{"author_link":"\/users\/lfreinoso","author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":1002114,"comments":[{"id":897389,"author_name":"MostLikely","author_uid":"mostlikely","epoch":1673218106,"text":"lol I like the art style, looks like The Grand Budapest Hotel\n\n\nI had to install UE Prerequisites to play, but the game was fun\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":897402,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673218332,"text":"I made a simple game that had the theme, but it's good to know that there are requirements to run the game, I didn't know, it's part of the challenge I posed with UE5.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":897478,"author_name":"Zyper","author_uid":"zyper","epoch":1673219357,"text":"When you run the executable, the UE5 requirements will automatically install. It's also compatible with Linux through Proton. \n\nI didn't know it was possible to use Unreal Engine 5 for a 2D pixel art game, but it's really interesting to see it in action!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":897505,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673219733,"text":"@zyper I'm studying the issue a lot, the plugin is called Paper2D native to UE5, but we have PaperZ that brings more features like State Machines. If you need help with that, just say man... I learned during the event, you learn too.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":898590,"author_name":"She Wrote","author_uid":"she-wrote","epoch":1673251917,"text":"The color palette is really nice, and the use of the theme is different from everything else. The gameplay is frustrating at first, but quickly becomes fun. Well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":900248,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673290670,"text":"@she-wrote Thanks for the considerations, I promise I will try to improve! I'm glad you had a good time.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":907127,"author_name":"LDJam user 244504","author_uid":"244504","epoch":1673364229,"text":"Short game but interesting what you can do with UE5 outside of 3D :)\n\nGood job on learning UE5 ! :tada: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":923831,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673888073,"text":"Thanks @gcake !!!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":923856,"author_name":"ccglp","author_uid":"ccglp","epoch":1673889613,"text":"Bom jogo, muito interessante ver jogos desenvolvidos com UE5 em 2D!\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":923869,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673890185,"text":"@ccgpl se quiser uma ajuda s\u00f3 me dar ideia. Que bom que gostou, estou estudando muito o recurso.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":923919,"author_name":"Oliver","author_uid":"oliver","epoch":1673893081,"text":"A very simple little game, but the graphics a alright and the music is funky!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":923966,"author_name":"Itskdog","author_uid":"itskdog","epoch":1673895753,"text":"Good job learning UE5. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":923968,"author_name":"Itzemii","author_uid":"itzemii","epoch":1673895801,"text":"I like the graphic style and the music! The colors are different to what I normally see, cool!\nOne of the few non-3D-UE5 games I have ever seen, cool.\nCrazy idea, ... harvesting humans. But maybe that's what aliens would do, if they see us just as a crop.\nGame play simple, but nice.\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":924034,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673898907,"text":"@itskdog Thanks for the compliment! @itzemii I'm glad you liked it, yes, it was quite an adventure doing 2D in Unreal... but it piqued me to do some research... I'm looking at a lot of threads about 2D games in Unreal after the event. And about what the aliens would do, I agree, I don't think they were going to talk kkkkk","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":924053,"author_name":"Lex","author_uid":"lex","epoch":1673900157,"text":"You know what would be fun? The U.F.O. lights blinking in sync with the song, haha.\n\nGreat game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":924066,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673900770,"text":"@lex Yes, playing 80's mexican or spanish style music... i don't know, but a brazilian carnival song would go down well hehehe... thanks for playing.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":924232,"author_name":"island-jam-2-group-3","author_uid":"island-jam-2-group-3","epoch":1673908521,"text":"What is the condition for winning? At my first play there was no humans left so I guessed that it was to abduct all of them, but then on the second game I didn't aduct all of them and still won xD I liked athe mood of the game ;-)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":924334,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673914521,"text":"@island-jam-2-group-3 17 soldiers and you win or survive all the soldiers (there is a count variable), but for the time, I couldn't indicate that, analyzing it has a big BUG face, I admit, this part was ugly... sorry.\nThanks for playing!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":924521,"author_name":"DzejPi","author_uid":"dzejpi","epoch":1673936497,"text":"Interesting take on the theme and interesting to see Unreal used for 2D! Good color palette choice and interesting music! I was able to win after a third try. Once you understand what you're doing, it's pretty fun! \nBut it was pretty confusing at the beginning - would be cool to have more different sprites for soldiers, because everyone looking the same made me think that the game was bugged somehow. Then I noticed that I had to harvest them and I understood. Nice entry! :) ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":924630,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1673952622,"text":"@dzejpi thanks!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":924800,"author_name":"Szieberth Adam","author_uid":"szieberth-adam","epoch":1673969179,"text":"Unreal Engine for 2D is Unreal! 611MB, OMG! :smile:","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":924863,"author_name":"arowx","author_uid":"arowx","epoch":1673973364,"text":"Any chance you could build to webgl I think it's an option for Unreal?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":925156,"author_name":"Veelivar","author_uid":"veelivar","epoch":1673998127,"text":"Really like the colour palette. It is different, but also made it really easy to distinguish what things were and keep track of them at a glance.\n\nMy first run didn't go well, as I didn't realise I needed to abduct them, and I was definitely too heavy on the controls, but once I got those downpat, it was fun.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":925448,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1674050296,"text":"@szieberth-adam I tried to make the \"shipping\" version to reduce the size and optimize it, but this way generated many errors, it was my first attempt with UE5, I was challenged in this JAM, but sorry for the situation.\n@arowx I didn't see this kind of option, but honestly I don't know kkkkk.\n@veelivar Glad you liked the game and my arts, they are original, the whole game is! I'm glad you liked it!\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":925484,"author_name":"Szieberth Adam","author_uid":"szieberth-adam","epoch":1674055403,"text":"Haha @lfreinoso ,it is not a problem at all, I know the engine has its load on itself. Was just funny really! I am also happy to see a proof of concept of a 2D game in UE.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":925678,"author_name":"JakobTheQuizGuy","author_uid":"jakobthequizguy","epoch":1674076626,"text":"The graphics are very nice, it sort of looks like a pixelated comic book which I really enjoy.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":926488,"author_name":"Mad Brokli","author_uid":"mad-brokli","epoch":1674214512,"text":"Interesting art style! I liked the game play though it took me a while to get the hang of it.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":926491,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1674214917,"text":"@jakobthequizguy and @mad-brokli Thanks for feedback!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":926527,"author_name":"givit-game-studios","author_uid":"givit-game-studios","epoch":1674218684,"text":"To be able to do a 2D game in Unreal 5, is great accomplishment. Well done","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":926556,"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"jk5000","epoch":1674224016,"text":"A pretty simple and fun little game idea. I like the visuals, and it's always fun to see 2D games in unreal. The game could have used some music and sound effects. But overall a fun little jam game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":927068,"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"geckoo1337","epoch":1674318830,"text":"I Won. Cool little game with unusual gameplay. I like how the player manages the movement - really smooth, and hard at the same time because of the drag low value. You used a solid engine to do something (274Mo) which could be done using a little bit smaller template, but why not? I had fun dodging the bullets, shooting the bad soldier. Thank you for your feedback about my own game. I wish you the best ++\n\nPS : I don't understand why I had a security alert in order to open a port on my firewall. I don't see any reason like a leaderboard or something else...","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":927119,"author_name":"pkenney","author_uid":"pkenney","epoch":1674326574,"text":"Congrats on making a complete compo entry with graphics sound and music, all in a new engine!\n\nThe high inertia on the player control was pretty cool - it's unusual and it forced me to plan a head for the slipperiness a little bit!\n\nUnreal Engine meant a kind of annoying experience as a player: I had to install pre-requisites, agree to terms and conditions, and then when the game ran my firewall popped up a warning that the game was trying to export data over the network.  That's a lot of overhead for an LD jam, and it's okay if ONE game makes me go uninstall software after, but if everybody did that it would be a very bad experience.\n\nNot your fault, but just be aware that this is the consequence with that engine.\n\nAnyway, nice job with a complete entry, it was fun little game to mess around with and I enjoyed the music, the slippy controls, and the hand-drawn art style.  I won, and then I played a few more times until I won without taking a single hit!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":927887,"author_name":"lfreinoso","author_uid":"lfreinoso","epoch":1674483007,"text":"@givit-game-studios and @jk5000 Thanks for the feecback and compliments! @geckoo1337 I can not tell you why security has activated with the game, but I believe it is because the version sent to JAM is development, because as commented, did not know very well to do the game kkkkk, sorry for that. @pkenney I'm glad you had fun, after that game I started to study more about the issue of 2D in the engine, about the problems faced, good to know, I didn't know about them, I appreciate the feedback.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":928207,"author_name":"lizelive","author_uid":"lizelive","epoch":1674542219,"text":"huh never would have guessed its unreal engine. impressive to have graphics and sounds in compo game. its high enough inertia that is fun.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld52\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/luizfreinoso\/spaceharvest","text":"GIT Hub Project"},{"url":"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/21IznYbA#1Lef27TLvH-s8Zk8MdcpPk3MWTe1GpCE9GIPAgM7yac","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"87038","g_author":"1002114","g_event":"LD52","g_eventkey":"116","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"399372","g_title":"Space Harvest","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"310","g_commentcount":"34","g_site2_node_id":"319458","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"319458","n_urlkey":"399372","n_parent":"313060","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/space-harvest","n_slug":"space-harvest","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"2114","n_created":"1673146081","n_modified":"1776367709","n_version":"987734","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD52","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":2114,"body":"The game \"Space Harvest\" takes place with our land having soldiers abducted by aliens. 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