{"author_link":"\/author\/projectx593\/","author_name":"ProjectX593","author_uid":"19774","comments":[{"author_name":"M2tM","author_uid":"4412","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 2:29am","epoch":1450059840,"text":"This is a blast! :B"},{"author_name":"rylgh","author_uid":"15833","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:53am","epoch":1450064880,"text":"really fun and satisfying!\r<br\/>if you add a post-compo version, i'd say the first tank in a chain should be coloured a bit differently. local multiplayer would be interesting."},{"author_name":"Move127","author_uid":"30603","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:50am","epoch":1450068300,"text":"Great game! I like the mixture of genres."},{"author_name":"ORECROS","author_uid":"60328","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:50am","epoch":1450068300,"text":"I opened up internet explorer (because chrome is apparently not supported) and was bombarded with questions about setting it as my default browser, changing my default search engine to bing, and when i finally (after many decades) loaded up this game, it said i needed to download a plugin and I can't be bothered. waiting for the download now"},{"author_name":"krashja","author_uid":"59611","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:55am","epoch":1450068600,"text":"I Love this game, Amazing!"},{"author_name":"barret907k","author_uid":"14910","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:59am","epoch":1450068840,"text":"Fun.  Gets pretty hard once your train goes off the screen and when you try to turn really fast."},{"author_name":"ORECROS","author_uid":"60328","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:01am","epoch":1450068960,"text":"I played until my frames dropped to less than one and then... this game is just so good.\r<br\/>Movement gets a little strange if you try and make a U-turn\r<br\/>is nice as it is that your cars collide, the game might run smoother if adjacent parts of the train didn't collide"},{"author_name":"karlipoppins","author_uid":"43949","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:22am","epoch":1450070220,"text":"Super original concept mixed with very fun action! The fact that you can kill your own units is genius and makes the game very fun and challenging. Great job!"},{"author_name":"Elenesski","author_uid":"57748","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:23am","epoch":1450070280,"text":"That was great fun!"},{"author_name":"ProjectX593","author_uid":"19774","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:38am","epoch":1450071180,"text":"@ORECROS - Thanks! I wish I'd had more time to optimize it, the code is basically just a giant pile of hacks interspersed with comments like \/\/This is a hack but screw it\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Not sure if I'd want to remove the self collision though, trying not to tangle yourself up is part of the challenge!"},{"author_name":"scriptorum","author_uid":"17811","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:55am","epoch":1450072200,"text":"This is crazy fun! My biggest chain was 217 vehicles. It was a madhouse out there. A madhouse!"},{"author_name":"RadMcCool","author_uid":"56816","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:04am","epoch":1450072740,"text":"really addictive just trying to get the biggest possible tank chain."},{"author_name":"Os_Reboot","author_uid":"45083","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:29am","epoch":1450074240,"text":"Super fun entry. This game has a negative difficulty curve, however the level of fun multiplies over time (as does the amount of headphone and ear destruction). Art is awesome. 5\/5 fun."},{"author_name":"mukult","author_uid":"65633","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:29am","epoch":1450074240,"text":"Hehehe!! Loved it! It was so much fun just destroying the other tanks... \r<br\/>Wonder how you did the AI... \r<br\/>I never got lost in the game surprisingly.. \r<br\/>Nice work!"},{"author_name":"ProjectX593","author_uid":"19774","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:37am","epoch":1450074720,"text":"@scriptorum 217? Holy crap I should have made it harder :x\r<br\/>@mukult - The AI is really simple actually, it decides to go either left or right, then tries to orbit the player at a random distance by moving along a vector to the player rotated between 0 and 180 degrees (90 degrees at it's chosen orbit distance, 0 if more than 2x away, 180 when on top of him). I got the idea from how orbits work in EVE Online."},{"author_name":"ShadedVertex","author_uid":"61744","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:38am","epoch":1450074780,"text":"It's really, really addicting. I love it. You deserve a near perfect score!"},{"author_name":"mlepage","author_uid":"61867","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:59am","epoch":1450076040,"text":"Clear instructions. I found it tricky to control though, maybe I want just steer left\/right instead of four directions, due to the turning radius. Maybe that should be an option.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I found it fun to play. I kept wanting to go back and get scrap, missing, and wanting to take another pass even though there were lots of bullets flying. That was probably my downfall."},{"author_name":"nonetheless","author_uid":"36254","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:01am","epoch":1450076160,"text":"What a slaughterhouse :). Great job!"},{"author_name":"peterthehe","author_uid":"46596","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:03am","epoch":1450076280,"text":"Very well executed. I really enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"GAFBlizzard","author_uid":"12278","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:27am","epoch":1450077720,"text":"This was ridiculous in the best way!  Great concept!  It feels like Mad Max meets pirate ships when you fire huge broadsides driving past other trains."},{"author_name":"Finestep","author_uid":"15189","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:41am","epoch":1450078560,"text":"159 vehicles was enough to bring the game to sub-1-fps"},{"author_name":"dvdking","author_uid":"14173","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:27am","epoch":1450081320,"text":"Awesome! This reminds me of my game for LD30.\r<br\/>I like how the game becomes giant clusterfuck.\r<br\/>Graphics and sounds are pretty good. Gameplay is a lot fun, but kind of pointless, because the only target is to grow the bigger chain."},{"author_name":"pinion","author_uid":"19121","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:40am","epoch":1450082100,"text":"Great game. The fact you could shoot yourself and it became easier to do so the bigger you got was good fun. I managed to get ridiculously big once I got used to it, then wrapped up my enemy like a swiss roll and shot inwards :D"},{"author_name":"bazz_boyy","author_uid":"62468","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:08am","epoch":1450083780,"text":"Hey dude, nice game. The mechanics were a little confusing for me though! I would have built the game from the movement alone! Anyway, well done."},{"author_name":"Cyranh","author_uid":"62805","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:39am","epoch":1450092840,"text":"Wow. This game is just so much fun! I had 67 Tanks at once!"},{"author_name":"mackthehobbit","author_uid":"21333","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:58pm","epoch":1450097580,"text":"Possibly the most fun entry I've seen so far. It's like snake, but with tanks! What an absolute masterpiece."},{"author_name":"danbolt","author_uid":"6930","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:44pm","epoch":1450107540,"text":"This game shows so much variety with a few discrete sprites! Well done!"},{"author_name":"TheSteveIAm","author_uid":"19900","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1450110600,"text":"Great little game! Love the concept, plays great, chains act exactly as I expected them to when they broke off."},{"author_name":"GeeItSomeLaldy","author_uid":"40246","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:21pm","epoch":1450124160,"text":"Fuckin' A+"},{"author_name":"Zeezgames","author_uid":"63931","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1450125900,"text":"OMG i loved this game so addictive lol was gutted when i died :) graphics seemed fine for the style game and audio didnt seem annoying so all good in my opinions\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well Done!!"},{"author_name":"pianoman373","author_uid":"52498","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:09pm","epoch":1450127040,"text":"Just awesome. A post-compo with 8x8 online teams or something would be amazing. I know that would be hard though."},{"author_name":"nunesbarbosa","author_uid":"45119","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 10:34pm","epoch":1450132140,"text":"Nice game! Very fun to play and good use of the theme.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Two suggestions:\r<br\/>- Friendly fire.\r<br\/>- Instead of upgrading on every carcass, upgrade at 3 or 4 so the game have an ending. It is too easy. :)"},{"author_name":"justinooncx","author_uid":"38380","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1450200120,"text":"A weapon to surpass Metal Gear... Addictive and satisfying gameplay!"},{"author_name":"NuggetTeam","author_uid":"65554","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 12:06am","epoch":1450310460,"text":"It is addictive! Would love to see this one multiplayer!"},{"author_name":"Calciumtrice","author_uid":"31814","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 5:52pm","epoch":1450374420,"text":"This is a really fun shooter! Kind of a heavily armed take on Snake. I like how well it scales up and gets really intense.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I got upset when my tank boys got cut off from the chain. Apparently it was 28 at its longest.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice job. :)"},{"author_name":"CrazyMinnowStudio","author_uid":"56101","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 4:26am","epoch":1450412460,"text":"The game is really fun, but I didn't like the movement controls on a diagonal axis. I couldn't get used to the controls. Otherwise a really great entry!"},{"author_name":"ButtonMasherBros","author_uid":"11937","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1450458000,"text":"You have been featured in today's Ludum Dare to Believe! Check it out - https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i9hEAf60v38"},{"author_name":"Diventurer","author_uid":"7567","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1450460700,"text":"Very nice game. It's innovative and fun to play!"},{"author_name":"ProjectX593","author_uid":"19774","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1450476180,"text":"@ButtonMasherBros - That's awesome, thanks guys!"},{"author_name":"MicroMacro","author_uid":"52238","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 12:18am","epoch":1450483980,"text":"Fantastic!"},{"author_name":"SteveSalmond","author_uid":"24965","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 10:36am","epoch":1450521060,"text":"Awesome game! Super addictive too, I played way longer than I should have.. :)"},{"author_name":"VersatileBox","author_uid":"54812","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 4:52pm","epoch":1450543620,"text":"Probably one of the best games from this Ludum Dare. \r<br\/>Amazing!"},{"author_name":"MrJoshuaMcLean","author_uid":"61811","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 3:06am","epoch":1450580460,"text":"Not really enough in the way of defensive options and I kind of expect tank controls (because, y'know xD) but it's pretty fun. I like the sounds and the shooting is pretty polished. Would be cool as multiplayer, especially something like 32-player online battles! Although that might be overkill for its size."},{"author_name":"LeReveur","author_uid":"7170","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 9:40pm","epoch":1450733700,"text":"Ha Ha ! Simple and very funny ! Well done !"},{"author_name":"Baecun","author_uid":"61849","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 2:14am","epoch":1450750140,"text":"Overall a really cool concept, and with some work I could definitely see this as something which would be worth selling.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Things I would suggest improving:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>- When using a 1366 x 768 resolution  the shots weren't really going where I wanted them, there was a big offset, so I'd suggest fixing that.\r<br\/>- Custom Mouse pointer: Since the background is so bright, I found myself loosing track of my mouse pointer, add that with the previous point and the gameplay experience gets quite frustrating, even when the game is very good. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Don't take the above comments as too harsh, I actually loved this game. Well done!"},{"author_name":"ProjectX593","author_uid":"19774","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 9:10pm","epoch":1450818300,"text":"@Baecun - Thanks for the feedback! I don't plan to sell the game, but I am going to fix some of the problems and release it on Newgrounds. I wrote a postmortem on it if you want to know more:\r<br\/>http:\/\/projectx593.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/ludum-dare-postmortem-chaintanks\/"},{"author_name":"Baecun","author_uid":"61849","time":"Dec 26, 2015 @ 3:44pm","epoch":1451144340,"text":"The postmortem was really well written, and I'm really happy to know you're releasing it on Newgrounds. One of the things that pushed me so much towards game development was a flash game that I used to play a lot when I was younger, and I'm certain your game can have that impact on someone else too. Keep up the good work man! :)"},{"author_name":"Docjekyll","author_uid":"41650","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1451336460,"text":"Great use of theme. I had a blast playing this.\r<br\/>Some sort of escalation or emergent complexity could make it even more interesting.\r<br\/>Good work!"},{"author_name":"FireTwin","author_uid":"53995","time":"Jan 3, 2016 @ 2:29pm","epoch":1451831040,"text":"So simple, yet so fun and well implemented. The perfect kind of game."}],"images":["ld34\/19774-7147a8a8d40156bf524df86b04c53880.jpg","ld34\/19774-d5b05a9f9085302974dcb0ef411635f0.jpg","ld34\/19774-f37ec54cda008b3afaaad31b19627e4c.jpg","ld34\/19774-eda994374c4e36f145ff9cdd3bf1a3f8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/projectx593.com\/GameBuilds\/LD34\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/2ha9o9idvezg5ld\/ChaintanksDesktop.zip?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/9iqqdo8kjwjpj07\/ChaintanksMac.zip?dl=0","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/22fs7bsazwgrza4\/ChaintanksLinux.zip?dl=0","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/w07jpxgv4mubnaw\/ChaintanksSource.zip?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"6687","g_author":"19774","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"6711","g_title":"Chaintanks","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"90","g_commentcount":"49","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\/19774-shot0-1450057959.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/19774-shot1-1450057959.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/19774-shot2-1450057959.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/19774-shot3-1450057959.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Destroy enemy Chaintanks and collect their scrap to build the largest Chaintank possible while under constant attack.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nWASD - Movement\r\nMouse - Aim\r\nLeft Mouse - Fire all guns\r\n\r\nCollecting scrap will either add a new segment to your Chaintank, or upgrade and existing one, increasing it's health and rate of fire, as well as healing it.\r\n\r\nLosing a segment will cause all segments after it to be left behind, this applies to enemies too!\r\n\r\nYou CAN shoot yourself, so be careful not to shoot directly forwards or backwards, or get yourself tangled up!","title":"Chaintanks"}