{"author_link":"\/author\/mortehu\/","author_name":"mortehu","author_uid":"11931","comments":[{"author_name":"True Valhalla","author_uid":"2063","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:54pm","epoch":1335188940,"text":"Pretty good! A little laggy in Firefox (latest v) but definitely playable...nice effects, good physics, and enough lasers to keep it exciting :)"},{"author_name":"Danvil","author_uid":"5851","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1335216060,"text":"Nice little game. Like the planet hopping."},{"author_name":"samoojamies","author_uid":"11043","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1335216060,"text":"Very slick game. Great controls and fun to play."},{"author_name":"Mach60KAS","author_uid":"5788","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:28pm","epoch":1335216180,"text":"Very fun, I must admit. Simple concept, well executed!"},{"author_name":"JustinMullin","author_uid":"3128","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:30pm","epoch":1335216300,"text":"Yeah, LASERS!  I have a soft spot in my heart for any game that has a good, solid, old fashioned laser in it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The rest of the game was good too.  ;)  I especially like the teleportation effect.  Nice work!"},{"author_name":"Tumaini","author_uid":"11729","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:31pm","epoch":1335216360,"text":"Nice, played it to the end.\r<br\/>No lag in FF on Ubuntu (that I noticed).\r<br\/>Fits well with the theme."},{"author_name":"ccscanf","author_uid":"11316","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:52pm","epoch":1335282420,"text":"Nice game."},{"author_name":"rvmook","author_uid":"8418","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 6:37pm","epoch":1335292320,"text":"Nice game, quite addicting"},{"author_name":"mildmojo","author_uid":"6748","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 10:47pm","epoch":1335307320,"text":"It looks nice, but you need to prevent keypress events from bubbling up to the browser so you don't trigger typeahead find. In FF with typeahead find enabled, pressing letters opens the find box instead of controlling the game, so it's unplayable.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Fortunately, the fix is easy. jQuery example on pastebin:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>http:\/\/pastebin.com\/tvzQqWxv"},{"author_name":"mortehu","author_uid":"11931","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:15am","epoch":1335341400,"text":"@mildmojo: Thanks.  I've created a version with the proposed fix.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I've also rearranged some WebGL code in the hope of improving the frame rate on some computers.  Note that my computer from 2006 runs this game at 60 fps flat in Chromium."},{"author_name":"havchr","author_uid":"804","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 10:25am","epoch":1335349200,"text":"The game was quite fun. good execution on the core elements. With some polish\/music, would be a sure winner."},{"author_name":"daredevildave","author_uid":"5182","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 1:29pm","epoch":1335360240,"text":"I had a great time playing this, smooth, fun and well-balanced. With some polished graphics and audio this would be a great little game. Add some additional enemies, weapons and layouts and it would be a awesome game."},{"author_name":"jim3wg","author_uid":"4055","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1335374160,"text":"Nice little concept.\r<br\/>But art realy .."},{"author_name":"gnx","author_uid":"8333","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 9:29pm","epoch":1335389040,"text":"Nice planet mechanics. Didn't like the darkening screen too much. Everytime it went darker it made me think it will fade into a game over screen or something."},{"author_name":"mortehu","author_uid":"11931","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1335389460,"text":"@gnx: The darkening means you are taking hits (losing health).  It does indeed fade into a game over screen if you take too many hits."},{"author_name":"Milo","author_uid":"2934","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1335391560,"text":"Pretty cool game. I finished it and enjoyed it, but it was a bit easy."},{"author_name":"vilya","author_uid":"10456","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 12:12am","epoch":1335398820,"text":"That's really good! Nice graphics, nice sound effects, simple but effective gameplay concept... I wish there were more levels so I could keep on playing!"},{"author_name":"mildmojo","author_uid":"6748","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1335477960,"text":"Pretty nice. It doesn't look like the typeahead find fix is in the bugfix version, but I played through the original in Chrome. It plays well. The mouse aim is pretty tough on a trackpad. =)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I noticed that you were resetting the gravity source on each teleport; bullets would follow you from one planet to the next. Having worked on a planet-hopping game before, I completely understand the decision. Still, you might have bullets keep orbiting their original planet until they crash.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I got a little lost after a while; a minimap or an arrow pointing to more coins would be helpful in clearing the level."},{"author_name":"mildmojo","author_uid":"6748","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1335478020,"text":"Your code looks a lot cleaner than mine, too. =)"},{"author_name":"mortehu","author_uid":"11931","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 10:33pm","epoch":1335479280,"text":"@mildmojo: I accidentally deleted the fix when I struggled with some CloudFlare caching issue.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The bullets are actually gravitating towards the player, not a planet.  Hard to notice, I know. :)  Also, their velocities are clamped, so that they are more likely to converge and not end up in an infinite orbit.  Consider them heat-seeking missiles, if you like."},{"author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 2:55am","epoch":1335495000,"text":"Fun little game. A proper HUD with health, etc. would be nice. Enjoyed playing it."},{"author_name":"leafo","author_uid":"4321","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 7:04am","epoch":1335509940,"text":"It was nice. Played for a while and didn't see an end. Could use some music. The laser effect is neat."},{"author_name":"devince","author_uid":"11818","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 11:47am","epoch":1335526920,"text":"Very good game, the reason: I wanted to finish it!"},{"author_name":"derrickdool","author_uid":"11445","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1335630540,"text":"I feel like the name doesn't describe the game well (kidding)\r<br\/>Great entry, lots of fun to play."},{"author_name":"Moth","author_uid":"811","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 11:18am","epoch":1335697980,"text":"Really nice graphical effects! At first I thought the luminosity telegraphing your health was questionable but as I learned how easy it was to keep up (just grabbing coins) I appreciated it as a neat concept. The sound effects felt appropriate and quite spacey in how they were a bit dampened and drowned out.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I managed to beat it! I really like the tech on display here and think you did a great job."},{"author_name":"McFunkypants","author_uid":"2297","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 11:12pm","epoch":1335827220,"text":"Incredible! Silky smooth 60 fps, great controls, nice speedy action. I really like the &quot;jump pads&quot; concept. Keep up the fantastic work! I loved it."},{"author_name":"Krisjet","author_uid":"5486","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 11:20pm","epoch":1335827700,"text":"Very good entry! I liked that the enemies didn't kill me and force me to start over, maybe it would be just as fun as an explorational game without enemies?"},{"author_name":"davidwparker","author_uid":"7737","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 2:02pm","epoch":1336485420,"text":"Nice game. Physics were pretty cool, and it worked well. Hard to shoot the bad guys with a trackpad and no mouse. Also wished you offered arrow keys and not just wasd. Good sound effects too."},{"author_name":"ChainedLupine","author_uid":"1746","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 4:24am","epoch":1336882740,"text":"Pretty good game!  In fact, this is pretty much what I wanted to accomplish, save I ran out of time. :)"}],"images":["ld23\/11931-102e95b02074eb919bfbe8a7ee305680.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mortenhustveit.com\/ludum-23\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mortenhustveit.com\/ludum-23-bugfix\/","text":"Web (bugfix)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mortenhustveit.com\/ludum-23\/ludum-23.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/0UzXo5ywIts","text":"Timelapse"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31393","g_author":"11931","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31423","g_title":"Laser Coin Planets","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"211","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\/11931-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Collect all coins to win.  Avoid the black screen of death.\r\n\r\nThe \"bugfix\" version plays exactly the same, but fixes keyboard handling and WebGL buffer allocations.\r\n\r\nBased on HTML5, WebGL and JavaScript.  Almost certainly works in Chrome if your graphics card drivers can support WebGL.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n\r\n  A - Move left\r\n  D - Move right\r\n  W - Use teleport\r\n  Space - Jump, double-jump\r\n  Mouse - Aim and shoot laser\r\n  F - Shoot laser\r\n\r\nJust to be clear: Avoid the exploding things that make your screen go dark.<\/p>","title":"Laser Coin Planets"}