{"author_link":"\/users\/microwerx","author_name":"microwerx","author_uid":"1010389","comments":[{"author_name":"NachtWitch","author_uid":"1160934","time":"2019-10-07T16:51:02Z","epoch":1570467062,"modified":1570467062,"text":"Really cool concept, but rate some games fam","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ogre","author_uid":"1160141","time":"2019-10-08T06:54:03Z","epoch":1570517643,"modified":1570517643,"text":"Cool music.  No idea what I'm doing in the game.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"microwerx","author_uid":"1010389","time":"2019-10-08T08:04:29Z","epoch":1570521869,"modified":1570521886,"text":"Thanks @ogre. The key to the game is to use the WASD to move around. Space toggles between ENDO (inside) and EXO modes. You have to gather the white \"creation stars\" orbiting\/spawned around the yellow stars in ENDO mode. Then you switch back to EXO mode to place the new star on the grid using the ENTER key. The circle is green if you can place a star, red otherwise. Hope that helps.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"thesnide","author_uid":"1056426","time":"2019-10-08T08:08:04Z","epoch":1570522084,"modified":1570523133,"text":"Awesome ambient music. I also like gravity-based games\n\nBut I definitely agree that a tutorial would help.\n\nNote that the tuto doesn't need to be in the game, a few well-taken screenshots on the side would be very cool. Reminds me of old times where you had a physical manual to read ;)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"RilleP","author_uid":"1024691","time":"2019-10-08T09:00:52Z","epoch":1570525252,"modified":1570525252,"text":"Nice idea, but the scoring system could use some work. I feel like you could just have one star and farm it forever and get infinite gold? ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Hermitao","author_uid":"1140732","time":"2019-10-11T18:35:08Z","epoch":1570818908,"modified":1570818908,"text":"Very cool game! I love how  you made it. It was a bit counter intuitive at first, but not too much. I just wish there were more objectives. Might be biased because I love sci-fi, but I love it!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"microwerx","author_uid":"1010389","time":"2019-10-15T23:04:18Z","epoch":1571180658,"modified":1571180658,"text":"Thanks for the feedback @hermitao, @thesnide, @ogre, @nachtwitch, and @rillep! I fixed the bugs that were causing some of the playability issues. And added a context sensitive help feature that explains what you should be doing.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"winslow","author_uid":"1160045","time":"2019-10-16T02:48:56Z","epoch":1571194136,"modified":1571194136,"text":"Fun game with great music. The physics were great. I found it really fun but the novelty ran out after the gold atoms started dying after being depleted. It then became very hard to get the last remaining atoms and became less fun during that time.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"cirno","author_uid":"1001286","time":"2019-10-16T06:50:01Z","epoch":1571208601,"modified":1571208601,"text":"Nice game with retro star system display and synth music of 80's style. I really hope the game have more content like building turret stars to defend against enemy spaceships.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"dcrdro","author_uid":"1005851","time":"2019-10-22T10:50:57Z","epoch":1571741457,"modified":1571741457,"text":"Hm, interesting planet mechanics. And cool athmospheric music.\nBut it's hard to control in endo mode. And it's need definetely more obvious explanations in game, because sometimes it's hard to understand what hapenning.\nGenerally idea is good, just need to polish it.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Cole and Jordan Studios","author_uid":"1008387","time":"2019-10-24T23:45:55Z","epoch":1571960755,"modified":1571960755,"text":"Very interesting. The controls felt a bit sluggish and the goal of the game was a bit arbitrary but it was certainly unique and aesthetically pleasing. Nicely done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MaxKlimenok","author_uid":"1072700","time":"2019-10-25T13:53:15Z","epoch":1572011595,"modified":1572011595,"text":"Nice space sandbox and nice soundtrack.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rollersteaam","author_uid":"1167934","time":"2019-10-26T21:06:56Z","epoch":1572124016,"modified":1572124025,"text":"This was a pretty interesting game, the retro style graphics and space-y soundtrack were cool, though it was a bit confusing to figure out what I was doing. The help underneath the game helped with that. It seems doing well in the game is quite difficult, but well done with this","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld45\/161251-8d92e6811ad162232ca85b6d298d6084.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.github.com\/microwerx\/ldjam45\/","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/microwerx.github.io\/ldjam45\/","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.github.com\/microwerx\/LibXOR\/","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"56040","g_author":"1010389","g_event":"LD45","g_eventkey":"78","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"263916","g_title":"Star Battle","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"390","g_commentcount":"13","g_site2_node_id":"161251","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"161251","n_urlkey":"263916","n_parent":"159347","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/star-battle","n_slug":"star-battle","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"10389","n_created":"1569009829","n_modified":"1571180553","n_version":"530361","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":161251,"parent":159347,"superparent":9,"author":10389,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2019-10-06T22:44:46Z","created":"2019-09-20T20:03:49Z","modified":"2019-10-15T23:02:33Z","version":530361,"slug":"star-battle","name":"Star Battle","body":"STAR BATTLE is a game where you build and mine your own star system. 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