{"author_link":"\/author\/cynicalmonkey\/","author_name":"cynicalmonkey","author_uid":"53023","comments":[{"author_name":"Firephoenix","author_uid":"52586","time":"Apr 17, 2016 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1460931960,"text":"Haven't been able to try the game, because even though there are links for the major platforms, the run file for Linux is still a .exe file"},{"author_name":"cynicalmonkey","author_uid":"53023","time":"Apr 17, 2016 @ 10:35pm","epoch":1460932200,"text":"Ooops sorry, i got a bit paste happy, i will untick linux long day :)"},{"author_name":"FenyesJ","author_uid":"89477","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 12:40pm","epoch":1460982900,"text":"10\/10"},{"author_name":"glaze_96","author_uid":"46004","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 1:29pm","epoch":1460985840,"text":"My cannon is shooting the wrong way :c\r\rMy first impression was that I was amazed at your splash screen. Looks really professional!\r\rThe music brought it down, it's too repetitive. Would've worked fine without the soundtrack.\r\rThe game is really hard, almost too hard.\r\rOtherwise, nice work. Hope you had fun making it =)"},{"author_name":"cynicalmonkey","author_uid":"53023","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1460986740,"text":"The cannons are supposed to shoot backwards it's not a bug it's a feature! \r\rMusic is not my strong suit but better to include it than not, plus the soundtrack is adaptive which was something I had never done before so wanted to include it"},{"author_name":"HolyBlackCat","author_uid":"39241","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:21pm","epoch":1460988960,"text":"I like the idea, but it feels slightly buggy."},{"author_name":"Lokkij","author_uid":"90824","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1460991180,"text":"Sweet game! I'm still not entirely sure what some of the ship parts do, but it's really quite fun! Building your ship is very cool, and although shooting 'backwards' is a bit unintuitive at first, the core gameplay is very fun."},{"author_name":"WizzardMaker","author_uid":"53413","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:06pm","epoch":1460995260,"text":"Nice and funny game, I like the soundtrack it adds a bit of flair to it, I don't know if I hit a bug or something, but on my 2nd try my weapon started to fire instead of the 2 shots per second, like 10 shots per second. Really nice to play as an arcade game, just to chill out. A little info about each ship part would have made the game (LudumDare)perfect"},{"author_name":"cynicalmonkey","author_uid":"53023","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1460995800,"text":"Not a bug a feature\r\rEach ship part you attach changes the stats if your ship as well as getting an added boost to one of the areas.\r\r\rSo one part might slow you down but speed up the cannons, another increase shields but decrease the size of your fuel tank\r\rI may of made these changes too subtle but jams and properly balanced games don't go hand in hand.\r\rI think I may be saying "it's not a bug it's a feature a lot" ironic that it wasn't the theme"},{"author_name":"mrnannings","author_uid":"20306","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1461006060,"text":"After placing the parts and clicking launch i see my ship but it doesn't move.. well from what i have seen, i think the game is like FTL."},{"author_name":"cynicalmonkey","author_uid":"53023","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:10pm","epoch":1461006300,"text":"the game starts paused on your first playthrough so you can read the controls, you have to press P to unpause it"},{"author_name":"Anupam Coleman","author_uid":"49808","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:43am","epoch":1461055080,"text":"This was a really fun game, the splash screen was awesome. This game although is really difficult."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:22pm","epoch":1461100620,"text":"I enjoyed building my ship! Nice touch. I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/jRtyhvCwxto"},{"author_name":"vctr_seleucos","author_uid":"40130","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 10:14pm","epoch":1461190140,"text":"Cool little game! Sorry to hear about time problems. Music sounds a bit repetitive and the font from the main menu was a bit unreadable but, good game overall!"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 8:58am","epoch":1461401580,"text":"Very cool game."},{"author_name":"QuestionableQuality","author_uid":"53106","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 10:23am","epoch":1461493080,"text":"I made a ship on the front, but none of the buttons would click to play."},{"author_name":"in3orn","author_uid":"65201","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1461617280,"text":"Nice idea with building ship. Cool game! Yellow + orange rocks! :)"},{"author_name":"in3orn","author_uid":"65201","time":"Apr 26, 2016 @ 10:04am","epoch":1461664740,"text":"If you're interested I've found some time to write about your game on my blog:\rhttp:\/\/krk-dev.com\/2016\/04\/26\/shift-commander\/"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 4:16am","epoch":1461903060,"text":"i thought this was a really great idea but the ship controls were just terrible and made it unplayable - fix that and you will have a good one here - nice job"},{"author_name":"cynicalmonkey","author_uid":"53023","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 6:22am","epoch":1461910620,"text":"Can you elaborate on that? Haven't had anyone else mention any problems with the controls and it literally follows your mouse around."},{"author_name":"qu2","author_uid":"87890","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 6:29pm","epoch":1462213440,"text":"Well done for getting it in. I didn't really know what I was doing for the most part though."}],"images":["ld35\/53023-69cb7affac3e699caaa7c7bbe76cad41.jpg","ld35\/53023-7bb6ee59bf36a8214a716336695ff56a.jpg","ld35\/53023-f60221f13d687938b720aa885db18f07.jpg","ld35\/53023-4bf36d830d3feb2c3a65d33e97b15b2f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/cynicalmonkey.itch.io\/shift-commander","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/d5gj05j9r7cfm0z\/Ludum%20Dare%2035.zip?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"2042","g_author":"53023","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"2089","g_title":"Shift Commander","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"502","g_commentcount":"21","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\/\/542293\/53023-shot3-1460931499.gif-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/53023-shot0-1460931499.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/53023-shot1-1460931499.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/53023-shot2-1460931499.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"My Compo entry is a Shift Commander, you are a lone pilot protecting a space station but you have to build the ship yourself from scrap and salvage from ships before trying to survive as long as you can.\r\n\r\nEnded up with a lot less time due to some family commitments so rougher round the edges than I would of liked but I am happy with the end results.\r\n\r\nIf you do play it and leave a comment I promise to also play your game :)","title":"Shift Commander"}