{"author_link":"\/author\/meral\/","author_name":"Meral","author_uid":"44141","comments":[{"author_name":"Frozen Fractal","author_uid":"7882","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:55pm","epoch":1418154600,"text":"Simple, but effective. Also, hard! But I think it's supposed to be :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It would help discoverability if you renamed the download link to &quot;Windows\/Linux&quot; or something like that, or just add an identical link titled &quot;Love&quot;. Case sensitivity problem on Linux: you need to run &quot;mv class\/Formationgenerator.lua class\/FormationGenerator.lua&quot; before you start the game."},{"author_name":"Meral","author_uid":"44141","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 8:57pm","epoch":1418158320,"text":"Thanks for the feedback and heads-up! I didn't realize you could rename the download links. I'll get onto that right now. I'll also rename the class and reupload the source as well as the .love file."},{"author_name":"Meral","author_uid":"44141","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 9:08pm","epoch":1418158980,"text":"Updated the .love and Source download to avoid letter casing issues. Thanks again Frozen Fractal!"},{"author_name":"efux","author_uid":"36287","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 9:45pm","epoch":1418161200,"text":"I like the story of the lonely snowflake =D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Glad you eventually decided to participate! Nice job and looking forward to your entry on the next game jam!"},{"author_name":"Wezley","author_uid":"10490","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 10:26pm","epoch":1418163660,"text":"I really like how simple yet fun this game is!:) Great job!"},{"author_name":"Magicolo","author_uid":"44592","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 10:28pm","epoch":1418163780,"text":"-Could use more diversity in the heat wave patterns :(\r<br\/>-Funny reference to global warming :)\r<br\/>-Pretty hard game :|\r<br\/>-Not a one screen game :(\r<br\/>-Music and SFX :)"},{"author_name":"Meral","author_uid":"44141","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1418166180,"text":"Thank you all for the feedback!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Magicolo: Diversity was planned from the beginning, but I didn't work on the game on Sunday and in the end ran out of time. The FormationGenerator class should have done that job at some point.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I noticed failing the &quot;Entire Game on one Screen&quot; theme at some point during development. While technically it's just that the obstacles fade into the screen and then out of it again - while the player is restricted to the screen - you are of course right with that critique. I could have brought this up by having some clearly static background image. Again: Ran out of time\/energy.\r<br\/>Hope I'll catch it better next time."},{"author_name":"danielilett","author_uid":"44564","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 11:22pm","epoch":1418167020,"text":"This is pretty difficult, but it's not too bad. However, a few times while playing it, a whole load of waves spawned on top of each other and killed me pretty much instantly. I did like the difficulty level though, it took me by surprise at first, and the music and gameplay do sync up well. Good job."},{"author_name":"DefectiveMelon","author_uid":"44221","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 11:57pm","epoch":1418169120,"text":"Hard and fun :P It get's a little difficult to see the snowflake after you've taken a couple of hits, also it seems if you restart, blocks start flying at you and you can't dodge them, it seems like a bug of some kind."},{"author_name":"chibiFlux","author_uid":"44232","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:02am","epoch":1418169420,"text":"Really fun to play! Nice theme! :D"},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:06am","epoch":1418169660,"text":"I don't think you failed at the theme. It could be interpreted as screen (monitor), so... yeah. Congratulations for your first LD Game! I'm not a fan of &quot;flappy bird&quot; style of game, but you did good and learned a lot! :)"},{"author_name":"Meral","author_uid":"44141","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:21am","epoch":1418170560,"text":"@DefectiveMelon: It is a bug in the dying procedure. I hadn't time to fix it until now."},{"author_name":"sorlok","author_uid":"28370","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 1:10am","epoch":1418173500,"text":"Fun and controls well, but a bit more background stuff (rotating snowflakes, etc.) would be cool. Or maybe you avoid heat waves during the summer, but try to hit cold blasts (grow) during the winter? Overall, good job!"},{"author_name":"Meral","author_uid":"44141","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:32pm","epoch":1418214420,"text":"@sorlock: Love the idea with cold blasts! Definitely something I'd put in if I continue to work on this some day. Like Bonus Levels..."},{"author_name":"ViliX64","author_uid":"29167","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:51pm","epoch":1418391960,"text":"Interesting gameplay. I really liked this game :)"},{"author_name":"ZNCatlaw","author_uid":"42407","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1418402160,"text":"I scored 51 seconds! I am a unique snowflake!"},{"author_name":"Kuality Games","author_uid":"46151","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1418419260,"text":"Really sets me in the mood of being a lonely snowflake, enjoyable to play but it got boring quite fast."},{"author_name":"AinaSG","author_uid":"45390","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 9:41am","epoch":1418463360,"text":"Enjoyable. But veeeeery dificult for me &gt;3&lt;.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, it don't fit the theme very well, but fun overall"},{"author_name":"jthistle","author_uid":"39482","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 10:52am","epoch":1418467620,"text":".love does not work on Mac."},{"author_name":"pht59x","author_uid":"36239","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 9:41am","epoch":1418549760,"text":"A shame there is no web version."},{"author_name":"BarrensZeppelin","author_uid":"8838","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 9:54am","epoch":1418723340,"text":"Couldn't get longer than 32 seconds :( (Winter #5)\r<br\/>Small and fun game :)"},{"author_name":"Meral","author_uid":"44141","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1418745960,"text":"@jthistle: I'm sorry it didn't work. I don't have a mac to test on myself. What error are you getting?"},{"author_name":"ynots","author_uid":"45674","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1418747160,"text":"nice.."},{"author_name":"rjhunter","author_uid":"16057","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 10:44pm","epoch":1418769540,"text":"On Mac OS X, double-clicking on the .love file throws the following error:\r<br\/>    main.lua:7: module 'class.Obstacle' not found\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If I add the class folder to the .love file (which is really just a zip with a special layout), everything works nicely. As a bonus, it's easier to distribute the all-in-one file :-)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As far as the game itself goes, I found it quite fun. The comparisons to Flappy Bird and Super Hexagon are fair, in aspects, but it's interesting to see how the concept of not-quite-instant-death changes the feel.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Simple but very suitable music."},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Dec 25, 2014 @ 11:32am","epoch":1419506820,"text":"When I came to around winther 68 the entire screen became red- (I made it that far because I found out you could just move to the bottom of the screen, and nothing will hurt you :( - Anyways I liked the little story - The gameplay was simple and difficult :-)"},{"author_name":"maxmetallica","author_uid":"47374","time":"Dec 29, 2014 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1419891420,"text":"nice game"}],"images":["ld31\/44141-583a2dd48c53d483f7b855d113446fc0.jpg","ld31\/44141-7b54b0baefdec051a37334887775774e.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-2ntL9vvt52LXl5eTZKN28xeEk\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Windows 64bit"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-2ntL9vvt52ME5uU2tTNGVoelk\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Windows 32bit"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-2ntL9vvt52Q0lqRF9YN1NiYkk\/view?usp=sharing","text":"l&ouml;ve (Linux, OS\/X, misc)"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-2ntL9vvt52N01VRG1oVmxZZzA\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"13304","g_author":"44141","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"13334","g_title":"Snowflake","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"856","g_commentcount":"26","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\/\/407933\/44141-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/44141-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Hi game developers. Do you know you guys rock?\r\n\r\n\r\nIf you're ready for some keyboard smashing action as in BosonX or SuperHexagon, this might one day be a thing for you. You can still give it a try in its current state if you like. :)\r\nEvade the heatwaves so the snowflake doesn't melt. Save snowflakes from extinction!\r\n\r\n[Mild language warning]\r\nThe longer you survive the more heatwaves there will be and the faster they will come.\r\nIf you experience random waves that are too fast and cutting into other ones - please restart the game. I have yet to figure out why they appear. Something goes wrong when the last snowflake dies. :\/ If you push the reset button before that happens is fine though. Also in Winter #5 you get to take a break.\r\nIf you want to make it more interesting you can enable gravity by pressing 'g' and adjust it with + and -.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nw:\t\tMove up\r\na:\t\tMove left\r\ns:\t\tMove down\r\nd:\t\tMove right\r\n\r\narrow up:\t\tMove up\r\narrow left:\t\tMove left\r\narrow down:\t\tMove down\r\narrow right:\tMove right\r\n\r\nesc:\tQuit\r\nenter:\tNext text field\r\nr:\t\tReset the game\r\np:\t\tToggle displaying debug info: FPS, x&y coordinates of the player, the players rotation (The framerate is locked to 60)\r\ng:\t\tToggle gravity\r\n+:\t\tIncrease gravity\r\n-:\t\tDecrease gravity\r\ni:\t\tA little easteregg? (intro sequence)\r\n\r\nThere are windows 64 and 32bit builds as well as the .love file itself. Recommendation for linux is to get love via your preferred package manager and run the .love file with it as first parameter. I don't own a mac, so I cannot provide a mac build. Sorry. :\/ But mac users can still to the same thing as our awesome linux guys.\r\n\r\nFirst LudumDare for me. I worked about 1 2\/3 days on this. The music was made in BodcaCeoil, soundeffect(s) in SFXR, the snwoflake(s) in Inkscape and the Code in notepad++. Under the hood this thing runs on l\u00f6ve. =D\r\nI had played around with l\u00f6ve2d before, but never made a game.\r\nI missed having a fully featured code editor. With auto formatting, auto complete, function and parameter suggestions and a debugger. Think of all the typos and nasty debugging that could have been spared...\r\nThe coding style in this is pretty terrible, but I finally got to learn OOP in lua using metatables, so YAY!\r\nHow to define overloaded functions without total codechaos is still am mystery to me though. Same for concatenating strings with a boolean. o.O\r\n\r\n\r\nDear thanks is issued to the makers of these frameworks\/applications:\r\n- notepad++\r\n- l\u00f6ve\r\n- SFXR\r\n- BoscaCeoil\r\n- Inkscape\r\n\r\nAdditional thanks goes to \"OmarShehata\" from the love Community for the auto-update lua-script snippet. (https:\/\/love2d.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3733&p=167865#p167865)","title":"Snowflake"}