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Would be aided a lot by audio I think. I got 92 seconds.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783100,"author_name":"ComicSans","author_uid":"comicsans","epoch":1649125304,"text":"Love the graphics! I'm impressed you were able to make such a solid RTS in 3 days! To minor camera issues: you can go upside down, and if you rotate to be flat with the horizon, you're stuck and can't rotate back. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783113,"author_name":"Nathan Evans","author_uid":"nathan-evans","epoch":1649125348,"text":"Futile Fire Fighting. Super fun found myself trying to beat my score every time. Tab selection for the fire fighters could be useful as it was hard to click them sometimes in the dense forest!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783119,"author_name":"kason.xiv","author_uid":"kason-xiv","epoch":1649125380,"text":"Very nice looking game. Good take on the theme too. Controls we're a bit rough - I found right clicking to move the units would end up moving the camera :( might have just been something weird on my end though.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783183,"author_name":"Asukanami","author_uid":"asukanami","epoch":1649125622,"text":"I love the graphic, really cute! And the game is very fun to play with. The game is pretty hard only got 78 sec. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783207,"author_name":"Embedder72","author_uid":"embedder72","epoch":1649125710,"text":"Very nice.  I love the sense of impending doom the whole time.  I did have a couple instance of flipping the world upside down (which actually added to the sense of futility!).  Great job.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783217,"author_name":"LDJam user 257810","author_uid":"257810","epoch":1649125754,"text":"Well done, this was a lot of fun!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783219,"author_name":"onedozenbagels","author_uid":"onedozenbagels","epoch":1649125757,"text":"Great idea, amazing graphics, and nice concept that fit the theme. I found the controls a bit hard to use and more than once ended up with the screen upside down.\n\nNot sure if sound was missing or if it was just on my end, but sound could have helped the mood and ability to know events happened significantly.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783223,"author_name":"KazuoNomura","author_uid":"kazuonomura","epoch":1649125770,"text":"I like it","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783655,"author_name":"DevZhrssh","author_uid":"devzhrssh","epoch":1649127656,"text":"I love it! Very cool graphics and it's really futile to put out those fires.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783939,"author_name":"Jevidin","author_uid":"jevidin","epoch":1649129218,"text":"Super cool game and idea but camera movement gets a little funky sometimes","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":783949,"author_name":"gtogrmri","author_uid":"gtogrmri","epoch":1649129273,"text":"Very polished game with good graphics and creative theme! Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":785974,"author_name":"Kongo","author_uid":"kongo","epoch":1649146378,"text":"Nice idea with potential, but rotating camera and moving on same click was a tricky choice.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":791843,"author_name":"kromeboy","author_uid":"kromeboy","epoch":1649177002,"text":"Love the art style. Camera movement are good and the game is playable.\nIt could use some sounds.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":792769,"author_name":"Learus","author_uid":"learus","epoch":1649181150,"text":"What a nice little game! Art is cute, controls are solid, and the game gets hectic really quickly. Which is awesome!\nIt would be interesting to have a bigger map with more firefighters and perhaps powerups and stuff.\nI think some sound effects and background music would add so much to this game.\nOverall a great submission! \n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":796036,"author_name":"jakeuro","author_uid":"jakeuro","epoch":1649194105,"text":"I liked it, I thought it was epic and maybe even a little pog.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":798708,"author_name":"Russ Moonbase","author_uid":"russ-moonbase","epoch":1649213810,"text":"I like the RTS feel of the game. I haven't played a game with RTS movement at a Ludum Dare before. cool idea. Tough but fair gameplay. I'll need to spend some more time with the game cuz I kinda just sent all the firefighters to the same spot.\n\nGraphics looked awesome too!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":801165,"author_name":"Trexxak","author_uid":"trexxak","epoch":1649243795,"text":"Thematically perfectly fitting, as I really felt overwhelmed by the spreading fires :D \n\nCute visual style and intuitive game design!\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":803717,"author_name":"Stefan Laimer","author_uid":"stefan-laimer","epoch":1649265965,"text":"Really cool game, which fits the theme very nicely! I managed to get to 70 seconds after a couple of tries.\nOne thing I would change is having different buttons for sending the units and rotating the camera. But other than that, very well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":803864,"author_name":"Ziamor","author_uid":"ziamor","epoch":1649267016,"text":"@stefan-laimer I wanted to use middle mouse for camera orbit, but webGL outside of full screen doesn't disable page scroll for accessibility reasons. So you would hit middle mouse and the page would scroll down LOL.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":804843,"author_name":"iDeNoh","author_uid":"idenoh","epoch":1649273576,"text":"I really enjoyed the concept here, and I feel like you hit the nail on the head with your theme, I found myself constantly stressing about the placement of my firemen great work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld50\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ziamor.itch.io\/futile-fire-fighting","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"81434","g_author":"1056866","g_event":"LD50","g_eventkey":"110","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"385818","g_title":"Futile Fire Fighters","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"570","g_commentcount":"24","g_site2_node_id":"277725","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"277725","n_urlkey":"385818","n_parent":"276397","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/futile-fire-fighters","n_slug":"futile-fire-fighters","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"56866","n_created":"1647607616","n_modified":"1778424055","n_version":"898818","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":11,"author":56866,"body":"![Screenshot.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/22e\/d\/z\/4c1bd.png)\n\nSome forest fires just can't be stopped but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try! 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