{"author_link":"\/author\/mneubrand\/","author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","comments":[{"author_name":"domrein","author_uid":"12960","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:01am","epoch":1335149760,"text":"Love it. Simple gameplay, but complete and well done."},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:04am","epoch":1335149940,"text":"Luke O'Cyte! Awesome"},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:07am","epoch":1335150120,"text":"2347.  Very playable. I really didn't want to lose."},{"author_name":"fatSquirrel","author_uid":"10782","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:31am","epoch":1335151560,"text":"Nice game, I liked how the red bars would change at random."},{"author_name":"matt","author_uid":"7275","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:50am","epoch":1335152700,"text":"Nice and simple, well made. Good job."},{"author_name":"Charles","author_uid":"9887","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:57am","epoch":1335153120,"text":"Very fun and simple game. Loved it."},{"author_name":"FunkyDelPueblo","author_uid":"10282","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 5:10am","epoch":1335157500,"text":"Nice job, wonder if you could get schools to use this game to teach children about hygiene :)"},{"author_name":"Darkhog","author_uid":"10547","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:32am","epoch":1335180420,"text":"Web version works in my FF 9.0 too."},{"author_name":"guzzungo","author_uid":"6652","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:00pm","epoch":1335182100,"text":"It works on IE 9 too"},{"author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:18pm","epoch":1335186780,"text":"@Darkhog and @guzzungo: I had some performance issues when i tested with FF 11.0 even tough I have an i7 processor. The collision detection seems to be causing the troubles. I probably should have put a comment saying &quot;works best in Chrome&quot; instead of &quot;Chrome only&quot;"},{"author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:39pm","epoch":1335195240,"text":"Thanks for all the reviews and comments so far. I really had fun creating it and seeing that some people enjoy playing it is awesome! Definitely encouraging me to continue making games."},{"author_name":"MyFrosch","author_uid":"11612","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:54pm","epoch":1335196140,"text":"Small and nice Sounds."},{"author_name":"davidpeter","author_uid":"3323","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1335198960,"text":"Great work. The randomly changing red bars added an extra challenge and really tripped me up!"},{"author_name":"Zed","author_uid":"4687","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 5:25pm","epoch":1335201600,"text":"That music is going to be in my head forever."},{"author_name":"rawbits","author_uid":"5167","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:15pm","epoch":1335211800,"text":"I think it's working right in FF11. But when the green thing slides the whole level become faster for a sec and it's hard to adapt to that."},{"author_name":"McFunkypants","author_uid":"2297","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1335213180,"text":"I loved it! My favourite thing is your green travelling companion. Somehow he makes the game twice as good. Watching what he does makes the journey less tedious. The performance was flawless - pure 60fps, everything worked perfectly. Keep up the great work!"},{"author_name":"Raptor85","author_uid":"7131","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:06am","epoch":1335243660,"text":"works ok, sound music and all in firefox\r<br\/>\r<br\/>hit detection is a little wonky, probably my only complaint, kept hitting things i was clearly well past or dodged well before."},{"author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:28pm","epoch":1335280980,"text":"@Raptor85: Hit detection and sound are buggy in FF. getImageData() seems to cause troubles and HTML5 audio seems to suck in general (no browser supports looping without a sh*** delay at restart as of now). I will use flash for audio until browser vendors start fixing this.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>For collision detection I calculate overlap of the bounding boxes of 2 sprites and then check pixel values of both sprites in that overlap. If two pixels at the same point have alpha &gt; 0 =&gt; collision. This works perfectly fine in Chrome but not in FF.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>When I do the collision detection FF sometimes returns undefined for pixel values I check and my condition gets undefined==undefined and you get a ghost collision. Easy fix but I didn't test on FF for the compo so I noticed only after it. Hence the &quot;Google Chrome\/Chromium only&quot;.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As for getImageData() speed FF seems to have troubles: http:\/\/www.mikethetike.com\/2011\/05\/html5-canvas-using-and-optimizing-context-getimagedata\/"},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 2:36am","epoch":1335321060,"text":"Fun and simple! Nice job. Always nice to see a fellow germ game in this compo"},{"author_name":"liger13","author_uid":"12133","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 3:51am","epoch":1335498360,"text":"I love this kind of game. It'd be nice if you used the same button for starting and restarting, though; I couldn't remember to hit r and ended up having to refresh."},{"author_name":"gnx","author_uid":"8333","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 6:03am","epoch":1335506280,"text":"Nice looking game.\r<br\/>I do feel the controls could be a bit more responsive. To me it felt like the sliding would &quot;pump&quot;. Like the timer on that button couldn't quite keep up.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>A very simple game but basically fun."},{"author_name":"orangepascal","author_uid":"12805","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 6:40am","epoch":1335508500,"text":"simple but addictive"},{"author_name":"quixotic-project","author_uid":"10726","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1335550740,"text":"A fun game, but I couldn't catch him.. :("},{"author_name":"volando","author_uid":"3725","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 4:58pm","epoch":1335631980,"text":"Loved it. With a bit more work on gfx+animation this game would be amazing. I had fun playing it. ( I couldn't catch the E-coli tho)"},{"author_name":"basspenguin","author_uid":"12240","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1335633060,"text":"Nice. I think the difficulty was tuned perfectly! Sad I could never catch the guy though..."},{"author_name":"Square Particle","author_uid":"12696","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1335637500,"text":"Pretty fun little game"},{"author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1335638280,"text":"@quixotic-project, @volando, @basspenguin: Unfortunately I didn't get around to implement catching the E-coli and create multiple levels with more diversified game play :(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Gonna try to go for it at the next LD."},{"author_name":"SusanTheCat","author_uid":"5150","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1335656640,"text":"Cute game!  A reminder that R restarts might be useful on the end screen."},{"author_name":"Rectifier","author_uid":"89","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 12:37am","epoch":1335745920,"text":"I really wish the movement animations weren't fixed-time. If you hit an action key at the wrong time, it'll often go for long enough to ruin the next move, and the next, and then you're dead."},{"author_name":"Gunmonkey","author_uid":"12096","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 12:47am","epoch":1335746520,"text":"I had lots of fun good job"},{"author_name":"SidetrackGames","author_uid":"12036","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 1:38pm","epoch":1335792780,"text":"Very cute graphics, and solid gameplay."},{"author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 4:01pm","epoch":1335801360,"text":"@Rectifier: They aren't fixed-time but they are unfortunately not very much in sync with the speed-up of the game so it gets more frustrating the more it speeds up."},{"author_name":"Sestren","author_uid":"10343","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 3:58am","epoch":1335930780,"text":"Very enjoyable entry. I love the style and the cute little white blood cell chasing down the germ. :)"},{"author_name":"Taugeshtu","author_uid":"8746","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 9:26am","epoch":1336036860,"text":"Oh, hell, yes, this is nice! I enjoyed every second I was playing it :D"},{"author_name":"angrygeometry","author_uid":"5579","time":"May 4, 2012 @ 4:30pm","epoch":1336148700,"text":"nice job!"},{"author_name":"Robert Swan","author_uid":"1845","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 11:56pm","epoch":1336348260,"text":"Straight forward and enjoyable. I can't get very far with my reactions though!"},{"author_name":"Dr.Pingu","author_uid":"12088","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 4:58pm","epoch":1336409580,"text":"some bug on colision detection but the overall work really fine.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good job :)"},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 6:15am","epoch":1336457400,"text":"Pretty cool."},{"author_name":"Kyatric","author_uid":"5250","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 7:30pm","epoch":1336505100,"text":"Played in FF12 on a quadcore i5, no real problem spotted it worked very well.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As I often say to my fellow members of the Construct2 community when making the controls of a game, think about azerty keyboards.\r<br\/>The current configuration is such that to jump I have to press the key under &quot;S&quot;.\r<br\/>For this peculiar game, it's no big deal, for games making full use of WASD it's really bothering. Just a nugget in your way, think about those kind of issue ;)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Else the game works as intended and the mechanic has already been tested\/not that original.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I liked the twist on the lead character modifying the state\/position of some obstacles though, it adds to the challenge."},{"author_name":"machinas","author_uid":"2925","time":"May 9, 2012 @ 7:06am","epoch":1336546860,"text":"not bad. wasn't sure if i could actually catch him, but i played until i couldn't go any further. the music was a bit abrasive."},{"author_name":"hamburger","author_uid":"653","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 9:30pm","epoch":1336944300,"text":"Al Coli you BASTARD"}],"images":["ld23\/11653-82a59286ad70f39b5e1e209ee0a8a2fc.jpg","ld23\/11653-4b2a113cbf42abee830eea9dc3cec8bf.jpg","ld23\/11653-fd0d1e86cb480987b2988c5b94362b2e.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/neiti.at\/BacterialWorld\/","text":"Web (Google Chrome\/Chromium only)"},{"url":"http:\/\/neiti.at\/BacterialWorld\/source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31001","g_author":"11653","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31031","g_title":"Bacterial World","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"452","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\/11653-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/11653-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/11653-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Didn't get around to optimizing the game for other browsers so you have to play using Google Chrome or Chromium.\r\n\r\nGame done in HTML5\/JavaScript using http:\/\/html5boilerplate.com\/ to get started faster.<\/p>","title":"Bacterial World"}