{"author_link":"\/author\/dustystylus\/","author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","comments":[{"author_name":"bzizizi","author_uid":"6411","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:24am","epoch":1398673140,"text":"I'm having a hard time killing ships. Do I need to ram them more than once? Nice game though, it's fun and innovative."},{"author_name":"enosshenk","author_uid":"29196","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:24am","epoch":1398673140,"text":"A really cool concept. Very tough to play though, the armed ships are very unforgiving and the camera seems to make things harder than it should be."},{"author_name":"Karmalis","author_uid":"35945","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:43am","epoch":1398674280,"text":"Agree with the praise on the fun and innovation. Not very easy to grasp though, but hey, more challenging and more fun."},{"author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:40am","epoch":1398677700,"text":"Took a while to get used to the controls (could be simplified?) But pretty fun!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Biggest problem I feel is the camera - you need to dive in order not to get shot, but if you dive you can't see anything. That was super annoying to deal with."},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:31am","epoch":1398684360,"text":"Hi guys, thanks for the comments! Just back off the train, so will record and upload a video which probably works best! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>- You have to hit them reasonably perpendicular and above 12000 speed. (just after afterburner)\r<br\/>- You don't need to hold down W to keep speed up and you can use afterburner immediately after it stops... which is a BUG. :( (which I probably shouldn't fix post-deadline)\r<br\/>- Use an 'L' with the red ships. At high speed charge towards them, and then at the last minute hang left\/right and hit them side on.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Hopefully the FRAPS video will show this."},{"author_name":"primaerfunktion","author_uid":"12505","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:56pm","epoch":1398693060,"text":"This turned out really well. I'll defnetly come back later and give it another try!"},{"author_name":"CareForceOne","author_uid":"36545","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 6:04pm","epoch":1398707940,"text":"A game where you ram bigger ships with your ship? YES"},{"author_name":"Spit Tex","author_uid":"11277","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1398714000,"text":"It was hard to know if you had enough speed when ramming the ships however overall this was a really fun game."},{"author_name":"Marcus_siactro","author_uid":"28746","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:47pm","epoch":1398714120,"text":"Really a fun game! I enjoyed playing it, great work."},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:57pm","epoch":1398714720,"text":"Cool. Those red destroyers are tough."},{"author_name":"Covenant","author_uid":"326","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:01pm","epoch":1398714960,"text":"Very cool and innovative! :)"},{"author_name":"colludium","author_uid":"28437","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1398721080,"text":"Great concept but actually quite hard to get right!"},{"author_name":"vilya","author_uid":"10456","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:44pm","epoch":1398721140,"text":"Cool idea, liked it!"},{"author_name":"tinykidtoo","author_uid":"25245","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:45pm","epoch":1398721200,"text":"Very good it is really fun to play.  But the red ships are really hard to kill."},{"author_name":"marccspro","author_uid":"26996","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:46pm","epoch":1398721260,"text":"Cool Game !"},{"author_name":"maffydub","author_uid":"36549","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:03pm","epoch":1398722280,"text":"Nice idea and graphics.  The camera was a little fiddly, but generally a lot of fun."},{"author_name":"AlbertoSM","author_uid":"18201","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:32pm","epoch":1398724020,"text":"Cool concept... I keep messing the controls though :P"},{"author_name":"TyrusPeace","author_uid":"5305","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:14am","epoch":1398744540,"text":"I like how the game encourages you to be stealthy, but I definitely had a tough time with the controls. I like the design of the player's ship! Very cool, especially with the low poly style you used for the game."},{"author_name":"dusho","author_uid":"36575","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:08pm","epoch":1398783780,"text":"when diving you can't really see anything cause camera is pointing to the bottom of the see, not really helpful \r<br\/>also controls are hard to get into"},{"author_name":"Lyje","author_uid":"29064","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1398783900,"text":"Really hard - but I love the premise of it. Tried several times but I think I wasn't near the surface enough. Love the low poly style, my kind of graphics :)"},{"author_name":"DarkEngineer","author_uid":"36929","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1398786480,"text":"Really cool concept but hard to kill armed ships"},{"author_name":"wdebowicz","author_uid":"29762","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:16pm","epoch":1398787860,"text":"It take me a while killing the first sheep, but it was fun!"},{"author_name":"wdebowicz","author_uid":"29762","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:17pm","epoch":1398787920,"text":"It take me a while killing the first ship, but it was fun!"},{"author_name":"dook","author_uid":"18341","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:03pm","epoch":1398808680,"text":"I had a hard time figuring out how exactly to approach the ships without getting hit, and I never found a way for the stealth to make sense. The overall idea seemed alright, though, it might work well with a few tweaks :)"},{"author_name":"Aaants","author_uid":"16061","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:42am","epoch":1398857820,"text":"Nice work :D"},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 10:44am","epoch":1398940740,"text":"Hi guys, thanks for the comments. Yeah, unfortunately I never found a way to make the stealth aspect work properly (other than initially escaping from the destroyer range). \r<br\/>\r<br\/>dusho: I forgot to put a depth limit in that would've prevented that. :(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Lyje: Thanks, I started to get a little nostalgic about an old Activision game called &quot;Hunter&quot; as I worked on this which had some nice simple geometry in it (by necessity!)."},{"author_name":"rorycooke","author_uid":"30038","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 9:15am","epoch":1399021800,"text":"that was fun, I liked the controls they felt good."},{"author_name":"DarkMaster","author_uid":"31776","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1399134360,"text":"Seeing how good some of the Unity's features can be, it could be a lot better. Is hard to understand the main point of the game, even after reading the tutorial: you just run and get shot by the ships until you're dead and there's no way to play again without refreshing the page.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The main idea is okay, but is very unfinished. :\/"},{"author_name":"Oye Beto","author_uid":"7933","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 8:09am","epoch":1399363440,"text":"You could scale the &quot;[+]&quot; indicators depending on the distance to the ships."},{"author_name":"elefantopia","author_uid":"37031","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 4:28am","epoch":1399436580,"text":"Graphics are very cool. It's difficult to control, but still had fun driving the stickleback. I rammed those red ships quite a bit, but no luck. Great game!"}],"images":["ld29\/15902-7030eaa0690f8c3442770954f5455d4c.jpg","ld29\/15902-eca89139445064d85f78788a24ba27a5.jpg","ld29\/15902-1bed38aa57d0bf3328636248649720e7.jpg","ld29\/15902-3f97150845b32e0d6013705908e48061.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47393248\/Stickleback.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47393248\/source.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/I1qB4TQLJ8E","text":"Youtube (Playthrough)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20525","g_author":"15902","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20554","g_title":"Stickleback","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"745","g_commentcount":"30","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\/15902-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/15902-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/15902-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/15902-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are a modern day Captain Nemo, skulking beneath the surface in your fancy Stickleback Mark II booty acquisition vehicle. Ram your enemies as near perpendicular as you can with the afterburners on.\r\n\r\nW\/S - Speed Up \/ Down\r\nArrows - Control Vehicle Nose\r\nL Shift - Afterburner (3 secs, needs full power)\r\nTab - toggle camera chase\/track\r\n\r\nHINTS \r\n- Check the Youtube video if you want to see a playthrough\r\n- Speed up to max to avoid gunfire.\r\n- Sneak away from the 3 destroyers first to get outside guns which can hit you while speeding up.\r\n- You can afterburner straight after cool-off. This is a bug... which feels wrong to fix at this stage. Use this to escape gunfire.\r\n- Hit ships side-on, for Destroyers, charge towards them then do an L turn right into their sides. ","title":"Stickleback"}