243a6ad8c0315bad0d1bf5393599a5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/3936370\/Jams\/LD34_LudumVitae\/index.html","text":"HTML5 (Unity)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5210","g_author":"30979","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"5182","g_title":"Ludum Vitae","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"344","g_commentcount":"49","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\/\/511439\/30979-shot0-1450176979.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/30979-shot1-1450148711.gif-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"\/\/There is a random 2-5 second freeze in middle of the game. I have no idea why, yet.\r\n\r\nIn this LudumDare I did a solo run. And made a thing\u2026 Not sure if it is a game.\r\nBut it\u2019s pretty short. Time is precious. Have fun!\r\n\r\nCode: Miikka Harjuntausta, @slothrone\r\nMusic: \"Kline Glen\" from MrNightVarga\r\n\r\n","title":"Ludum Vitae"}