{"author_link":"\/author\/zerot\/","author_name":"Zerot","author_uid":"12098","comments":[{"author_name":"Ghostik","author_uid":"6198","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 7:29am","epoch":1335165840,"text":"Nice little game ;) I like your idea with that &quot;clouds&quot;.\r<br\/>Maybe you should set some texture to that planet."},{"author_name":"Tumaini","author_uid":"11729","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1335183660,"text":"It looks very nice and sounds interesting, but I'm unable to run it on Linux."},{"author_name":"Evgis","author_uid":"12507","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:27pm","epoch":1335183720,"text":"Pretty good concept, wierd that the rain is green. Would also like some planet texture, like Ghostik said."},{"author_name":"Zerot","author_uid":"12098","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:41pm","epoch":1335188160,"text":"Well, I wasn't going for an earth like planet, that is why it is gray and the rain is green. I had the planet textured at the start with an earthlike texture, but that didn't have the right feel to it, so I scrapped that."},{"author_name":"howieV (binarygirl)","author_uid":"8824","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:18pm","epoch":1335193980,"text":"gfx and sound are great altho i had no idea what to do :)"},{"author_name":"dray","author_uid":"5284","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1335217920,"text":"The game is interesting, i like the idea but i take some time before understanding what i was doing. I think the color don't help to understand that it's rain and when tree are white they're growing, yellow they're reducing. maybe a little text about it to explain the functions to the player should help."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:14pm","epoch":1335269340,"text":"Interesting, but giving player a bit more instructions would be nice. Also rotation of the planet is very counterintuitive."},{"author_name":"netmute","author_uid":"11213","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:18pm","epoch":1335269580,"text":"Took me a while to figure out how to play. Graphics are nice. Idea is great.\r<br\/>At some point little people started building houses and chopping down all my trees, no clue if that's good :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I installed the Unity Web Player just for you ;) Chrome on Mac complains every 20 seconds that it's about to crash or something, but I guess that's the Unity player.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice game overall :)"},{"author_name":"jeroenimooo","author_uid":"9361","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:21pm","epoch":1335269760,"text":"I found easy already hard ;p Cool idea"},{"author_name":"runsintowalls","author_uid":"5309","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 1:25am","epoch":1335403200,"text":"I am not sure what to do. I positioned the trees in the light but they didn't grow? Like the idea, tho."},{"author_name":"MadGnomeGamer","author_uid":"10251","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 1:43am","epoch":1335404280,"text":"Nice little toy-game! I never got to the people-chopping-down-trees part tho. I had a hard time figuring out whether trees were dead or a alive--they changed color and got white when I gave them sun and water, but my growth went up."},{"author_name":"Super Soul","author_uid":"13112","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 6:18am","epoch":1335420780,"text":"Nice concept, I enjoy games where players controls forces of nature.  I think the graphics could use more work to give feedback to the player when they are doing things right\/wrong (As others have said).  Like the simple controls."},{"author_name":"Thotep","author_uid":"12581","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 9:07am","epoch":1335430920,"text":"Looks nice, although I' not really sure if I'm doing good or bad. There's no perceptible feedback of my actions (or rather it is unclear)."},{"author_name":"Hatscat","author_uid":"10471","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 10:52am","epoch":1335437220,"text":"nice idea, but too slow, even in impossible with speed *2 there are no challenge.\r<br\/>And the music is good, very good"},{"author_name":"Daniel","author_uid":"11829","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 11:39am","epoch":1335440040,"text":"A bit slow, but pretty nice!"},{"author_name":"ElzingaT","author_uid":"10577","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 12:37pm","epoch":1335443520,"text":"Nice job, the planet rotation controls messed me up a couple times when I would try to grab the clouds and move them but I was able to get the people to come out and chop down my trees."},{"author_name":"john_conder9","author_uid":"12682","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1335457200,"text":"Awesome this feels pretty complete.  It could use some other things, like, better instructions and explanations of what's going on, but besides that it was a really nice game.  I really liked how the workers only come out if it's &quot;day&quot; for them, was pretty funny when I realized it ;D"},{"author_name":"Chinchilla","author_uid":"5017","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1335458940,"text":"Really cool! I liked the music too. At first I didn't realize that the sunlight affected growth (in fact I just completely did not see the instructions down the bottom at the start, but maybe I'm just blind). I'm glad I went back after reading these comments, the people building up their houses was really cool."},{"author_name":"gregdevice","author_uid":"8124","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1335461640,"text":"Great start, keep working on this. Could be an original environmental type game. Planet definitely needs some sort of texture. Maybe it starts grey and changes as you evolve it."},{"author_name":"villhest","author_uid":"12294","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1335462840,"text":"I like it! I wish I could animate cool little guys like yours! Would play again."},{"author_name":"moop","author_uid":"2573","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 6:35pm","epoch":1335465000,"text":"Interesting start but I wasn't quite sure what to do in the 'second phase'."},{"author_name":"daredevildave","author_uid":"5182","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 9:42pm","epoch":1335476220,"text":"It wasn't really clear what I was supposed do, I ran in 2x speed until I got to when the men came out, then I got a bit lost."},{"author_name":"Mesene","author_uid":"6870","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 11:42pm","epoch":1335483420,"text":"Nice concept, it fits very well with the theme.\r<br\/>good job ;)"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 9:31pm","epoch":1335821160,"text":"Love the idea!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, it seems we made somewhat similar games :P \r<br\/>http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-23\/?action=preview&amp;uid=3880"},{"author_name":"ronsho","author_uid":"1273","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 3:35pm","epoch":1336318200,"text":"This is an interesting mechanic, I like controlling everything through the rain.  It was a bit slow, though, it felt like a lot of waiting.  In part two, am I just waiting for all the trees to be gone?"},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 4:10pm","epoch":1336320300,"text":"The first phase was great -- it was clear that the rain helped grow the trees.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The second phase was fairly unclear; I could drive the people back to their houses by raining on them, but I didn't know if I wanted to do that. In the end I just let them chop down all the trees, and then I got a score, but I don't know how the score related to what I was doing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You have a great game started, but the player needs more feedback about what results from their actions."}],"images":["ld23\/12098-85639f58da22ec8d0e4b8553ad7e6528.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/homans.nhlrebel.com\/Grow\/Grow.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/homans.nhlrebel.com\/Grow\/WebPlayer\/WebPlayer.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/homans.nhlrebel.com\/Grow\/project.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30785","g_author":"12098","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30815","g_title":"Grow","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"592","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\/12098-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Took a while but I'm done with it now.\r\n\r\nMake the planet evolve to a new state. Playable by only using the mouse.\r\n\r\nTechnical notes:\r\n- The music sucks, but I'm no musician.\r\n- The trees are procedurally generated.\r\n- Created a quick editor to sculpt meshes inside of unity. Used to create the planet.\r\n- My brain doesn't work anymore.<\/p>","title":"Grow"}