{"author_link":"\/author\/drstik\/","author_name":"drstik","author_uid":"11551","comments":[{"author_name":"Calahagus","author_uid":"18103","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:10am","epoch":1398654300,"text":"Really well done! It's surprisingly hard, I only got a high score of 2 :P"},{"author_name":"SFBTom","author_uid":"5018","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:11am","epoch":1398654360,"text":"This is by far the most innovative game I've played yet, and fun too!"},{"author_name":"FuzzyWuzzie","author_uid":"22923","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:11am","epoch":1398654360,"text":"The graphics are super cute, but it is stressful as hell controlling that little ship without crashing into asteroids! Takes me back to lunar lander! Nicely done!"},{"author_name":"Zathalos","author_uid":"11257","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:12am","epoch":1398654420,"text":"Interesting game. I liked how the sonar worked and how you had to look for valuable ore. The controls were troublesome though. The turning was really slow and when you went in reverse, the left\/right controls swapped. If you tweaked the controls and speed, this game would be even better. Good job."},{"author_name":"microapple","author_uid":"36045","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:12am","epoch":1398654420,"text":"Somewhat frustrating controls, but they serve to make the game more difficult. :P Nice job. Fun to play, cool graphics."},{"author_name":"Mincemeat","author_uid":"36748","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:12am","epoch":1398654420,"text":"Really fun controlling the rocket, its actually quite hard to maneuver it to mine."},{"author_name":"Afrosatan","author_uid":"31020","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:18am","epoch":1398654780,"text":"Very fun, hard to control though.\rIt would probably have been easier if the ore collector came out the top for me."},{"author_name":"omaha","author_uid":"5229","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:22am","epoch":1398655020,"text":"Graphics are nice and clean and minimalist. I love that.\r\rThe ship was difficult to control."},{"author_name":"FyberOptic","author_uid":"36171","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:26am","epoch":1398655260,"text":"I like the concept of this game, and it looks really nice. Other than the controls taking a bit of getting used to, I enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"madhoe","author_uid":"35189","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:32am","epoch":1398655620,"text":"It's nice! But the controls killed it for me. Also, I skipped the instructions, and was wondering how the mining worked. I tried to dig like 10 times, only to figure out it was an extracting beam. Love the graphics, though."},{"author_name":"Nep","author_uid":"34247","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:39am","epoch":1398656040,"text":"It's really hard, I got 4(but it said 2 because I got them when I was dead.)\rI like that there is a little person in there, I didn't see it at first :P.\rWell done with the use of the theme."},{"author_name":"lekochen","author_uid":"12928","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:44am","epoch":1398656340,"text":"I feel like doing the parallel parking ;P"},{"author_name":"CustomPhase","author_uid":"20604","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:01pm","epoch":1398686160,"text":"Nice game! Had some fun. Although controls are annoyingly uber hard and it lacks progressing."},{"author_name":"Lucio","author_uid":"34179","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:09pm","epoch":1398686640,"text":"I agree with "FyberOptic". Frustrating controls at fisrt, until you really get the right way. Congrats!"},{"author_name":"Jacksendary","author_uid":"29674","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:52am","epoch":1398772020,"text":"The controls is kinda hard and feels "backwards" so it took me a good amount of time to get used to the controls but then the game was pretty fun"},{"author_name":"thenmal","author_uid":"11891","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:35am","epoch":1398825000,"text":"Brutally difficult was an understatement. Liked the art style."},{"author_name":"hyouko","author_uid":"31859","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:36am","epoch":1398825060,"text":"My brain struggles with the way the controls flip when going backwards (in a good way).\r\rCould stand to have some nice ambient music in the background, perhaps!"},{"author_name":"ix","author_uid":"18837","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:12am","epoch":1398827220,"text":"Simple and pretty. I like the contextualized [i.e. "in the world"] opening screen. Well done."},{"author_name":"TyrusPeace","author_uid":"5305","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:13am","epoch":1398827280,"text":"That poor bear...\r\rI felt really alone and floatin' in space playing this. Perhaps the disorientation from the controls helps that. I think easier-to-get gems woulda helped folks ease into it a bit; putting more valuable gems deeper in the asteroids would make it worthwhile for people to actually get good at it still.\r\rGreat atmosphere and cool controls!"},{"author_name":"SirJson","author_uid":"18639","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:37pm","epoch":1398886320,"text":"I kinda like the graphics"},{"author_name":"Cake&Code","author_uid":"10976","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 1:52am","epoch":1399254420,"text":"Brutally difficult is an understatement, it takes extreme patience and self control to keep the ship from crashing into an asteroid and it takes even more discipline to collect minerals\/gemstones.\r\rI think the controls were too challenging. If the aim was to go for realism, then why is there no momentum? What frictional force is slowing them down? I do like the fact that forward and backward reverse the direction that the player needs to change the direction they turn to go in the direction they want. I think if the acceleration was tied directly to the state of the keys it would be a lot more fun but that's just my two cents.\r\rAwesome concept and really nice polish on this one :)"},{"author_name":"Zutty","author_uid":"2593","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 10:46am","epoch":1399286460,"text":"Incredibly difficult. The controls are quite counter intuitive."},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"May 15, 2014 @ 6:02am","epoch":1400133420,"text":"Wow that was hard."}],"images":["ld29\/11551-9cbae3d2a3859582caa209f3dd0915a4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/collectivecognition.github.io\/UrsaMiner\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/collectivecognition.com\/blog\/ludum-dare-29-devlog\/","text":"Dev Log"},{"url":"http:\/\/github.com\/collectivecognition\/UrsaMiner","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"19132","g_author":"11551","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"19161","g_title":"Ursa Miner","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"398","g_commentcount":"23","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\/11551-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Ursa Miner is a brutally difficult 2D asteroid mining \"simulator\".\r\n\r\nPilot your ship through the asteroid field, locate ore within the asteroids with your scanner, and extract it with your mining beam.\r\n\r\nBuilt using Unity 4.3, Photoshop and Audacity.","title":"Ursa Miner"}