{"author_link":"\/author\/kyliroth\/","author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","comments":[{"author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 2:16am","epoch":1292811060,"text":"Dropbox is running really slowly... the upload is running over the time. Is this ok? Didn't expect it to take so long."},{"author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 2:27am","epoch":1292811720,"text":"Ignore that last comment haha. It's sorted. Tiredness is getting the better of me."},{"author_name":"hsmith","author_uid":"3391","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 3:37am","epoch":1292815920,"text":"It seems like you might be having problems with dropbox?  The link isn't working, if you need a place to upload I might be able to help you.  just send me an e-mail howard@blacktriangles.com"},{"author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 3:45am","epoch":1292816400,"text":"Ahh cheers! It's got a few mintues left of uploading to dropbox. I'll let you know when. Thanks again though!"},{"author_name":"hsmith","author_uid":"3391","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 4:11am","epoch":1292817960,"text":"very cool, love the voice acting =]"},{"author_name":"Hazel","author_uid":"3026","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1292868180,"text":"This is a really cool idea.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The intro text changed faster than I can read, but the voice acting more than made up for it."},{"author_name":"DeathBySnail","author_uid":"2507","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1292880780,"text":"Nice work dude"},{"author_name":"plams","author_uid":"3099","time":"Dec 20, 2010 @ 10:57pm","epoch":1292885520,"text":"Nice idea :) Now if only they attempted moving with arms for legs,..."},{"author_name":"Jonny D","author_uid":"654","time":"Dec 21, 2010 @ 12:18am","epoch":1292890380,"text":"This had better be good for the download size!!!"},{"author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","time":"Dec 21, 2010 @ 1:00am","epoch":1292892900,"text":"Thanks very much! Yeah i wish i was more prepared to add animations and such in the time given. And yeah sorry the game is only 20mb really. There is just an uncompressed wav on there which i'm compressing now. So it should shrink soon."},{"author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","time":"Dec 21, 2010 @ 1:35am","epoch":1292895000,"text":"Done, it's now 20Mb instead of 150Mb that audio wave was unecessary. compressed to ogg instead."},{"author_name":"arielsan","author_uid":"2034","time":"Dec 21, 2010 @ 3:30am","epoch":1292901900,"text":"It was funny to see all the creatures being created, but I felt like following no objective. Indeed, it seems more like a toy than a game itself.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You should make a way to skip dialogs, I had to restart the game and have to hear again everithing :("},{"author_name":"ranklar","author_uid":"3268","time":"Dec 21, 2010 @ 4:25am","epoch":1292905200,"text":"The voice over was a good attempt, but you should record it while the text is being displayed so you can get the speed right.  You were going a lot slower than the words, and it was on the 2nd part of the speech while you were still on the first part.  The game got cluttered REALLY fast, it would be nice if you were able to delete or remove some of the spliced creatures."},{"author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","time":"Dec 21, 2010 @ 11:25am","epoch":1292930400,"text":"Thanks, the voice was really a last minute thing so i didn't spend much time matching the speed. You can press enter to skip the text dialogue but it won't stop the sounds. Forgot to add that, 1 line of code can solve that.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'll add some deletes and removes too. I was going to make it so you can select where you want them to breed, but it just finds the centre point between the two creatures and spawns them around that point.\r<br\/>Cheers though!"},{"author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","time":"Dec 21, 2010 @ 11:34am","epoch":1292930940,"text":"Just quickly fixed that dialogue thing. No major change though."},{"author_name":"thristhart","author_uid":"3164","time":"Dec 21, 2010 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1292964240,"text":"More a toy than a game, but a pretty amusing toy!"},{"author_name":"xeon06","author_uid":"1882","time":"Dec 30, 2010 @ 1:00am","epoch":1293670500,"text":"That was really fun and interesting!"},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Dec 31, 2010 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1293819960,"text":"Very ambitious!\r<br\/>But right now it doesn't really deliver. I spliced around with monsters and humans, and suddenly the game slowed to a crawl (about 0.1 FPS).\r<br\/>There is no real goal as of now?"},{"author_name":"Kyliroth","author_uid":"2794","time":"Jan 3, 2011 @ 2:37pm","epoch":1294065120,"text":"Endurion: Yeah, there is no limit or optimisations for HUGE amount of monsters and no goal... it's merely a toy. There was a lot i learned from this though, and what i can do next time to ensure i have a 'game'. I spent more time on foundation code which i was annoyed at.\r<br\/>Thank you for your feedback though. Much appreciated!\r<br\/>xeon06: Thank you very much! It's good to hear."}],"images":["ld19\/2794-44469782870ae1208d5e42d59e4b6123.jpg","ld19\/2794-7ce04396ebb0540ad4e20d5ee7d64bd5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/3385898\/ld19_kyle_final.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/3385898\/ld19_kyle_source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"33537","g_author":"2794","g_event":"LD19","g_eventkey":"5","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"33567","g_title":"The Genetic Playground","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"153","g_commentcount":"19","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\/\/33232\/2794-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/33232\/2794-shot1.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Venture into the insane genetic laboratory! Splice creatures together and discover new breeds of them!\r\n\r\n(It feels more of a toy for now... maybe in the jam i can add 'game' elements and more genetic wonders! However, i need to do final year university work!)\r\n\r\nForgot to add controls:\r\nW, A, S and D -- Move around.\r\nLeft Click -- Select creature.\r\nRight Click -- DeSelect all.\r\nEnter -- Skip Dialogue.\r\n\r\nThanks and enjoy!,\r\nKyle<\/p>","title":"The Genetic Playground"}