{"author_link":"\/author\/thomastc\/","author_name":"Frozen Fractal","author_uid":"7882","comments":[{"author_name":"Jack31081988","author_uid":"36676","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:47am","epoch":1429512120,"text":"How this is great! nice job"},{"author_name":"drakekin","author_uid":"21100","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:17pm","epoch":1429546320,"text":"Great game! The decoy mechanic makes it feel a lot less &quot;get run down by an angry cloud&quot; although it's unclear why this cloud hates trees.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Fun little game, although the sound is a bit patchy after a while on Chrome 41 on Windows."},{"author_name":"DrPrettyPatty","author_uid":"30068","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 5:14am","epoch":1429592940,"text":"Works great on Firefox! Wonderful low-poly graphics, cool idea, and challenging gameplay. Even more impressive is the procedural generation behind the scenes! Fantastic work, although after dying a dozen times I'm going to come back to this one :) The running and decoying really makes it more engaging than just running would be!"},{"author_name":"Fabraz","author_uid":"50665","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 6:20pm","epoch":1429640100,"text":"Not bad! Cool visuals and impressive procedural terrain."},{"author_name":"Hatsome","author_uid":"44151","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 6:20pm","epoch":1429640100,"text":"Nice game and really good looking game, but it felt a little repetitive after a while."},{"author_name":"HotBoxGames","author_uid":"39707","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1429640220,"text":"It looked really cool but it froze each time i tried to play :("},{"author_name":"jukimv1986","author_uid":"5402","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1429640220,"text":"A thundership! Wow! Amazing take on the theme, great graphics and interesting gameplay. Thunder \/ Sky"},{"author_name":"chromebookbob","author_uid":"49589","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1429640280,"text":"I really love the low poly style, the gameplay is a tad confusing. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Hammer Games","author_uid":"53120","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1429640340,"text":"Nice game, graphics, but its necessary a better gameplay. Maybe some enemies. Congratulations!"},{"author_name":"MaesK","author_uid":"30782","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1429640520,"text":"Great graphics, simple but beautiful! The procedural terrain looks good, nice job."},{"author_name":"IDidGame","author_uid":"52466","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1429640520,"text":"the minimalistic graphics and audio work together nicely\r<br\/>very unique, great work!"},{"author_name":"Drauthius","author_uid":"52478","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1429707000,"text":"Interesting game, well done! :)"},{"author_name":"Techblogogy","author_uid":"25556","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1429725840,"text":"Very solid game, well done!"},{"author_name":"Mouch","author_uid":"36699","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1429725840,"text":"Great concept and I like the graphics but the audio is really buggy on my system (linux , Firefox)."},{"author_name":"Taldius","author_uid":"12650","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1429726020,"text":"Nice concept! The art is really good too, my only concern is that the game becomes boring after some time because the difficulty stay the same.\r<br\/>Anyway, good job!"},{"author_name":"Bashabookoos","author_uid":"51002","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1429726200,"text":"Amazing! I really felt scared of the lighting cloud. wonderful environment, reminds me so much of Polyfauna, the Radiohead\/Thom Yorke App. I would definitely recommend you check that out, they create a wonderful environment through Thom's trippy music. Throwing the tree was cool too. Good work!"},{"author_name":"Wevel","author_uid":"37277","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1429726740,"text":"Fun to play, however when you learn how the thunder cloud works it seems quite repetitive."},{"author_name":"Zayron","author_uid":"41941","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 5:46pm","epoch":1429810860,"text":"Got my heart pumping running from the thundership! :)"},{"author_name":"x1212","author_uid":"25277","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 6:39pm","epoch":1429814040,"text":"Great game!\r<br\/>The graphics create a very fitting mood, there just seem to be some performance problems for me ..."},{"author_name":"leddkire","author_uid":"36774","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 2:52am","epoch":1429843620,"text":"You've done a lot of things that I hope to do someday at a high level: shaders, procedural generation, and particles, props. A charming little game, my dear chap!"},{"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"50889","time":"May 3, 2015 @ 10:27am","epoch":1430648520,"text":"Good idea and beautiful graphics."},{"author_name":"Archonthewizard","author_uid":"52352","time":"May 6, 2015 @ 7:22pm","epoch":1430939820,"text":"Well rounded game with nice art. It was a little difficult to understand for a beginner. Overall a fun game."},{"author_name":"SeriouslyCrunchy","author_uid":"40340","time":"May 7, 2015 @ 4:05pm","epoch":1431014400,"text":"Fun little game, like it as a complete package, and the visuals are really good. Of course, its lacking in depth so I got a little bored of it after a few minutes, but good fun while it lasts."},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"May 10, 2015 @ 4:06pm","epoch":1431273660,"text":"Nice atmosphere, being pursued by the ship created a great sense of tension"},{"author_name":"anokta","author_uid":"13553","time":"May 11, 2015 @ 7:46pm","epoch":1431373260,"text":"whoa really cool entry, great job! :)"}],"images":["ld32\/7882-707a74acf58698b38cd71c0d75c454b6.jpg","ld32\/7882-6463e63c830b252b78976853e357f67a.jpg","ld32\/7882-af0072626b1defa940c86650f2f68cc0.jpg","ld32\/7882-f6c262dcb1ac389b8d60efba9b9b9f6a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/discharge.frozenfractal.com\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/ttencate\/discharge","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"12443","g_author":"7882","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"12473","g_title":"Discharge","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"368","g_commentcount":"25","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\/7882-shot0-1429473700.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/7882-shot1-1429473700.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/7882-shot2-1429473972.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/7882-shot3-1429473700.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Marooned on a hostile planet, your enemies are trying to hunt you down with their thundership. Trees provide cover; mature trees release seeds when hit. Follow the trail to safety.\r\n\r\nFullscreen is recommended! The intro screen hints at an ending, but it's infinite play. Extra joy!\r\n\r\nOnly tested in Chrome, probably works fine in Firefox as well.\r\n\r\nFeatures:\r\n- a custom infinite procedural terrain based on fractal Brownian motion,\r\nprocedurally spawned trees,\r\n- tree seeds that you can use to plant new trees,\r\n- procedural lightning, also based on fBm, with a custom shader,\r\n- an enemy with moderately crappy AI,\r\n- a skybox with custom sky shader,\r\n- shadows and light effects,\r\n- particle effects,\r\n- a HUD,\r\n- 3D positional sound effects,\r\n- heck, even some gameplay!\r\n\r\nPost-compo fixes:\r\n- Plugged a bazillion object leaks. Somehow Three.js documentation and examples never tell you to call dispose(). Probably this was what caused crashing tabs after a while.\r\n- Clarified instructions regarding tree seeds.","title":"Discharge"}