{"author_link":"\/author\/marjie62\/","author_name":"Marjie62","author_uid":"35766","comments":[{"author_name":"MightyToast","author_uid":"49934","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 2:39am","epoch":1429583640,"text":"Fantastic concept! I enjoyed the puzzle elements a lot, and the audio and graphics were very complementary to the tone of the game."},{"author_name":"nightlord","author_uid":"1146","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 2:57am","epoch":1429584720,"text":"Super consistent and beautiful audio visually. Great level of polish. I really enjoyed this one."},{"author_name":"Pinktreeleaf","author_uid":"27800","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 2:57am","epoch":1429584720,"text":"Very pretty, really catchy music, smooth as butter controls."},{"author_name":"torcado194","author_uid":"5839","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 5:22am","epoch":1429593420,"text":"wow! this is very polished! the music is nice, the graphics are great. i could see this released as a mobile app right now!"},{"author_name":"rodobodolfo","author_uid":"44770","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:38am","epoch":1429666380,"text":"Ah yeah, awesome music! great art, and gameplay is very solid. Great Work!"},{"author_name":"m3_on","author_uid":"50133","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:39am","epoch":1429666440,"text":"Wow, the visuals are really great!  I'm super impressed!"},{"author_name":"CliffracerX","author_uid":"42929","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:44am","epoch":1429666740,"text":"Pretty nice work, although the second level is really hard!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Decent use of the theme.  Music gets a tad repetitive though..."},{"author_name":"Reis Mahnic","author_uid":"52764","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:51am","epoch":1429667160,"text":"What a great concept! Visuals and audio felt great for the game's mood, and the puzzles themselves were very cool."},{"author_name":"Pitzik4","author_uid":"8883","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 2:48am","epoch":1429670580,"text":"This is quite elegant and polished! After a few levels, though, I started having to experiment a *lot* each level, since the way things work wasn't explained at all and things became so sensitive to very, very precise details. Some elaboration on the rules would have been nice; I ended up giving up on the checkerboard level where the &quot;twinbot&quot; is introduced because I was getting tired of experimenting."},{"author_name":"wg_phancock","author_uid":"51056","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 2:59am","epoch":1429671240,"text":"Really fun concept, and solid graphics"},{"author_name":"Buko-Studios","author_uid":"45152","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 3:04am","epoch":1429671540,"text":"very cool concept."},{"author_name":"BoxedMeatRevolution","author_uid":"47669","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 3:20am","epoch":1429672500,"text":"All of the elements of your game fit together very well, creating a very polished game! Nitpicky detail on how this could have been improved: make waiting for the nanobots to move more fun. Maybe a speed up button would have helped, I dunno."},{"author_name":"calavera","author_uid":"45053","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 7:45am","epoch":1429688400,"text":"Wow great concept and just hard enough to keep you playing =D"},{"author_name":"Zak","author_uid":"50617","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 9:16am","epoch":1429693860,"text":"Well balanced concept!"},{"author_name":"benbateman","author_uid":"51139","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 9:58am","epoch":1429696380,"text":"Great concept and one of the few games that I've kept playing for a long time before moving to the next submission to rate. I'll be coming back to this for sure. Quality work in all areas."},{"author_name":"TurboCorp","author_uid":"53114","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:03pm","epoch":1429703880,"text":"Sounds became a bit repetitive.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The nanobots are absolutely lovely, and the gameplay is pretty cool, kept me engaged until I finished it."},{"author_name":"muumeroinen","author_uid":"31137","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:30pm","epoch":1429705500,"text":"Very creative concept!"},{"author_name":"gogo199432","author_uid":"44205","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:05pm","epoch":1429707600,"text":"A great game, one of the best I had the chance to play until now! As everybody before me said, it's very well-thought out. :)"},{"author_name":"SiENcE","author_uid":"10298","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:23pm","epoch":1429708680,"text":"Really nice and consistent art style! I love the colors your choose and also that you give them a face."},{"author_name":"chromebookbob","author_uid":"49589","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 3:42pm","epoch":1429717020,"text":"Great graphics style, I like the gameplay, but it is a little confusing at first. Well done!"},{"author_name":"kyyrma","author_uid":"8424","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 3:47pm","epoch":1429717320,"text":"Fantasticly polished and very consistent art style. The gameplay was interesting as well, although I'm not quite sure if I understood everything correctly. I did manage to make it further on to other bullets though.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If I would improve something, it's the instructions. Have some more controlled tutorial levels in the beginning."},{"author_name":"goblin","author_uid":"44367","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 3:52pm","epoch":1429717620,"text":"Very cool concept. Those nanobots are so cute ^^\r<br\/>Check our game too http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-32\/?action=preview&amp;uid=44367"},{"author_name":"Andre05","author_uid":"53536","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 4:02pm","epoch":1429718220,"text":"Hum, the loading is so long for me but.... The music are great. Am I the only one who didn't get the way to play? :\/"},{"author_name":"Ludonaut","author_uid":"18667","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1429723320,"text":"Wow, what a concept. Fantastic art style and audio, everything feels very polished. Great job!"},{"author_name":"NekuSoul","author_uid":"50209","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 5:29pm","epoch":1429723440,"text":"Very cool Art-style and Presentation"},{"author_name":"peterkirk","author_uid":"42239","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 7:25pm","epoch":1429730400,"text":"This game was absolutely brilliant. I liked the effort that went into the small details. I might have liked a little more detail explaining what each nanobot did, but I still managed to learn everything with trial and error. Good work."},{"author_name":"lochmann-apps","author_uid":"52509","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1429730520,"text":"This game is cool! Really good job!"},{"author_name":"kunzbe","author_uid":"20508","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 8:00pm","epoch":1429732500,"text":"Interesting cellular automat-ish concept indeed. Good work"},{"author_name":"jacobturn","author_uid":"52596","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 8:45pm","epoch":1429735200,"text":"i liked the way you did this"},{"author_name":"WiErD0","author_uid":"37149","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 12:26am","epoch":1429748460,"text":"Wow. This is by far the best game I have played so far. I absolutely love the art, excellent job! The music is great; it reminds me of like a Mario kart-Pokemon kind of style, which I love. This is extremely polished, and, while slightly more difficult than average, rewarding enough to be worth it. I'm sure you will do excellent in the rankings, and would be honored if you could try my game out and give some suggestions. If you're interested in having more of a conversation, and less of me just talking to a text box, I would love it if you would email me at: mywumbogames@gmail.com, or at least check out my game and let me know how I can improve: http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-32\/?action=preview&amp;uid=37149. Thanks so much!"},{"author_name":"ShawnFeatherly","author_uid":"22714","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 5:12am","epoch":1429765620,"text":"Great puzzles, great music, and well written plot. An undo button (or speed up) would be nice for when you realize too late that you messed up your last couple moves."},{"author_name":"kabutakogames","author_uid":"51243","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 7:27am","epoch":1429773720,"text":"A really solid entry, love the music, it reminds me of Bobble Bobble"},{"author_name":"syncxzoz","author_uid":"50852","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 11:03pm","epoch":1430002680,"text":"i love it.."},{"author_name":"SamH","author_uid":"26183","time":"May 2, 2015 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1430593140,"text":"Took me some time to understand, but it&rsquo;s great overall. Two minor nitpicks: the interface doesn&rsquo;t render well in small resolutions (e.g. 800&times;600), and the tutorial screens interrupt my actions. Apart from that, the music, gameplay and graphics are most excellent for a 72-hour project!"}],"images":["ld32\/35766-136785de414130baeae18ac74a38f40f.jpg","ld32\/35766-d75fc02558630879e749c9e713b5a15f.jpg","ld32\/35766-ba26f40d51c10c4dfb3ad4a02b36b3a4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2658200\/Backfire_webgl\/index.html","text":"WebGL"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14279010\/Backfire.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14279010\/Backfire\/Backfire.html","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"12582","g_author":"35766","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"12612","g_title":"Backfire","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"64","g_commentcount":"34","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\/35766-shot0-1429577714.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/35766-shot1-1429580530.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/35766-shot2-1429580530.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This cellular automata based puzzle game tells the story of armor-eating nanobots living on a bullet in flight.  Created as a military experiment in armor-eating rounds, these nanobots have woken up early, and have plans of their own, despite understanding very little of their environment.\r\n\r\nNOTE: The behavior of each nanobot is described by the 3x3 grid in the upper right of the nanobot's placement button.  The letters in the grid indicate which nanobots the bot will generate and\/or which direction it will move.\r\n\r\nFor Web: Works better in full screen.\r\n\r\nCredits:\r\nArt: Kieran Lampert\r\nSound and music: Marco Longo\r\nProgramming: Taylor Bergquist, Kevin Granade, Marjie Volk\r\nGame Design: All of us!","title":"Backfire"}