{"author_link":"\/author\/bablo\/","author_name":"Baburo","author_uid":"14709","comments":[{"author_name":"DeadlyFugu","author_uid":"8281","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:09am","epoch":1377504240,"text":"Linux version please?"},{"author_name":"rot13","author_uid":"25958","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:12am","epoch":1377504420,"text":"Interesting idea and nice graphics, though I noticed that you pretty much discarded the theme."},{"author_name":"Baburo","author_uid":"14709","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:14am","epoch":1377504540,"text":"rot13, you can see the theme explanation in the main screen. Second, comes from latin word "secundus", which means "following", and from there I got the 10 followers. :) Just tried to think outside the box when I saw all the "Try to beat the game in 10 secs" games coming out."},{"author_name":"Xaychru04","author_uid":"16472","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:14am","epoch":1377504540,"text":"I liked the idea of controlling all the robots at the same time! But I thought the controls were not very responsible, so it's very hard to get all of them to the end."},{"author_name":"Andrewves","author_uid":"23166","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:33am","epoch":1377505680,"text":"Interesting concept. I really like the robot models and animations. I also found that the level difficulty progressed nicely."},{"author_name":"Linus Lindberg","author_uid":"20066","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:41am","epoch":1377509760,"text":"Cool game!\rEasy to win but hard to get perfect, I like it!"},{"author_name":"skarab","author_uid":"25221","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:30pm","epoch":1377534300,"text":"Nice ideas, lemmings like. Hope you'll improving it later on."},{"author_name":"nihilocrat","author_uid":"2014","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:30pm","epoch":1377534300,"text":"Lemmings!"},{"author_name":"gikdew","author_uid":"18806","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1377534420,"text":"Love thos graphics, so easy anyway! :) FUN!"},{"author_name":"dismedia","author_uid":"25106","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1377534420,"text":"Nice concept, I really like it, \rlitle out of theme :)"},{"author_name":"BenWhi","author_uid":"19954","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1377534420,"text":"I liked the concept! Is it possible to save all of them? The best I managed to do was 7\/10"},{"author_name":"JayProg","author_uid":"26015","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1377535200,"text":"Nice concept. I liked the little robots too, made me want to get them to the end even more."},{"author_name":"Baburo","author_uid":"14709","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:06pm","epoch":1377536460,"text":"BenWhi, no idea :D I made the levels 20min before the deadline, there were suppose to be 10 of them, but ran out of time(also, testing time)."},{"author_name":"juaxix","author_uid":"10960","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:20pm","epoch":1377540900,"text":"This is really cool, I love the whole concept and development.\rI was loooking for something similar with the spirits of my game (entry) and this make me happy :)\rthanks\rdid you see the natureofcode Shiffman examples?"},{"author_name":"Baburo","author_uid":"14709","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:50pm","epoch":1377546300,"text":"juaxix: Glad you liked it. :) I'm not familiar with Shiffman or Nature of Code, gotta check it out."},{"author_name":"rot13","author_uid":"25958","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 8:48am","epoch":1377592980,"text":"I just noticed your post on the main page and changed theme score. I have to admit that it's a really clever use of the theme."},{"author_name":"Baburo","author_uid":"14709","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 9:01am","epoch":1377593760,"text":"Thanks rot13. :)\rI just added a windows, linux and mac builds and the source files.\rI can't test mac or linux versions so I hope they work properly."},{"author_name":"Xgor","author_uid":"18652","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1377607560,"text":"Nice visuals but Pretty hard to play well, feels more luck if you get many followers in the goal or not."},{"author_name":"Thermite","author_uid":"27791","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 2:43am","epoch":1377830280,"text":"Really nice idea, although I had quite a lot of success by just mashing space :) That said, no 10\/10s for me, so there goes that argument!"},{"author_name":"Teejay5","author_uid":"16615","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 2:43am","epoch":1377830280,"text":"awesome concept, its hard for me to get more than 7\/10 haha"},{"author_name":"andwhatnot","author_uid":"27164","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 3:26am","epoch":1377832860,"text":"Kind of a hybrid of lemmings and a traditional platformer, the way you kind of control the robots, and they kind of act on their own. It's fun and an interesting concept."},{"author_name":"Metatheos","author_uid":"5336","time":"Sep 8, 2013 @ 12:20am","epoch":1378599300,"text":"I had trouble actually developing strategy to save more robots, not sure how much that is my fault. I like the concept though, maybe making timesteps discrete would be interesting, since it might make robot-interaction much more predictable."},{"author_name":"imef","author_uid":"9591","time":"Sep 15, 2013 @ 12:19pm","epoch":1379247240,"text":"Nice concept! Maybe a bit rough around the edges but lots of fun nonetheless."}],"images":["ld27\/14709-5581b02e4fc9577a32e72d9dde53a0eb.jpg","ld27\/14709-288b178039dd7c44230f36db79738d36.jpg","ld27\/14709-cc6121aa7090500628ed58e0617ffbbd.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/9284465\/LD27\/FlockOfSteel.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/9284465\/LD27\/WinBuild.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/9284465\/LD27\/LinuxBuild.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/9284465\/LD27\/MacBuild.app.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/9284465\/LD27\/LD27Src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23341","g_author":"14709","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"23371","g_title":"Flock Of Steel","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"784","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\/\/273708\/14709-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/14709-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/14709-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Flock of Steel is a game where you command 10 little enforcer bots and try to get them safely to the goal.\r\n\r\nSpace = Jump\r\nLeft Shift = Rocket boost\r\n\r\n\r\nI ran out of time and missed many features planned. Also, didn't have time to make any sounds or music and lots of stuff was left untextured.\r\nGame is playable though, even though there's only four levels.\r\n\r\nHave fun. :)","title":"Flock Of Steel"}