{"author_link":"\/author\/ezolotko\/","author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","comments":[{"author_name":"Radnen","author_uid":"26346","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:09am","epoch":1377493440,"text":"The scrolling gets nauseating, lol. Collecting the enemy is an interesting concept nevertheless."},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:37am","epoch":1377505920,"text":"Nauseating - yeah, reminds me of getting home really drunk. Everything orbits around :D"},{"author_name":"Kwrky","author_uid":"17889","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:42pm","epoch":1377524220,"text":"Interesting feel, how did you achieve the scrolling effect?"},{"author_name":"eolhing","author_uid":"11904","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:51pm","epoch":1377524760,"text":"Nice game, I like the idea of grabbing things and destroying others."},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:00pm","epoch":1377525300,"text":"@Kwrky - the idea was to have an "orbiting" feel, so I use polar coordinate system and then translate it to cartesian viewport."},{"author_name":"Loerden","author_uid":"10468","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1377526200,"text":"A little bit to fast I think,\ror Im just bad :D"},{"author_name":"doctorscientist","author_uid":"25260","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:22pm","epoch":1377526620,"text":"I like the little green aliens. Its funny to see them drifting along seemingly unaware of the hazards. Its quite fast paced maybe try and slow it down a bit."},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:29pm","epoch":1377527040,"text":"Hi guys, I suspect that game pace depends on screen resolution somehow (lower = faster), so I will try to fix that sometime"},{"author_name":"Xgor","author_uid":"18652","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:55pm","epoch":1377528600,"text":"Even if the game says it's uses a lot of 10s I don't really see any of it in the game. The game feels also kinda stale.\rCool scrolling effect though."},{"author_name":"leparlon","author_uid":"15043","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:56pm","epoch":1377528660,"text":"Fun game, liked the audio . \rThere is a bug, you can lose 2 hearths at once if you hit another enemy while dying."},{"author_name":"cwkx","author_uid":"26001","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:18pm","epoch":1377529980,"text":"Another nice shooter :)"},{"author_name":"kunzbe","author_uid":"20508","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1377530160,"text":"The story on the intro screen sounds interesting. But the game did not fullfill what I imagined"},{"author_name":"doonay21","author_uid":"18952","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:06pm","epoch":1377608460,"text":"Awesome game, a little bit too fast for me, but still really like it! :)"},{"author_name":"RobotParking","author_uid":"26005","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:19pm","epoch":1377609240,"text":"LOVE THEM ORB BROS"},{"author_name":"ZeppelinCaptain","author_uid":"27032","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:49pm","epoch":1377614640,"text":"Cool stuff, quite well balanced as well I think. I quite liked the scroll effect, gave a unique feel to it.\r\rThe randomness of when the species appeared was a turn-off though, since it made it more luck based."},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:52pm","epoch":1377614820,"text":"@ZeppelinCaptain Thanks for the warm words!"},{"author_name":"johnl","author_uid":"8858","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:45pm","epoch":1377618000,"text":"Interesting idea using the tractor beam to pull the aliens closer, but perhaps the instructions should be a little clearer, as there is no description of things shooting at you and that they are in fact not the things you are trying to collect.\r\rI might not have understood what was going on, but the ship seems to spin around very slowly so ends up pointing more to the left rather than towards the enemies."},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:47pm","epoch":1377618120,"text":"@johnl this is because the ship is orbiting!"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1377618900,"text":"Interesting idea to fly and shoot while trying to capture creatures, the game's pretty rough around the edges though. It wasn't clear in game that you need to capture the green creatures, and sometimes when level started enemies spawned right on me hurting me."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1377619560,"text":"Love the radial scrolling, although it's feeling uncanny somehow.\r\rThe 10 second theme seems shoehorned in, but it's a solid game.\rLittle problem, the player ship can move outside the screen (bottom)."},{"author_name":"ratalaika","author_uid":"25607","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:25pm","epoch":1377624000,"text":"good job"},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:48pm","epoch":1377646980,"text":"@Endurion actually, I left the ability to move out of the screen intentionally, I liked the idea of having more maneuver space"},{"author_name":"Kragnir","author_uid":"26709","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:55pm","epoch":1377647400,"text":"I get dizzy from the scrolling. The rest of the game seems nice."},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 6:22am","epoch":1377670620,"text":"Guys, I actually like you are getting dizzy, because on the first day of development I had a hard hangover. It means I succeeded in passing my feelings to you!"},{"author_name":"Tainted_Code","author_uid":"5752","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1377694200,"text":"Dat scrolling effect ^_^ The enemy grabbing is really cool!"},{"author_name":"Reaperguy","author_uid":"25597","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1377697080,"text":"The game is too fast, it's almost impossible to avoid the enemies coming down, and it took me some time to figure out that the green aliens were the ones i had to take with me.\rOtherwise, nice game and good concept!"},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:45pm","epoch":1377722400,"text":"I like the idea, and I really like the graphics, especially for the reocketoids. The spinning was nauseating though, so I wasn't able to play for too long before I had to stop. The theme is a bit vague though, but apart from getting nauseated, I liked your game."},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:38pm","epoch":1377786780,"text":"Thank you guys all for the responses!"},{"author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1377787320,"text":"The enemies appear damn fast, making it harder to dogde their ships than their bullets ^^ If you make a post-compo version, I would focus more on the beam feature, letting the player move the alien step by step closer to him while dodging the asteroids."},{"author_name":"Linusson","author_uid":"25442","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1377796980,"text":"This game was fun. :) The first round I wasn't really sure how to use the beam, but then I got the hang on it. :)\r\rIt was a bit confusing that you could leave the screen with the ship, but it was also my best avoid enemies trick as they didn't seem to kill me out there. :D"},{"author_name":"Ciaran54","author_uid":"8247","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1377813180,"text":"Woah i feel dizzy :P Pretty fun, but also a bit too fast for me."},{"author_name":"BenWhi","author_uid":"19954","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 5:51pm","epoch":1377884760,"text":"Pretty good arcade game with a tractor beam twist. I liked the how fast-paced it was, but you need to add some boundaries so your player can't go off the screen like that."},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Sep 8, 2013 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1378667700,"text":"Hi guys, finally found some time to make a bugfix build - made the game to be slower, display resolution independent, and fixed some other bugs."}],"images":["ld27\/13121-fca3865dd762348768cc898a4aca4209.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/yezo.blob.core.windows.net\/games\/LD27\/LD27-OrbitalBrothers-post-compo.zip","text":"Windows with post-compo bugfixes"},{"url":"https:\/\/yezo.blob.core.windows.net\/games\/LD27\/LD27-OrbitalBrothers.zip","text":"Windows (original)"},{"url":"https:\/\/yezo.blob.core.windows.net\/games\/LD27\/OrbitalBrothers-LD27-Src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24038","g_author":"13121","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24068","g_title":"Orbital Brothers","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"929","g_commentcount":"33","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\/\/273708\/13121-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are a commander of space biology exploration expedition, sent to a distant planetary system. The subject of your research is highly unusual - a life form like no other known in the galaxy - the rocketoids.\r\n\r\nThis game was made using MonoGame, Visual Studio, Paint.NET, Bfxr, and GarageBand.\r\n\r\nEDIT: uploaded a post-compo bugfix build which resolves speed and resolution issues, and fixes other bugs.","title":"Orbital Brothers"}