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","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":250296,"author_name":"Alastairwyn","author_uid":"alastairwyn","epoch":1534399764,"text":"link added!\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":268350,"author_name":"Vekstr","author_uid":"vekstr","epoch":1535094685,"text":"The ship was a bit hard to control, but perhaps that's because I personally prefer twin stick shooter control scheme. But then after playing a few times I realized that I didn't need to move that much, I just need to rotate in place while shooting the enemies.\n\nAnyways, I noticed that no one has ever rated your game as of my writing this comment. You might want to rate and give feedback to several more games to also be rated by more people :smile: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":268353,"author_name":"Alastairwyn","author_uid":"alastairwyn","epoch":1535095321,"text":"I didn't have much time after the jam so I am trying to get stuck into it now!\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":268406,"author_name":"g11","author_uid":"g11","epoch":1535102797,"text":"I admire people who make it solo!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":268425,"author_name":"vamsi sridhar","author_uid":"vamsi-sridhar","epoch":1535105916,"text":"Check out mine pls. I think it might quite similar to yours!! BTW congratulations!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":269042,"author_name":"MartinTristan","author_uid":"martintristan","epoch":1535169143,"text":"pretty neat game. pretty hard too (or i'm not really that good with tank controls :)). good job on making this game!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":269049,"author_name":"Alastairwyn","author_uid":"alastairwyn","epoch":1535170249,"text":"Just added the link to the scratch player!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":269120,"author_name":"ZozeR","author_uid":"zozer","epoch":1535184394,"text":"Nice, however, I got a very low fps in the scratch one and the cause was the enemy quantity.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":269139,"author_name":"Alastairwyn","author_uid":"alastairwyn","epoch":1535186213,"text":"Yea, that's why I ported it to an .exe file","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":269231,"author_name":"ThibaultAr","author_uid":"thibaultar","epoch":1535196017,"text":"The scratch veersion works fine for me ! :)\n\nI had to say that the concept is good (reminds me a bit of old \"Asteroid\" arcade game) but the ship is hard to control with a keyboard :\/ It should be better with twin stick or with WASD\/Arrows and the ship pointing in the mouse direction ;)\n\nIn any case, congrats for this ;)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":269768,"author_name":"Alastairwyn","author_uid":"alastairwyn","epoch":1535257633,"text":"Scratch can't handle controller inputs but thanks for the feedback!\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":269958,"author_name":"Ryomayonnaise","author_uid":"ryomayonnaise","epoch":1535290254,"text":"The online version didn't worked for mer, but the .exe is ok ! Fun game, i like the way you use the theme !","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":270362,"author_name":"LDJam user 0","author_uid":"0","epoch":1535336388,"text":"Nice concept! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":271089,"author_name":"RubixNoob13","author_uid":"rubixnoob13","epoch":1535432235,"text":"Fun game. I think my high score was 14 before I gave up :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":271277,"author_name":"OiledOwl","author_uid":"oiledowl","epoch":1535471701,"text":"AAA-game on LD42. 10\/10 ofc :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":276124,"author_name":"Andrei9","author_uid":"andrei9","epoch":1536085300,"text":"Coool! :) +++++","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":280131,"author_name":"Avi","author_uid":"avi","epoch":1543802677,"text":"Reall cool! 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