{"author_link":"\/author\/amberstorm\/","author_name":"AmberStorm","author_uid":"41273","comments":[{"author_name":"SoulGame","author_uid":"42398","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:07am","epoch":1409025720,"text":"So this is about a granny who loads her shotgun with living bugs while jumping around and shooting soldiers who are stealing vegetables? This game is so what the f*** xD Anyway, the gameplay is pretty rigid but good laughter here."},{"author_name":"ahmedmohi","author_uid":"35551","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:35am","epoch":1409034600,"text":"nice game , can be polished and become fun game , although i don't see the relation with theme :D"},{"author_name":"OathAlliance","author_uid":"39105","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:52am","epoch":1409039220,"text":"An interesting game to say the least. I did notice a few technical issues(lives not counting down).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'll say it again, interesting game."},{"author_name":"Ofursnati","author_uid":"22793","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:48am","epoch":1409046180,"text":"Your character creation is very nice."},{"author_name":"Cosmologicon","author_uid":"1151","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1409069220,"text":"Really like the artwork, story, and music choice. The platforming action is a little slow, but it wasn't too bad. Those bosses are pretty hard. I never made it past the second chapter."},{"author_name":"Gametery","author_uid":"41092","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1409077620,"text":"Nice humor but rest of it.. You guys can improve this a lot more, but had fun playing it , nice work :)"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:34pm","epoch":1409081340,"text":"I found the controls a little floaty. Also, perhaps a NSFW warning!"},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:12pm","epoch":1409083620,"text":"That will show those Colorado Bastards!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Humor is definitely this game's strong point.\r<br\/>Bosses have been hard, but I finally managed to beat it."},{"author_name":"Lacaranian","author_uid":"34171","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:41pm","epoch":1409096160,"text":"I'm from Colorado (well, the American state, anyway)... sadface.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But hey! A great showing for a Ludum Dare. Great music and animations, even if taking the theme a bit loosely."},{"author_name":"cstudios","author_uid":"38824","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:06am","epoch":1409137260,"text":"I realy like this game, graphics are nice, sound effect when you hit someone with a gun is funny :D After you almost finished a lvl, you have to fight with &quot;raid boss&quot;, nice."},{"author_name":"Chaoslab","author_uid":"5609","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 5:50am","epoch":1409291100,"text":"That was some good humor. Good well rounded entry for a shooter."},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 4:22am","epoch":1409372220,"text":"I found the game a little hard, but it is nice to play. I liked the story and the politic situation it criticizes. The music puts everything in a country-funny style. The artwork is good. Good job on the random generated obstacles. PS: There are some unreachable bugs at times."},{"author_name":"lotusgame","author_uid":"19058","time":"Sep 10, 2014 @ 10:16am","epoch":1410343860,"text":"Nice job ! Sometimes bettles are too high to be catched ;)"},{"author_name":"Rage Paint","author_uid":"39734","time":"Sep 12, 2014 @ 1:28am","epoch":1410484980,"text":"I have no idea what this has to do with connected worlds, but its funny"},{"author_name":"Scott Baker","author_uid":"11823","time":"Sep 12, 2014 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1410540540,"text":"Humor and fun was great.  I don't really see the theme here though."}],"images":["ld30\/41273-40218dcb8ac84cacad294a81721624e5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/amber-storm.com\/ludumdare30_2\/","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17534","g_author":"41273","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"17563","g_title":"Battle of Colorado beatles","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"682","g_commentcount":"15","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\/41273-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Game story\r\nAfter theme was announced it took me almost 8h to think of some original ideas. I didn't want to make something with literally \"connected worlds\" (I knew there will be a lot of such games), so I came up with this idea, which shaped and changed in the process of developing it. In this game you'll see 2 \"worlds\" together - casual people living their lives and war, which happens just around them - you'll find a lot of such examples in real world. So - I made \"hitting 2 birds with 1 rock\" - you have to pick out bugs from your potatoes, which is pretty casual thing to do, and use them to destroy occupying forces with them, which is war :D\r\n\r\nArt:\r\nMain character, first soldiers and obstacles were made in very beginning as placeholders. I was planning to redo them later, but as I ran out of time I decided, that they're looking good enough and just continued to draw everything else in the same style... so, art took me pretty small amount of time, as it's really simple... and I like it :D\r\n\r\nProgramming:\r\nWell... that was pretty tough... I had only about 1 month of experience in HTML5 engines and I encountered a lot of problems (mostly - something just didn't work), and couple of times I had to redo everything from scratch (on the 2nd day I even thought that I won't make it on time)... surprisingly, I somehow did :D\r\n\r\nUpdates:\r\n________________\r\nv2:\r\n*Fixed missing sounds;\r\n*Dealt with memory leak\r\n*Adjusted gameplay difficulty (a bit easier now)\r\n*Fixed spawning in obstacles, which resulted in stucked movement\r\n*Fixed flickering transition screens\r\n*Did a bit of optimization on audio weight\r\n*Fixed enemy shooting after they're ded\r\n*There were some game elements, which stayed on screen after game restarting... fixed it :)","title":"Battle of Colorado beatles"}