{"author_name":"SurplusGamer","cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 22, 2010 12:09 pm","epoch":1293037740,"text":"Oh man, that sounds exactly like the game I wished I&#8217;d made as soon as I started mine! Mine ended up having little to do with discovery, and I kept thinking the perfect Discovery game would be one where you travel to randomly generated islands. Grabbing it now, I&#8217;ll give you some feedback once I&#8217;ve played.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1293036240,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67615","p_author":"SurplusGamer","p_authorkey":"2517","p_urlkey":"103418","p_title":"Surprised Man completes the game Jam, feels proud.","p_cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1293036240","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2517","us_name":"SurplusGamer","us_username":"SurplusGamer","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"<p>Hello again.<\/p>\n <p>Well, that was fun, wasn&#8217;t it? My friend Kieran and I, under the name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surprisedman.co.uk\">Surprised Man<\/a>, entered the Game Jam and produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-19\/?action=preview&amp;uid=2392\" target=\"_blank\">The Wager<\/a>, a game all about exploring a randomly generated map of islands and returning to dock with information about what you find on them to sell onto prospective colonists. We&#8217;re really pleased with what we put together for the 72 hours and plan on getting a lot more content into the game that we just didn&#8217;t have time to include in this release. I mean, who wouldn&#8217;t be pleased with a game with an island name generator that gives such names as:<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pinchtickle-550x277.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pinchtickle-300x151.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pinchtickle-550x277.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pinchtickle.png 1065w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n <p>I hope you like our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-19\/?action=preview&amp;uid=2392\" target=\"_blank\">game<\/a>, we worked very hard on it, enjoyed the whole process and look forward to adding more loot, unique encounters and other such things in the near future!<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ld-19-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">ld #19<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 22nd, 2010 11:44 am","title":"Surprised Man completes the game Jam, feels proud."}