{"author_link":"\/author\/utgarda\/","author_name":"utgarda","author_uid":"62981","comments":[{"author_name":"utgarda","author_uid":"62981","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:23am","epoch":1450145880,"text":"Gameplay video: https:\/\/youtu.be\/qmJTuZjxx8w\r\rOX\/X and Linux links are actually .jar files, so use them if you have Java installed"},{"author_name":"Nega Drive","author_uid":"26098","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:09am","epoch":1450152240,"text":"Nice concept, sort of Osmos combined with a simple RTS game? Interesting. Great presentation too."},{"author_name":"MemoryLeek","author_uid":"7989","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:10pm","epoch":1450213500,"text":"Very polished and nice game! I imagine it would be plenty of fun with 2 players, unfortunately I don't have anyone to play with right now :)\rSounds, graphics, gameplay, everything was great."},{"author_name":"holgk","author_uid":"32032","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:35pm","epoch":1450269000,"text":"Nice game."},{"author_name":"rockford","author_uid":"3553","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1450269960,"text":"Remind me agar.io, very fun."},{"author_name":"tantumgames","author_uid":"60654","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:54pm","epoch":1450270140,"text":"Great graphics and fun gameplay."},{"author_name":"BubuIIC","author_uid":"11335","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1450270200,"text":"Wow, really cool game. One- and Two-Player modus both very appreciated."},{"author_name":"Elit3dGaming","author_uid":"50291","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:56pm","epoch":1450270260,"text":"Nice game, very fun and very innovative"},{"author_name":"DrTeaSpoon","author_uid":"60315","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:02pm","epoch":1450270620,"text":"Really well done!"},{"author_name":"gokottastudio","author_uid":"62062","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 2:21pm","epoch":1450275360,"text":"Love the look, it's an interesting game, you need to add messages of win and game over."},{"author_name":"timeshapers","author_uid":"62149","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1450278360,"text":"Pretty awesome idea, and looks great too. I seem to be winning or losing solely based on random purple stuff hitting me or my opponent though."},{"author_name":"utgarda","author_uid":"62981","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1450281300,"text":"@timeshapers yeah, the balance needs tweaking. Still, even now you can prevent your death by recalling gatherers in time or trying to emit soldiers when purples are close :)"},{"author_name":"EternalCastleStudio","author_uid":"64145","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1450371600,"text":"Ey, incredible concept, addictive, good mechanics, original gameplay, perfect graphics, and nice music. A great entry :-)"},{"author_name":"kaype","author_uid":"25076","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 11:16am","epoch":1450523460,"text":"Eghh, fullscreen by default :\/\r\rReally polished though, I can tell you all worked hard on it. Nice music too."},{"author_name":"HuvaaKoodia","author_uid":"21836","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 4:52pm","epoch":1450630020,"text":"I've always liked cell-agent simulations and the idea of indirect control. The main challenge when developing games based on these attributes is creating interesting and compelling gameplay.\r\rThe main problem here is the "neutral" purple cells. No matter how actively I keeps spawning fighter cells, sooner or later, one of the big ones is going to appear off screen and hit my base or the enemy base.\r\rLosing like that is infuriatingly random and winning like that isn't an achievement in the slightest.\r\rI feel relaxing the two button limitation and allowing the player to choose the cell spawning direction would go a long way in alleviating this issue.\r\rYou could also try to redesign the purple cell to act in a different role, for instance not as a menace but rather a small hindrance in the beginning or as a tactical obstacle between your base and enemy cells."},{"author_name":"utgarda","author_uid":"62981","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1450643520,"text":"Thanks again, guys.\r\rHuvaaKoodia, yes, you're totally right about that, we see that clearly for quite a while now. We're about to provide more stats - that mediates the issue with most stuff happening off-screen, making more units and, I guess now your detailed and fair criticism just made firm my intention to change purple cells behaviour. The easiest would be limiting their growth capacity, should improve the gameplay a lot."},{"author_name":"Almax27","author_uid":"21581","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1450650000,"text":"Nice concept, and relaxing to play :D"},{"author_name":"f7f5","author_uid":"21437","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 10:35pm","epoch":1450650600,"text":"Great production values! The only downside is that gameplay seems a bit random, at least I won against the AI more than once without following a solid strategy"},{"author_name":"Ardy","author_uid":"56753","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 10:59pm","epoch":1450652040,"text":"Give us a mute button!"},{"author_name":"Kaupenjoe","author_uid":"49433","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 11:22pm","epoch":1450653420,"text":"The game looks amazing and plays really well. Theme is of course perfectly implemented :D\rI really liked it :)"},{"author_name":"utgarda","author_uid":"62981","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 2:14pm","epoch":1450706940,"text":"Ardy: will do in post-LD version, coming soon.\r\rThank you guys!\r\rUpdate: balance fixed in v0.1.1, randomness somewhat mitigated."},{"author_name":"NirabazGAMES","author_uid":"65891","time":"Dec 25, 2015 @ 2:33am","epoch":1451010480,"text":"good work! well done :)"},{"author_name":"BlackBulletIV","author_uid":"3915","time":"Jan 1, 2016 @ 1:42am","epoch":1451612220,"text":"Very fun. The music and graphics were nice too."},{"author_name":"Akhera","author_uid":"60697","time":"Jan 2, 2016 @ 10:02pm","epoch":1451771820,"text":"Love the concept. I had a lot of fun. However, I don't like how a lot of the action is happening off screen. I don't have much of an idea how my collectors are doing until I recall them."}],"images":["ld34\/62981-87eaabccd029f5cd23de72f603bd8a0b.jpg","ld34\/62981-0b4c2f27e46a4ec186efe2a0756e59df.jpg","ld34\/62981-5aaf8b31c83c23aab132bf84ea17e260.jpg","ld34\/62981-55602529b655e28f496000a7f27a5ff4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B0WSOoad93OSNS1kQmNkdTRoOVU","text":"Multi-platform ( Java )"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B0WSOoad93OSN2pRbUtVcFBwYXM","text":"Post-LD v0.1.4"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"4717","g_author":"62981","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"4829","g_title":"Soup","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"181","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\/\/511439\/62981-shot0-1450145975.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/62981-shot1-1450145975.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/62981-shot2-1450145975.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/62981-shot3-1450145975.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A battle in the micro-world - bacteria vs virus! The one that grows faster wins. Play vs AI or go multiplayer on one keyboard. Press and hold Z to spawn resource gatherers and press X to recall them, claim resources, and GROW! Hold Z a little longer to spawn a soldier that will protect you from rogue cells and attack the opponent's core.\r\n\r\nSelect mode from menu screen. In 2-players mode, use Z, X for player 1 and O, P for player 2.\r\n\r\nHave fun!\r\n\r\nCredits:\r\n\r\n the game is made with LibGDX\r\n\r\n Programming: Evgeniy Tsvigun\r\n Art: Yakov Nechushkin, Pavel Buzdin\r\n Music and sound: Nikita Vasilyev, Dmitry Miroshkin\r\n\r\nUpdate: v0.1.1\r\n* due to a typo, all the purplish enemies floated to the right side, making it real hard for the blue player, fixed. \r\n* Balance fixed: purple enemies could grow big enough to kill a base in one touch, which made the gameplay too randome","title":"Soup"}