{"author_link":"\/author\/surreal_whale\/","author_name":"surreal_whale","author_uid":"5003","comments":[{"author_name":"CaptainIcy","author_uid":"7354","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:17am","epoch":1346037120,"text":"I really like this! The graphic style and gameplay are great. I'd like to see it expanded a bit more. It has a lot of potential!"},{"author_name":"PickledBrain","author_uid":"14930","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:50am","epoch":1346049900,"text":"Couldn't play. Server's timing out."},{"author_name":"TobiasNL","author_uid":"10964","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:12am","epoch":1346062020,"text":"Hehe loving the title and title screen. Gameplay was simple yet fun. I missed sounds and more stuff going on though. Overall job well done!"},{"author_name":"tdsmale","author_uid":"11017","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:15am","epoch":1346062200,"text":"Great controls, with some more work this could be really fun."},{"author_name":"surreal_whale","author_uid":"5003","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:06am","epoch":1346065260,"text":"I just uploaded the game to Kongregate and changed the link, so that should solve any server problems."},{"author_name":"bluefoxgs","author_uid":"15375","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:01pm","epoch":1346079360,"text":"I love this game :D although, I found the worst way to play it was like a warrior, by this i mean I went full speed, all guns blazing into the...eh...what are they? space tigers?"},{"author_name":"hnjslater","author_uid":"16286","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:07pm","epoch":1346083320,"text":"Awesome idea and fun to play. Shame the evolution didn't come through a little more."},{"author_name":"Edd Morgan","author_uid":"11544","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:48pm","epoch":1346085780,"text":"I really like how this game looks. Very colourful and inviting, easy to pick up and the animations are slick. Gameplay isn't too deep, but still a great little game."},{"author_name":"mariscal","author_uid":"14673","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:08pm","epoch":1346086980,"text":"I love the controls, I really enjoy the game, I get lost everytime I was close to the screen borders :P"},{"author_name":"ElScootro","author_uid":"14881","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:55pm","epoch":1346089800,"text":"Fun game! I ran off the right side of the screen and couldn't seem to get back and had to refresh the page at one point, some sort of boundary would have been good to have. I hope you'll update this one!"},{"author_name":"kato9","author_uid":"5821","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1346094540,"text":"A little too easy to fly out of the map boundaries. It's a solid game - but I definitely didn't notice any evolution in the enemies."},{"author_name":"MadGnomeGamer","author_uid":"10251","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 11:16pm","epoch":1346109060,"text":"Cool idea! About to play it :)"},{"author_name":"raarlac","author_uid":"11711","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 1:46am","epoch":1346204460,"text":"Besides the intro screen, the gfx are great! I loved the rainbow particles everywhere"},{"author_name":"leafo","author_uid":"4321","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1346344440,"text":"Would be nice if you couldn't get lost on the map boundaries. Also the controls are a little difficult for aiming."},{"author_name":"Qaterknan","author_uid":"11181","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 6:20pm","epoch":1346609700,"text":"Nice game but too easy."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Sep 4, 2012 @ 12:19am","epoch":1346717640,"text":"Rainbow particles!"},{"author_name":"CataclysmicKnight","author_uid":"1082","time":"Sep 8, 2012 @ 2:39am","epoch":1347071640,"text":"Don't be so hard on yourself, not only was the name awesome, the game was fun too!!! My only issue was that when I went off the screen I couldn't get back on..."},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Sep 11, 2012 @ 12:46pm","epoch":1347367260,"text":"I enjoyed playing this one, the particle effects were cool too"},{"author_name":"moonmagic","author_uid":"4706","time":"Sep 15, 2012 @ 6:45am","epoch":1347691200,"text":"I really liked the rainbow sparks. More rainbows! And explosions would have been wonderful. Pity there isn't a degree of Cute Sounds."}],"images":["ld24\/5003-fd3870e9db3992c04834f28f21138b33.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/surreal_whale\/the-adventure-of-charles-starwin","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/19544646\/StarwinSrc.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28628","g_author":"5003","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28658","g_title":"The Adventure of Charles Starwin","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"531","g_commentcount":"19","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\/\/163678\/5003-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Arrow keys to move, Space to shoot.\r\nFar from a complete game, but playable.\r\n\r\nEach new enemy which spawns bases its stats on the average of the surviving enemies so in theory they 'evolve', in practice it makes very little noticeable difference, although they do tend to get faster. I'm sure the concept could be done well (in fact someone nearly certainly will have done something similar and better in the competition) but I don't have time to do it.<\/p>","title":"The Adventure of Charles Starwin"}