{"author_name":"jazmeister","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"June 30, 2009 2:07 pm","epoch":1246388820,"text":"Just tried it there; I like the concept a lot, but I couldn&#8217;t seem to select anything in the first menu (clicking didn&#8217;t do anything), so I couldn&#8217;t play it&#8230;","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"June 30, 2009 2:26 pm","epoch":1246389960,"text":"Ruh roh! You mean that first set of dialogue choices, like in the screenshot? I can&#8217;t seem to make that happen on mine. I&#8217;ll try getting some friends to test it. Anyone else having that problem?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"June 30, 2009 2:30 pm","epoch":1246390200,"text":"Yep, exactly like that! I wasn&#8217;t able to highlight it red &#8211; all three options were in white.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"June 30, 2009 3:57 pm","epoch":1246395420,"text":"Holy cow!  This game most definitely does the theme justice!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"June 30, 2009 4:38 pm","epoch":1246397880,"text":"Excellent work! I left a comment on twitter <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/>","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"June 30, 2009 6:25 pm","epoch":1246404300,"text":"I&#8217;m probably gonna upload the source somewhere, then. I can&#8217;t replicate that problem at \/all\/. The highlighting and click detection are triggered by watching mouse_y, so maybe that&#8217;s it. Hmm. Do I sound like a programmer yet? I&#8217;m using Vista&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll hack together a keyboard number-selection thing.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"July 1, 2009 9:13 am","epoch":1246457580,"text":"jaz, drop me a line when you upload the source. i&#8217;ll look it over.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"July 1, 2009 12:07 pm","epoch":1246468020,"text":"I sent you an email, dess, and I can confirm that it seems to have this problem on XP and not on Vista, and that XP people can \/sometimes\/ play it by *shudder* installing the yoyo games plug-in and playing it in the browser. Eek!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"eoferr","time":"July 1, 2009 7:49 pm","epoch":1246495740,"text":"I enjoyed this. I think that the only problem it has is the length\/ability not to fast forward through conversations. I understand that this adds to the mounting sense of frustration and desperation, but I think that if you wanted it to be an effective anti-DV ad that would reach more people (as the ending seemed to indicate), it needs to be standard ad-length (or be more varied).","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"July 2, 2009 3:55 am","epoch":1246524900,"text":"Oh, you can press space to skip text. I was thinking of shortening the in game &#8220;days&#8221; and making them a little less independant (even though this conversation in real life really \/is\/ like talking to a primitive NPC) so she&#8217;ll, like, remember if you said something nice yesterday or whatever.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"eoferr","time":"July 2, 2009 4:23 pm","epoch":1246569780,"text":"Ah space bar. How silly of me. I think that renders most of what I said invalid.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"July 3, 2009 12:04 am","epoch":1246597440,"text":"Not at all, I didn&#8217;t mention it anywhere. I should have really let any key do it. NO WAIT NOT LETTING ANYONE SKIP IS A GREAT IDEA HOLD ON ITS PART OF MY VISION","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"increpare","time":"July 15, 2009 12:48 pm","epoch":1247680080,"text":"hmm; getting problems with mouse selection; it doesn&#8217;t seem to work (Except when my cursor is in the top-left-hand quadrant of my second screen, and then clicking doesn&#8217;t work).  I have a feeling that a windowed mode might fix this.  ah well :\/","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1246387260,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"73242","p_author":"jazmeister","p_authorkey":"984","p_urlkey":"109064","p_title":"After School","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD14","p_time":"1246387260","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"13","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"984","us_name":"jazmeister","us_username":"jazmeister","event_start":"1239926400","event_key":"90","event_name":"LD14"},"text":"<p>So, uh&#8230; I just finished my game. I made it with Game Maker 7, and it took aaaaaaages because I was essentially learning how to make games. At this rate, I&#8217;m glad I made it, even if it did take me a little under five days to make (eek!).<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m really happy with it. It&#8217;s a game where you pick dialogue options. Try not to give Ted&#8217;s Mom a reason to hit him.<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jazmcdougall\/3675849325\/\" title=\"afterschool_title by jazmcdougall, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2505\/3675849325_273edc3e00_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"afterschool_title\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jazmcdougall\/3675849655\/\" title=\"afterschool_dialogue by jazmcdougall, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3602\/3675849655_f18b9c5469_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"afterschool_dialogue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>Any tips or criticisms are warmly welcome.<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoyogames.com\/games\/show\/87296\">Yoyogames play\/DL page<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoyogames.com\/games\/download\/87296?code=f51e98126a4c778a0ae78f2293283703b6fca43c\">Download Link<\/a><\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/final\/\" rel=\"tag\">final<\/a><\/p>","time":"June 30th, 2009 1:41 pm","title":"After School"}