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My spacebar was crying after I finished playing","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":792555,"author_name":"SunJet","author_uid":"sunjet","epoch":1649180219,"text":"# **waiting for ludum dare to start**\n\n# **waiting for unity to open**\n\n# **waiting for the project to build**\n\n# **waiting for the game to upload**\n\n# **waiting for the timer end**\n\n## YOOOO, finally I can play some cool ga... fuck\n\n\n\n\n\ngame is really exciting :)","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":795053,"author_name":"ollie_d","author_uid":"ollie-d","epoch":1649189799,"text":"Would've been cool to see some idle clicker-like elements added to this to make it feel more game-like. I think the music is quite effective and the intro was very cheeky which I appreciated, but I do think there's something missing.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":797973,"author_name":"JCMonkey","author_uid":"jcmonkey","epoch":1649206587,"text":"the music was perfect for this game. the mood is definitely 5\/5. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":802830,"author_name":"LDJam user 234567","author_uid":"234567","epoch":1649259281,"text":"My spacebar does not thank you :laughing: \n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":804734,"author_name":"DzejPi","author_uid":"dzejpi","epoch":1649272820,"text":"Would love to play it, but the Mac build is damaged for some reason. :( \n\n![Screenshot 2022-04-06 at 21.17.33.png](\/\/\/raw\/046\/93\/z\/4d2ab.png)\n\nAnd I can\u2019t find the source code on the itch.io, figured that I would compile it myself instead. Can we get in touch somehow? Eventually, I will be on Windows on weekend, so I can rate it by then. :) ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":805340,"author_name":"AlexHoratio","author_uid":"alexhoratio","epoch":1649276649,"text":"@dzejpi awww, that's a known problem exporting to OSX from a non-OSX platform :( there's something you can disable to fix it... gatekeeper? seems insecure anyway. DM me on discord and i can send you the godot project and that will probably work fine. PileOfAmoebas#1458","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":806639,"author_name":"Connor Magson","author_uid":"connor-magson","epoch":1649285363,"text":"Wonderfuly bizarre. Nice submission :)\n\nhappy ludum dare 50","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":808801,"author_name":"DzejPi","author_uid":"dzejpi","epoch":1649317332,"text":"Got the project and was able to build it myself, thank you very much! As mentioned above - wonderfully bizzare. I absolutely loved the music - it was excellent! And it worked great with the awesome graphics and text effects. Great job, love these sorts of games!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":811338,"author_name":"zimny11","author_uid":"zimny11","epoch":1649353342,"text":"I really like meta-games! Good job with this one, it was fun.\n\nI won! I think... or maybe I will wait, a bit longer, just in case :P","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":813235,"author_name":"PSV Games Studio","author_uid":"psv-games-studio","epoch":1649376968,"text":"interesting game! I liked the music.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":816328,"author_name":"tigerfinch","author_uid":"tigerfinch","epoch":1649445822,"text":"This made me smile so much, really nice game. 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