{"author_name":"franciscotufro","cat":"LD #30","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 23, 2014 11:40 am","epoch":1408812000,"text":"Nice concept!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 23, 2014 12:01 pm","epoch":1408813260,"text":"Thanks!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1408811580,"likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"27809","p_author":"franciscotufro","p_authorkey":"13896","p_urlkey":"63255","p_title":"Can you hear me Major Tom? Update!","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1408811580","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"13896","us_name":"franciscotufro","us_username":"franciscotufro","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"<p>Well.. this is the first update of the project&#8217;s progress&#8230;<\/p>\n <p><strong>Name<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>To honor the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Bowie\"> first alien known to humanity<\/a>, the game is called <strong>Can you hear me Major Tom?<\/strong><\/p>\n <p><strong>Gameplay<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>The goal of the game is avoid aliens to know about human race. For that to happen you need to <strong>avoid\u00a0the awareness stats from growing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <p>The awareness stats are:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Existence (increases when aliens find emissions)<\/li>\n <li>Position (increases when radio emissions get a successful position\u00a0analysis)<\/li>\n <li>Language (increases when radio emissions get a successful language analysis)<\/li>\n <li>Culture (increases when space missions are captured and analyzed successfully)<\/li>\n <li>Contact (increases when ships land in earth)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>As you may see the gameplay is based in emissions going out from earth and aliens intercepting those emissions.<\/p>\n <p>For now I have implemented the base spawner, radio, mission and garbage emissions:<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;ve also implemented the base alien stations with a functioning listener that captures emissions with a specified range, analyze them and update the awareness stats.<\/p>\n <p>You can see Earth and some mocked emissions in the screenshot:<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emissions2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-378175 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emissions2-550x455.jpg\" alt=\"emissions2\" width=\"550\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emissions2-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emissions2-550x455.jpg 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emissions2.jpg 836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>Now I should start working in the resources (matter and energy) and the tools you use to influence emissions and avoid them to be noticed\/analyzed by aliens.<\/p>\n <p>Let&#8217;s see how far I get!<\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2014 11:33 am","title":"Can you hear me Major Tom? Update!"}