{"author_link":"\/author\/foodzilla\/","author_name":"foodzilla","author_uid":"35418","comments":[{"author_name":"UntitledQ","author_uid":"12291","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:45pm","epoch":1450215600,"text":"The theme is not too applicable anymore after you changed it to a 4 button game, but it's a fine shoot 'em up otherwise!"},{"author_name":"XenosNS","author_uid":"28415","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 5:46pm","epoch":1450806060,"text":"Rather simple but controls well"},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"Dec 31, 2015 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1451573880,"text":"Unfinished. I could be great with more features ++"}],"images":["ld34\/35418-af4dd71ca7f5e1024da37cd61c1f9638.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gwbloom.com\/dev\/games\/ludum\/ludum34\/","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"6414","g_author":"35418","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"6446","g_title":"Circles in the Clouds","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"3","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\/35418-shot0-1450144765.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A game of battles in the clouds!\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nUnfortunately I wasn't able to finish this, I just got about halfway through the enemies... I was originally going to make this a two button game (left and right), but I got ahead of myself and made it four.\r\n\r\nThere was a lot I wanted to get done, but I miscalculated the end of the competition by a good hour.  If I had more time:\r\n\r\n\r\n1) More enemies... there's actually the start of a number of subtypes that I wasn't able to fully distinguish and set up. This includes marking the 'tracking' bullets as red.\r\n2) More pathing behaviors.  Both a proper 'legion' group, and several pathing tricks with the wheels.  There's a whole set of pathing classes I never got to properly use for this game.\r\n3) Background.  There was supposed to be some very graphical features for the game... y'know... the clouds... and all.\r\n4) Simple items.  I thought of a random chance of a 'shield item' that could absorb a couple hits. It would be a way to 'fake' restoring health without actually healing.\r\n\r\n-----------------------------------\r\n\r\nedit: wasn't properly adding\/drawing the blue enemies. I had commented out and left the commands un-updated.  Fixed this and rebalanced the distribution a touch.","title":"Circles in the Clouds"}