{"author_link":"\/author\/wibblymat\/","author_name":"wibblymat","author_uid":"11132","comments":[{"author_name":"Wampus","author_uid":"11619","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:02am","epoch":1335175020,"text":"Since there is no penalty for just firing as much as you possibly can its a little too easy."},{"author_name":"SFBTom","author_uid":"5018","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:02am","epoch":1335175020,"text":"I was able to hold A and spam the mouse click, and I was invincible. Maybe limit fire rate?"},{"author_name":"stromchin","author_uid":"12316","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:03am","epoch":1335175080,"text":"Why can't I stop shooting??\rI love the sound effects"},{"author_name":"Bezza","author_uid":"3428","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:18am","epoch":1335175980,"text":"Fun little game, only problem I encountered was the sound effects stopped playing after about 5 seconds into the game."},{"author_name":"True Valhalla","author_uid":"2063","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:50am","epoch":1335177900,"text":"The sounds effects were hilarious, I'll give it that."},{"author_name":"Lidfrid","author_uid":"12884","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:21am","epoch":1335179760,"text":"I quote Wampus, \rAt the end i have headhace xD"},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:27am","epoch":1335180120,"text":"Sound effects were great, and the game plays well. I also think that there should be some penalty for firing shots. Huh, but I couldn't stop playing until level 11 (433400 points), then I gave up - and what the hell man, I suck? ;p I did better than everyone! ;)"},{"author_name":"wibblymat","author_uid":"11132","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:57am","epoch":1335181920,"text":"Thanks for the comments! At the end of Saturday the game was really hard - my wife play-tested it and it took her 5 goes just to kill something without dying. So I really dialled it back and maybe it was a bit too far. Personally I find that constantly spinning and shooting I still miss a lot of stuff, but whatever works for you :)"},{"author_name":"Casino Jack","author_uid":"11139","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:18pm","epoch":1335197580,"text":"An interesting slant on Asteroids, but as others have said it was way too easy to just rotate and spam lasers."},{"author_name":"Seppi","author_uid":"11249","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:51pm","epoch":1335199560,"text":"I love the missile sound."},{"author_name":"chinchang","author_uid":"4201","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1335200100,"text":"the gameplay could have been better in the initial phase."},{"author_name":"Gremlin","author_uid":"12047","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:47pm","epoch":1335220920,"text":"It's a little on the easy side, yes, but that's not necessarily a bad thing--it does make it slower paced, though."},{"author_name":"Skully","author_uid":"10876","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:49pm","epoch":1335221040,"text":""Probably won't work in IE" I laughed\rPretty fun, though a slow start"},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:54pm","epoch":1335221340,"text":"Too easy\rshooting sound rules :)"},{"author_name":"piterlouis","author_uid":"10856","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:56pm","epoch":1335221460,"text":"Simple and funny, too easy at the first levels."},{"author_name":"oldtopman","author_uid":"5874","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:45am","epoch":1335228000,"text":"High score of 6500! I didn't know that if it hit the player you insta-died :\/\rCool game though, just needs a surreal soundtrack for ld perfection."},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:46am","epoch":1335228060,"text":"Awesome take on space invaders theme. With some more polish and some tweaking of the difficulty, this could turn into a pretty addicting game. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:47am","epoch":1335228120,"text":"This was fun enough for me to play four times. I tried different browsers (Firefox was a little less smooth and the high score list didn't appear after the prompt). Overall it was good. The "hold A and spam mouse" technique, which is called "death blossom" from now on, doesn't work because the bolts are too far apart. Either that or I can't spam clicks enough. But I did manage to break the sound effects in Chrome. I don't think that's your fault -- I closed the tab and came back and it was still broken.\r\rI'm with stromchin -- couldn't stop shooting."},{"author_name":"strega","author_uid":"5269","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 7:21am","epoch":1335338160,"text":"Neat game. I got really dizzy after a while though @_@"},{"author_name":"jeroenimooo","author_uid":"9361","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:17am","epoch":1335341520,"text":"Running around and shooting was my tactic ;p The planet could have some more graphics. playing it was fun"},{"author_name":"daandruff","author_uid":"3244","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 2:51pm","epoch":1335365160,"text":"I really liked that the game was spinning around you. Fun game!"},{"author_name":"netmute","author_uid":"11213","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1335384120,"text":"Oh god this was fun! Loved the sounds!"},{"author_name":"vigrid","author_uid":"10441","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 12:14am","epoch":1335398940,"text":"Well. Apparently I suck."},{"author_name":"firstrowgames","author_uid":"12558","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 2:17am","epoch":1335406320,"text":"fun and funny game."},{"author_name":"davidllanos22","author_uid":"10692","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 2:34am","epoch":1335407340,"text":"piumpiumpiumpium nice game :)"},{"author_name":"Spiridios","author_uid":"1158","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 4:21am","epoch":1335413760,"text":"Hmm, where have I seen this game before. =p Oh yeah, I wrote one too (I wouldn't normally mention that but @wibblymat mentioned it first!) Nice take on the arcade space shooter. I didn't immediately realize that big red bar was a health bar or that the aliens shot when they got close, I like that mechanic. Loved the sound effects. Could've used faster or more aliens, or a limit on the bullets."},{"author_name":"seagaia","author_uid":"7853","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 6:34am","epoch":1335421740,"text":"Liked your sound effect, but the idea wasn't particularly original. Still, nice job."},{"author_name":"seagaia","author_uid":"7853","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 6:35am","epoch":1335421800,"text":"(idea of the game)"},{"author_name":"Raptor85","author_uid":"7131","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1335452280,"text":"found the sound a little annoying, but not too bad, the controls are weird though, it's strange having ot use the mouse to fire but keyboard to rotate, would have made more sense for it to be a key. Also when rotating it seemed almost completely random how far i rotated when pressing the key, sometimes it would move a tiny bit, sometimes a full half rotation of the globe. Cool and all still but that made it a little hard to play."},{"author_name":"lorancou","author_uid":"8588","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1335564360,"text":"HTML5, yey! No install! And it's actually a nice game! Thanks for making judging fun :)"},{"author_name":"De10ter","author_uid":"8352","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 10:01pm","epoch":1335650160,"text":"Based on the screenshots I wasn't expecting much going in but I honestly found the simple game mechanic, pew sfx and classic\/retro explosions charming :D\rMy only complaints would be that it's really slow to level up and too easy to cheat by just spinning and firing."},{"author_name":"Pitoum","author_uid":"7969","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 6:46am","epoch":1335854460,"text":"@Wampus : I think the penalty is the sound of firing ^^ LOVE IT !\rBecome really interesting after the first levels :) Very too easy at the beginning."},{"author_name":"ratboy2713","author_uid":"5162","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 12:51am","epoch":1336005960,"text":"Love the losing sound. I like the spinning mechanic, I just wish there were better graphics and maybe some bg music."},{"author_name":"RobProductions","author_uid":"7405","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 11:04pm","epoch":1336085940,"text":"Pew pew pew pew! :P Nice simple game!"},{"author_name":"Lilleman","author_uid":"8385","time":"May 5, 2012 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1336251000,"text":""You suck!" hahaha."},{"author_name":"Datamosh","author_uid":"10942","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 1:16pm","epoch":1336396260,"text":"Good game, but too easy! I felt like Rambo :P Still enjoyable, so good work!"},{"author_name":"DoktorAce","author_uid":"4460","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 8:15pm","epoch":1336421400,"text":"Its fairly slow, but I love the old school graphics :D"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"May 9, 2012 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1336595580,"text":"piu piu piu! That sound was funny. The game was pretty slow paced though, you have to wait forever for the enemy ships and I found out just running to one direction constantly and shooting repeately was pretty effective. Cool game but could have used some more speed and content."},{"author_name":"rvmook","author_uid":"8418","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 4:27pm","epoch":1336753320,"text":"It was a bit easy and after a while a bit repetitive. But sounds and graphics were on point and I still played it for 15 minutes straight so great job!"},{"author_name":"azurenimbus","author_uid":"12119","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 12:29am","epoch":1336782240,"text":"Very nice, quite easy to pick up and play."},{"author_name":"dr_soda","author_uid":"8342","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 7:47pm","epoch":1336938120,"text":"Oof, I'm really dizzy after playing this. It probably would work better if there were a radar indicator in the corner and the screen didn't spin the way it currently does."}],"images":["ld23\/11132-ee1224592c4606ef8a966e5c367b7f54.jpg","ld23\/11132-1373e0a20e03e07c79048c67e9a57158.jpg","ld23\/11132-b31613f00345dc921385ba4f15d5fe01.jpg","ld23\/11132-ef0eda28c3ee36f06723b0e4a96b5e07.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ld23.wibbly.org.uk\/game.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/wibblymat\/ld23","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30354","g_author":"11132","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30384","g_title":"Invaders!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"741","g_commentcount":"41","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\/11132-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/11132-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/11132-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/11132-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Its essentially spinning Space Invaders. I wrote up a whole site on the project over at http:\/\/ld23.wibbly.org.uk\/\r\n\r\nTested in Firefox and Chrome but its a lot smoother in Chrome. Probably wont work in IE.\r\n\r\nDeveloper high score is currently 172000!<\/p>","title":"Invaders!"}