{"author_link":"\/author\/jellonator\/","author_name":"jellonator","author_uid":"6672","comments":[{"author_name":"Killswitch","author_uid":"4244","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:03pm","epoch":1408967880,"text":"Doesn't work on mine, bro. :("},{"author_name":"AlucardX60","author_uid":"39086","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 5:57pm","epoch":1409161920,"text":"Such amazing concept, such wonderful graphix, such people exploding out of trains, such huge lasers! - 20\/10 IGN"},{"author_name":"CrefossusJam","author_uid":"42424","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 8:26am","epoch":1409214060,"text":"Excellent work for a compo game. I ran into the brown bug blocking most of the asteroids sometimes. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I admit I was a bit shocked when I lost the entire train after a cart near the front was lost, but this makes sense.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I loved the pacing and the ramp up of the music when you transition from the upgrade screen to the gameplay section. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The style is polished although the asteroids feel slightly out of place or lower quality art compared to the beautiful train."},{"author_name":"eemmbbeerr","author_uid":"26778","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1410035940,"text":"Linux version does not run: \r<br\/>zarandy@zarandy-Aspire-V3-531G:~\/Downloads\/SpaceTrains-Linux$ .\/Game.\/Game: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory\r<br\/>Which is strange because when I try to install libsdl2-ttf, it says that it's already installed."},{"author_name":"ra4king","author_uid":"4393","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1410036420,"text":"Nice idea, I enjoyed this game!"},{"author_name":"IsaacL.Balogh","author_uid":"25471","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 9:10pm","epoch":1410037500,"text":"I like the idea but I think you ramped the difficulty to quickly, it quickly became a bullet hell where I couldn't dodge."},{"author_name":"Empyrealhell","author_uid":"26650","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 9:33pm","epoch":1410038880,"text":"For whatever reason, once the enemies start showing up, the whole screen turns brown and I can't see anything anymore. The screen still flashes like stuff is happening, but it's just one solid color."},{"author_name":"jellonator","author_uid":"6672","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 11:10pm","epoch":1410044700,"text":"Okay guys I fixed the brown glitch. It's a really dumb mistake."},{"author_name":"RobotFriend","author_uid":"42253","time":"Sep 7, 2014 @ 2:56am","epoch":1410058260,"text":"Pretty challenging. Could really benefit from better graphics and more gameplay balance, but it's fun."},{"author_name":"RaycoSantana","author_uid":"36042","time":"Sep 7, 2014 @ 4:28am","epoch":1410063780,"text":"great game, love the graphics! :D"},{"author_name":"DeathPidgeon","author_uid":"41674","time":"Sep 7, 2014 @ 6:43am","epoch":1410071880,"text":"I had a lot of fun playing this. Didn't get very far though. It has complex set of upgrades but they aren't hard to understand though."},{"author_name":"arhpositive","author_uid":"11575","time":"Sep 7, 2014 @ 12:27pm","epoch":1410092520,"text":"Wow, really great and well polished game, considering it's only made in two days. I had great fun with it. Lasted for 6 or 7 stations, and the difficulty curve is gentle at first but gets hard faster when you hit a certain point. Thanks for your entry, I enjoyed it!"}],"images":["ld30\/6672-5c7153950cb7d7cb6d265a9a7d479da3.jpg","ld30\/6672-60982758131c206feca07517105e8db3.jpg","ld30\/6672-ce2e8d25856625fea77e680f60cab4c2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/55433941\/downloads\/Spacetrains\/SpaceTrains-Windows.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/55433941\/downloads\/Spacetrains\/SpaceTrains-Linux.tar.gz","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/55433941\/downloads\/Spacetrains\/SpaceTrains-Source.tar.gz","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"15963","g_author":"6672","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"15993","g_title":"Space trains","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"153","g_commentcount":"12","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\/\/375043\/6672-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/6672-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/6672-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You play as a train conductor- in space!\r\nThat's right, you control a train in space, it doesn't get cooler than that.\r\nYou must transport passengers across space to earn money, while defending them from one of 5 different enemies.\r\nUse the money you earn to buy upgrades.\r\nWhen you are done upgrading, you can click \"continue\" to continue on your mission.\r\nWhile playing the game, you left click to shoot stuff.\r\nThe game gets better as time goes on. Trust me, it does.\r\n\r\nAlso there is no end. You play until you die. If you get far enough you may see some golden enemies that will absolutely wreck you.\r\n\r\nA few pro tips:\r\nAll upgrades are $100\r\nKillings things doesn't give you money, only delivering passengers safely does.\r\nTheres a small chance the cart you want may go on sale.\r\nLasers penetrate, cannons shoot tons of bullets.\r\nDistribute your upgrades evenly per cart, upgrade more generously towards the front of the train.\r\nIf one cart goes down, all carts to the left go down.\r\nYou can shoot down enemy bullets.\r\n\r\n\r\nNote for Windows users: Open the folder, double click \"game.exe.\" It may crash on startup. That's okay, just try it again. I am 99.9% certain it won't crash during gameplay.\r\n\r\nNote for Linux users: Extract the folder, open the folder, and execute Game. If you get error, please tell me in the comments below.\r\n\r\nNote for Mac users: You'll have to compile it yourself, I'm sorry. If someone could give me a Mac distribution that would be nice. Again, it depends on SDL2 and the whole shibang of it(image, mixer, and ttf).\r\n\r\n\r\nEdit: -released a memory leak fix.\r\nEdit2: -released a brown screen glitch fix. Forgot to set asteroid rotation to 0.\r\nEdit3: - Linux version now comes packaged with SDL2 libraries, may have additional dependencies. Please tell me if you have any issues!","title":"Space trains"}