{"author_name":"Slossius","cat":"LD #26","comments":[],"epoch":1367041860,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"45567","p_author":"Slossius","p_authorkey":"21958","p_urlkey":"81227","p_title":"First Screen and Concept!","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1367041860","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"21958","us_name":"Slossius","us_username":"slossius","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_235131\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CWscreen1.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-235131\" alt=\"CWscreen1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CWscreen1-300x236.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a screenie of my progress.<\/p><\/div>\n <p><span id=\"more-235121\"><\/span><\/p>\n <p>Twin stick shooter, 1-2 (expandable to more) players.<\/p>\n <p>Each player has a sort of &#8216;drifting&#8217; movement, a la Asteroids, as do the circles in the background.<\/p>\n <p>If you move over a coloured circle, you can right-click to &#8216;pick&#8217; that colour. You then keep that colour (I call it the &#8220;powerColor&#8221;), and it&#8217;s displayed in the centre of your avatar (so far just a circle inside another circle). See the orange blob in the screenie above. You can see that I got it from the mix of the nearby red and green circles.<\/p>\n <p>Each colour gives you a power-up. Right now, redness gives you a speed boost, proportional to how much red there is in your powerColor.<\/p>\n <p>Next, I plan to implement powers for blueness and greenness. My idea at the moment is that blueness makes your shots stronger (I haven&#8217;t implemented shooting yet) and greenness slowly heals you over time. If you have a mix of all three then you get all three powers at once (so white is the Holy Grail, only found by mixing RGB from at least 3 bright circles). I&#8217;ll probably make your powerColour fade gradually to black, so you have to continually seek out the circles.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m enjoying everyone else&#8217;s progress updates &#8211; keep them coming!<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/java-slick2d-eclipse\/\" rel=\"tag\">java slick2d eclipse<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 27th, 2013 12:51 am","title":"First Screen and Concept!"}