{"author_link":"\/author\/rftr\/","author_name":"rftr","author_uid":"19080","comments":[{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:44am","epoch":1355726340,"text":"Very nice, very pretty. Reminds me that I need to take this SHMUP I have off the back-burner some day and finish it."},{"author_name":"totalspelnerd","author_uid":"10038","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:52am","epoch":1355726820,"text":"This was a really great game. If this game was developed for real in a month with more levels and more ships to send out, I would totally buy this game!"},{"author_name":"cwilloughby","author_uid":"18255","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:12am","epoch":1355728020,"text":"Nice, pretty.  I wasn't able to kill the player after playing for a bit, but it's impressive for LD."},{"author_name":"Diventurer","author_uid":"7567","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:26am","epoch":1355728860,"text":"I really liked the music and graphics!\r<br\/>I think the gameplay got a bit boring after a few minutes, but it is a nice game!"},{"author_name":"NeverAutomatic","author_uid":"18283","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:00am","epoch":1355730900,"text":"Fun! I love the way you used the theme. Very well made for a 48 hour game."},{"author_name":"apophenia","author_uid":"12068","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:02am","epoch":1355731020,"text":"Really fun game, but I found it a little difficult, especially re: the cost of some of the items (some seemed like a way better deal than others). Also, the ship went off the left side of the screen one time, and never came back. o_o;"},{"author_name":"Kiyaku","author_uid":"14950","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:04am","epoch":1355731140,"text":"Liking it a lot :D It's simple but i think the idea is great for this type of game! Love how your art turned out in the end ;) A bit too hard indeed, i couldn't defeat the player yet, but then again i'm terrible at shmup games :P"},{"author_name":"rftr","author_uid":"19080","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:19am","epoch":1355732040,"text":"Sorry for the difficulty level, guys. I didn't really have time to balance things &gt;_&gt;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@apophenia: I thought I had quashed that bug... sorry :(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>My &quot;high score&quot; (low score?) is around 20k."},{"author_name":"Meep","author_uid":"2629","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:58am","epoch":1355741580,"text":"Very nice! With more time spent balancing\/tweaking, and perhaps expanding on it, it has a lot of potential. :)"},{"author_name":"thristhart","author_uid":"3164","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:30pm","epoch":1355761500,"text":"I was a little disappointed in the lack of strategy, but perhaps it just needs balance tweaks - spamming Bursters is OP. Overall cool.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Question: You say the music is by __twc. Does that not invalidate this as a Compo entry?"},{"author_name":"thristhart","author_uid":"3164","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1355761560,"text":"Oh, forgot to mention. By just using only bursters, constantly, one can easily get a score of under 9k."},{"author_name":"rftr","author_uid":"19080","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1355768340,"text":"@thristhart: Thanks for the heads up about the music. I selected it because it's licensed under the Creative Commons license, but it'd be easy enough for me to upload another build sans-music.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And... yeah. I didn't really have time do any real balancing in the final hour of the competition."},{"author_name":"wccrawford","author_uid":"11376","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1355780040,"text":"You can fix the 'chrome bug' by using http instead of https."},{"author_name":"The Expendables","author_uid":"19624","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:31am","epoch":1355797560,"text":"@rftr:wow, excellent game, but a little difficult to play around, i tried my best."},{"author_name":"dek","author_uid":"11517","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 11:55pm","epoch":1355874600,"text":"GOod game, but with can be finished really easy if you know how to. Graphics were shiny and nice, gameplay was fluid!"},{"author_name":"arch.jslin","author_uid":"18318","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:58pm","epoch":1355932380,"text":"Nice graphics, and nice mechanism too! Every unit has its ability is pretty cool, and fits nicely :)"},{"author_name":"pillbrain","author_uid":"18955","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1355955960,"text":"Good, although I found it a bit too hard, I could get the player down to about 20% and then they would just miraculously man up and start going up to about 90, no matter what I did."},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 12:24pm","epoch":1356005940,"text":"&quot;NOTE: There is a known issue playing Unity games in Chrome!&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>- actually, it's caused by the HTTPS in the Dropbox link. Change it to HTTP and it works in all browsers. ;-)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Now to play your game..."},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 12:28pm","epoch":1356006180,"text":"Good game! Quite tough. Nice 80s CRT vector aesthetic... if that makes any sense!"},{"author_name":"rftr","author_uid":"19080","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 2:50am","epoch":1356057900,"text":"@DustyStylus: Thanks for the tip, and thanks for the kind words :)"},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 11:40am","epoch":1356176100,"text":"Perfectly implemented concept! The graphics is good"},{"author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1356179040,"text":"best reverse-shooter game in this LD."},{"author_name":"C\u00e1ssio Eduardo","author_uid":"10554","time":"Dec 26, 2012 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1356544500,"text":"Great!"},{"author_name":"CoffeeOnimal","author_uid":"1643","time":"Dec 27, 2012 @ 2:59pm","epoch":1356620040,"text":"Nice graphics, and the tunes added are pretty good, but I agree, the game got pretty boring after a while.\r<br\/>The spawning recharge mechanism was pretty nice.\r<br\/>Good work."},{"author_name":"Benjamin","author_uid":"2952","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 2:41am","epoch":1357353360,"text":"The graphics vector are cool but the game balance need more work. I was efficient only withburster and had the feeling that some others was useless ( mine or tracker ). The spawn and vanishing effect are gorgeous !"}],"images":["ld25\/19080-b6410d3869ff3919f69e0409129d4c3f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/15938677\/LD25-nomusic\/LD25-nomusic.html","text":"Web (no music)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/15938677\/LD25\/LD25.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/jeffjcheng\/ld25","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27350","g_author":"19080","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27380","g_title":"Praelia Solus","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"225","g_commentcount":"25","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\/\/201083\/19080-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"EDIT: I've uploaded a build with no music. This should be considered my primary build as it is *exactly* the same as my original build, sans music.\r\n\r\nMany thanks to __twc for music! (https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/twc-3)\r\n\r\nSource available at https:\/\/github.com\/jeffjcheng\/ld25\r\n\r\nTools used:\r\n- Engine: Unity 4 Pro Trial\r\n- Audio: Sfxr, Bfxr, Audacity\r\n- Visual: MSPaint, GIMP<\/p>","title":"Praelia Solus"}