{"author_link":"\/author\/perecil\/","author_name":"Mathieu Muller","author_uid":"40544","comments":[{"author_name":"Demy","author_uid":"44801","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:22am","epoch":1429615020,"text":"The &quot;Windows - No installer&quot; version crushes every time."},{"author_name":"Mathieu Muller","author_uid":"40544","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:24am","epoch":1429615140,"text":"I'm looking into it."},{"author_name":"Mathieu Muller","author_uid":"40544","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:25am","epoch":1429615200,"text":"Please, make sure you have the XNA Framework 4.0 installed on your computer."},{"author_name":"benbateman","author_uid":"51139","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:27am","epoch":1429615320,"text":"Nice, solid mechanics meant this was easy to pick up and fun to play. Genuinely was shitting myself with some of those LV4 asteroids. Good work."},{"author_name":"WebFreak001","author_uid":"10461","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:38am","epoch":1429615980,"text":"Love it. Never seen that concept before and its very hard. Add more content and its awesome"},{"author_name":"TeamCalcium","author_uid":"53017","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:50am","epoch":1429616700,"text":"Nice Game. It is a little too hard for my taste, but still plays really well. Graphics are appealing, but a few more levels wouldnt hurt the game. Still overall a good game."},{"author_name":"MJaawa","author_uid":"52666","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:52am","epoch":1429616820,"text":"Pretty cool concept, the gameplay is quite enjoyable, good job :)"},{"author_name":"Mathieu Muller","author_uid":"40544","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:54am","epoch":1429616940,"text":"To all, thanks. Try to play a little bit more than two minutes, the earth is able to build satellites which will help you to redirect those nasty L4 asteroids. :)"},{"author_name":"The Capitalist Crayfish","author_uid":"53039","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:59am","epoch":1429617240,"text":"This was pretty fun, I how you just flick the asteroids away."},{"author_name":"Hammers","author_uid":"45416","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 8:45pm","epoch":1429648800,"text":"Nice idea. I like the theme and it's a great mechanic. Could do with some slightly gentler pacing as it's pretty hard! Good fun though."},{"author_name":"abuzreq","author_uid":"17923","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1429649040,"text":"The mechanics are neat , but the game is hard !"},{"author_name":"Andy Gainey","author_uid":"30311","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1429649220,"text":"Not too bad once I figure out effective timings, distance, and positions for clicking.  But could have used some visual indications of the gravitational effect.  The widescreen aspect ratio was a bit of a problem too, making asteroids from above or below extra obnoxious to deal with.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And I feel like the force of gravity and it's drain on energy could have been substantially tweaked.  Its effect is very strong when really close to asteroids, but it drains energy really quickly too.  Since most of the asteroids seemed to be heading directly for Earth, what I generally did was give each asteroid a very brief click really close.  It didn't deviate the asteroid's direction in any predictable manner, but just about any deviation was sufficient.  But regardless of the super brief clicks, I was still almost always out of energy.  Even if some alterations would make the gravity equations less realistic, such as reducing the significance of the inverse square law, it might nonetheless improve the feel of gameplay.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I did live long enough use the actual unconventional weapon, but not long enough to ever discover what the consequence would be if I hadn't.  Regardless, you get theme-squared for having a second-order thematic mechanic."},{"author_name":"Croze","author_uid":"24715","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 10:34pm","epoch":1429655340,"text":"Couldn't play, was really excited to because this game looks really interesting, but the installer kept telling me it was downloaded at another location. I uninstalled and reinstalled twice and I do have the .net framework and running on windows."},{"author_name":"bossmojoman","author_uid":"41214","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:38am","epoch":1429662780,"text":"Very fun, hard as heck though!  Great job!"},{"author_name":"Mathieu Muller","author_uid":"40544","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 7:13am","epoch":1429686480,"text":"Thanks all, your feedback proves useful. I'll try to tweak a bit the game, and modify the rules to change the gravitational effect to be less effective at short range, but more effective at a longer range.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'll also try to implement the &quot;buy mode&quot; that was intended from the start (power satellites and so on). And a restart game feature :).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Croze: the installer also downloads the XNA Framework 4.0 redistributable from microsoft. If you have both frameworks installed, you could try to give a shot to the non installer version, it'll work if you have the correct version of them."},{"author_name":"xtty","author_uid":"43765","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1430081820,"text":"This is a very nice game. Solid mechanics. It's very, very hard, though. It would be nice not to have to open the game again to restart, because I believe most people will be dying A LOT while playing this.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The idea of &quot;flicking&quot; asteroids away is very cool and would lend itself VERY well to a mobile version of this game. However, I believe you could have made the weapon energy higher and the larger asteroids less frequent - it would probably have made the game more enjoyable not to die so much early on."},{"author_name":"DrPrettyPatty","author_uid":"30068","time":"May 5, 2015 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1430856240,"text":"This is crazy good! Great work on the graphics, even if you didn't do the earth render everything else is clean and the earth you pulled in matches perfectly. Great sound choices too. I thought the gameplay was fantastic as well, yeah it's hard but this would be boring IMHO if it wasn't :) Gave you high marks across the board! ----- Just played the post compo version too, nice improvements! Especially the arrows that point you to the incoming asteroids."},{"author_name":"fleegle2000","author_uid":"5313","time":"May 5, 2015 @ 8:22pm","epoch":1430857020,"text":"I like the mechanic, and there's a fair bit of polish. Game is challenging and there is enough variation in the various threats presented to keep me engaged. I'm not sure if there's an endgame or if it's meant to be endless. The game over could be a little more dramatic, I suppose. A solid entry with nice graphics and sound."},{"author_name":"Novodantis","author_uid":"31428","time":"May 7, 2015 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1431034920,"text":"Very well put together, the audio really helps the atmosphere too"},{"author_name":"Computer_Overlord","author_uid":"110999","time":"Sep 14, 2016 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1473866160,"text":"The levels aren't hard, knowing how to play is! I know what you need: A TUTORIAL!"},{"author_name":"Computer_Overlord","author_uid":"110999","time":"Sep 14, 2016 @ 3:22pm","epoch":1473866220,"text":"oops posted on wrong thing"}],"images":["ld32\/40544-5d5dc28048166d42d7571e09f73ecc98.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mathieumuller.fr\/quantumfields-with-installer.zip","text":"Windows - With installer"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mathieumuller.fr\/quantumfields-without-installer.zip","text":"Windows - No installer"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mathieumuller.fr\/quantumfields-with-installer-1.1.zip","text":"Windows - Post compo, with installer"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mathieumuller.fr\/quantumfields-without-installer-1.1.zip","text":"Windows - Post compo, without installer"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"11228","g_author":"40544","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"11258","g_title":"Quantum Fields","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"308","g_commentcount":"21","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\/40544-shot0-1429568882.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Notes\r\n\r\n- The non-installer version requires XNA 4.0 Refresh and the Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 to be installed manually.\r\n- The installer should take care of the installation of both frameworks.\r\n\r\nThe story (:P)\r\n\r\nIn Quantum Fields, you play the role of the director of the W.E.A.P.O.N., a sub-branch of the U.N. devoted to protect the earth from inbound asteroids. The W.E.A.P.O.N. (which stands for Wormhole Effect Activator Powered Over Network), is a network of low orbit satellites capable to generate small temporary black-holes, thus creating virtual gravity wells that catches asteroids and redirect them.\r\n\r\nRecents breakthrough in force field technologies surrounded the earth with a powerful, but not impenetrable shield, capable to sustain a few hits from incoming asteroids.\r\n\r\nHow to play\r\n\r\nThe principe of the game is to protect the earth from incoming threats. The game is essentially played with the mouse. The mouse pointer indicates where the gravity well is created. Hold down the left mouse button to activate the well. When the well is activated, the jauge around the cursor is drained; when the jauge is empty, you won't be able to sustain the gravity well.\r\n\r\nAsteroid comes in four varieties: from small L1 to the heavy and mighty L4 which is able to kill almost the half of the earth's shield in one hit. The heavier asteroids requires a bigger charge of the W.E.A.P.O.N. (just keep the mouse button down).\r\n\r\nTo efficiently deviate an asteroid from it's trajectory, it's important to place the well on the side of the asteroid, not behind (this will only slow it down) and not in front of (this will accelerate it).\r\n\r\nPower-ups will also appears through the course of the game. Use your W.E.A.P.O.N. to redirect them on earth to give you a temporary advantage!\r\n\r\nNote for peer reviewers\r\n\r\nBe sure to play enough the game: the unconventional weapon is not what it seems to be at the first glance, and I don't want to spoil the surprise ;).\r\n\r\nThe game is missing one big feature that I couldn't implement in time: buying new satellites to strengthen your W.E.A.P.O.N. network. Currently, the game offers you new satellites about every 2 minutes, but in the original game, I would have let the user buy some satellites, and convert the game to some sort of tower defense.\r\n\r\nAlso note that almost of the graphics was self made, except for the earth rendering (which I am able to do, but couldn't due to a lack of time) which is a modified version of one found on the web. Please keep that in mind when rating my graphics.\r\n\r\nIt's almost 1am here, i'll publish the sources tomorrow.\r\n\r\nUpdate:\r\n\r\nI completely forgot the sources :D. However I'm working on an improved version of the game, feature complete, so people could see what I originally envisionned for this game. I should release it around this sunday.\r\n\r\nUpdate 2:\r\n\r\nI eventually managed to finish these new features:\r\n\r\n* Score is now dependent on asteroid that leaves the sphere of influence of Earth and is now some kind of money.\r\n\r\n* You can buy satellites (energy regeneration for 200, shield regeneration for 500, redirect power for 1000).\r\n\r\n* I tweaked a bit the difficulty. With some skill, it is possible to have lengthy games.\r\n\r\n* You can now restart the game by simply clicking on the game over screen.","title":"Quantum Fields"}