{"author_link":"\/author\/daanvanyperen\/","author_name":"DaanVanYperen","author_uid":"22396","comments":[{"author_name":"Andrew Shouldice","author_uid":"22249","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:52am","epoch":1408934820,"text":"It took me a little while to figure this one out, but I'm glad I took the time. (After giving up, I saw your screenshot of the giant ship and I loaded it back up to try again.) This is neat! I could see it turning into a larger project. Nice work."},{"author_name":"jsmars","author_uid":"3933","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:14am","epoch":1408954140,"text":"Nice entry! Was a bit hard to understand exactly what was going on at first, but then I got the hang of it. Could have been fun to see a graphic representation of each crewmember walking around the ship."},{"author_name":"DragonXVI","author_uid":"35553","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:04am","epoch":1408957140,"text":"2755 points & everyone's either dead or brainslug'd. Interesting little spin on Oregon Trail. Thank god I produced more crew :p Was down to like 1 non-slugged guy at the halfway point."},{"author_name":"reidrac","author_uid":"24731","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:26am","epoch":1408958460,"text":"My favourite entry so far!\r\rDid you do some sound effects with your mouth? :D"},{"author_name":"DaanVanYperen","author_uid":"22396","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:53am","epoch":1408960080,"text":"Added some hints to description, to get people started!\r\r@DragonXVI Brainslugs are my favorite aspect of the game. :D\r@reidrac Thanks! Ran out of time for sounds, so had a 10 minute yell things into the mic session. ;)"},{"author_name":"callumW","author_uid":"30922","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:27am","epoch":1408962120,"text":"After working how to play I really enjoyed this. I managed to get to the end of the game but I think everyone was infected by slugs.."},{"author_name":"nicotuason","author_uid":"21669","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:29am","epoch":1408962240,"text":"Took a while but I finally beat it! It's a little too unforgiving, but the charm makes up for it."},{"author_name":"Hypnohustla","author_uid":"20803","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:09pm","epoch":1408968240,"text":"Really good looking game. It was fun to try and see how everything works. Pretty damn hard to get to the end tho :)"},{"author_name":"xgeovanni","author_uid":"11296","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:12pm","epoch":1408972020,"text":"Took me a while to figure out how to play it, but once I did I realised that this game is great. The only thing is that the "Scan" button seems to do far more harm than good, and as such I see no incentive to use it."},{"author_name":"chriskdev","author_uid":"40550","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:18pm","epoch":1408972380,"text":"Took me a while to understand everything, but it's really great to play. Good job!"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1408977720,"text":"Wow this is a really good job. As you said a well good ftl and oregon trail mix. Awesome artwork, it's running fine... feels very polished too. Will play it for a while."},{"author_name":"phi","author_uid":"20723","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:08pm","epoch":1408993380,"text":"When I started to understand it, I loved it! It seems like a very complex game, but the controls are very simple. It involves strategy, a story and creative thinking, and you combined these things really well. And the sounds made me smile."},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:22am","epoch":1409051820,"text":"Wow, a very good implementation of the FTL type thingy, really liked it although it is quite difficult to get the right mixture for the ship.\rFun to play but a bit frustrating after a while, but maybe thats just me not being able ;)"},{"author_name":"sharpcoder","author_uid":"32080","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1409082000,"text":"So far I've caught a Firefly reference and a Galaxy Quest reference. I'm sure there are more :) Nicely done! Though it feels like my crew has a strong propensity for dying. Very fun nonetheless."},{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:04am","epoch":1409097540,"text":"We enjoyed it, although it's a bit too much based on luck in the beginning!"},{"author_name":"Mezzenstein","author_uid":"29781","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:12am","epoch":1409098020,"text":"Nice!"},{"author_name":"Mase","author_uid":"18575","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:14am","epoch":1409098140,"text":"This was very fun. I played a few times... the first time I didn't read the instructions so I just "built" a giant, unfinished ark and everybody died.\r\rMy second attempt was kept tense by the constant threat of brain-slugs and 6 accidental plasma-conduit deaths in a row (someone should put a sign on those things!) but I eventually made it.\rI am curious about the effects & benefits of brain slugs... maybe a faster build rate?\r\rAt the end I had so many crewmembers that I think I couldn't see the entire list. I thought I'd cured everyone but the next turn they all had brain slugs. (I guess they have benefits though! So maybe it is for the best :D)"},{"author_name":"mechabit","author_uid":"34391","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:51am","epoch":1409100360,"text":"Brilliant game! I played a couple rounds but only managed to get to the end once. Hope you can expand on it post jam."},{"author_name":"Rahazan","author_uid":"23945","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 1:30am","epoch":1409102700,"text":"You managed to pull off something quite big and beautiful, good job! It was hard to understand what I was supposed to be doing, as my crew kept dying of slugs, lack of food or age."},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 1:35am","epoch":1409103000,"text":"Awesome crossover! \rWhat bothered me was the lack of a soundtrack (can't blame ya. but it would make so much moody). Overall, you did a great job.\rI want to play this on mobile. Please fix this. :D"},{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:12am","epoch":1409108820,"text":"I keep playing this so I had to go back and rate it even higher :)"},{"author_name":"kumoi","author_uid":"30008","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:55am","epoch":1409111400,"text":"This is a lot of fun! Tip of my hat on an interesting game with dynamic ship building. Learning curve is a little sharp and a little unforgiving, but it makes it enjoyable... kinda like FTL - Faster Than Light."},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:30am","epoch":1409127900,"text":"My score: 3095. Out of my surviving crew of 4, 2 had brainslugs. :P The game is really good, but it needs patience at the beginning - I didn't know what is it I'm supposed to do with the buttons at the bottom of the screen. It's only when I realized how building ship works I was able to finish the game. Nevertheless, this is a great entry."},{"author_name":"voxel","author_uid":"1789","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:43am","epoch":1409128680,"text":"brainslugs with benefits!"},{"author_name":"KayZ","author_uid":"17933","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1409169720,"text":"On my first try I lost because my crew of four was taken over by brainslugs. In the following games I never let any crew with a brainslug back on board.\r\rThen I read the comments and finished my last game with 13 brainslugs on board. Cool game :)"},{"author_name":"Crefossus","author_uid":"23130","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:06pm","epoch":1409180460,"text":"I really like the parallax stars during the jump and overall pixelated art feel. \r\rThe overall mechanics are interesting even though I don't get it. I actually wish there was a limit to what you can build because it gets a little tedious to add stuff and I can't tell if the ramscoops even add fuel (the reason I usually die). I seemed to get a little further each time but I'm probably missing something. Ah as reading now "placed ship sections do not function until constructed by crew". I think that's it.\r\rExtremely polished overall."},{"author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 9:31am","epoch":1409217960,"text":"Nice Game. Some background Music would have been nice, though i like the soundFX. Quite complex for an LD Compo game."},{"author_name":"ElectricSeagull","author_uid":"38469","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 4:58pm","epoch":1409244780,"text":"Made it! Three quarters of the crew dead, the rest infested with brainslugs, but we made it! Cool idea and a fun game."},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1409341200,"text":"Hi there. Like the pixel graphics and the sounds. Reminds me of spacecraft building board games. Played with it a bit, and got captain smeared on walls, but ran out of things to do. Good job so far!"},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1409489040,"text":""Don't give up when you run out of fuel, scan around for a bit, you might get lucky!"\r\ryeah right. The button only brings death... I managed to get to the end without clicking it. I had a very small ship, though. It feels like I was being lucky, not that I made the good decisions...\r\r1940"},{"author_name":"markusfisch","author_uid":"19466","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 2:22pm","epoch":1409494620,"text":"Interesting game with good humor! Well done!"},{"author_name":"bytegrove","author_uid":"11939","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1409593320,"text":"Haha, I love the little messages! It's a pretty hard game. The graphics and build system are really nice!"},{"author_name":"majorcrampas","author_uid":"30178","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1409661960,"text":"Nice humor, nice art.\rHard, but that's the challenge. :)"},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1410023400,"text":"Great entry, a little difficult perhaps but still a really cool idea. I'm really impressed you got something like this working over a weekend. I played it for quite a while"},{"author_name":"snooze82","author_uid":"12061","time":"Sep 7, 2014 @ 9:22am","epoch":1410081420,"text":"took a few minutes to get it, but in the end, i liked it :)"},{"author_name":"ghenoroc","author_uid":"39929","time":"Sep 10, 2014 @ 12:20pm","epoch":1410351300,"text":"Very well done. Maybe a bit too challenging."}],"images":["ld30\/22396-f4df0f72950ea28e87491af717b0e162.jpg","ld30\/22396-e167374eb88b265e06319eaf6b234ca7.jpg","ld30\/22396-f7090a9c26ede72d668b131f249989bf.jpg","ld30\/22396-b2ff16cc82de21765db6b9814c76aab4.jpg","ld30\/22396-703d230f23491973c2449bc89cbced40.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mostlyoriginal.net\/play-arktrail\/","text":"Web (HTML5, WebGL)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mostlyoriginal.net\/play-arktrailpostcomp\/","text":"Post Compo (Web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/DaanVanYperen\/arktrail","text":"Source (Github)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A6wYyjA10tA","text":"Timelapse (YouTube)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16792","g_author":"22396","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"16821","g_title":"Arktrail","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"45","g_commentcount":"36","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\/22396-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/22396-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/22396-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/22396-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/22396-shot4.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are the captain of a futuristic interstellar ark that quite honestly, left space-dock months too early. \r\n\r\nWill you patch up your ship and survive the long journey between worlds to finish the space gate you are tasked to build, or will your ship succumb to the perils of interstellar space?\r\n\r\nHope you enjoy my FTL and Oregon Trail hybrid! I myself enjoyed this LD a lot, hope to check out your entries soon!\r\n\r\nMAIN TIP: USE THE BUTTONS IN THE BOTTOM TO EXPAND YOUR SHIP!\r\n\r\nHINTS:\r\n- You will need to produce fuel and food! Expand your ship to survive! \r\n- Click 'engage' to warp to the next point. Crewmembers build sections, age and eat during each step! **Warning: Your ship will not stop until a warp point has been reached, unless you are out of fuel. \r\n- Placed ship sections do not function until constructed by the crew.\r\n- Finished sections randomly generate food, fuel and other pickups.\r\n- Bigger crew means faster building! Bunks increase your chances of births! Watch your food though!\r\n- Plan ahead, if the distance between warp points on the route is long, your ship will not stop for a while. You can only build and scan at warp points, but your crew will build and your ark will produce and consume resources each step of the way! \r\n- Don't place too many sections at once, your crew might build the things you don't need first.\r\n- Crewmembers age. Additional drives will cause long warp paths to take less time! Did you know Biogel can revitalize the elderly?\r\n- Brainslugs have benefits!\r\n- Don't give up when you run out of fuel, scan around for a bit, you might get lucky!","title":"Arktrail"}