{"author_link":"\/author\/neurolabe\/","author_name":"Neurolabe","author_uid":"14405","comments":[{"author_name":"MCovert","author_uid":"22909","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:32am","epoch":1367213220,"text":"Your web link just prompts me to install the Unity Webplayer, even though I've got it. I tried updating, but still just get the &quot;Download Webplayer&quot; prompt. Not sure what's up with that. The downloadable worked fine for me though."},{"author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:34am","epoch":1367213340,"text":"I don't get it. There is no enemy, neither potato?"},{"author_name":"sol_hsa","author_uid":"16","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:35am","epoch":1367213400,"text":"Didn't quite get what I was supposed to do, really."},{"author_name":"thristhart","author_uid":"3164","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:37am","epoch":1367213520,"text":"The issue is that the link is https; the browser is blocking the insecure content. If you just remove the s in the URL it works fine! Neurolabe should edit the entry to fix that."},{"author_name":"Cybearg","author_uid":"22470","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:54am","epoch":1367214540,"text":"@MCovert Ditto."},{"author_name":"pentaphobe","author_uid":"13327","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:08am","epoch":1367215380,"text":"Well-timed, I was poking around, building things and not really knowing what I was doing and generally looking like a confused druid who didn't read the instructions first.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Right at the moment that I figured I'd best set out to explore NorthEast I saw the wave of red and got a weird sense of urgency which caused me to suddenly understand a lot more of what was going on.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Quite cool, congrats on your first finished Ludum Dare!"},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:13am","epoch":1367215680,"text":"This seems like it was a really ambitious idea for 48hrs. It would probably benefit a lot from a tutorial (it would probably be allowed to make a video tutorial and link it in the description)."},{"author_name":"lotusgame","author_uid":"19058","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1367339220,"text":"Sorry, don't succeed to understand. Isn't it too much intricate for a theme like Minimalism ? Nice attempt anyway ;)"},{"author_name":"stqn","author_uid":"2181","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:52am","epoch":1367401620,"text":"It was hard to grasp the concept at first for many reasons: I thought I was controlling the blue ball and that the controls were reversed, I had no idea what all those stats were, nor what this red color was about. I didn't notice that I was losing hitpoints when moving in the red zone and the game ended for no apparent reason.\r<br\/>After restarting twice and reading carefully the instructions I almost understand everything :). I like the way the red attacks and takes over the green slowly like a wave that can't be stopped, but can in fact be... But I found I had to repeat the same actions again and again: build walls, build tower, return to planar gate, sleep, go back to new camp, build camp, add archers and infantry, return to planar gate, sleep... I finally stopped way before making the map completely green :p."},{"author_name":"DaveDobson","author_uid":"10977","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 4:23am","epoch":1367468280,"text":"Very complex, but fun.  I didn't really get the hang of it (kept dying to the red stuff) but I figured more of it out.  I think it might be nicer to have fewer variables and tools and a little more visual cues for what you're doing that helps.  A little hard to follow along with all the tiny numbers.  Nice work, though - a cool, complex idea, expressed in a simple way."},{"author_name":"Arowx","author_uid":"680","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 11:22am","epoch":1367925420,"text":"Looks interesting and could be fun but, couldn't get my head around the controls, maybe using mouse driven controls with basic icons or a menu would have worked better as you appear to be going for a TD\/RTS type game here."}],"images":["ld26\/14405-2f77ac563b0b4b4467294260465e4159.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/71609511\/LD26%20Crimson%20Tide%20PC.rar","text":"PC"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/71609511\/LD26%20Crimson%20Tide%20Webplayer\/WebPlayer\/WebPlayer.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/71609511\/LD26%20Crimson%20Tide%20Source.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25720","g_author":"14405","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25750","g_title":"LD26 Crimson Tide","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1169","g_commentcount":"11","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\/14405-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is some of the ugliest javascript ever, but it was made entirely in Unity with no outside programs (for the sake of Minimalism) and *omfg it works* \r\n\r\nThis is my first ever successful LD 48-hour Compo.\r\n\r\nFor the last LD (LD25) I tried to make a game called \"Here come the Vikings!\" (which seems to have a similar colour scheme...odd), so this is my second Compo.\r\n\r\n \r\nThe red stuff represents the enemy masses. Green is fertile ground. \r\n\r\nCONTROLS:\r\n[ X ] Destroy the oncoming rush of red stuff.\r\nPlace [ C ] Camps, [ W ] Walls and [ T ] Towers to protect the land at the cost of Workers.\r\nPlace [ I ] Infantry and [ A ] Archer squads.\r\n[ Z ] to rest.\r\nArrow keys to move.\r\n\r\n\r\nRESTING:\r\nPortal: resting on the portal will give you supplies from the homeworld and heal you for the most.\r\nCamp: resting on a camp will give you a worker and heal you well.\r\nRest normally to recover slowly, but don't rest on the red stuff.\r\n\r\n\r\nTHE PORTAL:\r\nThe portal is the bright blue thing where you began. \r\nResting on restores your Cavalry, Workers, Infantry Squad and Archer Squad. \r\n\r\n\r\n*** Instructions and a little strategy:\r\n- Attacking red until it becomes brown causes further attacks to rely on mana, turning the square a fertile green. \r\n- Resting on green will heal you and give you back some mana, resting on red will damage you. It's better to rest on the planar gate (blue thing you started on) or if you can't get there, a camp, if available.\r\n- Resting on the planar gate will restore you to full cavalry, workers, infantry and archers, if they are available.\r\n- Resting on a camp will supply 1 worker each time, so if there are no workers available at the gate, it's the best source.\r\n- Your various abilities increase dependent on what you do.\r\n- All squares which aren't 100% green will slowly turn brown, eventually getting corrupted to red, even if there's no red squares adjacent to them. \r\n- Some troop and building combinations have additional effects on top of their normal effects.\r\n- Infantry clear the square they are on, at the cost of lives. Archers clear all adjacent squares, but not their own, and they'll die if the square they are on is red.\r\n- Camps slowly restore the strength of Infantry and Archers.\r\n- There is no way to win. \r\n\r\n*** A few planned expansions if I can be bothered:\r\n- Berzerk trolls.\r\n- An enemy strategic AI - might save this for a rewrite.\r\n- Major constructions, only one per square, in the centre.\r\n- Restore the difficulty to the way it was so that no square is totally immune, no matter what it has on it. \r\n- Create difficulty levels which are only modifiers to the size of the map.\r\n- Rewrite the GUI and give it a strong front screen.\r\n- Give it some kind of stage by stage progression.\r\n- Stupid little quests, though this idea doesn't really appeal to me.\r\n- Work out whether the original idea was a good one (an rpg where \"attack\" brings up a combat screen, showing monsters inhabiting the square).\r\n\r\n\r\nI know this game can be confusing at first so please let me know if there's anything I can clear up without giving away too much spoilery.\r\n\r\nWeb link has been fixed.\r\n<\/p>","title":"LD26 Crimson Tide"}