{"author_link":"\/author\/fyberoptic\/","author_name":"FyberOptic","author_uid":"36171","comments":[{"author_name":"Yarr","author_uid":"34285","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1418238060,"text":"Fun game, too bad you didn't get the time to polish it. A simple points system (+ for shooting asteroids, - for things hitting earth seems the logical choice) could have made this a lot better."},{"author_name":"Frozen Fractal","author_uid":"7882","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1418243640,"text":"Yay orbital mechanics! Gravity seemed a bit harsh until I realized I can't actually crash into the Earth myself. I'm not sure the edge wrapping is a good idea, because it throws off your orbit -- then again, you can use it to your advantage. Smooth gameplay, nice and simple graphics, too bad you didn't have time to put in win\/lose conditions and such."},{"author_name":"BoxedMeatRevolution","author_uid":"47669","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1418333460,"text":"I like the clean graphics and the orbiting mechanic was a nice touch. Obviously some win\/lose conditions and a point system would be nice... and after that a fun powerup system. Nice start though!"},{"author_name":"madalaski","author_uid":"29994","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 3:12pm","epoch":1418656020,"text":"Not much content but overall very fun. A nice twist on the classic atari asteroid game."}],"images":["ld31\/36171-493082ae7845375f57491ec67a6bccec.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.fybertech.net\/projects\/ld31\/asteroidcontrol_full.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.fybertech.net\/projects\/ld31\/asteroidcontrol_full.jar","text":"Linux, OS\/X, etc"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/FyberOptic\/ludumdare31","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"13507","g_author":"36171","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"13537","g_title":"Asteroid Control","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"4","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\/36171-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Unfortunately I spent very few of the available hours working on my entry this time, for various reasons (including a cold sapping my energy), so I'm not particularly happy with it compared to past entries.  Feel free to rate it accordingly.  But I thought I'd put it up anyway, because at least I tried, and that's what this is all about!  \r\n\r\nMy initial inspiration was a bit of a combination of Asteroids and Star Control, though there's not a lot of gameplay added.  Basically just shoot the asteroids before they hit Earth.  \r\n\r\nControls are W to thrust, A and D to turn, spacebar or left-click to shoot.\r\n\r\nThis was written in Java using the LWJGL and Slick-Util libraries, with sfxr for sounds.  Jarsplice was used to make a single JAR and EXE for distribution.\r\n\r\nSource is provided under Apache 2.0 so feel free to use it for something else.","title":"Asteroid Control"}