{"author_link":"\/author\/destroyer40k\/","author_name":"Destroyer40k","author_uid":"20819","comments":[{"author_name":"NorthByNorthwest","author_uid":"25518","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:38pm","epoch":1377628380,"text":"Pretty cool concept! I liked the slow motion mode. Great use of the mouse wheel!\r<br\/>There were a lot of mines at some points, I couldn't always get through them, even with slow motion."},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 4:49am","epoch":1377665040,"text":"Good idea to use the mouse wheel to slow down the game. More fun than I imagined :)"},{"author_name":"Jimanzium","author_uid":"24428","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1377710880,"text":"&quot;The application was unable to start correctly (0x00007b)&quot; Got an error when launching"},{"author_name":"Arrow-x","author_uid":"17767","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1377711240,"text":"awsome shump .. love love love it ....but wait u can slow the motion loooooooove it"},{"author_name":"Starspell","author_uid":"1791","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1377711240,"text":"The game lagged like crazy for me but it's probably just my computer being slow. One thing that was annoying was that the screen was so tall that it was difficult to click on the start button! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>From what I did manage to see it was pretty good! I'm not sure movement with the mouse is better than keyboard but the mouse wheel for modifying the speed of the ship was a nice idea."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:40pm","epoch":1377711300,"text":"Looks nice, but it's hard. On default speed I'm quickly overwhelmed. Made it in 20.78 seconds"},{"author_name":"local minimum","author_uid":"24765","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:44pm","epoch":1377711540,"text":"Couldn't run, same error as Jimanzium"},{"author_name":"Aslai","author_uid":"8782","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 6:59pm","epoch":1377716040,"text":"It's very easy to avoid the mines at full speed, since you can just move the mouse through any mines and not hit them. You just need to move the mouse so fast that the ship teleports completely over the mine."},{"author_name":"Destroyer40k","author_uid":"20819","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:24pm","epoch":1377721140,"text":"&quot;The application was unable to start correctly (0x00007b)&quot; Error fixed (Cause was bad Visual C++ redist .dlls), during which I noticed the game wouldn't run on WinXP. Fixed that too."},{"author_name":"gameXcore","author_uid":"7049","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1377722940,"text":"Fantastic, I loved the audio effect. How did you do that?"},{"author_name":"Ninja","author_uid":"14302","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 9:00pm","epoch":1377723300,"text":"Nice work, although you can avoid all of the mines by hugging the right wall."},{"author_name":"Destroyer40k","author_uid":"20819","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 9:27pm","epoch":1377724920,"text":"@ gameXcore:\r<br\/>If you mean the &quot;slowed-down&quot; audio, I just lowered the pitch of the sound clip on the fly depending how fast the game was going. SFML provides really simple and easy syntax for it, basically &quot;sound.setPitch(x)&quot;, where x is the multiple for the pitch.\r<br\/>If you mean the audio itself, it was just me hitting things together and modifying the result a bit. 2 AA batteries, a metal fan, my fist, and the microphone itself were slightly harmed in the prosess."},{"author_name":"NiceAlexanderAS","author_uid":"7045","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:35am","epoch":1377743400,"text":"AWESOME GAME! :DDDD"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:36am","epoch":1377743460,"text":"What a really cool game. I liked the effect slowing down time gave."},{"author_name":"Solifuge","author_uid":"22357","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:38am","epoch":1377743580,"text":"That was cool, if a bit short and simple. I like time dilation as a game mechanic, and the controls being contained to the mouse made the interface simple and elegant. Thanks for putting this together!"},{"author_name":"ellipticaldoor","author_uid":"24027","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:31pm","epoch":1377797160,"text":"Nice gameplay mechanics ;)"},{"author_name":"awppy","author_uid":"18868","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 1:15am","epoch":1377911400,"text":"Staying to the far right allows you to dodge everything.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>This game is chaotic otherwise! Makes you feel awesome when you navigate a minefield flawlessly"},{"author_name":"ArcturusDeluxe","author_uid":"26098","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 12:31am","epoch":1377995160,"text":"Nice!  The mouse wheel for controlling the speed of time is really cool, I love how it also effects the pitch of the sounds on the fly too.  Fun little game."},{"author_name":"aldian","author_uid":"27105","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 12:46am","epoch":1377996060,"text":"26.8. great use of mouse wheel (:"},{"author_name":"alts","author_uid":"18267","time":"Sep 2, 2013 @ 9:32am","epoch":1378114020,"text":"Was able to get a perfect score through a bit of an exploit. Otherwise 18 seconds is my best.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I really appreciated the unification of controls here. Specifically, that everything was controlled by the mouse. That and that the balancing between speed and hitting mines felt really good. If it weren't for the exploits, thi would be mechanically really solid. Nice work."}],"images":["ld27\/20819-d0f50fc828daca7a9d94f8f7107f47a8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/105090978\/DodgeThese.zip","text":"Windows&amp;source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24132","g_author":"20819","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24162","g_title":"Dodge These","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"647","g_commentcount":"20","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\/20819-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In dodge these, you control a vehicle crossing a minefield for reasons unknown. To make things worse, you're going at maximum speed!\r\n\r\nYou can, however, slow down time, but true action heroes don't need to do that, right? Either way, you WILL cross the minefield in, you guessed it, 10 seconds.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTools used: SFML,irrLicht, MS Visual Studio 2012, Blender, Gimp\r\n\r\n\r\n","title":"Dodge These"}