{"author_link":"\/author\/oddly-shaped-pixels\/","author_name":"Oddly Shaped Pixels","author_uid":"33840","comments":[{"author_name":"Zathalos","author_uid":"11257","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:35am","epoch":1398652200,"text":"Pretty interesting game. Placing the structures around the planet in strategic places while trying to not overheat the planet was fun. It was a little hard at first but I got the hang of it. I only ever got 1 artifact though. Good job."},{"author_name":"NicoM","author_uid":"32562","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:44am","epoch":1398652740,"text":"Impressive all over, great job:)"},{"author_name":"Deity","author_uid":"23611","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:39am","epoch":1398656040,"text":"Very good start. I like the concept. The endings\/attacks are very sudden. Would be nice to get some kind of warning\/siren when enemies approach."},{"author_name":"Danman9914","author_uid":"30580","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:35am","epoch":1398684600,"text":"Excellent! The mechanics are quite unintuitive and are not explained well, but once you understand them it's quite fun."},{"author_name":"fserb","author_uid":"6308","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:38am","epoch":1398684780,"text":"Fun to play. \r\rUsing the wheel for changing structures was very clumsy (specially because sometimes the wheel would rotate around instead of going to the next item) and I wish there was another way to do this (maybe keyboard or pressing on the icons)."},{"author_name":"aaronjbaptiste","author_uid":"19914","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:50am","epoch":1398685500,"text":"Great fun, got all 3 artefacts. If you set up your diggers fast enough you don't really need the cooling system or the defense, the diggers could do with being a little slower. Love the art style."},{"author_name":"Jonathan Whiting","author_uid":"527","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:59am","epoch":1398686040,"text":"Nice concept+look+sound. Feels balanced towards players who already know exactly what they are doing, lost 5-6 times without really knowing why before I started to get the hang of it. Especially harsh if you run out of enough blue to do more digging."},{"author_name":"tayl1r","author_uid":"5556","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:23pm","epoch":1398687480,"text":"Took me a while to realise what to do but that's probably because I'm dumb. Good job!"},{"author_name":"mortus","author_uid":"20884","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:52pm","epoch":1398689220,"text":"Takes some time to get hang of it, but after some time it turns out to be pretty deep and strategic game. Will play it more for sure! Nice and matching music too.\r\rIf you're interested, I've added controls remapping to my game 'Greed for Gems' as a post-compo feature. You said you couldn't play it before, now you can!"},{"author_name":"Gins","author_uid":"33074","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 6:20pm","epoch":1398708900,"text":"Incredible that you could do this in only 48 hours :)\rVery challenging, perhaps using 1,2,3 and 4 as shortcuts for the buildings would be useful."},{"author_name":"eatsleepindie","author_uid":"35774","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 6:26pm","epoch":1398709260,"text":"Really wishing I could sit here and play this for an extended period of time. This was a lot of fun. Feels incredibly polished, esp. for being done in 48 hours. Great work! I'd love it if I could map hotkeys to the structure building buttons, as it would allow me to keep my eyes on the planet and not the menu."},{"author_name":"no.One","author_uid":"34512","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:58pm","epoch":1398714780,"text":"Great ! loved the mechanics"},{"author_name":"Korwegian","author_uid":"31877","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:18pm","epoch":1398726780,"text":"Great game, but really hard to manage the equipment. Kept having to sell diggers before they broke into the core."},{"author_name":"pansapiens","author_uid":"198","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 7:05am","epoch":1398754800,"text":"Great polished game on all fronts, I just wish there were more frantic levels after mastering the first ! One thing I'd like is a better audiovisual indication of when a Digger is about to hit the core - it was too easy to forget to stop a Digger, and the result was too punishing. Alternatively, just make the core expand significantly if a Digger hits it, so it's not instadeath but a big deal."},{"author_name":"Oddly Shaped Pixels","author_uid":"33840","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:03am","epoch":1398761880,"text":"Thanks to all of you for the great feedback!\r\rFor those that find it difficult, here's a tip: try not to rush to get the artefacts, gather some resources first and then go and get them!\r\rI've made a Post Compo version with alternate controls, especially to select the machines so now you can use the arrow keys or the 1-4 keys.\r\r@pansapiens I wanted to do that but didn't have the time in the 48h. But it's now done in the Post compo version, thank's for reminding me of that!!"},{"author_name":"DMinsky","author_uid":"18941","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:03pm","epoch":1398772680,"text":"Art, music, mechanic everything is awesome! Thanks for the game!"},{"author_name":"RetroEpic","author_uid":"20879","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:03pm","epoch":1398772680,"text":"This was awesome, I didn't know how to keep from dying because I had towers and sometimes the people would walk past my buildings and be fine and others not. So wasn't totally sure on what to do. Nice art style and audio was great!"},{"author_name":"GamerTaters","author_uid":"35352","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:04pm","epoch":1398772740,"text":"Cool game! Looks really great."},{"author_name":"popogames","author_uid":"28961","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:06pm","epoch":1398772860,"text":"Quite difficult until you get your head around what each structure does. Fun mechanics, good soundtrack nice artwork."},{"author_name":"Therrato","author_uid":"24775","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:07pm","epoch":1398772920,"text":"Some improvements would be being able to restart since i ran out of money and had no diggers left and couldn't restart, i would add sounds for when you are getting close to the core"},{"author_name":"MisterDerek2","author_uid":"8850","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:08pm","epoch":1398772980,"text":"Nice job! This is great"},{"author_name":"mechabit","author_uid":"34391","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:09pm","epoch":1398773040,"text":"Really fun game, takes a bit of getting used to, will definitely try to beat it later. I found the resource management to be a bit harsh but maybe I'm just crap at it."},{"author_name":"BarkingCat","author_uid":"34938","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:11pm","epoch":1398773160,"text":"I'm really liking this, espeecially the governor and his big teeth. it would be cooler if there were more resources, differently shaped planets and so on. Definitely an interesting game."},{"author_name":"Andrew Adams","author_uid":"20321","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:12pm","epoch":1398773220,"text":"Nice game. I like that there was strategy involved in more than 1 aspect."},{"author_name":"Spotline","author_uid":"11703","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:13pm","epoch":1398773280,"text":"Really fun and well done\/polished ,congratulations ! just one thing : I figured a bit late that I had to destroy the diggers to avoid losing, it didn't seem intuitive"},{"author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:14pm","epoch":1398773340,"text":"Amazing game! (Challenging, but in a good way!)\rReally great art & music too!"},{"author_name":"SuperIzzo","author_uid":"34828","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1398773460,"text":"It's interesting, though I never managed to win :(\rIt was a bit difficult to get into it at first, but once you find out how things work it becomes really engaging."},{"author_name":"Christophe","author_uid":"37125","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:45pm","epoch":1398775200,"text":"Great Game. Addictive!"},{"author_name":"nonentheless","author_uid":"36254","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:00pm","epoch":1398776100,"text":"Man it's awesome. One of the best entries I've seen. Looking good, sounds good, complete working gameplay and a lot of fun. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:11pm","epoch":1398776760,"text":"Nice idea, and good graphics! A little hard at first, but gets easier once you get the hang of it. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1398781860,"text":"Pretty interesting game, but mechanics are quite unintuitive and are not explained well. I must try again. THX ++"},{"author_name":"Jared Sartin","author_uid":"32837","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:40pm","epoch":1398789300,"text":"Awesome! Will spend more time in this :)"},{"author_name":"Oddly Shaped Pixels","author_uid":"33840","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 7:00pm","epoch":1398797700,"text":"Thanks again for all the feedback.\rI've tried to explain the mechanics better in the game description but the ingame indications are indeed not really well detailed.\r\r@Therrato \rAlso, from the beginning <R> restart the game but I forgot to mention it in the description!! Sorry"},{"author_name":"FatJoe","author_uid":"15166","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:30pm","epoch":1398806700,"text":"Really like the look of it, those pixels are in great shape! ;)\r\rTook a bit to get used to but got the hang of it in the rest. Good overall I'd say. Great Job!"},{"author_name":"allinlabs","author_uid":"2908","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 12:33am","epoch":1398817680,"text":"I feel the game has potential but I can't wrap my head around the controls. Things happen too quickly, drill too fast and the first few games were hard.\rOn the other side, graphics are great, and I see the strategy in it. Just, my brain and my hand somehow refuse to work together and I can't beat it."},{"author_name":"conormn","author_uid":"31095","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 1:40am","epoch":1398821700,"text":"Really great execution and mechanic! Well done!"},{"author_name":"dylanwolf","author_uid":"20078","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:22am","epoch":1398824220,"text":"There's a steep learning curve, but once I got the hang of it this was really fun. Nice graphics and music as well."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:43am","epoch":1398829080,"text":"Interesting game, though I do not have a mouse wheel, so that sucked a bit. I included it in part 3 of my Ludum Dare 29 compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/pi2GfgHfAZM"},{"author_name":"Dreii","author_uid":"24533","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:43am","epoch":1398843480,"text":"Nice art style and cool mechanics with nice mix of decisions! Hard to figure out whats going on at first though. Oh also liked the story mixed in with the little yelling guy :D"},{"author_name":"Thorig","author_uid":"14618","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:25am","epoch":1398849600,"text":"Love this game and music."},{"author_name":"Celt","author_uid":"35130","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:36am","epoch":1398850260,"text":"Awesome one!!!"},{"author_name":"Crooksister","author_uid":"37324","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 1:28pm","epoch":1398864180,"text":"Lovely art, has alot of potential to grow."},{"author_name":"Bekokstover","author_uid":"26481","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:52pm","epoch":1398872820,"text":"Great graphics, very nice concept! The game is hard though, and it's not quite clear what I did wrong when first starting out. And then I remembered I could sell things... still, I did not find anything other than these dogtags. Great work for such a short time!"},{"author_name":"l3dx","author_uid":"7876","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1398878880,"text":"Great game! Had to give it several tries!"},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1398895920,"text":"Innovative game mecanism. There is a good equilibrium in the gameplay between the different buildings and also the fact you have to manage your tower (e.g. removing the digger before it reach the center, remove a tower to recover some resources).\rI also liked the little bottom-right guy.\r\rGood job."},{"author_name":"EpiphanyG","author_uid":"35454","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 5:22am","epoch":1398921420,"text":"I'm really impressed with this entry. The graphics are really nice and the mechanics are great.\r\rReally nice work! :)"},{"author_name":"terraco","author_uid":"36973","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 8:58am","epoch":1398934380,"text":"Pretty interesting concept"},{"author_name":"Christina Antoinette Neofotistou","author_uid":"13139","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:24pm","epoch":1398946740,"text":"Absolutely beautiful. Needed a little getting used to, but it's quirky and fun!"},{"author_name":"crocantidepollo","author_uid":"36237","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1398962340,"text":"Once you get the hang of it it's quite entertaining. Well done!"},{"author_name":"2HitAdam","author_uid":"15390","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 7:51pm","epoch":1398973560,"text":"Lots of polish here and really fun and interesting mechanics. I thoroughly enjoyed it! But I'm with the others, it took me awhile to work out what I was doing and why I was dying so suddenly, but it was totally worth it in the end."},{"author_name":"cirolve","author_uid":"7965","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 8:23pm","epoch":1398975480,"text":"Interesting game, I have to say! It definitely takes a bit to get used to, but the concept seems sound, and the look of the game seems interesting."},{"author_name":"Maschinen-Mensch","author_uid":"33058","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1398978000,"text":"Very nice approach! Much less similar in mechanics than in the basic approach to the theme compared to our game. I really like the strategic layer and the little spin on traditional tower defense gameplay. It's a bit hard to pick up initially, but once I understood what was going on it actually hooked me for quite a while. Personally I would have gone for slightly larger graphics for the contructions to make them more readable."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 4:35am","epoch":1399005000,"text":"I need to play this some more because it looks like fun - I like the mechanics and graphics - good job"},{"author_name":"JavadocMD","author_uid":"29362","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 6:09am","epoch":1399010640,"text":"A very original game! The character in the corner that shouts at you lends this a lot of personality."},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 11:31am","epoch":1399029960,"text":"I like this one, the concept is interesting and the art is really well done. A bit more feedback would be great, but the game is perfectly playable as it is"},{"author_name":"DrPrettyPatty","author_uid":"30068","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 1:40am","epoch":1399080900,"text":"This is awesome!! Great gameplay and balance between the core heating, enemies, and drills getting too close especially; great graphics; great music. And it's polished, I didn't see a single bug! Phenomenal job!"},{"author_name":"Hypnohustla","author_uid":"20803","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 8:56am","epoch":1399107060,"text":"This was a really good game. Definitely gonna play it some more! It has just the right amount of strategy and resource management while still feeling a bit like an arcade game. You're good at this. :)"},{"author_name":"petey123567","author_uid":"4433","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 7:25pm","epoch":1399144800,"text":"Hahaha, that portrait :)"},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1399148700,"text":"Nice graphics and audio. Your game is challenging, but fun to play and fits the theme very well. And thank you for the alternative controls, the original controls are a bit tricky on a trackpad."},{"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"1105","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1399150140,"text":"Very cool game. I'd love to see more added to this. Good work!"},{"author_name":"Waterman7","author_uid":"31692","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 11:25am","epoch":1399202400,"text":"Nice entry! Presentation-wise it feels very polished overall.\rThe gameplay was a bit confusing at first and it took me some time to understand how I had to manage my resources. But once I got it, it was quite a fun game."},{"author_name":"hyouko","author_uid":"31859","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 6:02pm","epoch":1399226220,"text":"Rather challenging, and I think some of the mechanics (particularly the don't-pop-the-core one) could be better explained. But it's otherwise very well polished and quite fun. Recommended!"},{"author_name":"ruerob","author_uid":"36728","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1399238460,"text":"What a great game. 5 Stars in every category for me. Thank you very much."},{"author_name":"ArcturusDeluxe","author_uid":"26098","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1399241460,"text":"Pretty cool game. Very polished - the graphics and music are excellent. I like that you took a strategy game concept and made it simple and accessible. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"Garris","author_uid":"33993","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 5:51am","epoch":1399268760,"text":"Oh man. I love tower defense, and every time I see a game that's tower defense AND other stuff, I get excited. Digable Planet did not disappoint. The mechanics were well-designed, graphics and sound were nice, and it was just fun!"},{"author_name":"Team-KwaKwa","author_uid":"32076","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1399320840,"text":"FUN FUN FUN! I like it, I'm on it since 1h!"},{"author_name":"Rick Hoppmann","author_uid":"10000","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 10:20am","epoch":1399371300,"text":"Whoah! I'm impressed, good job!\rThe pixel art is great, the texts fit fine, the gameplay is well balanced and the music is amazing!\r\rMy favorite entry so far! :D"},{"author_name":"zedutchgandalf","author_uid":"18216","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 1:41pm","epoch":1399383360,"text":"After I found out what to do (which took me some time), this really was an incredibly nice game :) great job!"},{"author_name":"jsmars","author_uid":"3933","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 2:34pm","epoch":1399472940,"text":"Great game in many ways! Really fun mechanics! Would be nice to see some kind of end screen with score etc to have some highscore to beat"},{"author_name":"TeamInCharge","author_uid":"27767","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 8:42pm","epoch":1399495020,"text":"Well rounded game, music is totally suitable! Puts me right back in the 90s... You guys are pro :D"},{"author_name":"jorgemoag","author_uid":"24365","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 9:18pm","epoch":1399497180,"text":"Very hard, but also it's very funny :)"},{"author_name":"rojo","author_uid":"29998","time":"May 8, 2014 @ 12:16am","epoch":1399507860,"text":"Nicely done. The game felt really complete & coherent, and I think it's a great foundation for a larger project."},{"author_name":"Simon","author_uid":"9596","time":"May 10, 2014 @ 1:13pm","epoch":1399727280,"text":"A very great game overall! Good job :)"},{"author_name":"vilya","author_uid":"10456","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 10:13pm","epoch":1399932480,"text":"On my first playthrough I dug into the planet core without realising that was a bad thing to do. It took me a while to figure out why it was suddenly game over. Maybe the governor could say that you've drilled into the core, instead of just exclaiming "what have you done!?".\r\rOn my second playthrough I spent too much on radars and then couldn't do anything else other than wait for the game to end. "Selling" the radars didn't seem to return any resources to me, it just destroyed the radar.\r\rI think this game would be a lot more accessible if you could add a tutorial for it, which introduced the different elements one at a time. It does seem quite polished though & feels very complete. Good work for 48 hours!"},{"author_name":"udo","author_uid":"6821","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 11:56am","epoch":1399981860,"text":"Quite simply excellent!"},{"author_name":"Satyre","author_uid":"27634","time":"May 14, 2014 @ 6:37am","epoch":1400049120,"text":"Nice one. I had problems at the start to understand what was going on, but this was my fault cause I skiped the descriptions xD. The graphics, sound and gameplay are great considering the short time."},{"author_name":"aelita1992","author_uid":"35892","time":"May 15, 2014 @ 10:42am","epoch":1400150220,"text":"Nice game, kinda difficult. Hope you'll make it a full game one day, more planet maybe, some more upgrades."}],"images":["ld29\/33840-90152e30ad3300f6786c24e518ed8fc2.jpg","ld29\/33840-8547cba95443c01e32f108324484d1b3.jpg","ld29\/33840-263e7747bdfd74236b016e1883d3b5f8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/oddly-shaped-pixels.itch.io\/digable-planet-post-compo","text":"Web Post Compo (Unity)"},{"url":"http:\/\/oddly-shaped-pixels.itch.io\/digable-planet","text":"Web (Unity)"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BzlCIXNC1kSsclNCZXNwcWRDR0E\/edit?usp=sharing","text":"Source"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BzlCIXNC1kSsbnBTbUZtWVMxckU\/edit?usp=sharing","text":"Linux Post Compo"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20150","g_author":"33840","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20179","g_title":"Digable Planet","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"124","g_commentcount":"77","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\/\/342546\/33840-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/33840-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/33840-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"-------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nIMPORTANT: If you don't have a mouse or a mousewheel play the Post Compo version!\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nThe Galactic Governor has spoken: you're Mankind's only hope! Find the artefact (small purple jelly beans) buried deep beneath the surface of this unstable planet to give Mankind a chance for a brighter future!\r\n\r\nHint: There are several artefacts buried on the planet but only one will save Mankind's future! It sure won't be the first, it may be the second but it will definitely be the third one you found!!\r\n\r\nHint #2: If you don't succeed don't give up, you can do it! Finding the right artefact is worth the try!\r\n\r\nTo achieve your mission, you'll have to manage your resources, iron (blue rocks) and gold (orange rocks), in order to build machines that will help you find the artefacts :\r\n- a Digger: allows you to drill and pick up resources. Careful, you don't want to drill the planet core!\r\n- a Radar: it will give you a pretty good view of what lies beneath the surface\r\n- a Cooler: if the planet core becomes out of control, coolers help it maintaining a reasonable size\r\n- a Tower: as you'll see, you're not welcome by the planet natives. A tower will help you eliminate those who dare attack your machines!\r\n\r\nWhen you don't need a machine anymore or if you want a digger to stop digging, you can destroy\/sell it by positioning the mouse on it and left clicking. If the machine hasn't got any damage, you'll be refunded of half its cost.\r\n\r\nControls\r\n------------------------------\r\nThe game only plays with the mouse:\r\n : Build a machine or Sell the current selected machine\r\n : Browse the 4 different machines\r\n : Restart\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPOST-COMPO\r\n-----------\r\nAfter some feedback I've made a post compo version with alternate controls (especially useful if you don't have a mouse or a mouse wheel), some small bug corrections and a nice alert when a digger is about to drill the planet's core.","title":"Digable Planet"}