{"author_link":"\/author\/jellyfame\/","author_name":"JellyFame","author_uid":"12511","comments":[{"author_name":"Pixelulsar","author_uid":"10737","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 9:59pm","epoch":1335563640,"text":"Story seemed unfinished because the point was to get energy from the sun, yet you never get to the sun. Graphic were pretty good."},{"author_name":"gritfish","author_uid":"10705","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 2:13am","epoch":1335665280,"text":"Graphics were great - were the little moons\/satellites enemies? I wasn't sure whether I was meant to shoot them or not. Advancing the level even if you die was a good idea though. A points tally at the end would have made that system work even better."},{"author_name":"pawlmurray","author_uid":"12276","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 11:23pm","epoch":1335741480,"text":"Definitly a good start. Good graphics and controls, but still has a while to go."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 9:41am","epoch":1335951360,"text":"Lovely shooter!"},{"author_name":"Christina Antoinette Neofotistou","author_uid":"13139","time":"May 10, 2012 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1336654200,"text":"awesome graphics :))"},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 7:50am","epoch":1336722300,"text":"Great graphics, especially planets. Fun game too bad is so short"},{"author_name":"Johnicholas","author_uid":"3926","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 1:11pm","epoch":1336827960,"text":"Nice variety in the enemies!"},{"author_name":"trylle","author_uid":"3066","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 1:20pm","epoch":1336828500,"text":"Er, I think every time I died it went to the next level. Never actually got a game over, but cool enough. :)\r\rI actually thought the movement was a bit sluggish, lots of inertia and fairly slow acceleration (would be easier if I could move sideways), couldn't really dodge attacks.\r\rGood effort, though."},{"author_name":"onehandclap","author_uid":"12918","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 1:21pm","epoch":1336828560,"text":"Definitely a good start, now I'm curious to see the extended version. =)"},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 1:22pm","epoch":1336828620,"text":"Doesn't work properly in Firefox 11.0 64bit in Linux, No music and sound effects cause it to stutter badly. Runs fine in Opera though.\rDidn't realise why the gun would stop working at first, you should mention the energy thing somewhere.\rAlso getting hit didn't seem to do anything.\rGood game."},{"author_name":"xillix","author_uid":"10866","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 1:39pm","epoch":1336829640,"text":"The game play is fun."},{"author_name":"Skywilly","author_uid":"4255","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 2:33pm","epoch":1336832880,"text":"So easy, so quickly ended, but... so fun !"},{"author_name":"ericdpitts","author_uid":"6759","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1336833720,"text":"I liked the graphics and your music as well! I would have liked to be able to get to the sun though. :("},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1336838100,"text":"Looove those planet graphics. Lots of nice content here, actually.\r\rIt was a bit too easy for me (I got through without dying once), but I'm sure you can address difficulty in the extended version (my suggestion would be to make the "wave" weapon's strength diminish more the more it expands).\r\rNice job doing this from scratch in javascript\/canvas."},{"author_name":"Valeour","author_uid":"2679","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1336838640,"text":"Good, but just seemed silly having to dive into the satellites to pass each level, I just ended up skipping everything else."},{"author_name":"davidpeter","author_uid":"3323","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1336850100,"text":"It became really easy just destroying the satellites (at least I think that's what I did) to end the level and beat the game. Fun though!"},{"author_name":"smvilar","author_uid":"11771","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 12:06am","epoch":1336867260,"text":"I didn't understand the gameplay... but nice graphics!"},{"author_name":"egerlach","author_uid":"4771","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 1:15am","epoch":1336871400,"text":"Awesome graphics and sound. Keep up the good work and this should be a good game!"},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 2:06am","epoch":1336874460,"text":"Solid game but felt too easy; I beat each level without really knowing what I was doing."},{"author_name":"Daniel","author_uid":"11829","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 2:40am","epoch":1336876500,"text":"Intense action :)"},{"author_name":"apfrod","author_uid":"11546","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 12:10pm","epoch":1336910700,"text":"loved the irregular-shaped planets!\r\rthe enemies seem to be doing a lot more clever things than make any difference to the gameplay\r\rlike the automatic paused state."},{"author_name":"Angerus","author_uid":"12361","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 2:19pm","epoch":1336918440,"text":"I'm find it to easy ( you jsute have to aim the satellit and nothing left matter) but well it was fun! Maybe It will be more interesting with a invincible protection on the Satellite which disappear when you have kill all the enemies..."},{"author_name":"JellyFame","author_uid":"12511","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1336919460,"text":"Thanks for satellite shield idea. This will probably be implemented in extended version."},{"author_name":"Lawrence Esswood","author_uid":"9259","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 3:02pm","epoch":1336921020,"text":"Great visuals\/audio. It was a little too easy to play however. Also, did you know your audio does not loop? (I'm on firefox)"},{"author_name":"JellyFame","author_uid":"12511","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1336921920,"text":"Did not know. Will be fixed in extended version. Actually doesn't loop in Chrome either. I guess we havent played it for eight minutes without reload."},{"author_name":"quixotic-project","author_uid":"10726","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 3:38pm","epoch":1336923180,"text":"Fun game, but it was over too fast :)"},{"author_name":"crippledgames","author_uid":"11098","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1336925220,"text":"Very good graphics"},{"author_name":"Fenyx","author_uid":"2976","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 4:40pm","epoch":1336926900,"text":"Love the music and the graphics, not a fan of the sound effects. You should actually have a game-over sequence when you die... It makes more sense..."},{"author_name":"dr_soda","author_uid":"8342","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1336945080,"text":"The graphics are nice, and I made it to the "end" but I can't say as I ever really figured out what I was doing. I think just adding clarity to what the user is supposed to do would help tremendously."}],"images":["ld23\/12511-a578c4a49db7bf842ff9b03df1032adb.jpg","ld23\/12511-39adf59e411acc685e785f115976d405.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.jellyfame.com\/SolarThief","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.jellyfame.com\/SolarThief","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30101","g_author":"12511","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"30131","g_title":"Solar Thief","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"132","g_commentcount":"29","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\/\/123793\/12511-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/12511-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You're an alien from a tiny world running out of energy. \r\nYour sole mission is to extract Sun's energy and bring it back to your needy world.\r\n\r\nHave fun.\r\n\r\n- works best in newest Chrome browser, Safari and Firefox also supported\r\n- requires fair computer hardware (CPU primarily)\r\n- not quite finished yet, extended version coming soon\r\n\r\n\r\nThanks to Vlado for levels, AI and support.\r\nMusic by Kevin MacLeod\r\n<\/p>","title":"Solar Thief"}