{"author_link":"\/author\/zanzlanz\/","author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","comments":[{"author_name":"Boodog","author_uid":"27333","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:34am","epoch":1387160940,"text":"Beautiful game, by a beautiful sun balloon!"},{"author_name":"Brunodev","author_uid":"22282","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:41am","epoch":1387161360,"text":"Awesome!"},{"author_name":"olafsworld98","author_uid":"30819","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1387165320,"text":"1 loved it but if i got more time my own would have been better as well. Anyway, this is my first ludum dare game, so others will be much more better(if that's proper English)"},{"author_name":"Bogden","author_uid":"31759","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:17am","epoch":1387170720,"text":"A lot of fun! A bit slow paced with level progression though. Would be cool to see when the next level is coming up"},{"author_name":"Inso","author_uid":"19547","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:44pm","epoch":1387197540,"text":"Awesome game ! Well done ! Very nice idea :)"},{"author_name":"d__adee","author_uid":"24414","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1387230480,"text":"Fun! Screen gets pretty crazy after a while. Pressing two buttons made me to level 3 though, xD"},{"author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:30pm","epoch":1387232700,"text":"Thank you, guys! :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good job on your first LD, Olafsworld98!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I also thought of the next level meter, Bogden, but I ran out of time before it came into priority. A fast-paced game with slow-progression is pretty bad design. I should have changed that!"},{"author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:38pm","epoch":1387233180,"text":"d__adee! The screen shaking is too random, I should have put a cap on it. So much to do, so little time! xD Thanks!"},{"author_name":"BradleySmith","author_uid":"14944","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:51pm","epoch":1387233960,"text":"Oh man, this is so much fun! xD Rated highly!"},{"author_name":"gmfk07","author_uid":"30116","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:52pm","epoch":1387234020,"text":"An overall interesting game. It's good that you caught the fact that you could cheat the system by doing nothing. Also, it lags a LOT whenever you get the powerup for me."},{"author_name":"ocmu","author_uid":"20933","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:52pm","epoch":1387234020,"text":"This. Game. Is. Great."},{"author_name":"FrozenCow","author_uid":"8435","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:57pm","epoch":1387234320,"text":"Dude, the music, those powerups, the screenshakes and the slowdowns... It makes this game so enjoyable! I have no idea why there is a basketball with a string and stars, knifes and other weird sharp things flying around, but I'm amazed how well this plays. Nice job."},{"author_name":"desmarkie","author_uid":"12355","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:04pm","epoch":1387234740,"text":"This is good fun. Love the feeling of inertia and just enough control to make it all feel right."},{"author_name":"redhotvengeance","author_uid":"29246","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:42pm","epoch":1387237020,"text":"Really nice work. Good production value, good playability. Keeps you motivated to keep playing. Excellent job."},{"author_name":"SerialVelocity","author_uid":"29908","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:46pm","epoch":1387237260,"text":"Great work! Although one or two stars aimed directly at the centre of the screen making them impossible to dodge. Really fun"},{"author_name":"BoaHeck_ArtGent","author_uid":"25132","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:46pm","epoch":1387237260,"text":"Great fun for a bit of a play. I made level 3."},{"author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:12am","epoch":1387238820,"text":"Thanks *everyone* for playing, rating, and commenting! Went off to check out some awesome games and came back surprised to see a flow of comments &lt;3!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>gmfk07, I was contemplating for a few hours on how to make that not an issue! Thanks to some Skype buds for helping me brainstorm! Sorry about the lag. I realized this when I played at school (shh!). The slow-down effect doesn't help in that case, haha! Hope it didn't ruin the game for you!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>FrozenCow! Thank you!! Once I got the idea for it, I knew it had to be very powerful and trippy. I don't know where the idea game from either, and it's kinda awkward to explain to people, haha :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Desmarkie, that's exactly what I was hoping for! Thanks!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>SerialVelocity - :D! I did test that before, and you can definitely hit everything that comes at you if you plan a bit ahead :)"},{"author_name":"Michcioperz","author_uid":"10103","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:36am","epoch":1387240260,"text":"Cool music, man!"},{"author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:48am","epoch":1387244580,"text":"Great idea and a lot of good vibes from the execution."},{"author_name":"mrjohnson22","author_uid":"29816","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:04am","epoch":1387249140,"text":"Sweet game! It has the perfect blend of simplicity and flair to make it really enjoyable to play. Got to level 4, and I'll definitely be coming back for more."},{"author_name":"Adam Tea","author_uid":"29328","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:57am","epoch":1387259520,"text":"Cool idea! Quite fun!"},{"author_name":"xaedes","author_uid":"31351","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 6:37pm","epoch":1387305120,"text":"Amazing example of really fun game with nice physics! The music was really cool. I enjoyed the blurry moving background, I wanna know you made it."},{"author_name":"antila","author_uid":"27189","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1387320600,"text":"Plays well and is addictive! Great music as well."},{"author_name":"ChuiGum","author_uid":"22408","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:57pm","epoch":1387320720,"text":"Very very nice! Awesome for 48 hours, simple but fun! Great Job!"},{"author_name":"HeyChinaski","author_uid":"11211","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:00pm","epoch":1387320900,"text":"Nice work! I like the concept.  I loved the music, it was fantastic and the power ups were very satisfying. I'd like to know how you generated the (procedural?) trippy background."},{"author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1387321380,"text":"Thanks again, everyone! Your comments are too kind! :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Xaedes and HeyChinaski, the background is actually pretty easy! I used Flash's Perlin noise function.  Feel free to download the source if you want. But this site has a really cool code generator that makes it much easier to set up:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>http:\/\/houseofthead.com\/blog\/flash-as3-perlin-noise-explained-and-demonstrated-part-1\/\r<br\/>\r<br\/>:D"},{"author_name":"HeyChinaski","author_uid":"11211","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:35pm","epoch":1387323000,"text":"Thanks Zanzlanz! Will check it out"},{"author_name":"Symmeteer","author_uid":"18295","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 1:50am","epoch":1387331100,"text":"Look!!\r<br\/>http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/107314069\/screenshots\/str1ngle.png\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It took me two times to win - first time, I made it to level 8. Had lots of fun.\r<br\/>I did notice that the game started getting really slow around levels 6-7 when there were more things flying around. It was especially slow when I had the torch + projectile powerups at the same time - I suspect that the high number of particles was the culprit.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>All in all, great job!"},{"author_name":"olafsworld98","author_uid":"30819","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 3:23pm","epoch":1387379880,"text":"i rated 5 stars for everything- overall and all"},{"author_name":"xk","author_uid":"16005","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1387385100,"text":"Trippy!"},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 6:50pm","epoch":1387392300,"text":"Simple but fun, good job!"},{"author_name":"Pixelulsar","author_uid":"10737","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 10:40pm","epoch":1387406100,"text":"Excellent idea, it was really fun."},{"author_name":"adamwfindlay","author_uid":"29302","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 11:55pm","epoch":1387410600,"text":"Very fun and re-playable!"},{"author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 12:17am","epoch":1387411920,"text":"Oh boy, more insanely kind comments! You guys rock &lt;3!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks Symmeteer, and great job beating it in only 2 tries! :)\r<br\/>You're right about the lag. I wish Flash was just a tad bit faster, haha, because I loooove particles a lot!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Gosh, that's a very generous rating olafsworld98! Thanks so much :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>xk - that's exactly my intentions! :3"},{"author_name":"nka","author_uid":"13909","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:14pm","epoch":1387487340,"text":"Very impressive! I love this psychedelic background. Awesome particles and slow-mo. Music is just perfect as always in your games. I kinda want this game ported on ios."},{"author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 10:04pm","epoch":1387490340,"text":"nka, thank you! I do want to make a sequel, improving the overall game play and adding much more content.\r<br\/>Maybe if I can set it up just right, it'll work well on iOS! :D"},{"author_name":"olafsworld98","author_uid":"30819","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 1:16am","epoch":1387761060,"text":"three words :awesome, awesome, awesome!"},{"author_name":"TheAdventMaster","author_uid":"13826","time":"Dec 24, 2013 @ 3:50am","epoch":1387856700,"text":"This game is beautiful!  Radial-controlled games are normally AWFUL because of the springy nature of controls being really difficult to use, but you did a great job countering that with very responsive &quot;overriding&quot; of the ball's momentum.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I love it.  It was really fun.  For 48 hours, absolutely amazing."},{"author_name":"nyrrrr","author_uid":"24704","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 2:44am","epoch":1388889540,"text":"good job with this one\r<br\/>music and easy mechanics and power ups in combination make it quite addictive :)"},{"author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","time":"Jan 6, 2014 @ 10:02pm","epoch":1389045420,"text":"Haha I really appreciate you kind comment, TheAdventMaster :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And thank you Nyrrrr! I was hoping for that ;D"}],"images":["ld28\/11407-638404deb7472559dca3769cfb0897aa.jpg","ld28\/11407-a51e785b3f48aafe86c4a94d8556996a.jpg","ld28\/11407-501cc42cdc0659200563906672a6d798.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/zanzlanz.com\/g\/Str1ngle","text":"Post Compo"},{"url":"http:\/\/newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/630426","text":"Newgrounds (Post Compo)"},{"url":"http:\/\/zanzlanz.com\/g\/Str1ngleLD","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/zanzlanz.com\/dump\/2013\/Str1ngleSource.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/19MqTBOCpUE","text":"Timelapse!"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"22247","g_author":"11407","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"22276","g_title":"Str1ngle","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"23","g_commentcount":"40","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\/11407-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/11407-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/11407-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Hi!\r\n\r\nHope you enjoy Str1ngle!\r\nFeel free to skim the sections below if you're interested :D\r\n\r\n===== Game stats =====\r\n- 977 lines of code\r\n- 4 sweet powerups\r\n- 3 ball upgrades\r\n- 3 enemies\r\n- 10 levels\r\n\r\nIt's *really* difficult! Good luck!\r\nPlay it a few times, because over time you'll definitely get better. :)\r\n\r\n===== The name =====\r\nSingle + string + 1 = Str1ngle!\r\n\r\nBest name I could come up with, haha ;)\r\n\r\n===== Concept =====\r\nSo the concept is very abstract! You're a tethered wrecking ball, whose rope is being attacked by ninja stars in space! You must defend your one and only rope, for whatever it takes.\r\n\r\n===== Post Compo =====\r\nFixed a dozen bugs, tweaked a couple small things, and added medals for Newgrounds.\r\n\r\n===== Music =====\r\n- http:\/\/zanzlanz.bandcamp.com\/album\/str1ngle-soundtrack\r\n\r\n===== Source Code =====\r\n- Flash CS5.5 file: .fla\r\n- 818 kB (Music is commented out, erased ad)\r\n\r\n===== Beginning =====\r\nWhen I heard the theme, I had no idea what to make (as did many of you)! So I started off with 'Just One' rotating box in the middle of the screen. After I attached a string to it, I realized what my game would be.\r\n\r\n===== Timelapse and Live stream =====\r\nI live streamed whenever I was awake, on http:\/\/twitch.tv\/zanzlanz.\r\nTimelapse: https:\/\/youtu.be\/19MqTBOCpUE\r\n\r\nI need to thank every one of you who watched my stream, even for a minute. It was quite a party, with over 50 people on at one point!! So thanks so much. And a special thanks to Starry (@StarrylLeaf) for finding a game-breaking bug in the last hour. And also that to Boodog, who also found one (he's the first comment)!\r\n\r\n===== What the game lacks =====\r\n- Replayability is low, I didn't have time to add a scoreboard, or even save high scores.\r\n- Easier tutorial. Would help for people who can't grasp the random concept I came up with.\r\n- Points-until-next-level meter. I wanted to add it, but never had the time.\r\n- A lot of other, smaller stuff! xD\r\n\r\n===== Overall =====\r\nI'm so happy with this game! I had my doubts at first, but now I love it! It's so trippy and fun! :)\r\n\r\nI could expand upon it in the future, but for now I just want to sleep...\r\n\r\nO_O\r\nZZZZZzzzzzzZZzzz","title":"Str1ngle"}