{"author_link":"\/author\/dst\/","author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","comments":[{"author_name":"xgeovanni","author_uid":"11296","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:54am","epoch":1387194540,"text":"It might be a bit too hard at the moment. Perhaps the spawn rate of debris should scale with elapsed time."},{"author_name":"Sim","author_uid":"19126","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:06pm","epoch":1387195260,"text":"It was fun for a while but a bit short and repetitive. The enemies only spawned at the bottom of the screen so I barely had to move at all. I liked the particle effects though."},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:09pm","epoch":1387195440,"text":"Graphics are pretty neat, not sure what those wheels are doing there though but made laugh!\r<br\/>Quite challenging game! Keep on doing cool stuff :D"},{"author_name":"crockid5","author_uid":"12651","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:14pm","epoch":1387195740,"text":"I liked it."},{"author_name":"Citiral","author_uid":"6637","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:27pm","epoch":1387196520,"text":"I liked it! The gameplay was a bit simple but the game is short enough to allow it. I did quite like the graphics, they were pretty charming."},{"author_name":"background_nose","author_uid":"28846","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:32pm","epoch":1387196820,"text":"Looks very pretty. I love the particles.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Game is a bit short mechanics wise and very easy once you spot that they only spawn in one place on the screen.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Solid effort in my view."},{"author_name":"stephan_h","author_uid":"3707","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:32pm","epoch":1387196820,"text":"Nice entry.\r<br\/>Please take a bigger font size next time. ;)\r<br\/>Gameplay was OK but having to quit and restart the game on death gets frustrating fast."},{"author_name":"Doccrazy","author_uid":"21790","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:38pm","epoch":1387197180,"text":"Very grindy at the start"},{"author_name":"feizenbara","author_uid":"15006","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:33pm","epoch":1387204080,"text":"Graphics are good, but, why do all asteroids and wheels spawn on the same line? :-)"},{"author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:27pm","epoch":1387207320,"text":"I have no idea why it spawns them all on one line, I just tried in WINE and it seems to do that in the windows version, but it works fine in Linux =("},{"author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:05pm","epoch":1387209600,"text":"fixed"},{"author_name":"disdanes","author_uid":"25239","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:55pm","epoch":1387212600,"text":"Really liked the game, but having to restart it every time you die was a bit frustrating especially considering how easy you die. Graphics were good though!"},{"author_name":"phi6","author_uid":"29305","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1387212900,"text":"Great polish and graphics, and clearly a decent engine you got there. Hard at first, but you can easily cheat by constantly holding down the reverse button!"},{"author_name":"TobiasNL","author_uid":"10964","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1387224060,"text":"Haha, wheels in space. Guess there was a massive, intergalactic car crash^^ I giggled when I read the instructions. Do this? You die. Do that? you die!:P The game itself was quite fun to play, and the graphics were simple but effective. I like the idea of shutting down the game once the player fails. Nice entry man!"},{"author_name":"ViperMD","author_uid":"30576","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:06am","epoch":1387242060,"text":"For those that have commented on the graphics, a big thank you from the guy behind the low-ish poly models. :D This was my first LD, but doubt it will be my last. :)"},{"author_name":"Ekilibr","author_uid":"29137","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:45pm","epoch":1387284000,"text":"Nice but quite repetitive. Enjoyed the graphic side :)"},{"author_name":"Nichii","author_uid":"29131","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:59pm","epoch":1387292040,"text":"Could use more creativity."},{"author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 9:18am","epoch":1387357980,"text":"Nichii, it sure could ;) Most time was spent doing other stuff, like getting the engine to behave, asset loading and stuff done, also, we were exceptionally lazy this LD and pretty much canned the effort :D"},{"author_name":"Enneract","author_uid":"11083","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 10:04am","epoch":1387360740,"text":"I enjoyed this. I'm a sucker for side-on\/top-down shooting games."},{"author_name":"ludotrix","author_uid":"32048","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 10:18am","epoch":1387361580,"text":"Nice graphics, feels a bit hard."},{"author_name":"Rothens","author_uid":"25028","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 10:19pm","epoch":1387404840,"text":"Very hard game, but nice. I think I found a bug. I can slow down WHILE going down, but not, when going up."},{"author_name":"SnoringFrog","author_uid":"20952","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 7:21am","epoch":1387610160,"text":"With a slow computer, restarting the game every time I died got obnoxious very quickly. Otherwise, the game wasn't bad. Nothing mindblowing, but decent."},{"author_name":"Orangy Tang","author_uid":"37","time":"Dec 25, 2013 @ 11:22pm","epoch":1388013420,"text":"Windows and linux but no mac? Any chance of an osx version?"},{"author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","time":"Dec 26, 2013 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1388096220,"text":"Thing is, that it is quite possible to compile for Windows and Linux using just a linux computer, but for whatever reason, there is no convenient way of building for OSX without actually using OSX."},{"author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 2:19pm","epoch":1388758440,"text":"Rothens, some keyboards do not have the ability to do &quot;left+up+space&quot; combination, that be the cause of this behavior at your computer."}],"images":["ld28\/18478-105b9cbc250b12d72d62379437b477de.jpg","ld28\/18478-36e46440796eea81755aa9fb457e7a1b.jpg","ld28\/18478-4ec0d4c6269314f97b8c2fd736cbc5ce.jpg","ld28\/18478-ec3a769aa3a4f5e04b90e2232fd5332b.jpg","ld28\/18478-8cb2843a0c026d75f25af2824b2ca26c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/contigrator.wizznic.org\/jobs\/LD28\/builds\/0021\/output\/LD28_GoatLove_windows_b0021.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/contigrator.wizznic.org\/jobs\/LD28\/builds\/0021\/output\/LD28_GoatLove_linux_b0021.tar.bz2","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2013\/12\/15\/goatlove-done\/ ","text":"Postmortem"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/DusteDdk","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"22403","g_author":"18478","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"22433","g_title":"GoatLove","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"370","g_commentcount":"25","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\/18478-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/18478-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/18478-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/18478-shot3.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/18478-shot4.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You only have one chance at true love, she is there, waiting for you, and she is a pink metal space goat.\r\nShe lost her rocket and you must save her!\r\nBut you must not leave a mess (she really hates that), and thus must clear the path between you of any space-junk, (which, by the way, is toxic because it's in space, (duh))..\r\nOtherwise she will leave you and break your shiny metal-heart.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nMouse - Choose One\r\nArrows - Move around\r\nCtrl\/Space - Shoot\r\n\r\nESC - Don't press that one before you're asked to.\r\n\r\n--\r\nVMD and DST made it, we spent about 15 hours - But we were two people so it's in the Jam.... dude. :)\r\nIt's written in C, using SDL and OpenGL, and a homebrew engine.\r\n\r\n== UPDATE == \r\nFixed the nme spawning on Windows, for some reason the method I used for generating random floats did not work there..","title":"GoatLove"}