{"author_link":"\/author\/albertelwin\/","author_name":"albertelwin","author_uid":"12231","comments":[{"author_name":"tower07","author_uid":"13470","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:01am","epoch":1377489360,"text":"It won't run. When it says "Click to start", nothing happens."},{"author_name":"albertelwin","author_uid":"12231","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:03am","epoch":1377489480,"text":"doesn't work on some graphics card, but takes a minute or two to load up anyway :)"},{"author_name":"NorthernCrux","author_uid":"6159","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:04am","epoch":1377489540,"text":"Neat game. Reminds me of playing Star Fox and a bit of Battletoads."},{"author_name":"albertelwin","author_uid":"12231","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:06am","epoch":1377489660,"text":"thanks was inspired by Star Fox, had a much more complete game in mind when I started out but had some set backs :( there's always next time!"},{"author_name":"Baknik","author_uid":"22088","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:14am","epoch":1377490140,"text":"Loved the ground animation."},{"author_name":"Parappa","author_uid":"20543","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:15am","epoch":1377490200,"text":"Definitely like Star Fox training mode. :)"},{"author_name":"Andrio","author_uid":"20219","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:17am","epoch":1377490320,"text":"I like the crazy optical illusion the ground makes when you're speeding really fast. Looks nice, although it's a really basic concept. I wanted a bit more of a challenge."},{"author_name":"bonsairobo","author_uid":"25347","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:17am","epoch":1377490320,"text":"I get that there's a missing plugin. Not sure what it is (x-nacl?)."},{"author_name":"ix","author_uid":"18837","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:18am","epoch":1377490380,"text":"Very nice looking!"},{"author_name":"albertelwin","author_uid":"12231","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:21am","epoch":1377490560,"text":"x-nacl is Native Client, it's built into Chrome so not sure why it's saying it's missing :( Windows\/OSX\/Linux?"},{"author_name":"otresnjak","author_uid":"25039","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:49am","epoch":1377492240,"text":"Looks really nice."},{"author_name":"wbobeirne","author_uid":"5193","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:09am","epoch":1377493440,"text":"Great looking game, but definitely more tech demo than game."},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:10am","epoch":1377493500,"text":"Took few seconds to load, remind me of Star Fox too ! Nice idea to use the NativeClient\/OpenGLES."},{"author_name":"lordjosephdeburg","author_uid":"13718","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:39pm","epoch":1377531240,"text":"When I 'click to start' mouse disappears but game wont run"},{"author_name":"shohs","author_uid":"20774","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1377538260,"text":"This looks interesting. It doesn't run very well on my computer, but my computer doesn't have a lot of graphics power. The game itself is pretty simple, but not too bad."},{"author_name":"SmudgedCat","author_uid":"12033","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1377539700,"text":"It ran quite slowly on my PC but it does look quite pretty."},{"author_name":"skywing","author_uid":"15682","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1377549060,"text":"Very nice aesthetic, it can get pretty trippy at times. Decent game overall."},{"author_name":"ShadowFire3800","author_uid":"24097","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:27am","epoch":1377570120,"text":"I would suggest to fix the lag and have faster movement."},{"author_name":"Liz England","author_uid":"22429","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:31am","epoch":1377570360,"text":"Nifty - I really start losing perspective of how fast I'm going after a while, but I like the effect. Shaders are like black magic to me - I have no understanding of how they work, just that they do cool things."},{"author_name":"albertelwin","author_uid":"12231","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:34am","epoch":1377570540,"text":"Only possible way to fix the lag is to buy a better graphics card I'm afraid :("},{"author_name":"Skye","author_uid":"20435","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:13am","epoch":1377576480,"text":"This game was a pretty neat idea. This version definitely needs some work but if you work on this for a larger project, I can see this having a lot of potential."},{"author_name":"albertelwin","author_uid":"12231","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:16am","epoch":1377576660,"text":"Thanks :) With such a short amount of time I had to make a lot of trade-offs with the gameplay, hopefully I'll get to come back to it sometime and make something more complete!"},{"author_name":"designatius","author_uid":"26218","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:09pm","epoch":1377644640,"text":"Just to give you feedback, it worked super slow on my Mac (it could be probably my computer, but just in case...). Anyway love the Starwing kind of game and it looks really promising. Good entry!"},{"author_name":"DesignerNap","author_uid":"21374","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 6:06pm","epoch":1377712860,"text":"Nice entry and I have to say, my first google chrome game ever! :) nice work"},{"author_name":"Obscuremoon","author_uid":"16732","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:40pm","epoch":1377790500,"text":"Didn't realise I was playing at the start, but I soon figured it out :)\r\rI loved the way the ground blocks changed to black when you die :) very nice"},{"author_name":"Ciaran54","author_uid":"8247","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:43pm","epoch":1377790680,"text":"I really really liked the graphics. the pulsating ground, and the shadows and changing colour really made the game come alive :D But the gameplay was a bit bland imo, I found the ship moved so slowly it was difficult to hit or avoid gates by choice :\/"},{"author_name":"aldian","author_uid":"27105","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1377793440,"text":"Its a very cool concept, graphics are nice and i had a good 5 minutes playing thsi :D"},{"author_name":"GSM Productions","author_uid":"16481","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1377793560,"text":"Nice and trippy, but more of a technical feat than a really engaging game in my opinion. The visuals were pretty neat though, and innovative rendering technique!"},{"author_name":"berkano","author_uid":"11027","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1377796140,"text":"Nice idea. Impressed with the delivery as a Chrom app :-)"},{"author_name":"soerensen3","author_uid":"23190","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1377796980,"text":""I get that there's a missing plugin. Not sure what it is (x-nacl?)."\r\rI get the same error. I use comodo which is a special version of chrome. I'm on windows 7."},{"author_name":"HunLyxxod","author_uid":"14404","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:32pm","epoch":1377797220,"text":"Inspired by Iñigo Quilez?\rBeautiful work, there are some artifacts but your renderer it's impressive nonetheless."},{"author_name":"albertelwin","author_uid":"12231","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1377797280,"text":"Ahh, I assume comodo doesn't have Native Client, try installing a normal version of Chrome and it should work :)"},{"author_name":"albertelwin","author_uid":"12231","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:34pm","epoch":1377797340,"text":"Sure is! He pioneered the ray marching technique which I'm using for my renderer :)"},{"author_name":"Lokarunith","author_uid":"25012","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 12:22am","epoch":1377821820,"text":"The animation is very well done and runs very smoothly but there is not much gameplay."},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Sep 7, 2013 @ 6:11am","epoch":1378533960,"text":"My graphics card can't quite keep up. It looks pretty cool, though."},{"author_name":"myachin","author_uid":"10579","time":"Sep 13, 2013 @ 5:26am","epoch":1379049660,"text":"cant start(("}],"images":["ld27\/12231-19ee0724142825ea1c20c45e6ccda155.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/house-of-wolves\/hcopginengieekghlonpnpnpamkolbkk?hl=en&gl=GB","text":"Chrome Install"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/12591019\/ld27_source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24904","g_author":"12231","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24934","g_title":"House Of Wolves","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1003","g_commentcount":"36","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\/12231-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"House Of Wolves was an experiment of mine to see if it was possible to create a game rendered using ray tracing techniques. It's built on top of NativeClient\/OpenGLES so must be installed on Chrome to play. Takes a bit of time for the shaders to compile when you first load it up.\r\n\r\nIn the game you must pass through a gate within at least 10 seconds otherwise you will lose.\r\n\r\nWarning: Graphically Intensive!!\r\n\r\nTested On: AMD Radeon 7970, Nvidia GTX 560 Ti, Intel HD Graphics 4000","title":"House Of Wolves"}