{"author_link":"\/users\/pinkemma","author_name":"pinkemma","author_uid":1011557,"comments":[{"id":710233,"author_name":"Hi7ch","author_uid":"hi7ch","epoch":1633298690,"text":"Ouch! Gonna be unstable playing this. Stress factor 10, Love it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":710269,"author_name":"PixelsAtDawn","author_uid":"pixelsatdawn","epoch":1633299646,"text":"I thought I was going to get seconds to relax at the start. I was wrong. I now know not to apply for a job in the nuclear industry.\n\nGreat game though!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":710927,"author_name":"SlimmerBurger","author_uid":"slimmerburger","epoch":1633309575,"text":"Is it bad that I instantly felt the urge to mess with the dinglebops and broke the machine?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":710940,"author_name":"pinkemma","author_uid":"pinkemma","epoch":1633309710,"text":"Best way to learn what dinglebops do, @slimmerburger ! Some experimentation is probably needed to work them properly :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":710946,"author_name":"Retrisma","author_uid":"retrisma","epoch":1633309772,"text":"It took me a minute to figure out the controls and the goals, but this was quite fun to balance. Great take on the theme as well. I just wish that the instructions at the beginning were a little more clear. Great job though!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":710968,"author_name":"Wassim","author_uid":"wassim","epoch":1633310005,"text":"I like the Idea and Excution, the game is hard but It's challenging and fits the theme very well, Well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":710977,"author_name":"pinkemma","author_uid":"pinkemma","epoch":1633310114,"text":"@retrisma The instructions were written in the last 10min, I had kinda glossed over the need to include them. I did kinda lean into some thing being learnt by experimentation though","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":710982,"author_name":"LDJam user 237913","author_uid":"237913","epoch":1633310182,"text":"I thought I knew a thing or two about Dinglebops, and I wasn't wrong :smile: But I know nothing about the rest of the machine! VENT! VENT! That was fun, thanks for submitting!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":711834,"author_name":"Vedrfolnir","author_uid":"vedrfolnir","epoch":1633325270,"text":"Buttons, switches, dinglebops, and a lovely beep to let you know that your life just got harder.  Good times.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":712063,"author_name":"pinkemma","author_uid":"pinkemma","epoch":1633330264,"text":"@vedrfolnir I wish real life had a beep to say it just got harder. Unless, is that what my tinitus it???","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":712372,"author_name":"mborecki","author_uid":"mborecki","epoch":1633335811,"text":"Dark souls of button pressing, nobs turning and switch switching.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":712505,"author_name":"pinkemma","author_uid":"pinkemma","epoch":1633337913,"text":"@mborecki Best description yet!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":714761,"author_name":"Johnathan Peres","author_uid":"johnathan-peres","epoch":1633364728,"text":"So hard yet so fun, good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":716147,"author_name":"shp","author_uid":"shp","epoch":1633375758,"text":"awesome concept for the theme, quite hard to play though. the visuals and sounds fit the game like a glove","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":721391,"author_name":"the.jahn","author_uid":"the-jahn","epoch":1633401548,"text":"Original comment, for history's sake: Ah, crap. Commented on the wrong game. I have too many tabs open. Please ignore, sorry! D':\n\nBut I've since played your game. It's a great take on the theme, definitely feels like operating an unstable blackbox device - I have no idea what I'm doing. Sounds instill a good sense of urgency to do something, though. I lasted 41 seconds. Haha.\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":721530,"author_name":"pinkemma","author_uid":"pinkemma","epoch":1633402368,"text":"Consider yourself ignored @the-jahn :D","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":721792,"author_name":"Simpathey","author_uid":"simpathey","epoch":1633404155,"text":"The game was well balanced but it was a little too hard at the start. Maybe machine gets more unstable with time so that new players can learn controls. The game had fun chaotic energy.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":724283,"author_name":"BridgeOnAStick","author_uid":"bridgeonastick","epoch":1633423849,"text":"Cool game, very chaotic indeed! Once you get the hang of it it gets interesting. However, a tutorial of some sorts would still be appreciated. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":724528,"author_name":"pinkemma","author_uid":"pinkemma","epoch":1633425634,"text":"@bridgeonastick Yeah, I was getting very close to the timelimit, and didn't have time for a proper tutorial. I wish I had made a screen that explain where things were though, since the player doesn't have time to figure it out before it's over.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726152,"author_name":"Listonos","author_uid":"listonos","epoch":1633434796,"text":"I love these games with dinglebobs, toggle switches and overall machine operating. This on was a little too stressful for me and, as other pointed out, it throws you right in a crisis and good luck. Still, a nice entry! 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I would have loved to have more in the game, but I was exhausted with fighting Unity on everything and was glad just to get it shipped :)\n\nAnd as far as hiring goes... at least we're not wasting good talent ;)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":735178,"author_name":"Schuster","author_uid":"schuster","epoch":1633481700,"text":"Nice game, very frantic","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":735214,"author_name":"Glen Chang","author_uid":"glen-chang","epoch":1633481931,"text":"I shouldn't touch any machine for a while. I think I just blow things up. I think it would help to show what each knob does. That way you can tell if you did something right or wrong. I couldn't figure out what I was doing except for trying to keep some meters green.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":741060,"author_name":"jharler","author_uid":"jharler","epoch":1633541320,"text":"Oh man, that is intense!  Definitely had me on edge.  Nice job for that!  Honestly, I had a hard time trying to figure out what did what and what I was supposed to be doing.  I think an in-gameplay tutorial would have been very useful in aiding players to know what to do.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/a6\/a6a2d4c4e909ad7c4f48d798ff58609ee836b8c7a26451c278f0c628f0b56b63.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/vartdal.org\/~emma\/ludumdare\/49\/index.html","text":"Link"},{"url":"http:\/\/vartdal.org\/~emma\/ludumdare\/49\/TheUnstableMachine-source.zip","text":"Link"},{"url":"http:\/\/vartdal.org\/~emma\/ludumdare\/49\/TheUnstableMachine.zip","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"80123","g_author":"1011557","g_event":"LD49","g_eventkey":"119","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"381113","g_title":"The Unstable Machine","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"468","g_commentcount":"25","g_site2_node_id":"267432","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"267432","n_urlkey":"381113","n_parent":"258323","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/49\/the-unstable-machine","n_slug":"the-unstable-machine","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"11557","n_created":"1633142456","n_modified":"1777326030","n_version":"842000","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD49","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":11557,"body":"The Machine is Unstable.\n\nIt is up to you to keep it from going boom. 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