{"author_link":"\/author\/kokido\/","author_name":"kokido","author_uid":"5406","comments":[{"author_name":"SusanTheCat","author_uid":"5150","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 1:43am","epoch":1324345080,"text":"The shots were very slow.  I liked the warning signal for the aliens."},{"author_name":"Veralos","author_uid":"8132","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 10:05am","epoch":1324375200,"text":"The speed of the bullets made the game a lot more difficult than it really should have been, and I feel that there should have been a score counter of some kind. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>On a more positive note, The graphics were simple yet effective, I liked the effect of the stars in the background. The sounds were also really good."},{"author_name":"Cross","author_uid":"7242","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1324480320,"text":"Aside from the game over screen, the graphics were pleseant.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I loved the stars as well."},{"author_name":"summaky","author_uid":"1885","time":"Dec 24, 2011 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1324752120,"text":"The background music is OK, in my opinion, as it is the graphics.  The bullets were too slow to be useful and I had a hard time knowing when to shoot.  I felt very weird that the silos (?) were destroyed when the UFO's were no longer visible; I guess I expected them to fire me instead of spontaneous explosions :-)"},{"author_name":"BlennosoftGames","author_uid":"8308","time":"Dec 24, 2011 @ 7:46pm","epoch":1324755660,"text":"The graphics in general, and the stars especially, looked really good! Like some of the other comments have said, I found the bullets a bit too slow, but overall a pretty decent game."},{"author_name":"seagaia","author_uid":"7853","time":"Dec 24, 2011 @ 7:51pm","epoch":1324755960,"text":"Dug the music. Shots went a little slow."},{"author_name":"kokido","author_uid":"5406","time":"Dec 24, 2011 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1324757640,"text":"Yeah, the shots are too slow.  My original plan was to allow you to buy upgrades between waves of aliens to fix that.  I was also going to have a counter of waves survived instead of a score, and they were going to shoot at the silos instead of the silos just exploding when the aliens made it off the screen.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The general reception is better than I expected though, thanks for playing everyone :D"},{"author_name":"KevinZuhn","author_uid":"8695","time":"Dec 28, 2011 @ 5:22am","epoch":1325049420,"text":"It's a shame you switched ideas so late, I would have liked to see this more fleshed out, with all of those cut features intact!"},{"author_name":"Stargoat","author_uid":"8618","time":"Jan 4, 2012 @ 2:27pm","epoch":1325686920,"text":"Audio was nice, and i loved the starfield.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Not sure if it fit the theme very well, and the slow shots make for some kind of frustrating gameplay."},{"author_name":"MurrayL","author_uid":"7835","time":"Jan 4, 2012 @ 2:27pm","epoch":1325686920,"text":"I'd love to see a more fleshed-out release. The gameplay was great although, as others have noted, the shots are a little too slow for my liking.\r<br\/>I really liked the music and how it changed. So much scope for you to build a bigger, better game on this foundation!"}],"images":["ld22\/5406-72e3ce82575ea6146b3ec08f158c6a21.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/lusagi.com\/dev\/ld22\/","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/lusagi.com\/dev\/ld22\/","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31913","g_author":"5406","g_event":"LD22","g_eventkey":"8","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31943","g_title":"Outpost Alone","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"448","g_commentcount":"10","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\/\/87574\/5406-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I hated this theme, and it was really hard to pull something together when I changed my whole base idea with less than 12 hours to go.  But isn't that what makes this all fun :D\r\n\r\nThe alone part of this was supposed to be since you are station on a remote outpost taking shots at alien fleets passing by on the way to the real war zone.  Originally there was going to be a resource gathering part of the game between waves of ships, which was going to help drive home the alone thing, but it got cut due to time restraints.<\/p>","title":"Outpost Alone"}