{"author_link":"\/author\/acatcalledfrank\/","author_name":"acatcalledfrank","author_uid":"23058","comments":[{"author_name":"Lim3s","author_uid":"21415","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:47am","epoch":1367221320,"text":"This was a lot of fun. I didn't realise I could mix colors until it threw an orange circle at me and I freaked out a little. Very clever."},{"author_name":"Zillix","author_uid":"2460","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:48am","epoch":1367221380,"text":"ooh, this is really cool. i love the idea. mixing colors quickly can sometimes be a little tough. great job"},{"author_name":"Ditto","author_uid":"14669","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:48am","epoch":1367221380,"text":"Cool idea, great implementation!"},{"author_name":"bummzack","author_uid":"23197","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:50am","epoch":1367221500,"text":"Great concept. I like the term &quot;draw-em-up&quot; :)"},{"author_name":"intrudergames","author_uid":"21000","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:30am","epoch":1367223900,"text":"Great concept and execution!"},{"author_name":"nicotuason","author_uid":"21669","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:01am","epoch":1367232960,"text":"Super smooth! Really clever too. I panicked with the complex colors. WHICH COLORS MAKE GREEN I DONT EVEN REMEMBER AAAHHH"},{"author_name":"ndssia","author_uid":"22566","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:05am","epoch":1367233200,"text":"I was like, pssh, too easy.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Then the colour mixing came. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Then it was awesome :)"},{"author_name":"Sebastian","author_uid":"20818","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:07am","epoch":1367233320,"text":"Wow this is a really cool idea, I had a lot of fun playing this!"},{"author_name":"acatcalledfrank","author_uid":"23058","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:20am","epoch":1367234100,"text":"Thanks for the nice comments guys! Glad you're enjoying it :) The difficulty's a bit all over the place I'm afraid as I didn't have time to polish - it seems to be mostly ok though?"},{"author_name":"daredevildave","author_uid":"5182","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:37am","epoch":1367235120,"text":"Nice idea and well executed mechanic. I enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"tomvert","author_uid":"18469","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:59am","epoch":1367236440,"text":"Very nice concept and elegant graphics, it's very hard though."},{"author_name":"Alex Shestakov","author_uid":"15811","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:58pm","epoch":1367265180,"text":"Nice idea! I think it might have been even more fun if those traces weren't disappearing, as a result it would've been looking like Pollock :)"},{"author_name":"@SamPotasz","author_uid":"21972","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:59pm","epoch":1367265240,"text":"Very very nicely done :) Difficulty ramps up pretty quick! Or at least, fast for my skill level :P"},{"author_name":"ignifluous","author_uid":"22481","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:00pm","epoch":1367265300,"text":"Nifty! Very cool meachanic. Nice introduction of advanced gameplay with gradual arrival of secondary-coloured dots."},{"author_name":"FrozenCow","author_uid":"8435","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1367265540,"text":"Very nicely done. This fits the theme in a beautiful way."},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1367265840,"text":"When I realised you could mix colours I was like &quot;wwaaaa!&quot;. Excellent concept, gets very challenging quite quickly. A lot of fun though."},{"author_name":"Sophie Houlden","author_uid":"36","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:57pm","epoch":1367268720,"text":"can't last long once the mixed colours start swarming in, but certainly a good surprise when I discovered you could mix the colours :D"},{"author_name":"CherryNukaCola","author_uid":"4966","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:58am","epoch":1367290380,"text":"This is pretty awesome. ^_^"},{"author_name":"messiano","author_uid":"22060","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:26pm","epoch":1367446860,"text":"Cool and cute, but soon it was a bit too hard!  First thing I tried was mixing colors, so I'm glad it worked hehe."},{"author_name":"Volute","author_uid":"11243","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:58pm","epoch":1367517180,"text":"Very cool idea !"},{"author_name":"The Consul","author_uid":"13454","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1367518020,"text":"The mixing mechanism is very smart. Fun game."},{"author_name":"RealyUniqueName","author_uid":"20479","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:55pm","epoch":1367520600,"text":"Mixing is best! Why do i need to release mouse button to change color?"},{"author_name":"gerritg","author_uid":"22527","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1367526480,"text":"Really nice entry. The mixing part also got me by surprise :)"},{"author_name":"invi","author_uid":"20935","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 2:22am","epoch":1367547420,"text":"Great idea and excellent execution!"},{"author_name":"axcho","author_uid":"8060","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:14am","epoch":1367564940,"text":"Cool idea. I couldn't figure out how to do the mixing. It would be nice to make the drawing itself a bit more strategic, somehow..."},{"author_name":"acatcalledfrank","author_uid":"23058","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 11:11am","epoch":1367579160,"text":"@RealyUniqueName Good question! Oversight on my part, probably. It's something I'd add in a more polished version.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@axcho Yeah - I considered making it so if a blog ran over its opposite colour then it'd get bigger or fiercer or mutate or something, so you had to be more careful with your strokes. Then I ran out of time and dropped the idea :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It might be something I'd add to a real version though - maybe as a different game mode."},{"author_name":"Sylvain.p","author_uid":"20862","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 7:18pm","epoch":1368645180,"text":"Prettynice concept, not really minimalist but very fun."},{"author_name":"atraxgames","author_uid":"15195","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1368653640,"text":"Clever idea!"},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 12:24am","epoch":1368663540,"text":"It's unrelenting once the secondary colours start coming out but the game was very fun and addictive. Loved the colour mixing mechanic."},{"author_name":"heuermh","author_uid":"1864","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 3:29am","epoch":1368674640,"text":"Yeah, this is great.  But really difficult."},{"author_name":"Threef","author_uid":"15219","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1368719280,"text":"One thing: GO MOBILE! :D"},{"author_name":"Zccc","author_uid":"14205","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 3:58pm","epoch":1368719580,"text":"Simple idea, but really fun to play! Great game!"},{"author_name":"juaxix","author_uid":"10960","time":"May 17, 2013 @ 5:23pm","epoch":1368811080,"text":"Love this game, it is so hard but with a lot of color and live!"},{"author_name":"davidpeter","author_uid":"3323","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1368914580,"text":"Hah, the color mixing destroyed me :) Fun game!"},{"author_name":"maloki","author_uid":"3790","time":"May 19, 2013 @ 3:52am","epoch":1368935220,"text":"I love the tension that builds up when the mixed colors come in. Mistakes just bury me deeper and deeper into trouble. Good job!"},{"author_name":"acatcalledfrank","author_uid":"23058","time":"May 19, 2013 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1368967380,"text":"@threef - yeah, I think a tablet version would work really well! *adds to long to-do list*\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@everyone thanks for all the positive comments guys! Glad you're all enjoying it :)"},{"author_name":"berareu","author_uid":"15244","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 11:51am","epoch":1369050360,"text":"Man, that was awesome! I really didn't expect that I could mix colors...great job!"}],"images":["ld26\/23058-63f22ff6b362c13865e21e17c72cb76e.jpg","ld26\/23058-f7c72a638e114c757a3bd10ef9f6a041.jpg","ld26\/23058-21a7a955af06af07c6de59d11bf3af51.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/acatcalledfrank.com\/files\/games\/ludumdare\/clrs\/CLRS_win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/acatcalledfrank.com\/files\/games\/ludumdare\/clrs\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/acatcalledfrank.com\/files\/games\/ludumdare\/clrs\/TomEvans_CLRS_Source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26359","g_author":"23058","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26389","g_title":"CLRS","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"114","g_commentcount":"37","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\/23058-shot0.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/23058-shot1.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/23058-shot2.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"CLRS is a mildly-psychedelic draw-em-up where your only weapons are primary colours and a quick finger. Press 1-3 to select colours and click to draw.\r\n\r\nProtect your little pulsating blob from the nasty colour things by drawing  protective lines of the right colours. Try mixing colours to defeat the evil secondary colour abstract monster-stand-ins. \r\n\r\nCheers!\r\n\r\nTom<\/p>","title":"CLRS"}