{"author_link":"\/author\/blobo\/","author_name":"Blobo","author_uid":"52667","comments":[{"author_name":"Newt_","author_uid":"34427","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:21pm","epoch":1429568160,"text":"Wow, what a great concept! The game's pretty hard, but fun enough that I kept playing. :) Love the music too! Awesome job!"},{"author_name":"chaosed0","author_uid":"36360","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:30pm","epoch":1429568700,"text":"Neat concept. I especially appreciate how the main menu teaches you how to play. Two criticisms: (1) The smaller planets are a bit too hard to click on, and (2) it's difficult to tell exactly where the asteroids are headed. This results in the game being a little too hard. Really nice music. If the gameplay were polished a bit, I think it could be very fun."},{"author_name":"jlauper","author_uid":"21068","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:45pm","epoch":1429569600,"text":"Fun game, but quite hard (atleast for me...)"},{"author_name":"Ourson","author_uid":"51212","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:50pm","epoch":1429569900,"text":"Really clever game!\rAnd I love how the menu teaches you how to play the game. I mean, the menu is your fucking tutorial. That's genius!\rI think it's juuuuuust a bit too hard.\rMabe you should start slowly and progressively throw more and more asteroids.\rOnce again, brilliant idea of gamedesign."},{"author_name":"PeculiarCarrot","author_uid":"34200","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:56pm","epoch":1429570260,"text":"While it's sort of difficult to click the smaller planets, the idea was really cool. :D I also really love how you learn the controls through the menu! Your attention to detail was also nice (the moons orbiting the planets, etc) Good job!"},{"author_name":"longshorts","author_uid":"34312","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 11:03pm","epoch":1429570680,"text":"The menu as a tutorial design is genius and feels great. The initial difficulty probably needs tuning down though."},{"author_name":"Alexander Ramsay-Baggs","author_uid":"42098","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 11:23pm","epoch":1429571880,"text":"I think you could have made it so that the planets could have been grabbed from points near them rather than them having to be directly on them. Would have made the game slightly less annoying in places. Sweet concept though!"},{"author_name":"jmf","author_uid":"4371","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 11:28pm","epoch":1429572180,"text":"Brilliant idea, too hard for me though. Multitasking is not my strong suit."},{"author_name":"Blobo","author_uid":"52667","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 1:04am","epoch":1429577940,"text":"For those who like memes...\rhttp:\/\/i.imgur.com\/oawIwK3.png"},{"author_name":"syncxzoz","author_uid":"50852","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 3:20am","epoch":1429586100,"text":"good idea!!!!\rat first i little bit confuse what i must to do to play this game... lol.... but that planet track give a hint.... but yeah... i was so hard to control the planet... i always lose under 1 minute... lol..."},{"author_name":"Nuclear Mosquito","author_uid":"50222","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 7:22pm","epoch":1429643820,"text":"Perhaps make the game's difficulty curve a little easier, but great idea and nice execution."},{"author_name":"Aree Vanier","author_uid":"44106","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1429644060,"text":"Great job! like the challengingness(if that's a word)! The planets are very unconventional weapons! Nice take in the theme"},{"author_name":"unitycoder_com","author_uid":"27533","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 7:28pm","epoch":1429644180,"text":"Webplayer says "failed to download datafile" (in FF or Chrome)"},{"author_name":"JoshuaBurr","author_uid":"37414","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 2:34am","epoch":1429669740,"text":"This didn't run for me in safari. The error was: "Download failed, please retry" (I tried several times)"},{"author_name":"lucidsheep","author_uid":"41822","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 6:18am","epoch":1429683180,"text":"Like the last few comments said, I couldn't run the game, it gave me an error downloading file data. Running Chrome on Mac OS 10.10"},{"author_name":"MGhareeb32","author_uid":"52528","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 11:30am","epoch":1429701900,"text":"^ Same. Can't open."},{"author_name":"Blobo","author_uid":"52667","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1429708140,"text":"Fixed the web link, thanks for telling me."},{"author_name":"SmilingCat","author_uid":"21630","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 9:32pm","epoch":1429738020,"text":"Great concept, though it is tough to manage all of those planets with just one mouse. Loved the music and the gameplay. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"Noah Ratcliff","author_uid":"18011","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 9:40pm","epoch":1429738500,"text":"Awesome use of the theme. Great work on the music, too!"},{"author_name":"Dreyan","author_uid":"52023","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 11:21pm","epoch":1429744560,"text":"I love how such a simple mechanic made for such a fun game. It would be easy for this game - having so many different weapons to use - to have quickly gotten overwhelmingly hard or complicated, but you avoided it with some very balanced, thought out gameplay."},{"author_name":"Almax27","author_uid":"21581","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1429827420,"text":"I really liked the natural progression of learning how to play the game by learning how to start the game :D had the development console popup a new times with lots of null exceptions though and the sounds were pretty grating but otherwise a fun experience!"},{"author_name":"Nikteddy92","author_uid":"12659","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 10:27pm","epoch":1429827720,"text":"I really like the mechanic you implemented. The movement of the small planets is a little difficult, but it's a nice entry! Well done!"},{"author_name":"srakowski","author_uid":"26664","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 11:39pm","epoch":1429832040,"text":"You weren't kidding on it being difficult! Great concept, good use of theme. I really really like the way your menus worked, that was a brilliant touch. Well done! :)"},{"author_name":"richiebranson","author_uid":"51385","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 11:41pm","epoch":1429832160,"text":"Pretty tough game! This definitely can turn into one of those addictive hi-score style mobile games. The menu is brilliantly done as well. Good stuff!"},{"author_name":"hexdie","author_uid":"39984","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 12:10am","epoch":1429833900,"text":"This was a very neat idea! I enjoy the concept a lot. It was pretty difficult though."},{"author_name":"benmcnelly","author_uid":"31106","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 1:21am","epoch":1429838160,"text":"Took me a sec to figure out how to start and one death to figure out the object, but really intuitive! Also the music started out lame but then got a lot better, LOVE this idea, simply amazing!"},{"author_name":"Snicklodocus","author_uid":"22794","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 1:25am","epoch":1429838400,"text":"I love the concept here and the menus are really fun. Good music. I thought the difficulty was fine but I'm used to harder arcade games. I did get a null-reference exception on game over, but I just closed the dev log and the game worked fine. Good job!"},{"author_name":"A Flat Miner Studios","author_uid":"42150","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 1:31am","epoch":1429838760,"text":"Loved this! It is a bit difficult, yes, but a lot of fun. Took me a minute to figure it out, but once I did, I played for a while."},{"author_name":"Jaloko","author_uid":"37180","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 11:26am","epoch":1429874460,"text":"Very cool game, I liked the mechanics and the difficulty. Also good use of the theme! I found that sometimes the planets were hard to click."},{"author_name":"adsilcott","author_uid":"49637","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 1:39pm","epoch":1429882440,"text":"I love the way the menu works, took me a minute to figure it out, but by that time I knew how to play! It's really hard... I tried arranging my planets in a circle around me but that only helped a little. Great job, I love the concept :)"},{"author_name":"dyfer","author_uid":"50857","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 11:16pm","epoch":1429917060,"text":"Simple and clever game. I feel there is randomness in difficulty when sometimes many asteroids rush at me from the start. Good entry !"},{"author_name":"Photon","author_uid":"7658","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 1:45am","epoch":1429926000,"text":"Am I allowed to say great minds think alike? :P\r\rVery difficult, but the concept is nicely executed. Great take on the theme and good job on the game as a whole."},{"author_name":"ploy","author_uid":"52440","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1429967340,"text":"praise the sun"},{"author_name":"thaaks","author_uid":"3382","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 6:10pm","epoch":1429985100,"text":"Cool idea for the theme! Nice mechanics and great music!\rThe game's pretty hard, I only managed to destroy 6 asteroids...\rI liked that you moved the gameplay mechanics over to the menu - nice fit.\rI would suggest to make the planets a bit bigger, maybe also use their moons as rotating colliders. Maybe also show their orbit lines? The asteroids speed should not increase so fast. Make it easier for starters ;-)\rSome tweaks and it's a very good game."},{"author_name":"Curial","author_uid":"49848","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1429988940,"text":"Hey, nice concept and pretty addictive. I would increase the planets mouse area though since it is difficult to click them at major levels.\r\rGreat idea!"},{"author_name":"steboots","author_uid":"51802","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1430052720,"text":"Ohhh... I want to be better at this game! I think the concept is spot on, and I can see it going further and becoming a more in depth game... Perhaps a control scheme change would help? Maybe I just suck at mouse, but I can't switch between planets quick enough, so I ended up just using the closest one to the sun and going nuts"},{"author_name":"Yword","author_uid":"26150","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1430057520,"text":"Very great and innovative idea! Well done!"},{"author_name":"Horsed","author_uid":"49897","time":"Apr 29, 2015 @ 9:45am","epoch":1430300400,"text":"Hilarious idea! I had fun playing this. Your song sounds cool but it doesn't create a proper mood for me. Nonetheless good job!"},{"author_name":"RockhopperGames","author_uid":"46057","time":"May 2, 2015 @ 9:48am","epoch":1430559780,"text":"Good polish and use of theme! I did think there were some issues with difficulty, but improvements to the control (or just size) of the planets could resolve that. Otherwise this was an all round well developed game!"},{"author_name":"Arche-san","author_uid":"50608","time":"May 2, 2015 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1430586300,"text":"Good game mechanisms. This is a bit hard but the concept is really cool and matches with the theme."},{"author_name":"ETHproductions","author_uid":"44122","time":"May 11, 2015 @ 5:01pm","epoch":1431363360,"text":"Nice, solid entry! I like how the menu is basically a mini-tutorial on how to play.\r\rI have to agree with the others, though, in that the difficulty is a bit to hard. I tried a couple times using all the planets and ended up with a score of 5 or 6 each time. I then tried spreading the planets around the sun in a small area, using the planet closest to the sun to obliterate the rest of the asteroids. This got me a score of 47, considerably better than the other attempts.\r\rOverall, I think this deserves a rating of 3.5, but unfortunately that's not possible."}],"images":["ld32\/52667-c8b3856ce6a640d7d47379effd18f9f1.jpg","ld32\/52667-5f55c294e40d2cf55e2dc2fd65761691.jpg","ld32\/52667-613d8a1fb4888f54edefc63c5a757d8f.jpg","ld32\/52667-f8bf30bcd79b1eef80246be65278aa33.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/nratcliff.com\/l48\/32\/blobo\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/uvaudpzzg8upo1f\/SolSurvivor.zip?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/d1wzqds2ylo870i\/SolSurvivorSorce.zip?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"10889","g_author":"52667","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"10923","g_title":"SolSurvivor","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"346","g_commentcount":"41","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\/52667-shot0-1429458598.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/52667-shot1-1429458598.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/52667-shot2-1429458598.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/52667-shot3-1430012084.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are the sun, your weapon is your planets. throw your planets into asteroids to save yourself. P.S. i've been told it's quite challenging. you should've seen it before i nerfed the gravity force :P\r\n\r\nfixed the web link.\r\n\r\n","title":"SolSurvivor"}