{"author_link":"\/author\/marthmadness\/","author_name":"MarthMadness","author_uid":"45448","comments":[{"author_name":"Eponesh","author_uid":"45468","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1418059320,"text":"Java Security block's your game:("},{"author_name":"FloatingGhost","author_uid":"20843","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1418059380,"text":"\u043d\u0435\u0442 comrade, sovetskiy snowman does not run!\r\rI get a score thingy, then a game over screen.\r\rJava 7\/Firefox 34\/Win8 (64bit)"},{"author_name":"jellyislovely","author_uid":"12508","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:32pm","epoch":1418059620,"text":"Unfortunately I can't get past the security issue on OSX. I tried lowering my security level but it only goes down to high, there's no medium option on OSX :( I suggest trying the Ludum Dare IRC channel to see if anyone can help you package it into a jar file (I don't know anything about that, sorry)."},{"author_name":"Asado","author_uid":"44525","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:40pm","epoch":1418060100,"text":"I can't play it either - using Mac OSX"},{"author_name":"Vaclav","author_uid":"43581","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1418060220,"text":"Sauce code :D I wish I could play this.."},{"author_name":"Legiion","author_uid":"45906","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:43pm","epoch":1418060280,"text":"Java seems to block the Game"},{"author_name":"MarthMadness","author_uid":"45448","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1418060580,"text":"You can run it using a compiler right now. I am attempting to convert it to a jar and should, hopefully have it up by later today."},{"author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1418060700,"text":"Oh, why is java so bossy...\rAfter some attempts, I managed to launch the game and got the same problem as FloatingGhost.\rJava 7\/Firefox whatever\/Win7 (32bit)"},{"author_name":"rabbit","author_uid":"26967","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1418066100,"text":"Didn't bother playing it because no exe."},{"author_name":"GeeItSomeLaldy","author_uid":"40246","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1418072220,"text":"I run it and I just get the Game Over screen."},{"author_name":"jojocanard","author_uid":"24933","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1418072220,"text":"Error message at launch : a java exception has occured"},{"author_name":"Spacemyname","author_uid":"31852","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1418072280,"text":"Had several issues with the game, mainly the one FloatingGhost had"},{"author_name":"Andrea","author_uid":"44353","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1418072460,"text":"The .jar works for me, sadly, the game is a lot too hard to be enjoyable: I get killed in 2 to 3 seconds, never more :'("},{"author_name":"panda","author_uid":"16086","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1418072460,"text":"Sorry man, I couldn't run the game. I downloaded the jar file and when running it with java -jar I got this error: "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Man : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0". I have Java 1.6.0_65, perhaps your code requires the latest and greatest version of Java?\r(this is on OSX)"},{"author_name":"Gaspard_","author_uid":"25208","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1418073300,"text":"Java Exception, sorry.\rI have java 7, widows 7, maybe I need java 8? Would suprise me, after looking at the source.\rI did extract the files(so that's not the problem).\rI checked file capitalisation(because that's a common problem...).\rMy 2 cents:\rI noticed you didn't put all the resources in the .jar\rInstead of:\rSnowman = ImageIO.read(new File("asdf\\\\SovietSnowman.png"));\rput:\r\rSnowman = Snowman.read(ImageLoader.class.getResourceAsStream("SovietSnowman.png"));\rAnd put your image in the package of the same class.\rThat way you can ship a simple single runnable .jar file.\r\rI also noticed the source folder you give is missing some images (like splash.png)\r\rHope any of this helps."},{"author_name":"Rene Damm","author_uid":"45029","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 11:22pm","epoch":1418080620,"text":"Only displayed a window with a blank white screen :("},{"author_name":"SpartanIceCream","author_uid":"44083","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1418158620,"text":"Pretty funny. Nice work."},{"author_name":"Joris","author_uid":"38149","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 1:35am","epoch":1418175000,"text":"Couldn't run it because of a java error (I'm also on windows 8.1 and I have up to date java). I'm very sad :("},{"author_name":"stray","author_uid":"47087","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:43pm","epoch":1418215080,"text":"I could play after a lot of process. But it worth."},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 12:30pm","epoch":1418473500,"text":"very rough, couldn't see the hammers right away which confused me in the beginning, other than that, it's a simple funny game. Nice effort."},{"author_name":"janovbyrnisson","author_uid":"43705","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 2:22pm","epoch":1418566620,"text":"Error message at launch : a java exception has occured"},{"author_name":"Vaclav","author_uid":"43581","time":"Dec 23, 2014 @ 3:30pm","epoch":1419348300,"text":"Cool :D"}],"images":["ld31\/45448-a68d61d2f3c8c93ac74c48806f5957cb.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/4449vbvwkmb2fri\/LudumDare31.zip?dl=0","text":".zip with Source"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/g5pzpte7tkgjxy2\/Game.zip?dl=0","text":"Platform Independent .jar file"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"14051","g_author":"45448","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"14081","g_title":"Soviet Snowman Versus the Capitalist Pigs","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1125","g_commentcount":"22","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\/45448-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Edit: Security problem has been fixed. Download the .jar to play the game. Only been tested on windows 8.1. Please post any other problems you have to the comments and thank you for your patience. \r\n\r\nHelp the Soviet Snowman Fight off the Capitalist Pigs invading his area! Use the arrow keys to throw hammers in that direction. Click in side of the applet window to begin.\r\n\r\n ","title":"Soviet Snowman Versus the Capitalist Pigs"}