{"author_link":"\/author\/tigerbyte\/","author_name":"tigerbyte","author_uid":"39187","comments":[{"author_name":"dvdfu","author_uid":"51259","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:12am","epoch":1429661220,"text":"Surprisingly very fun! And catchy beats, too. Movement was just a little weird (I think I stopped moving a couple times). Great job!"},{"author_name":"bentglasstube","author_uid":"50659","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:20am","epoch":1429661700,"text":"The controls are a bit sketchy (you have to let go of all keys to stop moving diagonally) but once I got used to that it was fun.  Needs more junk to spawn or something and the melee didn't seem to work.  A fun concept that could be interesting with some more variance."},{"author_name":"wg_phancock","author_uid":"51056","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:24am","epoch":1429661940,"text":"Seems frantic.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Only real issues I had were the tiles causing weird strobing while the camera scrolled, and that the controls would get &quot;stuck&quot; if you moved from UP+LEFT to UP or LEFT (or any other combination)"},{"author_name":"BoxedMeatRevolution","author_uid":"47669","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:25am","epoch":1429662000,"text":"AUDIO!!! Congrats on being able to make some beats, it always adds a lot to a game. Cool idea, its fun beat up enemies with the corpses of their clones.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>A few comments:\r<br\/>- Player movement is a bit buggy\r<br\/>- Sometimes the 'pick-up' sound would play but nothing would be picked up\r<br\/>- It would have been nice to have a visual cue indicating whether it was possible to pick up a piece of junk (maybe a radius that would flash around the player on click? Or junk could glow\/shake a little when it's in range)\r<br\/>- I don't think pick-up and shoot need to be separate buttons... unless you were able to pick up MULTIPLE JUNKS and shoot them all in some sort of powershot! That would have been cool :D"},{"author_name":"Smirnov48","author_uid":"11028","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:25am","epoch":1429662000,"text":"Interesting game. Need time to understand how currently pick up junk. But really cool when you start killing them in the back.\r<br\/>Sometimes appears strange black hole on the floor."},{"author_name":"Reis Mahnic","author_uid":"52764","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:35am","epoch":1429662600,"text":"A great time! The controls can have some strangeness, but overall I had a really great time."},{"author_name":"MoogleSensei","author_uid":"50328","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:35am","epoch":1429662600,"text":"The controls were definitely a bit glitchy. I also found a sadly lacking supply of non-enemy junk after the initial few boxes. But other than that it was a very well put together game. You did a good job on the music and sound too, every game tastes that much better with audio!"},{"author_name":"tigerbyte","author_uid":"39187","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:52am","epoch":1429663620,"text":"@BoxedMeatRevolution - Pickup and shoot are separated because left click is melee if you have nothing to shoot. I wanted to give players something to defend themselves with while they disperse heat from the gun.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@MoogleSensei - The lack of non-enemy junk was simply a time thing :(. Also the lack of power-ups, which I imagine the crates might have.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>---\r<br\/>I did notice the buggy movement. That is actually why there's no HTML 5 port; as soon as I port to html 5, movement breaks completely."},{"author_name":"tigerbyte","author_uid":"39187","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:55am","epoch":1429663800,"text":"@Smirnov48 - The holes in the floor are additional enemy spawners! :)"},{"author_name":"DiegoEscalante","author_uid":"45857","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:00am","epoch":1429664100,"text":"Very cool. The concept was simple but good. Gameplay was fun, however, I think I could have used some visual feedback on when I was close enough to junk to pick it up. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"Thingo Studios","author_uid":"31541","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:04am","epoch":1429664340,"text":"Alright, I suppose. I had a hard time telling the enemies apart from the junk I was supposed to pick up. Very cool music."},{"author_name":"Shugor","author_uid":"14284","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:05am","epoch":1429664400,"text":"Using the parts of enemies you kill to kill more enemies seems like a repetitive idea, but it's done pretty well here. It's nice how you're forced to keep track of all of the parts the defeated enemies drop, so they don't all disappear and leave you out of ammo. It's very nicely balanced, although the heat meter doesn't seem to deplete fast enough to have much of a purpose. Well done~"},{"author_name":"Pixel Heart","author_uid":"51121","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:21am","epoch":1429665360,"text":"Thumbs up! Great mechanics, great audio. The gameplay is a little bit glitchy here and there, but nothing that made me stop playing."},{"author_name":"pikmin4000","author_uid":"13796","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 2:32am","epoch":1429756020,"text":"The controls threw me off, but the gravity gun mechanics make up for it. Half-life is great"},{"author_name":"thaaks","author_uid":"3382","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1429811100,"text":"Controls were complicated. Picking up junk wasn't so obvious. Music was good. Graphics were okay, a bit more colors would have been nice (too gray).\r<br\/>Did'nt have enough junk cause hitting a robot didn't always break one to create more junk.\r<br\/>I like the idea though and I think you can easily improve this game a lot!"},{"author_name":"goblin","author_uid":"44367","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1429811100,"text":"Interesting idea to use in some way the enemy as weapon. But at some point I couldnt pick up more junk from the floor\r<br\/>Check ours too http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-32\/?action=preview&amp;uid=44367"},{"author_name":"tigerbyte","author_uid":"39187","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 12:56am","epoch":1429836660,"text":"@goblin -- Couldn't pick up more junk because there wasn't any? Or did the gun break?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>When you run out of junk (none on the floor) - left click to melee!!"},{"author_name":"GBGames","author_uid":"251","time":"Apr 28, 2015 @ 2:44am","epoch":1430188740,"text":"Hmm, it runs very slowly in HTML5 in Firefox on my Ubuntu system, but I see it runs quite fast in Chromium. I love the fast pace, and I love how you can attack the enemies both by shooting the junk and by picking up the junk if the enemies are between you, allowing you to rack up some quick combos if you have a huge trail of enemies chasing you. \r<br\/>Good work!"}],"images":["ld32\/39187-8a79bc9ad95143d42c095334c9a5b6b4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/andrewperrin.com\/ld\/32\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/andrewperrin.com\/ld\/32\/LD32-tigerbytes-andrewperrin.exe","text":"Windows (Run once exe, no install)"},{"url":"http:\/\/andrewperrin.com\/ld\/32\/LD32-tigerbytes-andrewperrin.zip","text":"Source (also contains exe)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"10371","g_author":"39187","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"10405","g_title":"Bits and Pieces","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"629","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\/\/444368\/39187-shot0-1429491511.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"**NEW!** HTML 5 Entry! \r\nMovement is much smoother in the HTML5 version.\r\n\r\nMy 3rd Ludum Dare and possibly my best polished yet. This one even has AUDIO!\r\n\r\nA dual stick shooter with an unconventional weapon. Right click on junk to pick it up, left click to shoot the junk, or melee if you don't have any junk. Every time you shoot junk, your gravity gun heats up. If you let it heat up or you run out of HP, game over!\r\n\r\nWASD - Move\r\nRight click - Pick up junk.\r\nLeft click - Shoot currently held junk, melee if no junk held.\r\n\r\nTools:\r\nGameMakerStudio\r\nPhotoshop CS2\r\nAudioTool.com\r\nSFXR","title":"Bits and Pieces"}