{"author_link":"\/author\/redpanda_ua\/","author_name":"RedPanda","author_uid":"24636","comments":[{"author_name":"datacr4sh","author_uid":"40158","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:01pm","epoch":1408978560,"text":"nice sound, not especially sure what i can and can't connect to"},{"author_name":"talecrafter","author_uid":"3707","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1408978680,"text":"Good game with nice atmosphere. (The music reminded me of good old games like Ultima7.)\r<br\/>I reached a stalemate, at least. Or is that a loss? ;)"},{"author_name":"Dramentiaras","author_uid":"29135","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1408979160,"text":"The game wasn't as much about resource management as I'd hope.\r<br\/>There were also some cases were you couldn't connect to a node because it was too far away from any planet."},{"author_name":"RedPanda","author_uid":"24636","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:47pm","epoch":1408981320,"text":"Sorry to disappoint you all. I gave up on the game on 2nd day, but decided to upload it anyways."},{"author_name":"r0x0r","author_uid":"31480","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1408983780,"text":"The linux version(at least on GameJolt) have the extension .tar.gz, but its a .rar"},{"author_name":"RedPanda","author_uid":"24636","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:07pm","epoch":1408986120,"text":"@r0x0r fixed"},{"author_name":"stephenhaney","author_uid":"39284","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:13pm","epoch":1408986480,"text":"Despite not being finished, I thought it was fun.  Cool music and atmosphere.  I think it would be fun place more emphasis on resource management than speed.  \r<br\/>I hit a bug after my first game where restarting a new game from the menu created an unresponsive game.  I had to refresh the page to start over.  This is on Mac\/Chrome."},{"author_name":"RedPanda","author_uid":"24636","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1408987680,"text":"@stephenhaney it's a chrome bug with Unity player"},{"author_name":"TowelKing","author_uid":"36784","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:43pm","epoch":1408988280,"text":"I wish you had kept making the game on the second day, I think the idea has potential to be a lot of fun. Some more visualization on what your resources did and how much of them you had would would help clarify what is happening in  the game. But connecting my planets together and seeing my production go up was fun."},{"author_name":"Tomker","author_uid":"35753","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1408988520,"text":"Nostalgic music, really really good. Good game"},{"author_name":"AtomicVikings","author_uid":"25123","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:50pm","epoch":1409057100,"text":"Very well done. keep working on this! It could turn out to be a very cool RTS :D"},{"author_name":"Hippolyta","author_uid":"32967","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1409159760,"text":"Very nice music and interesting idea - good job!"},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 8:31am","epoch":1409387160,"text":"Hi there. looks interesting but currently don't seem to be able to do any actions. Nice SFX."}],"images":["ld30\/24636-f56075e68a00b91091750ad76e2ddc38.jpg","ld30\/24636-18430186aa31636b350a959d211ea991.jpg","ld30\/24636-073581722685b414098c2016a63e66f5.jpg","ld30\/24636-bfe4f4873c4dc0df0fbf693a5fa29a62.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/strategy-sim\/connect-an-ludum-dare-30-entry\/33087\/","text":"All platforms (GameJolt)"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B9pCbeofxFCNREVyS0N5YnpJcVk&amp;authuser=0","text":"All PC (Google Drive)"},{"url":"http:\/\/redpandastudio.net\/LD30.html","text":"Unity Web (Own Site)"},{"url":"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/redpanda_ua\/ludum-dare-30-connect","text":"Source (BitBucket)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"15782","g_author":"24636","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"15812","g_title":"Connect","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"816","g_commentcount":"13","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/24636-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/24636-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/24636-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/24636-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Connect is a Space Strategy game made in less than 30 hours. (I gave up on it for various reasons, and just fixed few bugs and added menus at the end)\r\nYou need to connect planets to earn cash from them. Also you want to control\r\nmore than 75% of galaxy to win.\r\n\r\nSorry for pop ads, on my own site, I quickly got free hosting, because for some reason my Google Drive didn't let me host a web page. Sorry. \r\n\r\nControlls:\r\n - WASD or Arrow Keys to move around.\r\n - Mouse Wheel to zoom in and out.\r\n - H to move to Home planet.\r\n - Click on planet to select it as starting node.\r\n - Then click on other planet to connect it to previous one.\r\n - You need to have sufficient resources to do it.\r\n - Each planet produces production.\r\n\r\nTools used:\r\n - Game Engine: Unity Free\r\n - IDE: Visual Studio 2013 \r\n - Art: Paint.NET and Inkscape\r\n - SFX: sfxr\r\n - Music: sunvox","title":"Connect"}