{"author_link":"\/author\/incobalt\/","author_name":"incobalt","author_uid":"4524","comments":[{"author_name":"Eshford","author_uid":"21218","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 2:11pm","epoch":1450101960,"text":"This game is so AWESOME. I really can't explain it. Music and sounds are excellent to!"},{"author_name":"Leon M\u00f6hring","author_uid":"63620","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 2:31pm","epoch":1450103160,"text":"Looks great, but its a bit hard to click so precisely"},{"author_name":"Jod","author_uid":"20442","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 2:44pm","epoch":1450103940,"text":"Loved the music and atmosphere, very well done!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The controls were hit-and-miss with me. Sometimes I was able to drag a star, sometimes I wasn't."},{"author_name":"incobalt","author_uid":"4524","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 2:57pm","epoch":1450104720,"text":"Thanks for the feedback! I've adjusted the description to address the situations you both are experiencing (one zoom controls, the other rules for connecting stars)."},{"author_name":"mlepage","author_uid":"61867","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:00am","epoch":1450148100,"text":"Nice. A bit hard to accurately click."},{"author_name":"flakoflak","author_uid":"65388","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:12am","epoch":1450156020,"text":"wow. with only two buttons you made a lot of interesting controls. nice work."},{"author_name":"alexrus07","author_uid":"33660","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:18am","epoch":1450156380,"text":"Less of a game and more of a poetic piece about your social connections. It was great. Very soothing."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1450284300,"text":"Quite interesting. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you&rsquo;d like to check it out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/XuTLfsOkf7k"},{"author_name":"veverichka","author_uid":"32042","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 10:30pm","epoch":1450563900,"text":"Great concept, also the mood is really really nice :)"},{"author_name":"davidcmcdonald","author_uid":"43146","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 4:23am","epoch":1451189880,"text":"I cant get the webGL one to load, the concept looks awesome though"},{"author_name":"mike.cullingham","author_uid":"49890","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 4:24am","epoch":1451189940,"text":"Interesting experience.  Really nice audio.  Sometimes the hover description wouldn't work.  Would like to know what the other lines that appeared were all about (other players, random?)"},{"author_name":"BloodJohn","author_uid":"26449","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 8:07am","epoch":1451203320,"text":"pretty music"},{"author_name":"incobalt","author_uid":"4524","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 8:32am","epoch":1451204820,"text":"Unity's WebGL implementation is spotty. Sometimes Chrome will just freak out about it and it will keep telling you to use Firefox. This one also takes quite a bit to load. As for the hover descriptions, they always do work, but if you get a star with no description, that's because of various generative fails (it tried to generate a used word too much, the list it's pulling from ran out of words, or other things). I decided to leave the empty star in, but connecting to an empty star doesn't add more stars.\r<br\/>Finally, the other line is randomly generated, and happens more often if you are connecting far away stars. I'd love to let it be other players interfering, but I wasn't about to figure that out for Ludum Dare."},{"author_name":"gokottastudio","author_uid":"62062","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 9:11am","epoch":1451207160,"text":"I really liked the idea. I wouldn't call it a videogame, I don't feel I am playing, but feeling very curious about it. Anyway, music is beautiful and, again, the idea is really cool. Cheers!"},{"author_name":"Dreyan","author_uid":"52023","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 10:03am","epoch":1451210280,"text":"Had to download the game because I was unable to click the first star in the web version (I don't really know why?)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway - very, very nice game (:  It feels a bit raw, but it's rather relaxing and definitely makes you think ^^"},{"author_name":"hunttis","author_uid":"41000","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 9:18am","epoch":1451293980,"text":"Strange, interesting idea. For some reason the clicking had a signifigant offset for me, when trying out for the first time as unity webgl was telling me to disable the cursor. After clicking disable, the clicking was accurate inside the game, but the cursor escaped before the border of the app."},{"author_name":"incobalt","author_uid":"4524","time":"Dec 30, 2015 @ 3:10am","epoch":1451444700,"text":"Hmm... That sounds like you didn't allow it to disable the mouse cursor, or you clicked the x in the corner (perhaps inadvertently). But it might just be something about the actual request on certain browsers. As a side note, if you see your system cursor at all, then the disable didn't go through (I think clicking inside the webgl box will trigger the logic for recapturing the mouse cursor). The system cursor and the in-game cursor are unlikely to match up at all, so I had to disable it, but this is annoying on browsers since it (very properly) makes sure you want to be deprived of a mouse cursor. Without making my own cursor, I couldn't reposition the cursor after rotate or zoom, and such actions would be limited by the window size."},{"author_name":"Molpe","author_uid":"67097","time":"Jan 2, 2016 @ 7:37am","epoch":1451719920,"text":"Nice idea! I like it a lot! I would appreciate some restart button or something like that? I wanted to make all kinds of constellations and I always had to restart the game... Also the stars start to disappear really quickly, when I tried to read the words, they started to fade and I panicked... Ox) \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I've made a let's play video if you want to check it out:\r<br\/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kK5hVCvmVI"}],"images":["ld34\/4524-18552cb54fb2e81f68360e51445f09c0.jpg","ld34\/4524-11cdbf28738b625d57d4fcbcd88c9e1d.jpg","ld34\/4524-c3e69d9152e502833d4b88420a1bfc1c.jpg","ld34\/4524-276b8163f0ac229ef3a730ec316bfc79.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/incobalt.me\/Games\/Stars\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/incobalt.me\/Games\/Stars\/Stars.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/incobalt.me\/Games\/Stars\/Source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5307","g_author":"4524","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"5276","g_title":"It's Full of Stars","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"456","g_commentcount":"18","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\/4524-shot0-1450046033.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/4524-shot1-1450046033.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/4524-shot2-1450046033.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/4524-shot3-1450046033.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Sometimes we're asked to say who we surround ourselves with, what we like, what influences us. Rarely do we have a good answer, or the right answer, or the answer best at hand. But we make do and build a concept with what we can, and hope that it will turn out all right. Others will try to tell us what we are or what we should be, but it's up to us to position it just right and fit the good with the bad.\r\n\r\nFeaturing over 30,000 words or phrases to describe yourself as a maker or producer of <something> while trying to make an appealing pattern in the night sky.\r\n\r\nPlay is described on screen, but the controls are:\r\nClick on a star - Center on star\r\nClick and drag between stars - Connect stars on release\r\n(At least one of the stars must be in your constellation)\r\nClick and drag in empty space - Rotate around centered star\r\nClick and drag with the other mouse button - Zoom in and out\r\n(Hold Option or Alt and move the mouse if you only have one mouse button)\r\n\r\n\r\nWhenever you are finished, you can wait a minute for the stars to fade. The \"x\" on the screen is there to get your mouse back (but you can always press escape to do that, per any browser), and quits the program in the Windows build. If you have the Windows version, you will get a chance to save a picture of your constellation before the end. The file will appear in the same directory as the executable. The Web version works best in Firefox. Chrome is both slow and prone to WebGL crashes.\r\n\r\n-----\r\n\r\nIt's Full of Stars was developed in Unity (Personal) with a combination of 5.3 (WebGL) and 5.1 (Standalone).\r\nMusic and sound effects were made using LMMS.\r\nThe font is Always Together (http:\/\/www.dafont.com\/always-together.font) and is one of my new favorite fonts.\r\nWhat few images exist were made in Paint.Net.\r\nThe words and phrases were scraped from various wiki lists.","title":"It's Full of Stars"}