{"author_link":"\/author\/blockers\/","author_name":"Blockers","author_uid":"44063","comments":[{"author_name":"tppr2046","author_uid":"20432","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 1:25am","epoch":1418001600,"text":"Fun!!\r<br\/>I love the shaking effects when attacking!"},{"author_name":"Grehg","author_uid":"33737","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 7:48pm","epoch":1418067780,"text":"I liked the minimalism. The explosion sound, camera shaking, and slow motion when hitting stuff was satisfying. Once I got the hang of how to play it was much more fun.  I played this game the most so far. It reminded me of this entry: http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-31\/?action=preview&amp;uid=11024"},{"author_name":"Nielz","author_uid":"44539","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1418069160,"text":"Awesome graphics! ^_^"},{"author_name":"Aevek","author_uid":"22124","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 8:20pm","epoch":1418069700,"text":"A lot of fun. I tried without avail to successfully put myself in orbit, so I'm guessing there is some safety check there (boo). Cool mechanics, it was very satisfying to destroy things on the way up, the way down, and after accidentally swinging around the planet."},{"author_name":"Wezley","author_uid":"10490","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:54pm","epoch":1418075340,"text":"I like it. Good job man! Keep it up!"},{"author_name":"Hellequin","author_uid":"20522","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:06pm","epoch":1418076060,"text":"I like it! It's so addictive... Well done :) !"},{"author_name":"guldlock","author_uid":"46099","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:13pm","epoch":1418076480,"text":"Those effects are really nice! The game is also fun! :)"},{"author_name":"CodeNMore","author_uid":"33942","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:14pm","epoch":1418076540,"text":"Great effects (slowmotion) and simplistic graphics!  These controls I've never heard of until now! Well done!"},{"author_name":"rabbit","author_uid":"26967","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:15pm","epoch":1418076600,"text":"This is a really great idea that will benefit from polish. Great job."},{"author_name":"tudd","author_uid":"20285","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:49pm","epoch":1418078640,"text":"Camera shake and sound effects are great, really creates a lot of *bang!!!* feeling when you hit something. Has potential, but as you said, the gravity is pretty irritating. I almost never launch in the direction of my mouse pointer, and it does seem very &quot;random&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>That said I like it very much c:"},{"author_name":"nbilyk","author_uid":"22825","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1418079000,"text":"Cool game. I'd love to watch somebody really good play it, I feel like if I could master the controls it would be way more fun. It's almost as if you can launch yourself from the ship and get into a cool orbit, but I couldn't quite do that."},{"author_name":"OctoTeam","author_uid":"47495","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 11:38pm","epoch":1418081580,"text":"Really cool game! The screenshots didn't look very promising but I liked it a lot after playing it :)"},{"author_name":"DvigubaiPiktas","author_uid":"27113","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:17pm","epoch":1418213520,"text":"I liked the atmosphere of space invaders. Those explosions and shaking made your game a bit more juicy and quite fun."},{"author_name":"Bloxri","author_uid":"47589","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 2:36am","epoch":1418265060,"text":"Very fun game, wish it had highscores. Graphics go well with the style. Overall very nicely done. Great submission!"},{"author_name":"AncientAvocado","author_uid":"38975","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:22pm","epoch":1418390220,"text":"Got a score of 39145 on my laptop without a proper mouse!\r<br\/>Had much fun with it. Simple consept really well excecuted."},{"author_name":"schnerble","author_uid":"11560","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 6:24am","epoch":1418710740,"text":"Very original - slightly tricky controls, but in an interesting way, and quite fun to play.  Nice work!"},{"author_name":"dunin","author_uid":"32902","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 7:50pm","epoch":1418845500,"text":"Fun and original concept!"},{"author_name":"maxmetallica","author_uid":"47374","time":"Dec 28, 2014 @ 4:19am","epoch":1419740040,"text":"fun man i loved it"}],"images":["ld31\/44063-7f887de964321883dff63d80aa442f4b.jpg","ld31\/44063-bdb40e0820581b3410100b46ee89abf7.jpg","ld31\/44063-1594aec90854f6ad53a41a8ed0d10786.jpg","ld31\/44063-504a9fbbc34d09bb4253579fbce8863d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/38215360\/final.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/38215360\/ld31.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"13528","g_author":"44063","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"13558","g_title":"Unnamed Planetary Defender","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"165","g_commentcount":"18","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\/44063-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/44063-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/44063-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/44063-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Defend your planet from the incoming asteroids by flinging yourself into a suicidal trajectory into them; try to last as long as possible!\r\n\r\nAs you destroy asteroids, you collect pieces of their rubble which can be used to cause a large explosion.\r\n\r\nUnzip, and run ld31.exe to play\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n--- this game is completely mouse driven, sorry in advance :) ---\r\n\r\nLMB - \"fling\" yourself in the direction you are pointing. the force of the fling is determined by how far you are clicking from the player. once in air, you can click one more time to make a weaker airjump.\r\n\r\nRMB - Explode, consuming all of the rubble on your ship. The explosion gets larger depending on how much rubble you have.\r\n\r\nFocus Circle - The circle around the player acts as a \"focus\" region. When your mouse is inside of it, the ship is slightly attracted towards it, allowing you to slow yourself down, adjust trajectories, etc. \r\n\r\n\r\nKnown Issues:\r\n - Sometimes the LD31 process will not remove itself from Volume Mixer, but I fixed this as much as I could. Only happens if you dont close the game using the X button (i believe).\r\n - The game-over screen can sometimes glitch out visually, but you can still restart by pressing R.\r\n - The gravity is sometimes unwieldy and annoying to work with. Sorry\r\n\r\nNotes:\r\nI had to submit a little early because my game code became spaghetti. This is the first time i've used Rust for game-dev so it was a great learning experience. I ran into a few annoying compiler issues that stopped me from continuing to polish the game, but in the end i think it came out all right!\r\n","title":"Unnamed Planetary Defender"}