{"author_link":"\/author\/madmaw\/","author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","comments":[{"author_name":"brianshaler","author_uid":"12801","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:32am","epoch":1335173220,"text":"lol wtfffffff"},{"author_name":"andrebeton","author_uid":"8117","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:52am","epoch":1335174420,"text":"when i click on one of the planets a video shows up…\rusing chrome 18"},{"author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:24pm","epoch":1335183540,"text":"Oh, I see how that could be confusing. The "video" is actually just controls for the music player, I figured I'd leave the controls visible in case you wanted to mute the music, but it does look like the whole game is actually a video (it's not)."},{"author_name":"mess110","author_uid":"12300","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:41pm","epoch":1335184560,"text":"nice!"},{"author_name":"samoojamies","author_uid":"11043","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:56pm","epoch":1335185460,"text":"Nice idea :)"},{"author_name":"cakemonitor","author_uid":"5357","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:22pm","epoch":1335187020,"text":"I really enjoyed this game. It's a great idea (although I'm not convinced that it matched the theme particularly well). Still it scorec highly from me overall :)"},{"author_name":"arhpositive","author_uid":"11575","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:17pm","epoch":1335215520,"text":"bullets tend to get stuck when they're fired repeatedly. other than that, i think the concept is cool :)"},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:02pm","epoch":1335221820,"text":"Scintilla is amazing and eye-melting but I didn't really get much out of the others. Great concept though."},{"author_name":"FrankTheTank","author_uid":"12344","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:05pm","epoch":1335222000,"text":"Pretty interesting idea!"},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:10am","epoch":1335243900,"text":"I love your use of optical illusions"},{"author_name":"cadin","author_uid":"7233","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1335286140,"text":"This is really cool. Great idea! It would be neat to see a whole series of mini games based on different illusions, with different types of gameplay. Nice work."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:42am","epoch":1335314220,"text":"You know... this is one of the wtf games :) At first I thought that it's just a very simple shooter, then the illusion thing broke into my brain...\r\rI love games that mess with people's mind :) even if this is not much of a game, it deserves high rates :)"},{"author_name":"devwil","author_uid":"7526","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:50am","epoch":1335314700,"text":"agh! some of these are maddening (and uncomfortable to look at)! i don't know that this was a *good* idea, but it's certainly a bold one and i applaud that!"},{"author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 1:44am","epoch":1335317940,"text":"I feel bad for not quoting my sources, but I wanted the element of surprise for this one (which too much info would ruin). Now there's enough commentage to push this post down a bit...\r\rLichasa http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lilac_chaser\rScintilla and Hermann http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grid_illusion\rMoblin http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/358665\/motion_induced_blindness\/\rFateeg (this example is actually way more amazing than what I went with) http:\/\/www.feelguide.com\/2011\/11\/10\/optical-illusion-of-the-day-the-image-that-vanishes-before-your-eyes\/\r\rUnfortunately I had to cull a couple because I ran out of time (and started experiencing pretty bad headaches)\rTroxler (was planning on having a planet with a ring around it) http:\/\/dailymonthly.com\/?p=550\rMarch http:\/\/www.moillusions.com\/2012\/04\/stepping-feet-optical-illusion.html\r\rThanks for playing and commenting!"},{"author_name":"Zamando","author_uid":"12041","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1335391620,"text":"Really unique concept, enjoyed playing this one! It would have been nice if the theme was a little more integrated than just the level selection :)"},{"author_name":"Cake&Code","author_uid":"10976","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 2:12am","epoch":1335492420,"text":"Very much of a mindtrip, but my eyes got a little sore from playing. I gave it high marks for creativity though!"},{"author_name":"dokidoki","author_uid":"12261","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 3:06am","epoch":1335495660,"text":"I agree about the bullets. I know some games have a limit of one bullet at a time, but usually the "aborted" bullet disappears. But cool idea!"},{"author_name":"liger13","author_uid":"12133","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:03am","epoch":1335502680,"text":"Really amazing idea. Why do the bullets curve, though?"},{"author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:49am","epoch":1335505440,"text":"The bullets are supposed to be somewhat homing (to encourage the user to keep their eyes on the centre of the screen instead of worrying too much about accuracy), they should track to the closest thing of the correct colour. \r\rAs to why there is only one and an interrupted bullet leaves an artefact on the screen...yeah that's a bug. It would have been reasonably easy to fix, but it also conveniently stops the player from spamming out bullets, so I left it and concentrated on other things."},{"author_name":"R3ason","author_uid":"6105","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 4:48am","epoch":1335933780,"text":"My eyes!! D: Nah, this is a wonderful, amazing departure from the same 'ole same 'ole games submitted! I am literally seeing spots right now! Hermann done me in :P Great graphics, great sound to go along with it! Only minor issue (which I think someone else mentioned) is that bullets tend to "stick" on the screen. Is this intended? Thanks for making this!"},{"author_name":"LukeRissacher","author_uid":"10956","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 6:49am","epoch":1335941040,"text":"Cool - nice experiment. Liked the scintilla level, that was clever."},{"author_name":"netmute","author_uid":"11213","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 11:54am","epoch":1335959340,"text":"I had no idea what I'm supposed to do, cool idea tho ;)"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"May 4, 2012 @ 7:15pm","epoch":1336158600,"text":"Those grid-like levels completely messed with my eyes. That being said, this is a very original idea.\r\rNeed to clean up the old shots though."},{"author_name":"Robert Swan","author_uid":"1845","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1336517760,"text":"Again, not sure about the theme. But 6 stars out of 5 for innovation! Fantastic idea - really had me doubting my eyes at points which I love."},{"author_name":"Jedi","author_uid":"4799","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 11:12pm","epoch":1336950420,"text":"Didn't notice at first but, as promised, it doesn't work in Firefox :\/."},{"author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","time":"May 17, 2012 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1337293560,"text":"FYI, the latest version of Chrome seems to have had some subtle change in how SVG\/CSS gets treated and the bullet collisions have stopped working. I guess that's what you get for using undocumented APIs. \r\rThe illusions still work, but the gameplay is more underwhelming than ever."}],"images":["ld23\/5068-4a4465d1191764aa770825dce45d4e22.jpg","ld23\/5068-c57ae72b43694f02a106547db760cc37.jpg","ld23\/5068-afe22cdcbd6c4d4f951cc17afb725be4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.madmaw.com\/illusion\/index.html","text":"Web (Chrome Only)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.madmaw.com\/illusion.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30278","g_author":"5068","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30308","g_title":"(Tiny) Worlds of Illusion","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"434","g_commentcount":"26","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\/5068-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/5068-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/5068-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The idea behind this game was to integrate optical illusions into gameplay. <\/p>","title":"(Tiny) Worlds of Illusion"}