{"author_link":"\/author\/ossah\/","author_name":"ossah","author_uid":"16029","comments":[{"author_name":"lordjosephdeburg","author_uid":"13718","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:45am","epoch":1387158000,"text":"One of the best games Ive played this LD, very addicting gameplay, great use of theme and sound. Well done!"},{"author_name":"AlanZucconi","author_uid":"21108","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:07am","epoch":1387162920,"text":"Remember me of... ... ..angry birds! :p :p :p"},{"author_name":"ossah","author_uid":"16029","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:19am","epoch":1387163640,"text":"Yeah, decided to try keep it simple. My first LD and I wanted to use it to learn libgdx and box2d so went for the simplest gameplay I could think of.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I added really annoying floating barriers of doom though! ;)"},{"author_name":"ambi","author_uid":"31451","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:03am","epoch":1387187880,"text":"Interesting and fun twist to Angry Birds type of games. Nice music and humorous mood. Thumbs up."},{"author_name":"Coblynau","author_uid":"29114","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:04am","epoch":1387187940,"text":"Good use of LibGDX, like the sound bite - more would have added to the humor. :)"},{"author_name":"mortl8324","author_uid":"9841","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:08am","epoch":1387188180,"text":"Frustrating. Sometimes felt impossible. Fun though."},{"author_name":"ossah","author_uid":"16029","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:10am","epoch":1387188300,"text":"Thanks for the comments. Yeah, I wanted to add more sound bites but it was at the end of my too do list. :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really enjoyed using libgdx and box2d and look forward to making some more games with them."},{"author_name":"alcorrius","author_uid":"24694","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:13am","epoch":1387188480,"text":"The font is great. Graphics is not so good. But overall it is nice game. Improve graphics and I will play it instead of Angry Birds."},{"author_name":"ossah","author_uid":"16029","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:13am","epoch":1387188480,"text":"As the levels are randomly generated, there is a possibility that there might be impossible levels but in general they should be possible to complete.\r<br\/>Wanted to make it difficult to enforce the YOGO theme.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also on my todo list was powering of the shot, which I never go around to implementing. I think that would have helped with some of the more difficult arrangements.\r<br\/>Thanks :)"},{"author_name":"Sebastian","author_uid":"20818","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:14am","epoch":1387188540,"text":"Very simple graphics, but quite effective. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"ossah","author_uid":"16029","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:15am","epoch":1387188600,"text":"@alcorrius\r<br\/>Thanks for the comments. Yeah the graphics aren't at much. They were last minute additions and due to the way I set the game camera and drew the sprites, they had to be low res.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Will have to find an artist for version 0.0.2! :)"},{"author_name":"Edd Morgan","author_uid":"11544","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1387195860,"text":"Played this for way longer than I expected to."},{"author_name":"Crabman","author_uid":"30736","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:50pm","epoch":1387201500,"text":"Woohoo, I got FOUR! Only took a million tries! Btw, for a game this mean, a couple of different, randomly played failure messages would be cool. You just hear them so much. :D"},{"author_name":"Lorenzo Maier\u00fa","author_uid":"29253","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:55pm","epoch":1387201800,"text":"Angry cannons? what else could I ask for! \r<br\/>I really dig the mood. And the gameplay is pretty addicting, too."},{"author_name":"vanaficionado","author_uid":"30806","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1387221300,"text":"You get humor points from me for &quot;Thou hast faaaaiiiilllleeeed!&quot;"},{"author_name":"joserodolfofreitas","author_uid":"31713","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1387221660,"text":"The concept is fun, but randomizing the level would be very dangerous if it was for a game on real market."},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:33pm","epoch":1387222080,"text":"This absolutely the best game I've played so far! Nice graphics and sound and very coherent feel overall. Good job!"},{"author_name":"ossah","author_uid":"16029","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:49pm","epoch":1387223040,"text":"@Jago\r<br\/>Thanks for the great comment! Delighted you enjoyed it.\r<br\/>@joserodolfofreitas\r<br\/>I agree. I ended up dumbing down the random level generation.\r<br\/>Might be fun with more structured levels."},{"author_name":"302_Dave","author_uid":"30113","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 1:25am","epoch":1387329600,"text":"Man, this is one of these games that make me want to yell at my monitor in the best way.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Freaking blocks! This sucks! ... Okay, one more time. :)"},{"author_name":"glovecat","author_uid":"28794","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 10:48am","epoch":1387449780,"text":"It's fun but I can't pass the first level U_U"},{"author_name":"ossah","author_uid":"16029","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 1:53pm","epoch":1387460880,"text":"@glovecat\r<br\/>All the levels are randomly generated. I wanted to add a degree of longevity and variance without having to spend too much time on level design.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As it turned out, it might have been quicker to spend time on 5 or 6 levels of increasing difficulty and would have guaranteed that no impossible levels would be generated.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@302_Dave\r<br\/>Lol. Thanks. The best kind of compliment!"},{"author_name":"cappelnord","author_uid":"7575","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:57am","epoch":1387540320,"text":"Placing the obstacles randomly isn't a good choice, as the difficulty varies a lot and some levels are probably impossible (large, fast obstacle directly in front of the cannon). With proper level design it could have been a fun game!"},{"author_name":"ossah","author_uid":"16029","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1387554480,"text":"@cappelnord\r<br\/>Thanks for the feedback. \r<br\/>Yeah, I agree. I do like the randomness to some extent but it would definitively benefit from some clever level design.\r<br\/>I am currently thinking of taking the game further and adding more structured levels and design."},{"author_name":"kalth.streil","author_uid":"30964","time":"Dec 25, 2013 @ 1:01am","epoch":1387932960,"text":"I failed miserably too many times :(. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great game, very funny! However, it would be better if the difficulty of the game increased with every stage. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>48h game, great job! I liked the texts, audio and fonts. Graphics were simple but acceptable. :)"},{"author_name":"shatley123","author_uid":"20690","time":"Dec 31, 2013 @ 9:06am","epoch":1388480460,"text":"Good game. The music was fantastic."},{"author_name":"bvanschooten","author_uid":"14520","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1388928720,"text":"Works great on Linux.  Nice job, it's great to see physics games on LD48.  I like the audio too.  The obstacles are too random. Hitting the tower was mostly a matter of waiting until I got lucky with the obstacles.  I only got to see one tower shape, having more towers would have been great."}],"images":["ld28\/16029-b672ec3e74816c4e6069558e389cee07.jpg","ld28\/16029-31488e442dbfb4e4635b5beeeceb7050.jpg","ld28\/16029-eacded618f92aba15298aee439c2002a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?67oopc9ded6rds9","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?67oopc9ded6rds9","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?67oopc9ded6rds9","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/download\/i85es78xyc7q9au\/SmashyCode.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20879","g_author":"16029","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20908","g_title":"Smashy Smashy","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"379","g_commentcount":"26","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\/\/308734\/16029-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/16029-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/16029-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Smashy Smashy by Peter McMillan\r\n\r\nThe aim of the game is to destroy the tower by firing your cannon.\r\nYou only get one shot!\r\n\r\nThere are randomly generated barriers stopping you from hitting the target so it is your job to aim and time your shot.\r\n\r\nIf you lose, it's back to the menu.\r\nIf you win, you get to try build up a new highscore by trying another randomly generated level.\r\n\r\nTo Run:\r\nRun the executable jar, SmashySmashy.jar. Make sure you have java installed first! :)\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n'W' and 'A' aim the cannon.\r\n'Space' fires your single round.\r\n'R' rage quits back to the menu.\r\n\r\nIf the ball touches the ground at any point, you have 15 seconds until Game Over so it is still possible to hit the target.\r\n\r\nSupport:\r\nTested on Windows but should also work on OSX.\r\nUntested on Linux\r\n\r\nEdited: uploaded new jar. Found some bugs! :)","title":"Smashy Smashy"}