{"author_link":"\/author\/kharza\/","author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","comments":[{"author_name":"Phobos001","author_uid":"12851","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:18am","epoch":1335229980,"text":"The game was alright. It was very brief and straight forward, and the sounds weren't very good, but I found it funny that an ant will always point towards you, and somehow walk, even when you are on a platform MUCH Higher than their current Y, so it looked like they merged with the floor. That made me laugh my ass off!\r\rWith the theme I kinda did the same thing you did with your submission, a very small level with tons of dudes, especially the last level. Weird how the enemies don't have collisions for themselves, so they all died after I grouped them all together and shot a few times.\r\rI think this game is victim to the 'over-ambition' syndrome, in which developers have this awesome idea for a game, but ran out of time and had to submit what was finished of it. This is better than giving up, however, so I'm glad you pulled through, because this has potential to be a fun mindless shooter! \r\rOverall it wasn't a bad game, but i'm sure if you had more time it could of been much better. But now that the entry is in, you can spend some time fixing it up a bit, and make it an awesome game! ;)"},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 4:15am","epoch":1335240600,"text":"Yey a comment! Thanks! Yes I wanted to do 5 levels and introduce a new weapon on each with a boss at the end. But really the whole time I was hoping I'd think up some clever idea that fit the theme.\r\rI'm actually fixing up my ludum dare 21 game for xbox live indie games. It doesn't use this code-base, as it's full of license confusion.\r\rBy the way a friend is seeing a crash. Trying to figure out what it is, maybe ATI related?"},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:15am","epoch":1335244200,"text":"My friend Dragonsix helped me track down the problem (we think). It has something to do with having windows in french, and is some sort of text problem. It fails trying to grab a camera entity from the map (the entity stuff is all text). I'm currently trying to make my windows french to try it out and fix it. If I find it I'll put a new link to a different exe. Big thanks to Dragonsix for helping me with this!"},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1335304380,"text":"Yes I got french installed and my material system works with strings a lot, feeding vectors into shaders as like "" + vec.X etc... The .net string stuff would convert the decimals into commas and the shaders would get very confused. I'm uploading a fix slowly, when it's done I'll edit with a second link to ... a decimalfixed version"},{"author_name":"MurrayL","author_uid":"7835","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:05am","epoch":1335312000,"text":"That was pretty fun - I played through it a few times.\r\rThere's nothing wrong with the graphics (aside from the ants pointing directly at you all the time, as Phobos001 said), but it would've been nice to have some more visual feedback on the damage I was doing. Obviously you hear the gun fire, but unless an ant actually died it was very hard, if not impossible, to tell if I'd actually hit them or not.\rSomething as simple as a blood particle system, a 'damage dealt' number (ala Borderlands) or a 'hurt' animation on the ants would've done wonders for the feel of the game."},{"author_name":"Chtulhu","author_uid":"12980","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:09am","epoch":1335312240,"text":"I downloaded your game.\rIt crashed.\rI read that XNA was need.\rI downloaded XNA.\rYour game worked during 5 seconds but it crashed again.\rI downloaded .NET again\rYour game crashed again after 5 seconds.\r\r:\/\r\rIt let you some informations. Sorry windows gave it to me in french. Maybe "System.ArgumentOutOfRange" will help you...\r\rSignature du problème :\r Nom d’événement de problème:\tCLR20r3\r Signature du problème 01:\tludum23.exe\r Signature du problème 02:\t1.0.0.0\r Signature du problème 03:\t4f94bb43\r Signature du problème 04:\tmscorlib\r Signature du problème 05:\t4.0.0.0\r Signature du problème 06:\t4e181ae3\r Signature du problème 07:\t222\r Signature du problème 08:\t18\r Signature du problème 09:\tSystem.ArgumentOutOfRange\r Version du système:\t6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48\r Identificateur de paramètres régionaux:\t1036\r Information supplémentaire n° 1:\t0a9e\r Information supplémentaire n° 2:\t0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789\r Information supplémentaire n° 3:\t0a9e\r Information supplémentaire n° 4:\t0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789"},{"author_name":"devwil","author_uid":"7526","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:28am","epoch":1335313380,"text":"***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***\r\rWhen hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.\r\rPlease consider making a browser game next time."},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:32am","epoch":1335313620,"text":"Chtulhu, yep that's the european decimal problem, it is fixed in a link in my description text. And devwil, find me a development environment for the web that could produce the game I just made and I'll be happy to use the web."},{"author_name":"BenW","author_uid":"128","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:53am","epoch":1335314880,"text":"It really needs some sort of projectile animation to provide feedback to the player. Also I couldn't find out how to get the ammo pack behind the flashing light."},{"author_name":"Parthon","author_uid":"1131","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:56am","epoch":1335315060,"text":"This game was kinda fun, but over way too fast. Not very original, but I liked the clean\/retro art style, and the music was enjoyable. There could be some potential here."},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:58am","epoch":1335315180,"text":"I agree with the feedback. There is an ant hurt sound but it is overpowered by the gunfire noises. If you hit a big ball of ants with a rocket, you'll know though :)\r\rI feel silly for making those boxes. I was going to make an ant hill type world, but I forgot what I was doing and started making standard fps geometry haha."},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 1:32am","epoch":1335317220,"text":"I'm only playing Web or OSX games, but your screen shots and time-lapse look really impressive!"},{"author_name":"Fireblend","author_uid":"10166","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 4:44am","epoch":1335328740,"text":"Haha, that was fun! Really enjoyed it and I liked the over-the-top ending. Neat music as well! Just wish I could see whether a bullet hit or not :P"},{"author_name":"envy3d","author_uid":"8359","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 5:36am","epoch":1335331860,"text":"Cool short game. I'm sure this must have been difficult to finish in time and I don't even want to imagine how long it must have taken to model everything!"},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 5:54am","epoch":1335332940,"text":"I did the ant quickly, and the gun models I flew through, but the levels took awhile. I was having problems with quark repainting the window so I couldn't see what I had selected. If you check out my timelapse you can see I barely spent any time in max compared to quark.\r\rI need to expand my level building tools to read collada format, but it's difficult to do, as you have to try to build convex volumes from arbitrary geometry."},{"author_name":"s0ulcrusher","author_uid":"8105","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 6:03am","epoch":1335333480,"text":"The music seems really pro and the level design isn't too shabby. One question - why does Lord British want to know about my feats? It's true I'm a mighty ant slayer but he's been to space and looked down upon us like we were ants. What I'm trying to say is, nice job!"},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:06am","epoch":1335340860,"text":"Haha thanks!"},{"author_name":"gavin5564","author_uid":"5689","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:48am","epoch":1335343380,"text":"Really impressed with this one. Great work!"},{"author_name":"piman","author_uid":"12570","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:11pm","epoch":1335355560,"text":"I can't rate this because I don't have a Windows system. Sorry."},{"author_name":"SusanTheCat","author_uid":"5150","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 5:03pm","epoch":1335373080,"text":"I was unable to play because it could not find a suitable graphics card."},{"author_name":"Permanent7","author_uid":"7197","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1335379080,"text":"The ants scared the shit out of me. No joke. But pretty fun! Some things. You should be able to move while in air. Also the player only jumps when you let go of the space bar. I'm sure others have said that though up above."},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 6:59pm","epoch":1335380040,"text":"Sorry about that Susan, I had planned on attempting to switch to the reach graphics profile, but I forgot about it. Using hidef means that it won't run on netbooks and the like.\r\rI am glad it actually tells you what is wrong though. That must be automatic. If you are missing the redist or framework it just unceremoniously crashes with no clues as to why (they should fix that)."},{"author_name":"kroltan","author_uid":"10851","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1335386340,"text":"Nice game, but could have visual feedback on damage and be a little longer.\r\r"...find me a development environment for the web that could produce the game I just made and I'll be happy to use the web." Unity."},{"author_name":"sirpalee","author_uid":"10781","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 9:23pm","epoch":1335388680,"text":"The graphics worked well for me, the movement, level design, the enemies were also fine. But please, add some visual feedback next time, I didn't know if I'm hitting them with the shotgun or not. Otherwise, it's pretty solid. Great work!"},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 9:29pm","epoch":1335389040,"text":"I've attached all the raw source art I used to make this. Some of the weapons I never saved (oops), I just have the collada exports."},{"author_name":"omaha","author_uid":"5229","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:52am","epoch":1335412020,"text":"couldn't run it on my mac or linux boxes :("},{"author_name":"jrasmussen24","author_uid":"11788","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1335464580,"text":"The look controls were really sensitive while using the Xbox controller-- if this could be adjusted, that would be great :P. Otherwise, it is a pretty solid start (especially in just 48 hours)."},{"author_name":"Vilborg","author_uid":"4884","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 3:07am","epoch":1335495720,"text":"I can't run your game. If you go into Project Properties and change the Hi-Def profile to the Reach profile, it will be more accessible to those of us with older computers. I'd love to play another game made in XNA, but the graphics option seems to prevent that."},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1335546000,"text":"Yea sorry about that. It's not an easy switch for me as I use some shader model 3 stuff, and 32 bit indices everywhere. I'll be sure to do that before next ludum dare though. And hopefully by then I'll have a web option."},{"author_name":"Cake&Code","author_uid":"10976","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 10:35pm","epoch":1335652200,"text":"I wish the jump happened on keypress and not keyrelease but overall it was pretty fun! Killing ants sure got a whole lot tougher! How do I report my win to Lord British? xD"},{"author_name":"jeffz","author_uid":"4842","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 1:31am","epoch":1335749160,"text":"reminds me of doom, i fragged and i had fun."},{"author_name":"Datamosh","author_uid":"10942","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 8:03am","epoch":1336031880,"text":"In gameplay didn't drive me crazy, but it was good and I feel like it has a lot of potential! Graphics are stunning as they are, I liked them. But I had to install a bunch of stuff to play!"},{"author_name":"Sandcrawler","author_uid":"3966","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 10:57pm","epoch":1336085520,"text":"I enjoyed playing it, would have liked to have more levels. But the weapon variety was good."},{"author_name":"Ace","author_uid":"10247","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1336334760,"text":"A nice entry, although I found the fact that weapons don't have any shoot\/hit effects kind of confusing. You have no idea if you're actually hitting the ants or not.\rCould've used a way of switching control setup though, I had to unplug my 360 controller if I wanted to use mouse+keyboard."},{"author_name":"ghRibacki","author_uid":"7839","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1336334940,"text":"What the... at the end I blew up some ants and loads more appeared! Hell! Chaos! At least I killed them all! Funny ants.\r\rMore feedback on shots and more ammo would be better, but overall a very nice game! Good work! =)"},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1336336860,"text":"They pile up at the doorways so it seems like it is just one ant with a bunch of legs but it's really a whole bunch :D No pathfinding or collision. Thanks for all the ratings and comments! Most I've ever had <3"},{"author_name":"danlthemanl","author_uid":"5573","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 9:44pm","epoch":1336340340,"text":"It was okay, I liked the graphics,the guns didn't seem too different, none of them were really any better than each other."},{"author_name":"cmo7","author_uid":"11052","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 5:12pm","epoch":1336410420,"text":"Nice lighting!"},{"author_name":"icefox","author_uid":"7186","time":"May 10, 2012 @ 9:02am","epoch":1336640220,"text":"Pretty cool! I like the engine and lighting for some reason. The game itself is a little underdeveloped (weapon hit effects would have added a lot), but fighting giant doom ants was fun. (I wish you were an ant as well, taking on other ants in deadly mandible-to-mandible combat... am I weird?)"},{"author_name":"Raptor85","author_uid":"7131","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 9:54pm","epoch":1336772940,"text":"cant test due to XNA4 dep"}],"images":["ld23\/5649-a1df1bee208359a4e6888bada6103084.jpg","ld23\/5649-bb34312223b98b32f69111f05a30f505.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/59900676\/Ludum23Release.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/59900676\/SourceArtLD23.zip","text":"Source Art"},{"url":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GY8BGTK2NjU","text":"Timelapse"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/59900676\/Ludum23Src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30283","g_author":"5649","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30313","g_title":"Ant Slayer","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"349","g_commentcount":"40","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\/5649-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/5649-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The bone-headed obvious choice, a small world ant shooting fps!\r\n\r\nIt's short, as I ran out of time for making levels (same as last time), but it does have a better ending at least.\r\n\r\nI have music this time! I normally don't but the fellow that wrote EZMUZE for xbox indie games talked me into trying it and it turned out to indeed be easy! Thanks!\r\n\r\nOne issue everyone will no doubt hate: Often when spawning in the camera will be pointing at some super strange angle, and I didn't have time to fix it. Just wiggle around a bit and get your bearings.\r\n\r\nTimelapse of the creation: http:\/\/youtu.be\/GY8BGTK2NjU\r\n\r\nEdit: I totally forgot, but you'll need the xna 4 redist to run this: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/en\/details.aspx?id=20914\r\n\r\nAnd the .net framework 4: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/en\/details.aspx?id=17851\r\n\r\nEdit2: There is a problem with currencies that use decimal places other than '.' that will cause the game to crash on startup. I've fixed this and the link for the fixed game is: http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/59900676\/Ludum23DecimalFix.zip<\/p>","title":"Ant Slayer"}