{"author_link":"\/author\/sfx\/","author_name":"SFX","author_uid":"10908","comments":[{"author_name":"kroltan","author_uid":"10851","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1335276720,"text":"Nice game!"},{"author_name":"trylle","author_uid":"3066","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1335362040,"text":"Cool. I made it to wave 10 before my thumb got tired of holding down the spacebar. I think the game could have progressed to more challenging levels faster."},{"author_name":"Topaz","author_uid":"10594","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1335362040,"text":"Really good! BTW, I got up to wave 12 :P"},{"author_name":"MurrayL","author_uid":"7835","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 2:10pm","epoch":1335362700,"text":"Pretty cool! I got to wave 11, although it would've been nice to have some more variety as the game went on."},{"author_name":"Pacifist Games","author_uid":"10510","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1335363480,"text":"I really enjoyed it!  It was weird that the player character couldn't be harmed, but you did a good job designing all of the enemy types and waves.  Music was good too. :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Check out my game, it's kind of similar."},{"author_name":"Pacifist Games","author_uid":"10510","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 2:24pm","epoch":1335363540,"text":"P.S.\r<br\/>Got to wave 16 and killed 839 enemies."},{"author_name":"MarekkPie","author_uid":"11038","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1335386640,"text":"Does exactly what it sets out to do."},{"author_name":"Cosmologicon","author_uid":"1151","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 10:13pm","epoch":1335391680,"text":"I get a BSOD when I hit the first enemy. It says: rendersystem.lua:172: attempt to call method 'setSizes' (a nil value).... I'm on Ubuntu."},{"author_name":"SFX","author_uid":"10908","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 10:59pm","epoch":1335394440,"text":"@Cosmologicon: It sounds like you're running Love 0.7.2.  You'll need to be running Love 0.8."},{"author_name":"Monkey Armada","author_uid":"2883","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 2:12pm","epoch":1335449220,"text":"Good game, but it would be much better if you had taken the time to improve its graphics and add some features like more weapons and a smarter IA for the enemies. Good for your first entry. Congrats!"},{"author_name":"derosa","author_uid":"5049","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 11:15pm","epoch":1335481800,"text":"Good one!"},{"author_name":"10WonXero10","author_uid":"12014","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 9:56am","epoch":1335520260,"text":"LOL, I loved this, the music got me pumped and was perfect for the pacing of the gameplay.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It felt like I was back in an 80's arcade with a group of kids gathered around waiting for me to run out of coins so that they could try beating the high score."},{"author_name":"jwolf","author_uid":"11073","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 11:45pm","epoch":1335570000,"text":"Go Psychic Giant Go!  \r<br\/>\r<br\/>It could use some more variety in enemies and game play, but overall it's a very solid entry."},{"author_name":"SusanTheCat","author_uid":"5150","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1335570240,"text":"Good help screen.  It was easy to understand the rules of the game and the different units."},{"author_name":"Daisuke909","author_uid":"8522","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 3:29am","epoch":1335583440,"text":"&quot;I'm slow you can shoot me whenever&quot; lol.  finally a game that i can vote for on humor.  My biggest problem was that it was kinda slow and easy.  For some reason on level 8 I could only move one direction, and I though it was an interesting way of making it harder, but then on lv. 9 it went back to normal and I wasn't sure if it was a bug or intentional."},{"author_name":"schizofunky","author_uid":"11944","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 2:37pm","epoch":1335623520,"text":"There are a few games like this in the competition, but i like this one most as you have a good balance of the waves attacking! The music is very cool also!"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 2:50pm","epoch":1335624300,"text":"For a first game, this is pretty neat. The controls are very good and the game is well fleshed out.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Only two suggestions: The game is a tad on the easy side, and maybe using a cannon instead of a giant man would look better :-)"},{"author_name":"RHY3756547","author_uid":"7339","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1335632220,"text":"Sweet music! Really fit the game."},{"author_name":"spiral","author_uid":"5765","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 2:25am","epoch":1335666000,"text":"Cool!"},{"author_name":"summaky","author_uid":"1885","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 12:23pm","epoch":1335701880,"text":"Really cool music, but the game play got boring as it is always the same.  You could add some variety of weapons and better AI for enemies."},{"author_name":"Catman","author_uid":"11589","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1335728040,"text":"Nice game, classic gameplay but tiny world themed!"},{"author_name":"Datamosh","author_uid":"10942","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 5:25am","epoch":1336022400,"text":"OOOH, reached wave 10! I see that other users have gone far than that, so I'm going to have to play some more ;) Good game."},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 6:02am","epoch":1336456620,"text":"I would play it but I don't want to install LOVE."},{"author_name":"SFX","author_uid":"10908","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 1:20pm","epoch":1336482900,"text":"@robcozzens: That's unfortunate."},{"author_name":"tomhunt","author_uid":"7773","time":"May 9, 2012 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1336602360,"text":"The radial concept is an interesting twist on arcade-style shooter gameplay - kind of reminded me of a sort of inside-out Tempest, which might be something you could check out for some ideas on how to add more awesome to this."},{"author_name":"egerlach","author_uid":"4771","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 9:11pm","epoch":1336856760,"text":"Loved the game. I was very proud of myself when I didn't take a single hit in wave 13. Waves 14-16 taught me my lesson. Died in wave 17 with 922 kills.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Plus, psychic giant? Awesome."},{"author_name":"icefox","author_uid":"7186","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 1:04am","epoch":1336870740,"text":"Psychic giant defending Earth with mind bullets!  I love it.  Be sort of nice if you kept score of how many enemies you'd destroyed."},{"author_name":"kddekadenz","author_uid":"10000","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1336928700,"text":"crashed after playing it for ~5 seconds (Linux)"},{"author_name":"SFX","author_uid":"10908","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 6:36pm","epoch":1336933860,"text":"@kddekadenz: Sounds like you need LOVE v0.8, not v0.7.x."}],"images":["ld23\/10908-c2337933e567a7e6cf68a8c2b70d6eb7.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/74543814\/SaveYourPlanet-win32.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/74543814\/SaveYourPlanet.love","text":"Linux &amp; OS\/X (.love file)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/74543814\/SaveYourPlanet-src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31204","g_author":"10908","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31234","g_title":"Save Your Planet!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"401","g_commentcount":"29","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\/10908-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is my first Ludum Dare game.  I'm shocked I actually finished.  It was made using LOVE, so it should run on Windows\/Linux\/Mac.  The Windows build comes with everything you'll need to play the game.  To run it on Linux or Mac, you'll need to install LOVE v0.8 and run the .love file.<\/p>","title":"Save Your Planet!"}