{"author_link":"\/author\/jmjd\/","author_name":"jmjd","author_uid":"40853","comments":[{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:56am","epoch":1408935060,"text":"Good Lord the planet-simulation is mind-boggling. This is impressive. Love how you can click every star in the sky :D"},{"author_name":"ahmedmohi","author_uid":"35551","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:39am","epoch":1409034840,"text":"Well I didn't get what to do so i didn't play much :D , but I liked the idea of click each star and the work done on it maybe if there more elements it will be more fun .\rGood Work :)"},{"author_name":"orukinawa","author_uid":"34628","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:41am","epoch":1409034960,"text":"Damn that's a huge universe!"},{"author_name":"MyougaHiroshi","author_uid":"39068","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:44am","epoch":1409035140,"text":"Nice simulation game, however i don't know if it's possible to find any life, but stilll cool."},{"author_name":"jmjd","author_uid":"40853","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:48am","epoch":1409035380,"text":"@ahmedmohi\rI've updated the notes to better explain what to do (not much really). But you are right, I was only able to complete the bare bones of my idea, so many features that I wasn't able to get to. Thanks for playing!"},{"author_name":"r0x0r","author_uid":"31480","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:21am","epoch":1409037360,"text":"a linux build, please?"},{"author_name":"Teesquared","author_uid":"35091","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:26am","epoch":1409037660,"text":"I spy life forms. I know there's life out there somewhere. Seems like the odds are against discovery. Really interesting though."},{"author_name":"jmjd","author_uid":"40853","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:35am","epoch":1409038200,"text":"@r0x0r\rThanks for reminding me, there should now be a link to a linux build, but it has not been tested as I don't have a linux box."},{"author_name":"jmjd","author_uid":"40853","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:38am","epoch":1409038380,"text":"@Teesquared\rI agree the odds are not in our favor. Even if there were thousands of people searching, would anyone find anyone else? Makes me think in the real universe, even if there were tons of intelligent civilizations out there... what are the odds we'd actually find them?"},{"author_name":"r0x0r","author_uid":"31480","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:57am","epoch":1409039520,"text":"@jmjd: thanks! the link is wrong, is the ftp link, but i just guessed the correct one.\r\rreally cool experiment! though i can't find anyone, do you know how many people is playing simultaneously?"},{"author_name":"jmjd","author_uid":"40853","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:07am","epoch":1409040120,"text":"@r0x0r: thanks for pointing that out... copy and paste fail!"},{"author_name":"jmjd","author_uid":"40853","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:10am","epoch":1409040300,"text":"Oh, and at the bottom of my notes I've been updating how many people have played. That was one of the features I wanted to include in the game, but of course, no time to put it in.\r\rAnyone who plays the game, get's assigned a home planet. If you visit somebody's home planet then the game will let you know.\r\rSo far, 18 people played, no contact with one another."},{"author_name":"Arowx","author_uid":"680","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:25am","epoch":1409044800,"text":"Now if you add the ability to make a fleet of faster than light (or even slower than light) recon ships that you can launch to new worlds that can build new ships on empty worlds and expand from there then you could have a great little Fermi Paradox simulator."},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:26pm","epoch":1409170860,"text":"Hi there. A great idea to tackle with a game. Goes some way to helping spread the understanding of just why we don't find a universe teeming with intelligent life, even though it is almost certainly to be found (at some distance...) in every direction. Good job!"},{"author_name":"ajopart","author_uid":"40976","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 8:22am","epoch":1409300220,"text":"Innovative and mind blowing. Now we want gameplay :-). Conquer stars, build civilization across the galaxy and finally meet other players..."},{"author_name":"tatelax","author_uid":"8641","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 2:08pm","epoch":1409493780,"text":"Funish, but I was never able to find another planet with life :("},{"author_name":"Rage Paint","author_uid":"39734","time":"Sep 13, 2014 @ 6:13pm","epoch":1410631680,"text":"Should have the light-speed effect (like in star wars) when you click on a far-away planet or star. That would be neat."}],"images":["ld30\/40853-4f392fe8f595d0ad538001c6b7efde58.jpg","ld30\/40853-47bc4f161703f9486824d0e64af61bf6.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.monkeyguygames.com\/games\/s4lgame\/s4lgame.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.monkeyguygames.com\/games\/s4lgame\/S4LGame_Linux.tar.gz","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.monkeyguygames.com\/games\/s4lgame\/ConnectedWorlds.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"15822","g_author":"40853","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"15852","g_title":"The Search For Life","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1029","g_commentcount":"17","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\/40853-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40853-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"What to do:\r\nYou start out on your home planet. Click any planet in the sky, and you will travel there and see if there is any intelligent life there (other players of the game). That's it! Can you find life in this galaxy? \r\n\r\nDescription:\r\nThis game is about the odds of intelligent life from different worlds connecting with each other.\r\n\r\nWhat if all intelligent life in just our Milky Way Galaxy were given the means to travel faster than the speed of light to other planets in the galaxy? Would they be able to find each other with an estimated 300 million stars and 8.8 billion earth-like planets?\r\n\r\nThis game simulates over 8.5 billion habitable planets that are estimated to be in the Milky Way Galaxy. You represent one of the worlds with intelligent life, with other players representing others. Can you find and connect to another world with life?\r\n\r\nThis game is more of a social experiment. First I have to get people to actually play, then we'll see if people can actually fin each other in a galaxy of 8.5 billion plus planets.\r\n\r\nI wasn't able to get as many features as I wanted in this game. I wanted to add many more features but was only able to complete the very basic idea of finding the home planet of another user.\r\n\r\nAnyways, thanks for reading\/playing\/voting!\r\n\r\n-Jared\r\nTwitter: @MonkeyGuyGames\r\n\r\n-----------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nSome stats so far on this game (I'll try to update this periodically during the judging period):\r\n\r\nAs of September 8 2:56 AM (MDT, UTC -6) there are 35 players searching for life in the galaxy. So far, no one has been able to find each other.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","title":"The Search For Life"}