{"author_link":"\/author\/awesomeusername\/","author_name":"awesomeusername","author_uid":"20959","comments":[{"author_name":"fcpfoof","author_uid":"28932","time":"Aug 24, 2014 @ 9:59pm","epoch":1408917240,"text":"I don't understand much (when did I win ;o) but game is quite interesting ;)."},{"author_name":"awesomeusername","author_uid":"20959","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:12am","epoch":1408928820,"text":"Thanks.  I've added a tutorial since then so hopefully things make more sense now."},{"author_name":"ArthurMaker","author_uid":"17385","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:45am","epoch":1408945200,"text":"Fricking 5 STARS What A Game THE FUN IS TO GOOD!!! By the way new record hard 1,02... BTW Check out my game"},{"author_name":"goffmog","author_uid":"2011","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:03pm","epoch":1408975080,"text":"Super fun! Makes me wish I'd spent half as much time making gameplay for my entry as I did making everything else!"},{"author_name":"marvalgames","author_uid":"35388","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:30pm","epoch":1408987500,"text":"Read the tutorial.\r<br\/>After that you realize how simple the gameplay is but awesome!!"},{"author_name":"theCoder15","author_uid":"31939","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1408989840,"text":"Nice game did you use the inbuilt java classes"},{"author_name":"awesomeusername","author_uid":"20959","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:03pm","epoch":1408993080,"text":"Thanks for the comments, all!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@theCoder15: I used the java.awt and javax.swing libraries."},{"author_name":"erdnuss","author_uid":"40580","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1408999440,"text":"Fun game with cool graphics (are the asteroids on buttons? :D)."},{"author_name":"Rock48","author_uid":"34078","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 2:46am","epoch":1409020860,"text":"Pretty cool puzzle game"},{"author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:29am","epoch":1409048640,"text":"So many levels and options and menus and a tutorial! Great achievement"},{"author_name":"Charlie","author_uid":"17390","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 3:15pm","epoch":1409065800,"text":"Guys, do the tutorial. It's a cool game!\r<br\/>I played in &quot;GRAAARGH&quot; difficulty and now I hate asteroids."},{"author_name":"MechanicMoon","author_uid":"40539","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:02pm","epoch":1409079420,"text":"I did not understand the game well, but not bad, although it has some ugly graphics"},{"author_name":"breadstix","author_uid":"28700","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1409079540,"text":"First, the game is really fun. Second, do not play on the hard difficulty unless you are alone and can drop some F-Bombs without any consequences. Great job!"},{"author_name":"MikeTheWayne","author_uid":"38926","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1409093400,"text":"I Like this. It's simple, good and I like it. Good Job :)"},{"author_name":"Marcellus","author_uid":"26515","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:50pm","epoch":1409096700,"text":"Finished the game on easy, tried on GNAAARG, well it's .. GNAARG. Liked the idea it took me til the last level. good entry."},{"author_name":"Budaniel","author_uid":"38918","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:13am","epoch":1409108880,"text":"Doing the tutorial is a must, but once you figure it out, the level of strategy required is surprising."},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 6:18am","epoch":1409119980,"text":"Nice little clicker, and nice, literal use of the theme! I liked it. Sound effects might have added to this."},{"author_name":"Hempuli","author_uid":"491","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:59pm","epoch":1409169240,"text":"The tutorial was great and I really like the game concept - it's an interesting mix of timing and strategic thinking. However I felt that at least with Hard difficulty I didn't have much problems defending a level 1 line at all times, so the two more powerful line types saw less use. Maybe some lines transfer different goods, and certain planets prefer certain goods? Also it'd be nice if you could see the cost of a line between two planets by hovering over them. :)"},{"author_name":"ForeignGuyMike","author_uid":"37077","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1409249040,"text":"Actually a lot of fun. Great game."},{"author_name":"miwuc","author_uid":"6177","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1409253300,"text":"Quit a nice game if I do say so myself!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The gameplay is really well thought through, except for one thing: there's nothing preventing you from waiting for hours before starting, collecting tons of money, then building 5 links everywhere. You can say &quot;but the high scores!&quot; but I don't think that works. There are the highscores, but I don't think that's enough. In a game like that, you shouldn't have to worry about highscores until you've beaten a level at least once. Here, if you don't care about highscores, the game becomes almost trivial. This could be fixed easily with a time limit for instance.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Apart from this flaw, it's a really solid game, congrats!"},{"author_name":"owyoow","author_uid":"39987","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 12:43pm","epoch":1409402280,"text":"Really fun game. Good tutorial as well"},{"author_name":"Tanser","author_uid":"27381","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 5:43am","epoch":1409463480,"text":"Interesting game ye. Are you missing alpha channel though? Its pretty good for compo."},{"author_name":"Njord","author_uid":"41155","time":"Sep 5, 2014 @ 7:10am","epoch":1409900700,"text":"Funny game, nice job ! Could have done with some audio though :D"},{"author_name":"elefantopia","author_uid":"37031","time":"Sep 11, 2014 @ 3:28am","epoch":1410405780,"text":"Very fun game! You gave a lot of thought to game play."},{"author_name":"Teesquared","author_uid":"35091","time":"Sep 11, 2014 @ 3:37am","epoch":1410406320,"text":"Great take on the theme and very innovative. I liked the tutorial. Good way to introduce the game mechanics."}],"images":["ld30\/20959-8ce09a430541e8ca7aabf54a3cd3830f.jpg","ld30\/20959-8bc94acde45badab8144858f351691ab.jpg","ld30\/20959-68ce9c382c7fecfb0ab9c06425711dd6.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/2s97cpyssp3wajc\/Worldco.jar?dl=0","text":"Dropbox (Runnable .jar)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/m8p8418u3tqcveb\/LudumDare30.java?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16932","g_author":"20959","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"16961","g_title":"Worldco","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"454","g_commentcount":"25","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\/20959-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/20959-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/20959-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Welcome to Worldco!\r\n\r\nWe're a company which specializes in connectivity.  In this age of space travel and colonization, it's our job to keep the colonies connected . . .\r\n\r\nWorldco is a frustratingly addictive game of trying to connect worlds and keep them connected as asteroids threaten the links between planets.  Each level has 3 different difficulty levels so there's a challenge for everyone (seriously, I can't beat some levels though it IS possible).  Aside from the campaign part of the game, complete with scores to try to beat, I've also included a random level generator to mix things up.\r\n\r\nMade from scratch in Java, did all the graphics myself with my own art tool (also made from scratch).\r\n\r\nAlso,  *** I HIGHLY RECOMMEND DOING THE TUTORIAL FIRST ***\r\n\r\nThanks for playing and enjoy!","title":"Worldco"}