{"author_name": "UrbanLogicGames", "cat": "LD #31", "comments": [], "epoch": 1418083320, "likes": 3, "metadata": {"p_key": "22501", "p_author": "UrbanLogicGames", "p_authorkey": "47523", "p_urlkey": "57875", "p_title": "Nebula", "p_cat": "LD #31", "p_event": "LD31", "p_time": "1418083320", "p_likes": "3", "p_comments": "0", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "47523", "us_name": "UrbanLogicGames", "us_username": "urbanlogicgames", "event_start": "1417737600", "event_key": "26", "event_name": "LD31"}, "text": "

Here’s my Ludum Dare game, I realised at the last minute I hadn’t actually named it, so I’ve just called it ‘Nebula’ for now.

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http://urbanlogicgames.itch.io/nebula

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The game places you in command of a lone starship hiding in a nebula with 5 enemy ships. You have to find them using probes, which can scan over a short range. If the probe picks up emissions from an enemy ship it will mark the direction the emissions came from (it should only take 3-4 of these to triangulate the ship’s position). If an enemy ship falls within the probes inner-radius it’s exact position will be marked on the grid. Once you think you know where a ship is lurking you can destroy it with torpedoes.

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\"NEBULA\"

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I didn’t get as far as I’d like with it. Enemy ships don’t have AI and are essentially sitting ducks. The scanner is probably a little too precise, I think some sort of analogue waveform readout with more ambiguity would work better, just didn’t get a chance to try it. Torpedoes can be customised by allocating power between speed and yield, though admittedly this doesn’t affect the game as much as I’d planned.

", "time": "December 8th, 2014 7:02 pm", "title": "Nebula"}