{"author_link":"\/author\/tomski\/","author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","comments":[{"author_name":"Snoother","author_uid":"33841","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:07pm","epoch":1398718920,"text":"Looks really good, but it crashes for me on startup. I'm running windows 8.1, if that helps."},{"author_name":"longshorts","author_uid":"34312","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:08pm","epoch":1398718980,"text":"Your screenshots look gorgeous, and I'm impressed it is generated with LibGDX, but I have tried running the JAR and it just dies before anything launches."},{"author_name":"SenorDiablo","author_uid":"20137","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:08pm","epoch":1398718980,"text":"hey same looks beautiful but instantly crashes when opened. I'm windows 7 64 bit"},{"author_name":"SunShiranui","author_uid":"18130","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:09pm","epoch":1398719040,"text":"It crashes on OSX for me :("},{"author_name":"SzRaPnEL","author_uid":"35639","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:09pm","epoch":1398719040,"text":"Screenshots look awsome, but it crashes on launch! :(\r<br\/>I'm running on Windows8 Java Version 7."},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:10pm","epoch":1398719100,"text":"Taking a look!"},{"author_name":"miwuc","author_uid":"6177","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:13pm","epoch":1398719280,"text":"Crashes for me too, I get:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Exception in thread &quot;LWJGL Application&quot; com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com\/esotericsoftware\/spine\/AnimationState$AnimationStateListener : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0\r<br\/>\tat com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:120)\r<br\/>Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com\/esotericsoftware\/spine\/AnimationState$AnimationStateListener : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)\r<br\/>\tat java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)\r<br\/>\tat java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)\r<br\/>\tat java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)\r<br\/>\tat java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)\r<br\/>\tat java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)\r<br\/>\tat java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)\r<br\/>\tat sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)\r<br\/>\tat java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)\r<br\/>\tat com.ld29.game.screens.GameScreen.create(GameScreen.java:173)\r<br\/>\tat com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:136)\r<br\/>\tat com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:114)"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:40pm","epoch":1398720900,"text":"Thanks for all the bug reports! I've uploaded a newer version that should fix these problems.  Please give it a go!"},{"author_name":"SunShiranui","author_uid":"18130","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:52pm","epoch":1398721620,"text":"I tried it again, but performance isn't the best. It gets really slow after I start the first level. Looks cool though!"},{"author_name":"marccspro","author_uid":"26996","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:55pm","epoch":1398721800,"text":"Realy good game It's an all stars !\r<br\/>I havent got any craches on win 7 x64"},{"author_name":"javierecf","author_uid":"32999","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:02pm","epoch":1398722220,"text":"really interesting, very fun and pretty too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>the jar runs without problems on my windows 7 machine."},{"author_name":"Crabman","author_uid":"30736","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1398722580,"text":"Worked for me on Win 7 x64 too. But more importantly, OMG SO PRETTY :3"},{"author_name":"friken","author_uid":"35030","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:48pm","epoch":1398724980,"text":"very nice artwork and mood!"},{"author_name":"Moist","author_uid":"16352","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:49pm","epoch":1398725040,"text":"Absolutely incredible visuals and mood. That's one charming game, congrats!"},{"author_name":"stenol","author_uid":"24796","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:51pm","epoch":1398725160,"text":"Wow great game. Great graphics, great cannon sound. Good job"},{"author_name":"BallpointPress","author_uid":"33934","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:06pm","epoch":1398726060,"text":"Hmmm I avoid most games that don't offer a web version but this one has me curious."},{"author_name":"hexabeast","author_uid":"36717","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:15pm","epoch":1398726600,"text":"Just beautiful!"},{"author_name":"tschery","author_uid":"36719","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:18pm","epoch":1398726780,"text":"nice those shadow effects and the graphics in general =)"},{"author_name":"DannyG59","author_uid":"30075","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1398726840,"text":"Really lovely game :) graphics are beautiful and audio"},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:53am","epoch":1398750480,"text":"Amazing art, and original gameplay. Very good job guys!"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:49am","epoch":1398764640,"text":"Added a video in case you cant play for some reason! \r<br\/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2EXcmczV3ns"},{"author_name":"nonentheless","author_uid":"36254","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:03am","epoch":1398765480,"text":"It crashed when the octopus appeared, looks pretty nice and it's fun to play."},{"author_name":"Shire","author_uid":"36512","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:07am","epoch":1398765720,"text":"I couldn't get out of the sea monster by shooting"},{"author_name":"hirngespinst","author_uid":"37047","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:45am","epoch":1398771600,"text":"lovely art, nice music and quite fun. Made it to voyage 8 before it crashed. Funny texts in between - the thing about the son (&quot;...move on&quot;) made me laugh.\r<br\/> I always had to dive for the pirates - cannons didn't seem to help. Is that intended? If so, the angle in which your cannons fire seems random - coudln't recognize the pattern at least.\r<br\/>Great entry though - congrats!"},{"author_name":"flavio","author_uid":"25936","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:51am","epoch":1398771960,"text":"Lovely game ! Maybe the interface could be slightly improved (like changing the police) and the overall purpose made clearer. Also I couldn't feel a real change in the levels difficulty. But firing canons on pirates is always a pleasure ;) Good job !"},{"author_name":"SzRaPnEL","author_uid":"35639","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:25pm","epoch":1398784800,"text":"Expected more but its fun to play :) Sparkling graphics!"},{"author_name":"dector","author_uid":"9598","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:09pm","epoch":1398809040,"text":"App crashed on 7th level.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But I think it's beautiful. Please, make post-compo version!"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:41am","epoch":1398828960,"text":"Really amazing graphics and a nice game to go with it :) Well done! I included it in part 3 of my Ludum Dare 29 compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/pi2GfgHfAZM"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:10am","epoch":1398834300,"text":"Should have got that crash fixed!"},{"author_name":"Boltz Game Studios","author_uid":"34413","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:39am","epoch":1398836040,"text":"I love the submarine pirate ship, nice touch with the sonar ping.  It lagged really badly for me and eventually crashed.  Also my mouse wouldn't move while holding in a direction to move.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Beautiful game and great mood though!"},{"author_name":"copain","author_uid":"35128","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 6:45am","epoch":1398840000,"text":"nice, I like the long window."},{"author_name":"BlazingFanfish","author_uid":"29162","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:48am","epoch":1398904980,"text":"The games closed several times when I played it. It still run in the task manager, but I can't find it. Good Game though. :)"},{"author_name":"rincewind_cz","author_uid":"25122","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 10:52am","epoch":1398941220,"text":"Well, it's unplayable for me due to lags after I click on play :-("},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 11:13am","epoch":1398942480,"text":"Seems Macs are having a lot of trouble with it, I don't have access to one so I cant debug currently :("},{"author_name":"sharpcoder","author_uid":"32080","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1398955980,"text":"Amazing job, the polish is just stellar! The graphics are beautiful, the theme was nicely integrated, and the sound was top notch. My only suggestion would be to consider giving the players a bit of time to float around during the start of each level, so we can prepare for battle as opposed to just being in battle. But that's just a nitpick thing, overall this was a fantastic entry. Well done!"},{"author_name":"holgk","author_uid":"32032","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1398958320,"text":"Wow! Nice game."},{"author_name":"ob6160","author_uid":"31367","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1398961200,"text":"AMAZING :D The best so far."},{"author_name":"UltimateWalrus","author_uid":"175","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 4:51pm","epoch":1398962760,"text":"I get invalid or corrupt jarfile for the Windows build, tried redownloading to no avail."},{"author_name":"JimmyBoh","author_uid":"34636","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 5:04pm","epoch":1398963540,"text":"This is awesome! By far the best I've played so far!"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1398967560,"text":"How are you launching it Walrus?"},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 8:21pm","epoch":1398975360,"text":"The graphics and music really sets the mood of your entry. I was having some fun until the game crashed unexpectedly, but with no error. It simply closed. :(. Despite that, awesome job!"},{"author_name":"lasagnegames","author_uid":"30505","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 8:24pm","epoch":1398975540,"text":"Beautiful lighting effects and music, which combined, create a really nice chilled out pirate blaster."},{"author_name":"Empyrealhell","author_uid":"26650","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1398981780,"text":"The graphics are exquisite, the music and sounds are great, the gameplay is just a little flat."},{"author_name":"Sparrow","author_uid":"7423","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 10:02am","epoch":1399024620,"text":"Awesome game, everything just fits and creates a pleasant experience. Good job!"},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 5:19pm","epoch":1399137240,"text":"Beautiful game! Nice graphics and animations with all the details. It's fun to play, looks and feels very polished."},{"author_name":"praporomsk","author_uid":"18715","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 9:52pm","epoch":1399153620,"text":"Very beautiful graphics and fun gameplay, you rock!"},{"author_name":"yourlittlehelper","author_uid":"37932","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1399153680,"text":"Crashes for me too... :)wish i could play#\r<br\/># A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:\r<br\/>#\r<br\/>#  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x04c5288c, pid=5856, tid=3092\r<br\/>#\r<br\/># JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_51-b13) (build 1.7.0_51-b13)\r<br\/># Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (24.51-b03 mixed mode, sharing windows-x86 )\r<br\/># Problematic frame:\r<br\/># C  [ig4icd32.dll+0x24288c]\r<br\/>#\r<br\/># Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 4:26pm","epoch":1399220460,"text":"from what I was able to play it was good - too bad it kept crashing on me (win764) - hope you keep working on this - added to my favorites"},{"author_name":"Hammervuis","author_uid":"36931","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1399378200,"text":"I love the sharks!"},{"author_name":"gapgen","author_uid":"26933","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 12:19pm","epoch":1399378440,"text":"A fun little game, the feel of it is pretty fun. I'd prefer the game to restart on the level if you die rather than restart the whole game; I only got a few levels in and didn't really want to replay the first couple of levels over and over."},{"author_name":"SoupWithBits","author_uid":"37409","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 12:21pm","epoch":1399378560,"text":"W   O   W\r<br\/>Looks, sounds and plays amazingly!\r<br\/>Love it!"},{"author_name":"ceosol","author_uid":"34411","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1399464600,"text":"Really like this game. First time it closed on 5. Third time I got stuck on crates and the octopus and a ship took me out. I couldn't hit the ship because the oc was in the way and I couldn't move because the crates were jammed up. Still, very enjoyable game. Please continue working on and refining this. I think you have something good going on here."},{"author_name":"Pavel M. Dlouh\u00fd","author_uid":"8583","time":"May 8, 2014 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1399585500,"text":"Mac version started without any problem. Nice and polished game. It's fun to play. It took me some time to realise that LMB is not L, M and B on keyboard but LeftMouseButton. :D One of the best entries I rated so far. Good job!"},{"author_name":"DonovanWu","author_uid":"36681","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 1:22am","epoch":1399598220,"text":"The game is awesome, especially in graphics and audio. Perhaps some more game balance factors can be added in for further development, because submerging seems to be a bit OP to me."},{"author_name":"Martin Ysa","author_uid":"35150","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 12:11pm","epoch":1399637160,"text":"Love the gameplay... reminds me afternoons playing monkey island ... \r<br\/>Great job with the audio and art."},{"author_name":"pIMGale","author_uid":"37348","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 1:11pm","epoch":1399640760,"text":"let us be the pirates an take away goods from their 'rightful owners'\r<br\/>!"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"May 10, 2014 @ 2:34pm","epoch":1399732140,"text":"This is a fun concept. It needs a little more polishing though, as I was able to beat most of the game just by going underwater to pass all the bad guys."},{"author_name":"pinkmonkeyhead","author_uid":"11711","time":"May 11, 2014 @ 5:59am","epoch":1399787640,"text":"Amazing!!! I loved the graphics and gameplay"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"May 11, 2014 @ 3:31pm","epoch":1399821960,"text":"Woooooo, fireworks!! Man... those graphics! And those particles... and you get more cannons as you progress, which means even more particles!! *-*\r<br\/>This game is beautiful! XD\r<br\/>The night\/day cicle, the shadows and the reflection were also pretty good! Only the anti-alias of the ship wasn't nice, when not day time... but I can deal with that. XD\r<br\/>The music and sfx were really good and fitting. It's great to see a game this polished!\r<br\/>Also, it's really fun. Shooting things, with all this polish, is always fun."},{"author_name":"udo","author_uid":"6821","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 12:25pm","epoch":1399897200,"text":"This was simply awesome, so cute and so nicely done. Very smooth, I loved it!"}],"images":["ld29\/30523-d9b1efd3d8f7c050e27c2daa13b7eaa2.jpg","ld29\/30523-da7f260f877f756fa5633a9914b86044.jpg","ld29\/30523-d036e2ab6c79db2c288163296ad7a6f7.jpg","ld29\/30523-cef8d187c84f9de649ccf99fd9f09480.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.asidik.com\/shared\/Somalia.jar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.asidik.com\/shared\/Somalia.jar","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.asidik.com\/shared\/Somalia.jar","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18717","g_author":"30523","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"18746","g_title":"Somalia","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"39","g_commentcount":"60","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\/\/342546\/30523-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/30523-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/30523-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/30523-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Welcome to Somalia!\r\n\r\nVideo: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2EXcmczV3ns\r\n\r\n\r\nYou are a member of the East India Trading company, you have to sail your fleet across the ocean avoiding pirates and creatures that dwell beneath the surface.\r\n\r\nUse your cannons and submerge under the water to reach the glorious booty that lies ahead.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nControls - \r\nA - Left\r\nD - Right\r\nLMB - Cannons, point to aim\r\nE - Submerge and emerge, go under water, beneath islands, but watch out for the creatures below that will gobble you up!\r\n\r\nIf caught by the kracken, shoot till he lets go!\r\n\r\nMade by:\r\n\r\nTom Wojciechowski (Code Monkey) @AsidikGames\r\n\r\nOscar Stretton (Art & Animation) @OzzoCube\r\n\r\nTools: \r\nBuilt with Java\r\nLibgdx Framework\r\nEsotericSoftware's Spine (Skeletal Animation)\r\nIntellij\r\n\r\nAll assets and code created within 72 hours from scratch.\r\n\r\nHope you enjoy :)\r\n","title":"Somalia"}