{"author_link":"\/author\/sam-twidale\/","author_name":"Sam Twidale","author_uid":"42276","comments":[{"author_name":"peterthehe","author_uid":"46596","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:07am","epoch":1450076520,"text":"Interesting concept. Well executed for the time it was made in."},{"author_name":"graceavery","author_uid":"49147","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:17am","epoch":1450077120,"text":"Super interesting execution, I'm interested to see what you could make with this basic concept with more time. Great visuals, the color shifting background adds a lot of atmosphere."},{"author_name":"Elenesski","author_uid":"57748","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:12am","epoch":1450080420,"text":"Interesting idea.  But it didn't work for me, clicking the colored words didn't add to my score.  Neat idea with the text."},{"author_name":"ProjectX593","author_uid":"19774","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:36am","epoch":1450081860,"text":"Clicking the colored words doesn't do anything for me."},{"author_name":"mukult","author_uid":"65633","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:49am","epoch":1450082640,"text":"Nice idea!!"},{"author_name":"Sam Twidale","author_uid":"42276","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:25am","epoch":1450084800,"text":"Thanks all. I'll try to get the text shader working and clean this up sometime to get the intention across.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>What browsers and input\/mouse\/touch are people who can't get input using? And ah, touch input isn't in actually, noted that."},{"author_name":"hexagore","author_uid":"34027","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1450114440,"text":"I love how experimental and it looks lovely. I found it very difficult to understand what I was supposed to be clicking, though. I just started clicking things randomly and numbers went up? Feels like it could maybe do with more feedback in some way!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It is nice to play something completely different tho"},{"author_name":"Jakob37","author_uid":"50156","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:23pm","epoch":1450120680,"text":"It has a beautiful look. It would be nice to play it with music :)"},{"author_name":"francoisvn","author_uid":"23363","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:01am","epoch":1450137360,"text":"Cool concept, I'd like to see it taken a bit further :)"},{"author_name":"TomenLuca","author_uid":"66261","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1450269840,"text":"It's an interesting concept, but I feel it would be better if the actual song would play over it. Then I wouldn't have to look at the lyrics in the bottom all the time (I don't know this song very well)."},{"author_name":"EternalCastleStudio","author_uid":"64145","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:06pm","epoch":1450270860,"text":"I love the mood and the concept of the game, it is very original. A little creative game always is welcome :-)"},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1450556040,"text":"Interesting idea, but it's to fast for me. I couldn't follow the text at the bottom and click the words at the same time. It could be easier with some audio."},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 9:40pm","epoch":1450560900,"text":"Interesting, and very Christmassy!"},{"author_name":"Skywilly","author_uid":"4255","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 1:37am","epoch":1451266320,"text":"Interesting idea !"},{"author_name":"cilerba","author_uid":"62588","time":"Dec 29, 2015 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1451404980,"text":"i liked this one a lot. such an interesting idea!"},{"author_name":"Acuity","author_uid":"34803","time":"Jan 1, 2016 @ 5:29am","epoch":1451625840,"text":"I expected music to go with the song with the description, but this seems kinda cool."},{"author_name":"SamH","author_uid":"26183","time":"Jan 3, 2016 @ 2:13pm","epoch":1451830080,"text":"It was a bit confusing at first, then became a bit repetitive. It&rsquo;s nice aesthetically, though, but not very challenging. The experience might be better on a touch device, maybe?"},{"author_name":"Haokarlos","author_uid":"62182","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1451942040,"text":"I think its a good idea but I missed some music"}],"images":["ld34\/42276-ff9dff78fdb0f738b7718853d9597ef2.jpg","ld34\/42276-b211ebfd6a0de7dc5e8ad8d35794fbb8.jpg","ld34\/42276-05fab280c7d59bc600285714c8222181.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/samcodes.itch.io\/the-days-of-christmas","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Tw1ddle\/Ludum-Dare-34","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"7105","g_author":"42276","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"7137","g_title":"The Days of Christmas","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"930","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\/42276-shot0-1450033358.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/42276-shot1-1450033358.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/42276-shot2-1450033358.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In The Days of Christmas you click or tap lyrics close to the current line or verse as quickly as possible to maximize your score.\r\n\r\nThe theme is in the song, the main verse grows as it loops over and over. Also, there are currently 12 days until Christmas :)\r\n\r\nI had 18 hours this time, so this was rather rushed. A lot of time was wasted writing a signed distance field shader for the text I couldn't get working, so ended up with nasty geometry text instead. I also wanted to build a Christmas tree silhouette out of text, but no time.\r\n\r\nThe game is written in Haxe, targeting JavaScript\/WebGL. It requires a recent graphics card and modern browser to run at all, and probably needs a fast computer to run at full speed.\r\n\r\nCONTROLS \r\n======== \r\nThe game works with the mouse, no touch or keyboard input. Unfortunately, there's not much to do except click the colored text for points.\r\n\r\nIMPORTANT NOTES \r\n=============== \r\n* The sky shader code is a derivative of the three.js sky shader example: http:\/\/threejs.org\/examples\/#webgl_shaders_sky - which I built on in my previous compo entry. I did not write the shader from scratch during the compo.\r\n* The lack of audio isn't a bug - there are others, though!\r\n* I removed the particles in the screenshots due to bugs on IE, they're not in the uploaded games.\r\n* Sometimes the score doesn't go up, oops.\r\n* I should've used a monospace font, oops.\r\n\r\nCREATED WITH\r\n========\r\n* The Haxe Programming language.\r\n* three.js for rendering with Haxe externs by George Corney (Haxiomic).\r\n* Lycan, a work-in-progress library of Haxe game development utilities. \r\n* Joshua Granick's actuate tweening library.\r\n* Luke Moody's ShaderParticleEngine for three.js.\r\n* Massive Interactive's msignal signals library.","title":"The Days of Christmas"}