{"author_link":"\/author\/xandy\/","author_name":"xandy","author_uid":"15304","comments":[{"author_name":"Ramori","author_uid":"39486","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:34pm","epoch":1409074140,"text":"Nice idea, matches the theme. Too bad there we're not many people playing when I tried it. Good job!"},{"author_name":"tbamberg","author_uid":"40495","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:25pm","epoch":1409080800,"text":"Cute idea, but I could never connect to the server. Running on Chrome"},{"author_name":"Thingo Studios","author_uid":"31541","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:29pm","epoch":1409081040,"text":"It's a very, very cool idea, but it needs a really good server to work, that doesn't exist."},{"author_name":"ZoneOne2","author_uid":"36419","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:29pm","epoch":1409081040,"text":"I really like the idea. With a bit more polish I could see this being a fun, intense local multiplayer game."},{"author_name":"JackDegree","author_uid":"38813","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:32pm","epoch":1409081220,"text":"The idea is really nice, even though I could not play in multiplayer."},{"author_name":"Vallar","author_uid":"41060","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1409081460,"text":"That is a VERY interesting game. I liked the concept very much. It was really fun playing it. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The only problem that I was lagging (or others were) and I couldn't really play for long. But the few minutes of play were worth it. Well done job and I like the minimalistic art :D."},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:43pm","epoch":1409081880,"text":"Netcode needs quite a lot of polish (it's either very laggy or I seem to be playing by myself) but this is a nice take on Asteroids and the multiplayer aspect seems to fit the theme very well. A pretty interesting game overall."},{"author_name":"doos","author_uid":"19350","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:46pm","epoch":1409082060,"text":"Very cool idea.. Wish my ship was a bit faster to turn.. :)"},{"author_name":"xandy","author_uid":"15304","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:48pm","epoch":1409082180,"text":"yeah sorry about the netcode. during development i was behind a vpn to another country so i couldn't do any real world testing :("},{"author_name":"Konrad Zegis","author_uid":"32927","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:01pm","epoch":1409086560,"text":"Funny variation of classic asteroids :D"},{"author_name":"sorle","author_uid":"30402","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:17am","epoch":1409098320,"text":"Yeah nice to see those classics again in a new content!\r<br\/>Cool idea enjoyed it"},{"author_name":"LudusPactum","author_uid":"37448","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:26am","epoch":1409098860,"text":"Clever and innovator. A good asteroids clone matching the theme. Good job"},{"author_name":"blurryroots","author_uid":"15819","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 1:41am","epoch":1409103360,"text":"Neat mechanics and an impressive network feature. Fun game."},{"author_name":"teamrocketbear","author_uid":"42382","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 4:03am","epoch":1409198280,"text":"Big idea for a jam, I think I waited to long to get a test with anyone. But appreciate it. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>How did you learn to make working netcode in such short time? Any tips?"},{"author_name":"Otopkin","author_uid":"41289","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 1:18pm","epoch":1409231580,"text":"Game has a cool concept, you should polish it a little and make a game out of it."},{"author_name":"xandy","author_uid":"15304","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 1:20pm","epoch":1409231700,"text":"@teamrocketbear i'm using lua-enet for transport and simply transfer all information 20times\/sec. later i reduced the needed traffic by rounding everything down to only 2 decimal places. post jam version will use a binary serializerinstead of the text one i'm using now. netcode is in systems\/network.lua. but it's pretty ugly."},{"author_name":"acidave","author_uid":"38993","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 2:09pm","epoch":1409234640,"text":"Great idea and solid mechanics and controls. Like the idea of an classic game adapted to the ld theme."},{"author_name":"eemmbbeerr","author_uid":"26778","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1409332620,"text":"Nice idea, but I don't want to shoot myself. How do I go multiplayer?"},{"author_name":"KingBolonzo","author_uid":"39832","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 8:48am","epoch":1409560980,"text":"Nice work wish this was around when atari was Nice job realy fun i like the simple art style a little polish would make it stand out"},{"author_name":"Code White","author_uid":"37086","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1409585520,"text":"Wow. I hardly ever see any local multiplayer games on the LD, let alone online multiplayers. Congratulations for being the first, as well as managing to make a cute, fun game."},{"author_name":"xandy","author_uid":"15304","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 3:46pm","epoch":1409586060,"text":"thanks, i thought i'd give it a try as the core game mechanic was pretty easy to implement."},{"author_name":"moi93101","author_uid":"42072","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 4:03pm","epoch":1409587080,"text":"Really good concept, perfect with the theme, and it made with l&ouml;ve, so ... cool !"},{"author_name":"jahmaican","author_uid":"40987","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1409587560,"text":"I quite liked this one. Graphics could be better (I know that the original game wasn't too pretty, but at least the actual asteroids weren't squares!)"},{"author_name":"vividhelix","author_uid":"35713","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1409589540,"text":"Got a runtime error when I managed to hit my first asteroid. Other than that, great idea and take on the theme!"},{"author_name":"Benjamin","author_uid":"2952","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1409591940,"text":"Fun game even when playing alone. The firre=spawn idea seems very innovative to me. Gravity games need some inertia but I think that turnspeed inertia is not a good idea. Inertia in speed is more than enough to make the dodging difficult."},{"author_name":"thecolorhacker","author_uid":"40333","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1409609520,"text":"Good game, I got 120 points. I like the concept, it adapted well to the theme and was fun to play. Perhaps, rotation was a little too loose. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"creative630","author_uid":"8156","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1409691600,"text":"Dang, cool idea. Really hard to control your ship though."},{"author_name":"Riley Adams","author_uid":"1503","time":"Sep 5, 2014 @ 12:26am","epoch":1409876460,"text":"Great take on the theme!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Too bad no one else seemed to be playing :( Still fun by oneself though :)"},{"author_name":"NicePenguins","author_uid":"28578","time":"Sep 5, 2014 @ 1:30pm","epoch":1409923500,"text":"Good idea ! Too bad there's no one on line and crash bugs."},{"author_name":"Zerkruemler","author_uid":"27446","time":"Sep 7, 2014 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1410115140,"text":"Cool idea. But a little bit too hard for me since the controls are not fast enough. Unfortunately no other players where areound, but the idea of a multiplayer game is cool.\r<br\/>Greetings to the RZL"}],"images":["ld30\/15304-d2d49d5b24e7e68eeacdd89abc0b7978.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/popcornpirat.de\/scr\/asteroid-fighters-ld-1.0.6-win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/popcornpirat.de\/scr\/asteroid-fighters-ld-1.0.6-mac.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/popcornpirat.de\/scr\/asteroid-fighters-ld-1.0.6.love","text":"love2d \/ linux \/ Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17078","g_author":"15304","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17107","g_title":"Asteroid fighters","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"555","g_commentcount":"30","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\/15304-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A small multiplayer Asteroids. Shots that hit the borders become asteroids in other players worlds. You can play alone(borders warp around) but it's more fun if you play with other people!\r\n\r\nControls:\r\na, d: turn ship\r\nw: accelerate\r\nspace: shoot\r\nescape: quit game\r\n\r\nFor the source just unzip the .love version.\r\n\r\ni submit my game votes in bulks so that the game stay longer in the front and more people play it at the same time. so just wait a minute or 2 if there is nobody else online.\r\n\r\nhuge bandwidth usage and related disconnects\/lags should be fixed now.","title":"Asteroid fighters"}