{"author_link":"\/author\/niavlys\/","author_name":"Niavlys","author_uid":"8666","comments":[{"author_name":"Agamgad","author_uid":"19026","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:10pm","epoch":1355760300,"text":"Niavlys ! Great game just like I said before, I love how the movement feels."},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:44pm","epoch":1355765940,"text":"Haha! This is surprisingly very fun! It's only a sphere and some dots on a screen and still...I can't stop playing! (can't beat level 7 though...)\r\rThose mechanics are really funny, I can't even understand how it works ^^"},{"author_name":"supermaximo93","author_uid":"4920","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:29pm","epoch":1355772240,"text":"Fun toy! I could feel my laptop getting warmer and warmer as the game progressed :P"},{"author_name":"nitramgc","author_uid":"19444","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1355781780,"text":"Nice!\r\rThe louder sounds work great.\r\rI love the weird gameplay. My favorite combo is to start by moving the mouse slowly to have a great control, and as the time is running out I increase the speed of the cursor, trying to control that thing :)"},{"author_name":"Niavlys","author_uid":"8666","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:07pm","epoch":1355839320,"text":"@supermaximo93 : Yes, I guess it needs to be optimized… Glad you had fun with it!"},{"author_name":"Niavlys","author_uid":"8666","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:27pm","epoch":1355840520,"text":"@Agamgad : Thanks, I'm happy I started over with this idea, I was totally disliking the previous one.\r\r@Pierrec : Thanks! The mechanics are conceptually very simple, but very hard to master, it seems! :)\r\r@nitramgc : Glad you liked the audio and gameplay. I hope I won't get too many bad ratings in Audio because it can't be heard in Firefox (or other browsers)...\rThanks for your playing tips!"},{"author_name":"Muu? (lanoiadimuu)","author_uid":"7264","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:55pm","epoch":1355842200,"text":"Interesting concept.\rI got to phase 9 by just swinging mouse around at random, then (after 10-12 tries) I wasn't able to get past phase 9.\rProbably it was because I didn't understand how the ball movement actually worked."},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:56pm","epoch":1355842260,"text":"I'm a sucker for anything with spring mechanics!"},{"author_name":"mutuwarejam","author_uid":"19561","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1355852580,"text":"I got up to 233! Then my laptop started stuttering :)"},{"author_name":"Niavlys","author_uid":"8666","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1355852580,"text":"@Muu? (lanoiadimuu) : The mechanics were pretty simple to program. In fact, it's the first thing I came up with, I wanted to change it and actually couldn't make anything better, so it became the difficulty of the game: mastering the controls. The nervosity of the ball movement can also add to its "vilainous" aspect.\r\r@mrspeaker : It's meant to be incontrollable! If it were too easy you would get to level 20 without any effort and your computer would crash."},{"author_name":"Mythalore","author_uid":"12844","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:29pm","epoch":1355858640,"text":"A rather different idea!"},{"author_name":"Mava","author_uid":"17949","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:43pm","epoch":1355859480,"text":"Addictive and simple, once I got the hang of it I came back for more. Well done :)"},{"author_name":"kill0u","author_uid":"5422","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 11:58am","epoch":1355917980,"text":"Weird, but fun :)\rIt's a little hard to master the ball movements, but still fun.\r\rBtw, I temporarily voted n\/a for audio, 'cause I can't play with sound on atm. But I'll definitely play again tonight and re-vote ;)"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 6:26pm","epoch":1356027660,"text":"Nice flinging-mechanic!"},{"author_name":"LTyrosine","author_uid":"6633","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 7:02pm","epoch":1356202620,"text":"This is a real angry red ball. Nice game!"},{"author_name":"Niavlys","author_uid":"8666","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 7:16pm","epoch":1356203460,"text":"@LTyrosine: I'm glad you found the theme in my game. Thanks! :)"},{"author_name":"CoffeeOnimal","author_uid":"1643","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 12:33pm","epoch":1356265680,"text":""Four lives and a fucking flamethrower."\r\rFantastic."},{"author_name":"CoffeeOnimal","author_uid":"1643","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 1:05pm","epoch":1356267600,"text":"Oops, that comment was meant for a different game.. Move along, nothing to see here..."},{"author_name":"CoffeeOnimal","author_uid":"1643","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 1:10pm","epoch":1356267900,"text":"Now for the real comment..\rNeat little physics toy here, hard to see a game in it yet, but it just needs some goals or scoring added."},{"author_name":"aare","author_uid":"15039","time":"Dec 26, 2012 @ 2:22pm","epoch":1356531420,"text":"Made it to the level 7 :)"},{"author_name":"h.attila","author_uid":"8403","time":"Jan 4, 2013 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1357310100,"text":"The controls are weird, I couldn't really get the hang of them and I think the game is too simple."},{"author_name":"azurenimbus","author_uid":"12119","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 6:00am","epoch":1357365300,"text":"Nicely done, challenging and rewarding experience. :) Love the mechanics."}],"images":["ld25\/8666-538624206f5181d5eda9927429b0e590.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/innsbay.toile-libre.org\/Somso\/ld25niavlys.html","text":"Web (audio with Chrome\/Chromium only)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27489","g_author":"8666","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27519","g_title":"Somso","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"505","g_commentcount":"22","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\/8666-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"IMPORTANT : There *is* audio, but only with Chrome or Chromium! See below.\r\n\r\nIn order for this game to fit the theme \"You Are The Villain\", please just picture yourself (the red sphere) as a very bad person, whereas your enemies are the heroes that represent the goodness, the good and the great, otherwise nothing will really make you feel like a \"villain\" more than in any other game.\r\n\r\nIt's ok, you can rate 0 on \"Theme\". I made this game in less than 20 hours, after starting over three times. I wasn't satisfied with my previous ideas, this one seemed at least interesting to me.\r\n\r\nI know this isn't finished. The only end is when you get tired of the FPS getting lower and lower as you complete phases. There isn't any real challenge either, as you have infinite \"lives.\" I failed at adding goats as well, they may replace the blue balls in the post-compo version though.\r\n\r\nYou will have to play with Chrome or Chromium in order for the audio to be working, because other browsers don't support the Web Audio API yet. I would greatly appreciate it if you don't rate 0 in Audio just because you don't hear any audio. The sound is important for other categories as well, so I thank you very much if you make an effort to play in Chrome (assumimg you're not a regular user, that's cool if you are). :)\r\n\r\nAnyway, please play, rate and comment my game, and I will check and rate and comment yours! Thanks :)\r\n\r\nPS: Please don't look at the code too much. Some parts really are awful programming.\r\n\r\n-- 2012-12-19: Fixed a bug where the ball would get stuck when starting too close from the border. Fixed preloading of images as well. (Still lagging under Firefox)<\/p>","title":"Somso"}