{"author_link":"\/author\/jlnr\/","author_name":"jlnr","author_uid":"114","comments":[{"author_name":"iapc","author_uid":"53115","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 2:34am","epoch":1440469740,"text":"OS\/X only, are you insane?"},{"author_name":"Llucile","author_uid":"58109","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 2:44am","epoch":1440470340,"text":"Can't run don't own a Mac"},{"author_name":"Damdoshi","author_uid":"45212","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 7:33pm","epoch":1440530880,"text":"There is an error in you windows link."},{"author_name":"sausagroll","author_uid":"46243","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 7:43pm","epoch":1440531480,"text":"the windows link doesn't work"},{"author_name":"A_K_","author_uid":"55485","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1440531600,"text":"OS X forever! :)"},{"author_name":"jlnr","author_uid":"114","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 7:58pm","epoch":1440532380,"text":"Sorry everything, the Windows ZIP had the wrong permissions, the download should work now."},{"author_name":"jlnr","author_uid":"114","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1440535800,"text":"*everyone"},{"author_name":"danidre14","author_uid":"32791","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1440537240,"text":"Nice idea. Cool entry."},{"author_name":"A Flat Miner Studios","author_uid":"42150","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1440537540,"text":"Hard to tell where to place pieces sometimes (perhaps place a slight grid on the pieces themselves?) but pretty neat."},{"author_name":"MechanicMoon","author_uid":"40539","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:27pm","epoch":1440537720,"text":"Ey, nice game to play with friends, with an online mode the idea would be awesome. I like board games a lot, good work ^^"},{"author_name":"Connors","author_uid":"10411","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1440538440,"text":"Pretty cool, like the Blokus board game but with triangular divisions."},{"author_name":"Gaga","author_uid":"41788","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1440539040,"text":"Think this would be a lot more enjoyable with less piece variety and a smaller board."},{"author_name":"shawn42","author_uid":"571","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:04am","epoch":1440557940,"text":"I can definitely see playing this more. Now to find friends to play with..."},{"author_name":"Daukan","author_uid":"54965","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 9:39am","epoch":1440581640,"text":"I liked this game. It was a good brain teaser. Didn't quite fit the theme I think however :)"},{"author_name":"cbear_wallis","author_uid":"27018","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 6:50pm","epoch":1440614700,"text":"Iapc OS\/X and Windows only?....are you insane. jk, I really like this game! it's like Go meets tangrams! fuckin rad as shit! I loved it ^_^ &lt;3"},{"author_name":"NAL","author_uid":"23217","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 12:38pm","epoch":1440765180,"text":"Didn't fit the theme in the slightest, but this idea is excellent. I'd love to see it more polished digitally, and I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably buy a physical copy!"},{"author_name":"xvw","author_uid":"57278","time":"Sep 5, 2015 @ 12:17pm","epoch":1441455120,"text":"A very nice game!\r<br\/>I'm not sure this is the theme that has inspired you, haha... :D"},{"author_name":"philomory","author_uid":"1112","time":"Sep 6, 2015 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1441573260,"text":"Nice concept, Julian, and actually plays quite well (though it'd be nice if currently unplayable pieces were dimmed). Pity about missing the theme :-p"}],"images":["ld33\/114-4857cf46bf673d8567d32ee95e2d9e27.jpg","ld33\/114-8651a8208462dfaae5d6bf3303ce83ca.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/raschke.de\/julian\/temp\/Monstris.exe.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/raschke.de\/julian\/temp\/Monstris.app.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/jlnr\/monstris","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"8427","g_author":"114","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"8460","g_title":"Monstris","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"400","g_commentcount":"18","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\/\/479518\/114-shot0-1440467321.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/114-shot1-1440467321.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I couldn't come up with a great idea for the theme, so I've decided to implement an old idea I have for a board game.\r\n\r\nRULES\r\nFour players have to put down as many pieces as possible, starting in their \"home corner\".\r\nBut you can only connect pieces DIAGONALLY. None of your pieces' sides must touch directly. I've tried to illustrate this in screenshot #2. Touching enemy pieces is fine.\r\n(Sounds like the board game Blokus? It's similar, but this game has triangular tiles.)\r\n\r\nJUDGING\r\nI've written an HTML 5 version of the same game a couple years ago, is that cheating? I'm not really in this compo to win, but I'd love to hear feedback about the actual game mechanics! (I'm starting to think that the abovementioned game Blokus is a lot better balanced :\/)\r\n\r\nTHEME? WHERE?\r\nI've been meaning to put monster eyes on each piece, and then let each piece grow hands where you can connect other pieces (instead of blinking dots). That'd have made the rules so much clearer! ...And then I ran out of time :|\r\n\r\nTOOLS\r\nRubyMotion and the (my) Gosu game development library for Ruby (https:\/\/libgosu.org\/)\r\nTextMate 1.5.11 \\m\/\r\nAffinity Designer (so much better than crashy Sketch 3.3.3 -_-)\r\n\r\nSOURCE\r\nI think I'm going to clean up and push the source to GitHub sometime this week. I'm *really* happy with the project structure.\r\n","title":"Monstris"}