{"author_link":"\/author\/31eee384\/","author_name":"31eee384","author_uid":"1712","comments":[{"author_name":"markengley","author_uid":"4575","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 11:50am","epoch":1314013500,"text":"Really good idea. Looks like an optical illusion..."},{"author_name":"Viscis","author_uid":"5685","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 2:26pm","epoch":1314022860,"text":"This is highly addictive and cute."},{"author_name":"Andrew","author_uid":"5432","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:48pm","epoch":1314027780,"text":"Love the concept, the shape reminds me of a toy i had once where you had to get 2 balls to the centre of a circular maze."},{"author_name":"RadicalEd","author_uid":"4902","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 6:19pm","epoch":1314036840,"text":"Sweet! You should give this game a nice graphic and cool sound, and publish it! :)"},{"author_name":"redwater","author_uid":"5751","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 9:32pm","epoch":1314048420,"text":"great, love it. definately got potential, although it gets repetitive rather quickly. in the begining you're able to just go around in circles and be fine most of the time.\rit love to see some gameplay varieties, like barriers speeding things up temporarily if you move through, or invert the flow of circles. \r\ralso, very hypnotic, please dont add colors, i might play it all day long :P"},{"author_name":"TravisTX","author_uid":"5220","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 11:09pm","epoch":1314054240,"text":"Cool and original concept. You should add "levels" so the player gets a break every now and then."},{"author_name":"TaslemGuy","author_uid":"4892","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 1:26am","epoch":1314062460,"text":"I like the game idea. It's mesmerizing. Its gameplay is not very complex. Still, overall good."},{"author_name":"vandriver","author_uid":"4241","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 4:21am","epoch":1314072960,"text":"This would have been way more mesmerizing with some kind of hypno-toad tones! Very easy to just mindlessly play for long periods of time even as it is."},{"author_name":"Monastery","author_uid":"6216","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 2:51pm","epoch":1314110760,"text":"in the beginning it's really nice, but at some point it's just "continue to press <- for the next 5 rings" and "now switch to -> for some time" ... and since the radar ball drops through the holes in the rings so easily, there's not much a player can do wrong - like getting stuck on an edge due to wrong timing.\rI'd also like some more variety, maybe alternating distances between the rings or some speed up phases.\rAnyway, it was fun to play :)"},{"author_name":"TyrusPeace","author_uid":"5305","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 1:50am","epoch":1314150300,"text":"Really fun, but easy mode may be a little too easy. I had a blast in hard mode! I do wish that you'd just picked a control scheme for the player rather than asking them all of that up front. The mouse was my personal favorite because the feel meshed well with the radar-ish graphics. I like the clean look of the game, too :)."},{"author_name":"TellusE","author_uid":"749","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 10:42pm","epoch":1314225420,"text":"Magnificent mechanics, great use of Flash tweens as well. Kept playing it again and again getting more dizzy by each playthrough. Argh."},{"author_name":"syrup","author_uid":"3723","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 3:21am","epoch":1314242160,"text":"Simple concept"},{"author_name":"31eee384","author_uid":"1712","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 5:53am","epoch":1314251280,"text":"Posted a response to comments so far. Can view it through the journal link, or click (?) here: http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/08\/24\/my-ld21-game-ceaseless-comment-responses\/"},{"author_name":"8bitmuse","author_uid":"4023","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 6:07am","epoch":1314252120,"text":"Very interesting mechanic! Graphics are simple but that feels appropriate aesthetically. The main menu could be a little more user-friendly but beyond that I really enjoyed playing this, nice work adding in a hi-score table too!"},{"author_name":"Shadow","author_uid":"4250","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 2:54am","epoch":1314326940,"text":"Loved it! Although the "UI" is kinda confusing. \rI didn't submit a highscore since I pretty much sucked at it, lol. But it's quite a good game."},{"author_name":"callidus","author_uid":"846","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 7:55am","epoch":1314517800,"text":"nice idea, confusing UI though. I good game that quite relaxing to play for a length of time. Good submission"},{"author_name":"angrygeometry","author_uid":"5579","time":"Aug 29, 2011 @ 2:04am","epoch":1314583140,"text":"wow, neat puzzle(?) game. very good idea executed well."},{"author_name":"Chaoslab","author_uid":"5609","time":"Aug 29, 2011 @ 11:23am","epoch":1314616680,"text":":-)"},{"author_name":"N0_Named_Guy","author_uid":"5344","time":"Sep 1, 2011 @ 2:55am","epoch":1314845400,"text":"Neat!"},{"author_name":"Jedi","author_uid":"4799","time":"Sep 1, 2011 @ 3:57am","epoch":1314849120,"text":"I wish I tried the hard version first. The easy one seemed like a patience test to me. I still wanted to get the high score (on my first run) but even while going for it, I felt a bit like it's an anti-score; "This guy went the longest without realizing he could quit." :P. Tried to level off at 3333 but screwed that up :\/.\r\rThe hard one is fun. Unless I'm mistaken, you have an algorithm that ensures it's always possible to continue play? If so, that's very cool.\r\rI like to chant encouraging things while playing this one, hoping to hypnotize myself :)."},{"author_name":"31eee384","author_uid":"1712","time":"Sep 3, 2011 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1315066980,"text":"Yep, if the physics work correctly it's pretty much guaranteed that you'll be able to continue. The generation uses a rotational velocity, adding a random acceleration every frame, so it sort of lends itself to the "ok, go right... now go left" sort of play.\r\rA lot of time was spent getting that high score table working, so I didn't have time to make it more difficult. :P"},{"author_name":"MacTuitui","author_uid":"5189","time":"Sep 3, 2011 @ 11:23pm","epoch":1315091880,"text":"Very nice idea and sweet implementation. Maybe you should tweak it so that you never touch the outer frame (the big circle): right now, especially in the beginning, you can reach that point but you are stuck inside ; there is no way to escape. Knowing that my motivation went down for a bit, but then I tried hard mode and I did not have the luxury to think about that anymore!"},{"author_name":"Felipe Budinich","author_uid":"2502","time":"Sep 9, 2011 @ 11:29pm","epoch":1315610640,"text":"I got 907 rings, and now my field of view is distorted X-D"},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"Sep 10, 2011 @ 4:51pm","epoch":1315673160,"text":"Nice idea and execution! The mesmerizing animation is great. Very intuitive controls and gameplay. I feel like I could play easy mode forever if I can keep myself from being hypnotized (hi-score 317 or so). Hard mode is pretty hard; does the ball even move fast enough?"}],"images":["ld21\/1712-9bd2a1b5f99a4462f5449ba025912a03.jpg","ld21\/1712-3ea66701d8d2a4ca0863c2aacf6ca924.jpg","ld21\/1712-49da9f539773f1fdd2b6271b14c4f786.jpg","ld21\/1712-53529d5e88be5437d56d8f075a707761.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/galacticgaming.net\/hosting\/ld21\/index.html","text":"Web (Flash)"},{"url":"http:\/\/galacticgaming.net\/hosting\/ld21\/Ceaseless_src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32885","g_author":"1712","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32915","g_title":"Ceaseless","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"130","g_commentcount":"24","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\/\/62148\/1712-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/1712-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/1712-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/1712-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Escape is unrelenting. 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