{"author_link":"\/users\/esh-k","author_name":"esh_k","author_uid":1416219,"comments":[{"id":1165382,"author_name":"ellaris","author_uid":"ellaris","epoch":1759834986,"text":"Cool game, I like the buffoon art. It was a little weird that the other emotion was evil\/fear coming from a jester, not all the evil guys ran away and they got scared for a short period of time, I'm also not sure if there was any indication whether they are scared or not, apart from them moving to get you when not scared.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1167311,"author_name":"PaDo","author_uid":"pado","epoch":1759852915,"text":"I enjoyed scaring the bad guys and making the good guys happy. The mask-swapping trick was really cool. But I didn't immediately realize that the interaction was with the \"E\" key.\n\nI would be glad if you play our game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1167570,"author_name":"Trusty","author_uid":"trusty","epoch":1759855596,"text":"Cool concept. I wasnt sure why the evil ones still followed you after you collected them. They didnt seem to do anything after they reached me. Thanks for the game","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1167577,"author_name":"NekoBones","author_uid":"nekobones","epoch":1759855686,"text":"The theme is interesting and I love the idea of mask. Don't know why but I failed to pass the tutorial level, the door just didn't open, even though I've received applause from both 2 audiences.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1167580,"author_name":"Nicso","author_uid":"nicso","epoch":1759855692,"text":"cool concept\n\nI found a little bit difficult to visually differenciate the emotions on the characters\n\nnice work :thumbsup: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1167586,"author_name":"Sheepolution","author_uid":"sheepolution","epoch":1759855736,"text":"Funny take on the theme. I was a bit confused, because the people that I scared kept following me, and though it's nice that I can use the same attack on the same people to farm points, I'm not sure if that was intended. But good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1167587,"author_name":"esh_k","author_uid":"esh-k","epoch":1759855745,"text":"@nekobones, this is my mistake, I should have left a hint that I should press the \"E\" key, as I already indicated in the description.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1167883,"author_name":"NekoBones","author_uid":"nekobones","epoch":1759858685,"text":"@esh-k Got it! Played again, I do like the idea of the theme! It'll be better if the audiences look more different. Nice job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1168175,"author_name":"Artificer","author_uid":"artificer","epoch":1759861270,"text":"I like how the projectiles bounce off walls, I enjoyed trickshotting sad people from down the hall and around the corner. I wanted to shoot the king with the happy mask, he was so rude :cry: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1170468,"author_name":"red","author_uid":"red","epoch":1759891366,"text":"Applause is a unique thing to collect! I think the sound effects for the \"scare\" were a bit much to continuously listen to xD\nI also agree that the different emotions could be a little more pronounced visually.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1170674,"author_name":"breadstick","author_uid":"breadstick","epoch":1759896383,"text":"I liked the novelty here--flipping masks and firing the correct emotion at people is an interesting twist on the top-down shooter formula. Although I wish it were easier to tell the two different emotions apart on the faces of people marching towards me, I guess it might well have been intentional, making those reflex emotion-shootings all the more risky.\n\nNicely done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1173450,"author_name":"b0guslaw","author_uid":"b0guslaw","epoch":1759944625,"text":"I liked where you are going with the idea of collecting applaus and the mask flipping was done nicely. Unfortunately I kept dying in the first level and Im not entirely sure why? Still nicely done and very neat pixel art!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1174120,"author_name":"DiscJokk","author_uid":"discjokk","epoch":1759953080,"text":"Is there a negative to have the evil mask as a standard  like all the time, except when shooting at the sad people? Maybe make the sad people scared of you? Then you have to balance the mask usage a bit more for added gameplay. Otherwise a neat game with nice graphics and a cool concept!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1175001,"author_name":"Gaverion","author_uid":"gaverion","epoch":1759974378,"text":"Nice art! It was a bit tricky to distinguish the faces though. Neat idea! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1175158,"author_name":"Eugenik","author_uid":"eugenik","epoch":1759980117,"text":"There you go! Played and rated! Pretty cool!.\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1175280,"author_name":"Trevor Lentz","author_uid":"trevor-lentz","epoch":1759984760,"text":"I think the idea is quite unique. Was hoping for some medieval or upbeat music to help me in my quest, but it was still a fun experience. Well done. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1175299,"author_name":"Ciphereo","author_uid":"ciphereo","epoch":1759985296,"text":"It's an interesting game. However, the differences between the faces are not very obvious. But this was an interesting experience.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1176117,"author_name":"Ira Baciu","author_uid":"ira-baciu","epoch":1760010191,"text":"Applause collector! Omg, what a lovely idea","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1176708,"author_name":"My4sthma","author_uid":"my4sthma","epoch":1760021714,"text":"Neat idea. I would have liked if the environment was a bit more fitting for a classic jester or if you leaned into the ridiculousness of an office jester. Some music would have been cool as well - even just a looping track. The sound effects were unexpectedly terrifying XD.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1177468,"author_name":"Flying Butter Studio","author_uid":"flying-butter-studio","epoch":1760037724,"text":"Cool and original idea! Controls are simple and game easy to understand. Well done, that's a nice entry! :smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1178723,"author_name":"NoahRo","author_uid":"noahro","epoch":1760095367,"text":"Cool game! I had fun playing :)  \nI feel like I always had enough applause to go to the next level, by just shooting the \"evil guests\". I feel like it would have been a bit more interesting if you could only collect applause from \"sad guests\", so you'd actually have to explore each level and find all of them. Cause that's what I did, and that was fun!  \nI like the pixel art and animations, like the two clown faces and the little wobble you do while walking :)  \nI also really like the idea of \"applause\" collecting!  \nThe applause sound got a bit annoying and sounded like screams at the end haha I think a bit of random variety with the sound effects would have helped a lot.  \nFun game, good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1188303,"author_name":"ophiene","author_uid":"ophiene","epoch":1761247409,"text":"Amazing work! It\u2019s super interesting and has a vert unique way to paraphrase the theme, good job! And welcome to give our game a try! :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld58\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/esh-k.itch.io\/ld58","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"88933","g_author":"1416219","g_event":"LD58","g_eventkey":"112","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"426742","g_title":"Applause Collector","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"727","g_commentcount":"22","g_site2_node_id":"416220","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"416220","n_urlkey":"426742","n_parent":"415614","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/58\/applause-collector","n_slug":"applause-collector","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"416219","n_created":"1758658721","n_modified":"1778494434","n_version":"1335715","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD58","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":416219,"body":"You're a buffoon. You need to collect a lot of applause to gain popularity in the kingdom and reach the king.\n\nUse the \"E\" key to interact with the doors","comments":22,"comments-timestamp":"2025-10-23T19:23:29Z","created":"2025-09-23T20:18:41Z","files":[{"author":416219,"id":43515,"name":"$$embed-43515.zip","node":416220,"size":12679391,"status":73,"tag":0,"timestamp":"2025-10-06T19:11:51Z"}],"files-timestamp":"2025-10-06T19:11:51Z","grade":{"grade-01":24,"grade-02":23,"grade-03":23,"grade-04":23,"grade-05":23,"grade-07":22,"grade-08":23},"id":416220,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":81.649658092773,"feedback":24,"given":12.75,"grade":23,"grade-01-average":2.864,"grade-01-result":727,"grade-02-average":3,"grade-02-result":590,"grade-03-average":3.429,"grade-03-result":281,"grade-04-average":3.429,"grade-04-result":536,"grade-05-average":3.095,"grade-05-result":601,"grade-07-average":3,"grade-07-result":389,"grade-08-average":2.833,"grade-08-result":706,"smart":3.7346112212187},"meta":{"author":[416219],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/bd9\/56\/z\/6cfff.png","grade-06-out":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/esh-k.itch.io\/ld58","link-01-tag":[42336]},"meta-timestamp":"2026-05-11T10:13:54Z","modified":"2026-05-11T10:13:54Z","name":"Applause Collector","node-timestamp":"2025-10-07T16:34:20Z","parent":415614,"parents":[1,5,9,415614],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/58\/applause-collector","published":"2025-10-06T19:13:42Z","scope":"public","slug":"applause-collector","subsubtype":"jam","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":1335715},"text":"You're a buffoon. You need to collect a lot of applause to gain popularity in the kingdom and reach the king.\n\nUse the \"E\" key to interact with the doors","title":"Applause Collector","wayback_recovered":true,"wayback_source":{"capture":{"original":"https:\/\/api-jam.ludumdare.com\/vx\/node2\/get\/420001+420002+420003+420004+420005+420006+420007+420008+420009+420010+420011+420012+420013+420014+420015+420016+420017+420018+420019+420020+420021+420022+420023+420024+420025+420026+420027+420028+420029+420030+420031+420032+420033+420034+420035+420036+420037+420038+420039+420040+420041+420042+420043+420044+420045+420046+420047+420048+420049+420050+420051+420052+420053+420054+420055+420056+420057+420058+420059+420060+420061+420062+420063+420064+420065+420066+420067+420068+420069+420070+420071+420072+420073+420074+420075+420076+420077+420078+420079+420080+420081+420082+420083+420084+420085+420086+420087+420088+420089+420090+420091+420092+420093+420094+420095+420096+420097+420098+420099+420100+420101+420102+420103+420104+420105+420106+420107+420108+420109+420110+420111+420112+420113+420114+420115+420116+420117+420118+420119+420120+420121+420122+420123+420124+420125+420126+420127+420128+420129+420130+420131+420132+420133+420134+420135+420136+420137+420138+420139+420140+420141+420142+420143+420144+420145+420146+420147+420148+420149+420150+420151+420152+420153+420154+420155+420156+420157+420158+420159+420160+420161+420162+420163+420164+420165+420166+420167+420168+420169+420170+420171+420172+420173+420174+420175+420176+420177+420178+420179+420180+420181+420182+420183+420184+420185+420186+420187+420188+420189+420190+420191+420192+420193+420194+420195+420196+420197+420198+420199+420200+420201+420202+420203+420204+420205+420206+420207+420208+420209+420210+420211+420212+420213+420214+420215+420216+420217+420218+420219+420220+420221+420222+420223+420224+420225+420226+420227+420228+420229+420230+420231+420232+420233+420234+420235+420236+420237+420238+420239+420240+420241+420242+420243+420244+420245+420246+420247+420248+420249+420250+420251+420252+420253+420254+420255+420256+420257+420258+420259+420260+420261+420262+420263+420264+420265+420266+420267+420268+420269+420270+420271+420272+420273+420274+420275+420276+420277+420278+420279+420280+420281+420282+420283+420284+420285+420286+420287+420288+420289+420290+420291+420292+420293+420294+420295+420296+420297+420298+420299+420300+420301+420302+420303+420304+420305+420306+420307+420308+420309+420310+420311+420312+420313+420314+420315+420316+420317+420318+420319+420320+420321+420322+420323+420324+420325+420326+420327+420328+420329+420330+420331+420332+420333+420334+420335+420336+420337+420338+420339+420340+420341+420342+420343+420344+420345+420346+420347+420348+420349+420350+420351+420352+420353+420354+420355+420356+420357+420358+420359+420360+420361+420362+420363+420364+420365+420366+420367+420368+420369+420370+420371+420372+420373+420374+420375+420376+420377+420378+420379+420380+420381+420382+420383+420384+420385+420386+420387+420388+420389+420390+420391+420392+420393+420394+420395+420396+420397+420398+420399+420400+420401+420402+420403+420404+420405+420406+420407+420408+420409+420410+420411+420412+420413+420414+420415+420416+420417+420418+420419+420420+420421+420422+420423+420424+420425+420426+420427+420428+420429+420430+420431+420432+420433+420434+420435+420436+420437+420438+420439+420440+420441+420442+420443+420444+420445+420446+420447+420448+420449+420450+420451+420452+420453+420454+420455+420456+420457+420458+420459+420460+420461+420462+420463+420464+420465+420466+420467+420468+420469+420470+420471+420472+420473+420474+420475+420476+420477+420478+420479+420480+420481+420482+420483+420484+420485+420486+420487+420488+420489+420490+420491+420492+420493+420494+420495+420496+420497+420498+420499+420500?authors&parents&superparent"},"object":"objects\/sha256\/ae\/ae0583895b0f0615c25fd6e0dc4138fd0899474142b7796e2c4d173394eaa5db","record":"shard-2\/json-live-urgent-v3\/records\/82c3278d0f1f48b641fec53be1c5f26bb8583453918082ff05a6567793200bbf.json","sha256":"ae0583895b0f0615c25fd6e0dc4138fd0899474142b7796e2c4d173394eaa5db","source":"https","stored_at":1784022540}}