{"author_link":"\/users\/brainslugs83","author_name":"BrainSlugs83","author_uid":"1110600","comments":[{"author_name":"mlkvr","author_uid":"1182997","time":"2020-04-21T10:14:32Z","epoch":1587464072,"modified":1587464072,"text":"Fells like no mans sky at 2016, has potential but unfinished :) thanks for sharing","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Aaiko","author_uid":"1203194","time":"2020-04-21T10:18:09Z","epoch":1587464289,"modified":1587464289,"text":"Really liked the warm up game, very engaging and fun to play, looking forward to the space zoo\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Minusc","author_uid":"1101142","time":"2020-04-21T10:18:47Z","epoch":1587464327,"modified":1587464327,"text":"So your main entre is Space Zoo and not Gem Grabber ? That's not really clear to me.\nGem grabber is fun and works well.\nSpace zoo is impressive. It's quite fun, you just don't really know what to do. You grab animals, and travel space, and that's fine to me. It also looks quite nice.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"hollebecq.baptiste","author_uid":"1146716","time":"2020-04-21T10:26:56Z","epoch":1587464816,"modified":1587464816,"text":"the games are both fun and really good job to do all that in a weekend !","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BrainSlugs83","author_uid":"1110600","time":"2020-04-21T10:27:02Z","epoch":1587464822,"modified":1587464822,"text":"@minusc correct -- my main entry is the worse of the two, and fits the theme worse overall. \ud83d\ude05 -- I was really excited for Space Zoo though, if I had been this far along 1 day earlier, I think I might have been able to make it happen. Derp. -- Thanks for the kind words though. \ud83d\ude42","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SlimmerBurger","author_uid":"1189972","time":"2020-04-21T10:27:45Z","epoch":1587464865,"modified":1587464865,"text":"I liked Space Zoo, although the controls were a little weird. But, I think they added to the experience, made it feel like I was floating around in space.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"mehrdadsh","author_uid":"1189882","time":"2020-04-21T12:00:40Z","epoch":1587470440,"modified":1587470440,"text":"i like it,","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Natalie Sodomkova","author_uid":"1091646","time":"2020-04-25T18:41:18Z","epoch":1587840078,"modified":1587840078,"text":"like space zoo. The controls felt wobbly but fun at the same time. Like how you start \"orbiting\" a palnet when you are near it. Feels nice and intuitive, but overall lacks any goal and that makes everything kinda meaningless.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Simon Rahnasto","author_uid":"1025021","time":"2020-04-26T08:41:26Z","epoch":1587890486,"modified":1587890512,"text":"I enjoyed flying around the different planets, visually the game is really cool. It was also fun to discover what types of creatures lived on each different planet. In the end I started pulling humans into space and letting them float around in space :laughing: \n\nIt for sure is a very neat prototype, you should develop it further and @me when you have released another version :slight_smile: \n\n\n\nGreat job, specially for it being your first LD entry!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"n.feofentov","author_uid":"1035790","time":"2020-05-12T20:11:19Z","epoch":1589314279,"modified":1589314279,"text":"The controls of flying around feels very good. And I love the feeling of \"sticking\" to planets' gravity. Pity it's unfinished. Good luck with the idea! It has some potential. ","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/181102-bb70df70dca4a6ddcb54e0e830c92f3b.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/brainslugs83.azurewebsites.net\/games\/spacezoo\/index.html","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/brainslugs83.azurewebsites.net\/games\/GemGrabber\/index.html","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"61733","g_author":"1110600","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"275298","g_title":"Space Zoo","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"10","g_site2_node_id":"181102","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"181102","n_urlkey":"275298","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/space-zoo","n_slug":"space-zoo","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"110600","n_created":"1585868201","n_modified":"1587439860","n_version":"610884","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":181102,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":110600,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-04-21T01:59:35Z","created":"2020-04-02T22:56:41Z","modified":"2020-04-21T03:31:00Z","version":610884,"slug":"space-zoo","name":"Space Zoo","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nI put out **two** games related to the LD46 Jam -- a warmup game and an actual entry. The entry is *very* unfinished but it's neat, and I really pushed myself this time, and learned a lot. -- The warm up game (#2) is way more finished, and way more fun to play. \ud83d\ude09\n\n\n**#1: Space Zoo**\n\n This game is UNFINISHED, but it's a neat prototype, this is my main entry (that you should rate me on). \n\n \u26a0 Warning \u26a0, this needs a decent PC. -- I didn't realize it until now though. -- It's probably like the 20 layers of bloom and color grading. If it doesn't run smoothly for you, just skip it. Sorry.\n\n I was kind of going for a \"Cosmic Ark\" like experience (Atari 2600 game where you abduct life on alien planets). Right now you can fly around and abduct cows and stuff, but there's not much in the way of actual game play. Skip to #2 below if you want something better.\n\n Anyway, I had a lot of stuff planned out for this game, like police car chases (it's not obvious, but your \"space ship\" is a pirate ship, you can see the shadow of it when you fly by a planet sometimes) and like drop offs at the zoo and levels and stuff.\n\n\n ![ld46c.png](\/\/\/raw\/800\/b1\/z\/30d26.png)\n\n```\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb **CONTROLS:** \n\n - Mouse \ud83d\uddb1 + WASD (Q\/E to roll) \u2328\n - When you \"orbit\" a planet, W and S change to up and down; just break away from a planet\n to let go of it.\n\n - Mouse click turns on your beam -- if you capture something you'll hear it.\n\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb In Full Screen, will exit and bring you back to the browser; hitting again\n will release the mouse.\n\n ...\n```\n\n**#2: Gem Grabber**\n\n This was my warm-up game -- The goal is to collect as many gems as you can in a place where bombs and crates and stuff are falling from the ceiling. It even has a menu and instructions and stuff! \ud83d\ude06\n\n ![gemgrabber-what.png](\/\/\/raw\/800\/b1\/z\/30d53.png)\n\n```\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb **CONTROLS:** \n\n - For the main menu: use the mouse! \n - Movement: use gamepad \ud83c\udfae, or WASD\/arrows \u2328\n\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb In Full Screen, will exit and bring you back to the browser\n\n - Watch for shadows theyre there to telegraph where boxes will land -- theyre also visible\n on the mini-map!\n\n ...\n```\n\n What's a warm-up game you ask? -- well, I started on this earlier in the week to learn how to do all the things I don't know how to do (like make menus in Unity and add sound and music and stuff) -- it fits really close to the theme, but that's a coincidence. At any rate, it ended up more fleshed out and more fun to play over all than my actual entry. \ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\n\n Years and years ago when learning to program in BASIC on the TRS-80 Model 4, this was the first game I ever made -- though it used ASCII graphics and was a top-down thing... Since it's so simple, it's usually the first game I make in any new engine that I try for the first time. -- This is the first time it's been made in 3D though with animations, and sounds and stuff -- so when the Jam started, I had I hard time ending my \"warm-up\" session... -- I ended up wasting the first night of the Jam on it. -- Lesson learned, don't do that again. -- Anyway, since \"Ludum Dare\" means \"to give a game\", I thought I'd share it with y'all, just remember to rate me based on my main entry and not this one. \ud83d\ude0e\n\n .\n .\n .","meta":{"author":[110600],"grade-05-out":"1","grade-06-out":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/brainslugs83.azurewebsites.net\/games\/spacezoo\/index.html","link-01-tag":[42336],"link-01-name":"Space Zoo (unfinished entry)","link-02":"https:\/\/brainslugs83.azurewebsites.net\/games\/GemGrabber\/index.html","link-02-tag":[42336],"link-02-name":"Gem Grabber (warmup game)","cover":"\/\/\/content\/800\/b1\/z\/30bda.png"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/space-zoo","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":10,"notes-timestamp":"2020-05-12T20:11:19Z","grade":{"grade-01":15,"grade-02":15,"grade-03":15,"grade-04":15,"grade-07":14,"grade-08":14},"magic":{"cool":91.515026088616,"feedback":6,"given":8.375,"grade":14.666666666667,"grade-01-average":3.269,"grade-02-average":3.192,"grade-03-average":3.308,"grade-04-average":2.5,"grade-07-average":2.917,"grade-08-average":2.917,"smart":-14.790620833899}},"text":"Hey everyone,\n\nI put out **two** games related to the LD46 Jam -- a warmup game and an actual entry. The entry is *very* unfinished but it's neat, and I really pushed myself this time, and learned a lot. -- The warm up game (#2) is way more finished, and way more fun to play. \ud83d\ude09\n\n\n**#1: Space Zoo**\n\n This game is UNFINISHED, but it's a neat prototype, this is my main entry (that you should rate me on). \n\n \u26a0 Warning \u26a0, this needs a decent PC. -- I didn't realize it until now though. -- It's probably like the 20 layers of bloom and color grading. If it doesn't run smoothly for you, just skip it. Sorry.\n\n I was kind of going for a \"Cosmic Ark\" like experience (Atari 2600 game where you abduct life on alien planets). Right now you can fly around and abduct cows and stuff, but there's not much in the way of actual game play. Skip to #2 below if you want something better.\n\n Anyway, I had a lot of stuff planned out for this game, like police car chases (it's not obvious, but your \"space ship\" is a pirate ship, you can see the shadow of it when you fly by a planet sometimes) and like drop offs at the zoo and levels and stuff.\n\n\n ![ld46c.png](\/\/\/raw\/800\/b1\/z\/30d26.png)\n\n```\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb **CONTROLS:** \n\n - Mouse \ud83d\uddb1 + WASD (Q\/E to roll) \u2328\n - When you \"orbit\" a planet, W and S change to up and down; just break away from a planet\n to let go of it.\n\n - Mouse click turns on your beam -- if you capture something you'll hear it.\n\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb In Full Screen, will exit and bring you back to the browser; hitting again\n will release the mouse.\n\n ...\n```\n\n**#2: Gem Grabber**\n\n This was my warm-up game -- The goal is to collect as many gems as you can in a place where bombs and crates and stuff are falling from the ceiling. It even has a menu and instructions and stuff! \ud83d\ude06\n\n ![gemgrabber-what.png](\/\/\/raw\/800\/b1\/z\/30d53.png)\n\n```\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb **CONTROLS:** \n\n - For the main menu: use the mouse! \n - Movement: use gamepad \ud83c\udfae, or WASD\/arrows \u2328\n\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb In Full Screen, will exit and bring you back to the browser\n\n - Watch for shadows theyre there to telegraph where boxes will land -- theyre also visible\n on the mini-map!\n\n ...\n```\n\n What's a warm-up game you ask? -- well, I started on this earlier in the week to learn how to do all the things I don't know how to do (like make menus in Unity and add sound and music and stuff) -- it fits really close to the theme, but that's a coincidence. At any rate, it ended up more fleshed out and more fun to play over all than my actual entry. \ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\n\n Years and years ago when learning to program in BASIC on the TRS-80 Model 4, this was the first game I ever made -- though it used ASCII graphics and was a top-down thing... Since it's so simple, it's usually the first game I make in any new engine that I try for the first time. -- This is the first time it's been made in 3D though with animations, and sounds and stuff -- so when the Jam started, I had I hard time ending my \"warm-up\" session... -- I ended up wasting the first night of the Jam on it. -- Lesson learned, don't do that again. -- Anyway, since \"Ludum Dare\" means \"to give a game\", I thought I'd share it with y'all, just remember to rate me based on my main entry and not this one. \ud83d\ude0e\n\n .\n .\n .","title":"Space Zoo"}