{"author_link":"\/author\/madlee\/","author_name":"madlee","author_uid":"15236","comments":[{"author_name":"PickledBrain","author_uid":"14930","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 6:37am","epoch":1346135520,"text":"Hmmm. I'm just getting a blank screen. But don't worry. It seems like lots of people are having problems and I'll wait to play your game. It's interesting :) I demand lady robots"},{"author_name":"axcho","author_uid":"8060","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 6:49am","epoch":1346136240,"text":"Just got a blank gray page. Couldn't play. Sorry, looked really cool from the screen shots."},{"author_name":"madlee","author_uid":"15236","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 1:28pm","epoch":1346160180,"text":"Sorry about that! We found and squashed a little bug that caused the game to not work if the page took too long to load. Should be working now"},{"author_name":"PickledBrain","author_uid":"14930","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 7:21pm","epoch":1346181360,"text":"Hrm. Still looks blank"},{"author_name":"madlee","author_uid":"15236","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:07pm","epoch":1346187720,"text":"Hmm. What browser are you using? If it's IE that is probably the issue, otherwise it might be caching."},{"author_name":"madlee","author_uid":"15236","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:16pm","epoch":1346188260,"text":"Actually, we think we found the issue. Should me more cross-browser friendly now. Thanks for being bugtesty :)"},{"author_name":"SimianLogic","author_uid":"15570","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 1:30am","epoch":1346203500,"text":"Looks gorgeous, and the idea is pretty neat. You should definitely keep playing with it!"},{"author_name":"rhysvdw","author_uid":"12256","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 2:08am","epoch":1346205780,"text":"Sounds like the idea had potential. The graphics are nice. Not really much more can be at this stage."},{"author_name":"TravisChen","author_uid":"12204","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 4:28am","epoch":1346214180,"text":"Love the screenshot with the exploded robot."},{"author_name":"PickledBrain","author_uid":"14930","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 5:40pm","epoch":1346261700,"text":"Great job on the graphics. Now keep working on it, I wanna play this game :)"},{"author_name":"wlad","author_uid":"15017","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 8:25am","epoch":1346314800,"text":"The idea and the whole concept sounds great, but i guess one has to play it, when the whole thing advanced. For the moment I don't see what's exciting about it. You already can place metal boxes, the robots pass through the boxes and i can't see if their GONADS already are transmitting. So, go ahead, I'm looking forward to your update. … aaand, of course really great graphics. Maybe you can improve the mood i you give the tiles a noise or so - but that might be only a personal preference :) Great job!"},{"author_name":"pythong","author_uid":"717","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 5:03pm","epoch":1347037080,"text":"huh? the robots are cheating and just walk through my barricades :\/? firefox btw"},{"author_name":"madlee","author_uid":"15236","time":"Sep 8, 2012 @ 11:31pm","epoch":1347146760,"text":"yeah, we couldn't get everything working in time, so its technically not a game. We are working on developing the idea fully now that the competition is over and we have more time :)"},{"author_name":"dj_pale","author_uid":"9921","time":"Sep 12, 2012 @ 9:14pm","epoch":1347484140,"text":"Good graphics, gameplay is not finished so hard to evaluate it as a game."},{"author_name":"thewiseguy99","author_uid":"14421","time":"Sep 16, 2012 @ 12:01am","epoch":1347753360,"text":"Really great graphics! This game really has potential. Such a pity it is not more playable right now but there is enough for me to see that I am looking forward to seeing your updated version!"}],"images":["ld24\/15236-516c203649d829ea52b4034cd465ac12.jpg","ld24\/15236-cd157f3d3fc56df8e3f539ad696488e8.jpg","ld24\/15236-5152a5e1cc139e6a936b8bee8a66f77e.jpg","ld24\/15236-f23fb300999d4a2578b9f35bbd7b5454.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/merc-arch.com\/GONADS\/ui\/base.html","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29285","g_author":"15236","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"29315","g_title":"GONADS","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"15","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\/15236-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/15236-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/15236-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/15236-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"GONADS is our take on the theme: blind, undirected evolution fueled only by death and the sexual impulses of 21952 different robots. Unfortunately, that was too many robots and we never quite realized our goal of actually making a win\/lose condition or progression on the character's side. So what we have left is more of a toy than a game; more of a preview of our generated robots. We have art for about 9 times as many chassis as you can see in the game, in addition to a large number of traps and things the robots could do to counter the traps. All the artwork was originally produced since the beginning of the jam.\r\n\r\nThe game would have worked as such: You are an employee in a lab who's robots suddenly go haywire, forcing you to protect various important assets. You can place barricades and traps, but the robots are varied and diverse, and among their ranks are robots built perfectly to compromise your defenses. The better the individual robots do, the more likely their GONADS (galvanized ontogenetic nanobot assembled deployment systems) are to transmit their own designs back to the manufactury, guaranteeing more similar robots. The goal of the player, therefore, is to misdirect this reaction. Build walls and walls of wood until every robot carries a saw and an axe, then switch to metal bars and sprinkler traps and watch as they fall against your defenses... until the one nerdy robot carrying an umbrella and an arc welder makes it to the front of the pack, impressing all of the lady robots,* spreading his seed far and wide.\r\n\r\nThis is more of a general proof of concept for the pathfinding that that game would use. You can place blocks from the panel in the upper left that add to the 'cost' of the path based on the hardness of the block (wood","title":"GONADS"}