{"author_link":"\/author\/ciderpunk\/","author_name":"CiderPunk","author_uid":"7534","comments":[{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:09am","epoch":1367233440,"text":"Solid mechanics and gameplay!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>There isn't much to this game, but then again; minimalism!"},{"author_name":"CiderPunk","author_uid":"7534","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:15am","epoch":1367233800,"text":"Updated to correct a typo, I got the month wrong! stupids am I. now to play some other games!"},{"author_name":"CiderPunk","author_uid":"7534","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:17am","epoch":1367233920,"text":"Thanks! that was totally what i was going for!... kinda.."},{"author_name":"Morgawr","author_uid":"8711","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:40am","epoch":1367235300,"text":"Simple game, a bit awkward to play with a mouse though."},{"author_name":"aquilicoco","author_uid":"22746","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:42am","epoch":1367235420,"text":"Ahhh!! flying potatoes!!!\r<br\/>XD\r<br\/>\r<br\/>good work."},{"author_name":"triplefox","author_uid":"391","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:59am","epoch":1367236440,"text":"Too much gameplay..."},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:18pm","epoch":1367237580,"text":"The game games dull really fast, perhaps because of how strong them potatoes are"},{"author_name":"CiderPunk","author_uid":"7534","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:31pm","epoch":1367238360,"text":"potatoes gonna potate yo"},{"author_name":"Qrchack","author_uid":"23198","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:13pm","epoch":1367248080,"text":"cool entry, lacks actual gameplay though (bonuses, so on)... I managed to get 1k points lol"},{"author_name":"gizmo","author_uid":"5900","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:27pm","epoch":1367252520,"text":"potatoes!"},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1367252580,"text":"Poor potatoes :\/\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very minimalistic shooter (unless i've missed something, but I got tired after dodging all those fries to be, the only thing I found was a shooting powerup....)"},{"author_name":"Lucas Tiridath","author_uid":"5505","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:30pm","epoch":1367252700,"text":"Simple and seems to be well implemented. Maybe the potatoes are a little too tough but all the same, well done."},{"author_name":"Beerman","author_uid":"5206","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1367260860,"text":"Cool, a fellow libGdx user. Fun little shooter - you should have called it Spud Gunner though :D"},{"author_name":"GingerMess","author_uid":"6526","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:04pm","epoch":1367359140,"text":"Shootin' da spudz. It was fun comparing progress with you Cider, good luck with your entry. :)"},{"author_name":"BenW","author_uid":"128","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:41am","epoch":1367368560,"text":"Neat little game. I couldn't tell if there was an end to the powerups you could get and overall the game felt a bit on the easy side but I did enjoy it."},{"author_name":"CiderPunk","author_uid":"7534","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 8:50am","epoch":1367397900,"text":"The final gun upgrade is a 5 way blaster, there are 7 levels of upgrade,\r<br\/>my high score is 80,000 something :)"},{"author_name":"whilefun","author_uid":"7424","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:02pm","epoch":1367413020,"text":"I found the controls with the mouse to be a bit hard to master. Nice use of the theme, and nod to potatoes haha :)"},{"author_name":"Docteur","author_uid":"23796","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:14pm","epoch":1367446140,"text":"Potatoes gonna potate."},{"author_name":"Rafael Sales","author_uid":"22086","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:43pm","epoch":1367609880,"text":"Funny game! hahaha"},{"author_name":"ohsqueezy","author_uid":"10718","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1367770620,"text":"That was fun!  Surprisingly addictive and deep because of the high level power ups."},{"author_name":"CiderPunk","author_uid":"7534","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 9:13am","epoch":1367917680,"text":"yay thanks!"},{"author_name":"asifmahmood","author_uid":"24080","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 11:57am","epoch":1368013920,"text":"Really liked the game ... a real time killer ... Simple and a great time killer ... good job"},{"author_name":"Zoidbergtron","author_uid":"20570","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 2:00am","epoch":1368323700,"text":"I loved this game! I thought the controls were great, as a fan of these arcade style shooters I thought this was somehow more enjoyable than most I have played on a touchscreen. Obviously you already said what needs to be improved, but this was great!"},{"author_name":"Super Hamster","author_uid":"22460","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1368633780,"text":"Very interesting game."},{"author_name":"Mach60KAS","author_uid":"5788","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1368879660,"text":"A very fun Shmup, good job! :)"},{"author_name":"DDRKirby(ISQ)","author_uid":"7285","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 12:50pm","epoch":1368881100,"text":"So many potatoes..."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 19, 2013 @ 4:10am","epoch":1368936300,"text":"42,471 -- i like the game -- tight controls"}],"images":["ld26\/7534-e25318f5f7e5fe4fbf6778f438be67bf.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/EcIV6","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/VnPMK","text":"JAR"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Jm12I","text":"Android"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/i70JJ","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/sLDht","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25266","g_author":"7534","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25296","g_title":"Minimalism - the shoot 'em up","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"954","g_commentcount":"27","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\/\/233892\/7534-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Designed mostly for touch screens but you control it entirely through the mouse.\r\n\r\nThe story is entirely pointless and minimal, basically shoot things, get points and collect powerups to increase your fire power, it'll get progressively harder and there is no end.\r\n\r\nIn my tests the web and desktop versions ran pretty much the same (using chrome), but your results may vary, clicking top right shows fps, if its below 60 try the desktop versions. the windows is an exe created by typing random numbers into launch4j, there's also a JAR that should work on anything! \r\n\r\nThe android version is now available on google play!\r\n\r\n\r\nTop of my wishlist of things to add are new enemies, waves, bosses and some sort of background to fight over, but i spent too long on my engine (which is now pretty good!) and getting it to compile in GWT, which it does...sort of.\r\n\r\n","title":"Minimalism - the shoot 'em up"}