{"author_name":"sfernald","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"February 20, 2010 9:45 pm","epoch":1266720300,"text":"Fun to watch the explosions grow!  Hard to manage missiles, though the &#8216;Doomsday is upon us&#8217; message + explosive was fun to watch.  Fullscreen definitely worth it.  Agreed that 0-9 controls would have been hard to implement.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"February 20, 2010 9:52 pm","epoch":1266720720,"text":"you could maybe do some kind of &#8220;zone defense&#8221; idea, putting a very dim set of numbers in the back of the screen&#8230; i&#8217;m not sure if i can explain it in text, but divide the screen into 8 boxes, 4 wide by 2 tall.  and draw the 1 2 3 4 in the top row and 7 8 9 0 in the bottom row.  instead of mouse clicks, hitting the number of the zone detonates the missile closest to the ground?  it&#8217;s probably not workable (or at least not &#8220;fun&#8221;) but you could play with cooldown on the numbers, powerups for shorter cooldowns, chording (hit 1234 at once to do MASSIVE DAMAGE!), things like that.  cool game, you&#8217;re a lot further than i am! <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/>","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"February 20, 2010 9:55 pm","epoch":1266720900,"text":"Nice game.  You didn&#8217;t meet the input restrictions, but the game would have worked (and been even somewhat playable) with the limited control scheme.  Good job.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"osto","time":"February 20, 2010 11:44 pm","epoch":1266727440,"text":"Very nice, I loved Missile Command when I was younger, and this has got much the same vibe that I was addicted to. Mouse controls are a definite must for a game like this, so even though you didn&#8217;t meet all the constrictions, I think you did what&#8217;s best anyway. Super smooth, and keeping track of chains was a nice touch to say the least. Really cool, great game.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1266719220,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"71605","p_author":"sfernald","p_authorkey":"258","p_urlkey":"107427","p_title":"Doomsday Eve (final)","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD16","p_time":"1266719220","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"4","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"258","us_name":"sfernald","us_username":"sfernald","event_start":"1260489600","event_key":"2","event_name":"LD16"},"text":"<div><span style=\"text-indent: 0px;border-collapse: separate;font: medium 'Times New Roman';letter-spacing: normal;color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n \n <style type='text\/css'>\n #gallery-1 {\n margin: auto;\n }\n #gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n float: left;\n margin-top: 10px;\n text-align: center;\n width: 33%;\n }\n #gallery-1 img {\n border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n }\n #gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n margin-left: 0;\n }\n \/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n <\/style>\n <div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15064 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n <a href='http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot1.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"screenshot1\" \/><\/a>\n <\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n <a href='http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot2.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"screenshot2\" \/><\/a>\n <\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n <a href='http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot3.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/screenshot3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"screenshot3\" \/><\/a>\n <\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n <\/div>\n \n <div style=\"background-color: #ffffff;margin: 0px;font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;padding: 0.6em\">\n <p>Hey, wow, I finished my game for this Ludum Dare contest.<\/p>\n <p>I have to say this is probably the best game I&#8217;ve made yet in a contest. It is actually pretty fun.<\/p>\n <p>The name of the game is Doomsday Eve. It is a cross between Missile Command and these Chaining games that are common on the Internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n <p>I will post a full post-mortem later, but I believe this game meets all of the constraints of this contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n <p>It only uses the 9 colors. It is the correct resolution. The sounds I made using the vocoder on my MicroKorg (which basically means a Microphone with processing). The music is slightly less than 24 seconds.<\/p>\n <p>Actually the input category I really didn&#8217;t meet I just realized. I don&#8217;t use any keys on the keyboard actually. Just the mouse and the mouse button. Oh well, this game would not have worked well on the keyboard at all.<\/p>\n <p>Anyway, there is a java applet (JRE 1.6) you can play here:<\/p>\n <p>\u00a0<a title=\"Doomsday Eve\" href=\"http:\/\/www.DoomsdayEve.com\">www.DoomsdayEve.com<\/a><\/p>\n <p>\u00a0Thanks and let me know if you enjoy it!<\/p>\n <p>But to fully enjoy the game (and it is worth it because it&#8217;s pretty fun), I suggest you just download the jar and run it fullscreen on your computer. Again you have to have JRE 1.6 installed on your windows\/max\/linux computer.\u00a0<\/p>\n <p>Just double-click the jar and the game should start in fullscreen mode:<\/p>\n <p>\u00a0<a title=\"Fullscreen Download Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doomsdayeve.com\/DoomsdayEve.jar\">Fullscreen Download Edition<\/a><\/p>\n <p>\u00a0This was also by far the easiest time I&#8217;ve had of it. I only spent about 6 hours or so making the game. I wish every contest went like this one!<\/p>\n <p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>","time":"February 20th, 2010 9:27 pm","title":"Doomsday Eve (final)"}