{"author_link":"\/author\/william_edwards\/","author_name":"Will Edwards","author_uid":"10313","comments":[{"author_name":"sknoslo","author_uid":"14586","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:21am","epoch":1387163760,"text":"The controls took some getting used to, otherwise it was pretty entertaining. I was confused as to what I was doing, but that's my fault because I didn't read the instructions."},{"author_name":"PolishedPixels","author_uid":"29815","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:30am","epoch":1387164300,"text":"Need more optimization for web...but fun never the less"},{"author_name":"wombatica","author_uid":"13300","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:11am","epoch":1387181160,"text":"Like it!! Love the deforming terrain. Plays fine on my laptop. Everything could be tweaked and further improved but that's 48hrs and one guy.... \rGood sound effects, pity you didn't have time to learn to generate music."},{"author_name":"capnramses","author_uid":"30024","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:39pm","epoch":1387208040,"text":"I got Error: could not load ui.js ?"},{"author_name":"ittlebit","author_uid":"13983","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1387211760,"text":"The deforming terrain was pretty cool, Very minimal."},{"author_name":"oskardevelopment","author_uid":"21518","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:40pm","epoch":1387215300,"text":"I'm very impressed! Really amazing that you were able to do so much on so little time. Good luck!"},{"author_name":"Gaspard_","author_uid":"25208","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1387218300,"text":"Graphics are awesome!\rBut the game experience wasn't so great... reversed up and down really confused me and when you put some tiny lag above that...\rThe mood is well set, but the game could use some music.\rGood job!"},{"author_name":"Will Edwards","author_uid":"10313","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:40pm","epoch":1387218900,"text":"@Gaspard_ thank you :)\r\rI actually asked on the LD IRC minutes before I submitted, and most people there said they wanted me to *swap* the up\/down... To what it is now! I can't win.\r\rThe lag is because Constructive Solid Geometry is a performance hog and this game needs a powerful CPU and GPU to keep up. Optimising it would be worthy of a thesis assignment ;)\r\rGlad you liked it though."},{"author_name":"ovenchips","author_uid":"19236","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:58pm","epoch":1387234380,"text":"The link appears to be down... :("},{"author_name":"cwkx","author_uid":"26001","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:58am","epoch":1387270380,"text":"I couldn't resist the blocks when I saw this in the screenshots :D I love the simple art style, runs fine on my laptop. Excellent work!"},{"author_name":"vrld","author_uid":"3805","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:49am","epoch":1387273440,"text":"Ursa miner gives a nice Descent feeling (good job on that), but it doesn't really feel like a finished game. Here are my main points (in case you want to develop this further - please do!):\r\r1) Add an arrow to point to the airlock (like in Freespace). It's really hard to find it using the XYZ coordinates in the upper left corner alone.\r2) Better feedback, e.g.screenshake when firing the vaporizer, particle effec when collecting gems, oxygen bar instead of a number, stuff like that.\r3) Background - less black (dark greyish blue could work) and maybe add a few stars\r4) Afterburner!"},{"author_name":"daredevildave","author_uid":"5182","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:14am","epoch":1387274940,"text":"It's a great idea. I found the collision detection on the gems frustrating.\r\rSome background music would add a lot to the atmosphere.\r\rAnd some way of finding the airlock again. :-)"},{"author_name":"ahimsa","author_uid":"515","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:33am","epoch":1387279680,"text":"Really fun, I love this type of Descentesque free flying games and it's always a bonus if you get to shoot something while at it."},{"author_name":"Ysty","author_uid":"17877","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:14pm","epoch":1387282140,"text":"Once I got a handle on the controls it was great. I love the aesthetic."},{"author_name":"lubos","author_uid":"23619","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:58pm","epoch":1387284780,"text":"Shooting holes is indeed awesome! And once you get used to controls you don't mind them at all. Nice experience overall."},{"author_name":"xgeovanni","author_uid":"11296","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:05pm","epoch":1387310400,"text":"It's going to be great when this sort of fully destructible terrain can be run on top of a more complex game."},{"author_name":"Pietro Ferrantelli","author_uid":"30677","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1387313100,"text":"This game is very interesting ! Amazing job :)"},{"author_name":"Dir3kt","author_uid":"12434","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 9:10pm","epoch":1387400700,"text":"Wow quite impressive for a html5 game. It was fun to explore the universe, and going full speed between those blocks is a nice feeling :)\r\rRevert Y axis would have been nice.\r\rAfter playing for a while started to lag (firefox)."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 8:57pm","epoch":1387486320,"text":"Very cool idea but I couldn't move and crasehd into blocks... Think it is a problem with my Keyboard :("},{"author_name":"Ashtom","author_uid":"11851","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1387486800,"text":"A bit choppy (maybe I have a low config) but fun and somewhat immersive. I wish I could identify what the airlock looks like."},{"author_name":"Alex Higgins","author_uid":"14001","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:14pm","epoch":1387487340,"text":"Technically, super impressive. The player was too hard to control, though, and the collision box for picking up gems was way too small. Also really, really hard to find the airlock again, even when you make an effort not the stray too far from it - maybe making the asteroids around it the same color or just leaving some empty space around it would be helpful? You did a great job of conveying the sense of fear, confusing, and paranoia one would have doing this job alone in space, though!"},{"author_name":"Will Edwards","author_uid":"10313","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:15pm","epoch":1387487400,"text":"@Ashtom you start in one. Its always at 0,0,0. If you start the level and fly a little bit forward, you can then swing around and take a look at it. And keep remembering where it is at all times; if you fly away wildly and enjoy the immersion, you'll never find your way back!\r\rAnd yeah its a polygon hog however simple it looks. Please watch the dev video :)"},{"author_name":"Atmospherium","author_uid":"24518","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 6:14pm","epoch":1387562940,"text":"Really cool abstract art. My computer had a hard time keeping up, but other than that this was a very interesting game."},{"author_name":"netmute","author_uid":"11213","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1387568040,"text":"I liked that you can actually shoot holes into everything. But the forward velocity was way too sensitive. I pushed forward a couple thousand miles of space, got hopelessly lost, and then managed to get stuck in a hole that I just dug into something. That was fun :D"},{"author_name":"evilseanbot","author_uid":"7902","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 7:46pm","epoch":1387568460,"text":"Very fascinating mechanic with the boring holes in things. Unfortunately it was too slow on my computer."},{"author_name":"Jiggawatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 12:44am","epoch":1387586340,"text":"Super laggy, unintuitive controls. The vaporizer *is* pretty cool though, I saw that development video when you posted it and was looking forward to trying it out. \r\rDemo Effect: The Game, I guess."},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 10:03am","epoch":1387619880,"text":"The left and right button appear to just cause barrel rolls (web player on a mac), so I dunno if I'm just not getting it or what."},{"author_name":"drnick","author_uid":"11663","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 9:52pm","epoch":1387662420,"text":"dat Goldeneye controllers. Nice atmosphere. - notdrnick\rPS: drnick has a shitty computer and is sorry for not being able to play this game"},{"author_name":"isaacmarco","author_uid":"30525","time":"Dec 31, 2013 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1388506800,"text":"needs some optimization, but the idea is very good"},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"Jan 1, 2014 @ 11:32pm","epoch":1388618820,"text":"Technically impressive but a bit too slow in my browser to play at a decent framerate."},{"author_name":"jimmypaulin","author_uid":"6965","time":"Jan 2, 2014 @ 4:14pm","epoch":1388678940,"text":"Very technically accomplished and an interesting concept. I liked the feeling of flying through the unusual space and exploring around, though it didn't run particularly well on my ageing rig..."},{"author_name":"Broxxar","author_uid":"22132","time":"Jan 2, 2014 @ 5:35pm","epoch":1388683800,"text":"Not quite sure I got it, but this is pretty awesome. Honestly just flying through the procedural terrain was awesome, not really sure how the vaporiser or oxygen mechanics played a part. Aside from not running at 60 fps, this looks great."},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Jan 2, 2014 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1388684580,"text":"Amazing work ! Really interesting to see what can be done with .js \rVery cool to mine into the rock!"},{"author_name":"rosastegosaurus","author_uid":"31828","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1388946180,"text":"First i thought something was wrong with the game or the browser, then i got how it worked. I liked it, but it was hard.\rvery impressively made considering the short time."},{"author_name":"atony","author_uid":"95944","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1462209000,"text":"The link is down :("}],"images":["ld28\/10313-5db86bfa0aba93fdbb09112b2c1fef6d.jpg","ld28\/10313-49fc416035954b4fa1ebbadf3dd9c0f3.jpg","ld28\/10313-485840f2dc043303715f02c122b63001.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/31.192.226.244:43534\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/31.192.226.244:43534\/28.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7zjz-hpm8No","text":"Dev Video"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21554","g_author":"10313","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"21583","g_title":"Ursa Miner","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"559","g_commentcount":"35","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\/\/308734\/10313-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/10313-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/10313-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Although it looks simple, under the hood there's some pretty tricky code, and I'm really pleased shooting real holes in meshes! Check out the jaw-dropping DEV VIDEO!!!\r\n\r\nBeing an asteroid gemstone miner in Ursa Minor is really really hard work, what with zero G and only as much oxygen as you can carry!\r\n\r\nLuckily, it has it perks; like the \"vapouriser\" cannon for getting at hard-to-reach gemstones embedded in the rock!\r\n\r\nINSTRUCTIONS:::\r\n\r\nAlways make sure you can find your way back to the airlock where you started before you suffocate!\r\n\r\n1. fly around using WASD and ARROW keys\r\n\r\n2. fly into gemstones to collect them\r\n\r\n3. use the vapouriser to liberate gemstones embedded in rock\r\n\r\n4. diamonds = 1000 pts, rubies 500 and emeralds 200\r\n\r\n5. keep an eye on how much oxygen you have left\r\n\r\n6. you only get the one bottle of oxygen...\r\n\r\n7. always track where the airlock was so you can get back in time!\r\n\r\n...\r\n\r\n17. PROFIT !!!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nMy first solo entry, using my own javascript webGL framework barebones.js.\r\n\r\nThe vapouriser uses csg.js (which I've made some performance tuning to; 3-5x faster generally). See the dev video or use the javascript console to look at the 'debug' object to get an idea of how computationally intensive shooting the vapouriser is!\r\n\r\nI'm not musical I'm afraid. So sound effects from BFXR, and its my own server so I'm trying to keep the bandwidth down a bit.","title":"Ursa Miner"}