{"author_link":"\/author\/caribou\/","author_name":"caribou","author_uid":"4227","comments":[{"author_name":"cornedor","author_uid":"4506","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:45pm","epoch":1335195600,"text":"Very nice game, even better because it is multiplayer."},{"author_name":"callidus","author_uid":"846","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:15am","epoch":1335258600,"text":"heh nice to see a multiplayer game, good effort fitting it to the theme"},{"author_name":"Lidfrid","author_uid":"12884","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:20am","epoch":1335258900,"text":"Multiplayer?!? UAaaaa\r<br\/>Awesome, can i help you to finish this game, and sell it over the world?!?!?!? Pleaaase :)"},{"author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:25am","epoch":1335259200,"text":"Great fun!!"},{"author_name":"amodo","author_uid":"8798","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 10:15am","epoch":1335262200,"text":"AWESOME! ADDICTED!"},{"author_name":"roundcrisis","author_uid":"11692","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 11:47am","epoch":1335267720,"text":"Like that you dont have to click to select, it definitely works better when there is more people there. Chat is a good addition"},{"author_name":"caribou","author_uid":"4227","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:32pm","epoch":1335270420,"text":"Thanks for the comments guys ! For those poor alone souls, just paste the link in IRC and you'll have opponents in seconds."},{"author_name":"Jigxor","author_uid":"3289","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:34pm","epoch":1335274140,"text":"Really fun game. Great idea and great mechanic.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It's awesome that you were able to complete a multiplayer game in such a short amount of time. I hope you polish it up and finish it off. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>One of my favourite Jam entries! Nice job!"},{"author_name":"Lidfrid","author_uid":"12884","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:26pm","epoch":1335277260,"text":"i'm in the screenshot...omg :)"},{"author_name":"quickfingers","author_uid":"3963","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1335289440,"text":"Very cool! Super impressed you got such a reliable multiplayer working in the jam! I caught you for a game and had a little play, the mechanics were pretty nice :)"},{"author_name":"jonnopon3000","author_uid":"4856","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 7:41pm","epoch":1335296160,"text":"I love to see a successful multiplayer Ludum Dare game, nice work!"},{"author_name":"Ace","author_uid":"10247","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 7:43pm","epoch":1335296280,"text":"Unable to test it due to a &quot;socket security error&quot; in LD23.hx line 637"},{"author_name":"Make A Game","author_uid":"5631","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1335296400,"text":"I tried to play in Firefox and Chrome but either way I ended up getting this error: LD23.hx:637:socket security error . =("},{"author_name":"caribou","author_uid":"4227","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:12pm","epoch":1335301620,"text":"Sorry for those who couldn't connect that was actually a connection issue, that should work now."},{"author_name":"caribou","author_uid":"4227","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:33pm","epoch":1335302880,"text":"I actually had an IP reset which put me offline, i'm not sure the server can handle reconnection but still the ip is hardcoded so it couldn't have worked anyway. It should be fixed by now."},{"author_name":"bburbank","author_uid":"1159","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 10:24pm","epoch":1335305940,"text":"WHOAH it's MMO-y.  Supre impressed with that, but I always felt like I had no idea what I was doing."},{"author_name":"Make A Game","author_uid":"5631","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 11:03pm","epoch":1335308280,"text":"=D this is amazing! The multiplayer really adds a lot. I couldn't win, but I got hooked for quite a while =D.\r<br\/>Congratulations =D"},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:31pm","epoch":1335367560,"text":"Awesomeness."},{"author_name":"levelbylevel","author_uid":"12013","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 8:19am","epoch":1335428040,"text":"Great fun, love the multiplayer gameplay :)"},{"author_name":"Dr.Pingu","author_uid":"12088","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 10:50am","epoch":1335437100,"text":"very interesting !\r<br\/>to aim a mulltiplayer game in 72h is very audacious.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great work :)"},{"author_name":"orangepascal","author_uid":"12805","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 2:42pm","epoch":1335451020,"text":"first multiplayer game I run into!"},{"author_name":"deejorg","author_uid":"11382","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 6:10pm","epoch":1335895500,"text":"Great concept!"},{"author_name":"runsintowalls","author_uid":"5309","time":"May 4, 2012 @ 7:07pm","epoch":1336158120,"text":"Awesome! I really like the multiplayer component. How did you set that up?"},{"author_name":"caribou","author_uid":"4227","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 8:23am","epoch":1336378680,"text":"Thanks, I'm using python with twisted. I will make a post-mortem with more details i guess."},{"author_name":"azurenimbus","author_uid":"12119","time":"May 9, 2012 @ 11:40pm","epoch":1336606500,"text":"Looks fascinating. I need to get someone to play it with soon."}],"images":["ld23\/4227-f09f06a0aaa78269622cf877a3ad7789.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8211966\/prog\/s2_LD23.swf","text":"WEB"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8211966\/prog\/LastSquare.zip","text":"Binaries &amp; Sources"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31161","g_author":"4227","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"31191","g_title":"The Last Square","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"76","g_commentcount":"25","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\/4227-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The Last Square is a multiplayer online game.\r\n\r\nNote : If you are not in Europe you should expect lags, lots of them, i made a lagfree version but note that it's a post submission version so try the lagging version as well :)\r\nLAGFREE server > http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8211966\/prog\/s2_LD23LF.swf\r\n\r\nRules :\r\nYou move the mouse over the squares to conquer them.\r\nAt the bottom of the window is the energy bar.\r\n\r\nThe red bar represents the energy max, the more dots you get the bigger is your energy max. If the bar goes over the 3 black bars you unlock 1, 2 and 3 towers.\r\n\r\nTo put a tower you need a 3x3 square and click on the center.\r\n\r\nI'll try to host a server for the time of voting at the Web link. But you can also host a server yourself.\r\n\r\nLine 338 > LD23.hx : Change the server ip\r\nLine 386 > server.py : Change the server port\r\n\r\nNote : I didn't work on lag at all, so it might feel sluggish for you (especially if you are not in Europe), i'll work on that after the votings. Also some of you have pointed that instructions are not visible enough so be sure to read the rules. It's also a part of things i won't allow me to change before the end of votings but the list at the right is actually a ranking not just a list of participants.\r\n<\/p>","title":"The Last Square"}