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Might be able to get one running within the next week or so, if so I'll message you :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":622528,"author_name":"LakshyaIsAGod","author_uid":"lakshyaisagod","epoch":1619414854,"text":"TODO: review game","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":622829,"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"jk5000","epoch":1619417855,"text":"I am not totally sure what the goal was, but I had fun seeing how many balls I could get. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":628774,"author_name":"pixlark","author_uid":"pixlark","epoch":1619458511,"text":"@jk5000 That's basically it LOL","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":629529,"author_name":"CubeX","author_uid":"cubex","epoch":1619462434,"text":"One of the most satisfying LD games I've ever played :D","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":629555,"author_name":"robinfaury","author_uid":"robinfaury","epoch":1619462579,"text":"I love it!!! Physics base game are always the best!!! :D ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":638234,"author_name":"Sode","author_uid":"sode","epoch":1619501863,"text":"This was fun I spawned those blocks until the game stopped  working... At one point I heard a loud BANG and everything was gone","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":638400,"author_name":"AndyKSWong","author_uid":"andykswong","epoch":1619503057,"text":"I like this physics puzzle games! I'm not good enough to get very high score, but at least the annihilation effect was fun!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":650835,"author_name":"Bastienre4","author_uid":"bastienre4","epoch":1619550782,"text":"Amazing gameplay mechanics. It fit so well the settings you choose (atoms and stuff).\nIt's super cool. Failing is both frustrating and satisfying to watch.\nCongrats\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":669774,"author_name":"BlackOpsBen","author_uid":"blackopsben","epoch":1619667104,"text":"This made me laugh out loud for my Sisyphean efforts! Nice idea!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":669819,"author_name":"bmacintosh","author_uid":"bmacintosh","epoch":1619667666,"text":"Pretty fun for how simple the idea is. Tried for a bit and then spent a while just spamming balls trying to see if I could get a good run of one color (got 10 blue 0 red).","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":669842,"author_name":"thesambassador","author_uid":"thesambassador","epoch":1619667880,"text":"Not sure if this requires some redistributable installer or something, but I get errors about missing DLLs when I try and launch the game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld48\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/pixlark.itch.io\/nuclear-chaos","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/pixlark\/LD48","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"76909","g_author":"1005443","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"371995","g_title":"Nuclear Chaos","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"13","g_site2_node_id":"245487","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"245487","n_urlkey":"371995","n_parent":"233335","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/nuclear-chaos","n_slug":"nuclear-chaos","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"5443","n_created":"1619222307","n_modified":"1776372181","n_version":"748665","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD48","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":5443,"body":"![asdfadsf.png](\/\/\/raw\/345\/1\/z\/3cb76.png)\n\nYou are a nuclear physicist conducting a very complicated experiment: how much blue matter and red matter can you get in a box at one time? 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