{"author_name":"Frimkron","cat":"LD #10 - Chain Reaction - 2007","comments":[],"epoch":1197848700,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"75476","p_author":"Frimkron","p_authorkey":"158","p_urlkey":"111308","p_title":"Catalyst","p_cat":"LD #10 - Chain Reaction - 2007","p_event":"LD10","p_time":"1197848700","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"158","us_name":"Frimkron","us_username":"frimkron","event_start":"1197590400","event_key":"88","event_name":"LD10"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;m done. Final post here.<\/p>\n <p>The game&#8217;s name is Catalyst, as the game revolves around triggering a nuclear war. There&#8217;s not much to it. Its very basic &#8211; just a 2-player human vs human mode. Not to mention the fact that the gameplay is very broken &#8211; its easy to get into stupid stalemate scenarios and so on and most of the time feels pointless. BUT the nuke explosions are pretty! Wahey!<\/p>\n <p>The chain reaction part of the game is the way that missile attacks trigger off counter-attacks against other nations who then attack other nations etc etc.<\/p>\n <p>Tools used:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Eclipse IDE (I use it for writing java, C++ and php &#8211; it&#8217;s great!)<\/li>\n <li>Graphics Gale (Excellent for animating sprites)<\/li>\n <li>The GIMP (For other graphics)<\/li>\n <li>DrPetter&#8217;s awesome SFXR tool (For generating sound effects)<\/li>\n <li>Goldwave (For some sound effect tweaking)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Here&#8217;s my final screenshot:<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/screen41.jpg\" title=\"screen41.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/screen41.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"screen41.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>And here&#8217;s a link to download the game, complete with source:<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markfrim.co.uk\/catalyst.zip\" title=\"catalyst.zip\">\u00a0catalyst.zip<\/a><\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/final\/\" rel=\"tag\">final<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 16th, 2007 6:45 pm","title":"Catalyst"}