{"author_link":"\/author\/01010111\/","author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","comments":[{"author_name":"Drachlen","author_uid":"27311","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:29am","epoch":1377487440,"text":"For such a short time, the game has great polish to it. I love the audio and the visuals. The game is incredibly challenging. I felt like I was losing after only leaking just a couple of monsters. And with the asteroids blowing up my maze, it made it tougher. Great work"},{"author_name":"SteveSalmond","author_uid":"24965","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:55am","epoch":1377503400,"text":"Wow this game is tough! Super cool though, I found myself replaying it a lot to try and figure out strategies. Didn't notice the UI to select between walls, towers etc. at first, oops! Loved the tunes as well. Great job :)"},{"author_name":"Omar_q8","author_uid":"25540","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:40pm","epoch":1377542100,"text":"pretty cool concept, gets hectic too fast, really liked the art and polish."},{"author_name":"Reicher","author_uid":"24716","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:41pm","epoch":1377542160,"text":"Great game, have a really nice feel to it!"},{"author_name":"Blooperly","author_uid":"18930","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1377542280,"text":"WOW! Just wow. This is awesome. I can't even handle how good this is for LD... Good job."},{"author_name":"mutuware","author_uid":"14635","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1377542280,"text":"Nice chunky pixels!"},{"author_name":"Jishenaz","author_uid":"26581","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1377542280,"text":"Does that guy in the cutscene have gold teeth or yellow teeth? lol \r\rI haven't seen a tower-defense entry yet. This is exceptional. Great work!"},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:48pm","epoch":1377542580,"text":"Nice and polished game. I'm not fan of the way the money indicator (bottom left) updates slowly though : i only take quick glances at it and i often thought i could build something when i couldn't"},{"author_name":"NuSan","author_uid":"18943","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:30pm","epoch":1377545100,"text":"Excellent game, it's fun and challenging. At first it was too hard, but with a bit of practice it's perfect. I wonder if the block are really that usefull, compare to turrets ... i will have to test it ^^"},{"author_name":"shockedfrog","author_uid":"1078","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 12:17am","epoch":1377562320,"text":"It's a fairly standard (and very short) tower defense game, but fun while it lasts and the presentation is nice. :)"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:51am","epoch":1377567960,"text":"How did you do that in 48h? Its a gem at this ld... played it twice :D"},{"author_name":"futuristteletex","author_uid":"25869","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:22am","epoch":1377573420,"text":"Enjoyed it! Good humor.. nice polish.. great!"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:44pm","epoch":1377617940,"text":"Really like this game. Nicely polished, its a cool spin to the normal turret defense. I featured it in my compilation of Ludum Dare 27 games, if you want to check it out! http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o8Polnsp4F8"},{"author_name":"Supercannon","author_uid":"25381","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 2:23am","epoch":1377656280,"text":"Good idea, but it's a little too hard. Good art and audio, solid entry for 48 hours."},{"author_name":"fgielow","author_uid":"26275","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 2:24am","epoch":1377656340,"text":"very well executed, for soo short time. great graphics and sounds.\rLike the dichotomy of make money and use it for your own defense. Nice challenge"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 2:24am","epoch":1377656340,"text":"Amazing game. Really enjoyed playing it.Good Job!"},{"author_name":"nathanhoffer","author_uid":"25795","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 2:26am","epoch":1377656460,"text":"Good job! I love tower defense games!!!"},{"author_name":"jwolf","author_uid":"11073","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 2:34am","epoch":1377656940,"text":"Very nice tower defense game! It felt like the upgrades weren't worth it, although maybe the asteroids just didn't like the towers I selected."},{"author_name":"Joxno","author_uid":"25136","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 2:39am","epoch":1377657240,"text":"This is really well done, and a bit of a twist on TDs in general which usually aren't super hectic but this does make you move and think fast, I like it, good job!"},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 2:41am","epoch":1377657360,"text":"Boy, those graphics sure are good. I love the boss tellin' me how to score space golds. The game itself is super frantic, and either it's very hard or I suck at tower defense or both. But I had a great time. Your link scales the game to the browser's dimensions regardless of aspect ratio... I thought the non-square pixels were a stylistic choice at first, but now that I've resized it to a normal screen, I do think it looks better :)"},{"author_name":"rylgh","author_uid":"15833","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 4:36am","epoch":1377664260,"text":"One of my favorites... super fun game. Awesome sprites, SFX, screenshakes. Nice little touches too: at one point I was thinking how nice it'd be if I could push the number keys to select stuff and it just worked.\r\rCouple potential issues:\r- at one point a meteor broke a gun so i put a block there, but guys just started streaming through the block anyway (http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/V5gR5hs.png)\r- at the end the screen went blank and the space businessman said something about not all of us being overachievers. wasn't sure if that was a loss screen (didn't say "i let them through") or a victory screen. if the latter, i'm not sure why i won."},{"author_name":"nicotr014","author_uid":"23952","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 7:23am","epoch":1377674280,"text":"Awesome job... I love the big text scenes and the artwork is great"},{"author_name":"nicotr014","author_uid":"23952","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:10am","epoch":1377677100,"text":"The sounds are awesome! Did you create them yourself with a tracker? What do you use? I just noticed you have the Flod replayer in your libs"},{"author_name":"nicotr014","author_uid":"23952","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:52am","epoch":1377679620,"text":"MilkyTracker :) thanks gonna play with it"},{"author_name":"folmerkelly","author_uid":"15353","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 10:27am","epoch":1377685320,"text":"Hotdang! Graphics and level of polish are really something! Freaking hard but I'm ok with that. \r\rThanks for taking on the challenge, you really pulled it off :)"},{"author_name":"Nick Weihs","author_uid":"21927","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 10:55am","epoch":1377687000,"text":"Really great fun, nice graphics and music and the game is fun too. Good work."},{"author_name":"drilltail","author_uid":"23253","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 11:11am","epoch":1377687960,"text":"Tower defense, awesome.\r\rGreat art and audio, looks like you put a lot into making it really polished!"},{"author_name":"martymon","author_uid":"26874","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 11:27am","epoch":1377688920,"text":"very nice game...love it"},{"author_name":"BenWhi","author_uid":"19954","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 3:31pm","epoch":1377703560,"text":"This game kicked my ass!!! Music was one of the best I've heard so far this LD and graphics were great + reminded me a lot of Zelda 2 for some reason. Sound effects really added a lot. Great job whipping up a game this complex in 48hrs!"},{"author_name":"nddrylliog","author_uid":"4598","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:55pm","epoch":1377712200,"text":"I really liked the twist on the tower defense thingy, it's the highest grade I have given out for any entry.\r\rReally really well done, well polished, I wish I could do an entry half as good :) Keep the good stuff coming!"},{"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"1105","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 6:14pm","epoch":1377713340,"text":"Wow. This got intense pretty quickly. It has a nice feel to it."},{"author_name":"andwhatnot","author_uid":"27164","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:12pm","epoch":1377720420,"text":"Solid tower defense game - I like how you got some narrative in there. Everything meshes together. Fun!"},{"author_name":"antonijn","author_uid":"17363","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:32pm","epoch":1377721620,"text":"Very fun to play game, definitely pushed you to develop your own strategy and a nice implementation of the theme. Also great music! Well done."},{"author_name":"robbe","author_uid":"27520","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1377724500,"text":"Normally I don't like tower defense games that much, but this one has a nice twist to it :)"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1377727500,"text":"Really nice game! :) The graphics, specially, are great!\rThough a little unbalanced... (with 5 turrets, 2 initially maxed and later everyone maxed out, I was able to hold off every monster)\r\rAlso, the game got stretched to the browser's width but maintained the height fixed , which kinda of killed the graphics... (I resized the window to make it an reasonable size)"},{"author_name":"bassarisse","author_uid":"25061","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 12:40am","epoch":1377736500,"text":"Perfect! So simple, yet so challenging! Congratz"},{"author_name":"zillix","author_uid":"2460","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:08am","epoch":1377745380,"text":"great frantic TD! loved the simple controls and aesthetic"},{"author_name":"Jimanzium","author_uid":"24428","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 10:22am","epoch":1377771420,"text":"Sweet graphics, really like the style"},{"author_name":"leafo","author_uid":"4321","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1377794880,"text":"Awesome game, great music and graphics. And the game was actually fun which is also very important"},{"author_name":"ratalaika","author_uid":"25607","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:30pm","epoch":1377797100,"text":"good job"},{"author_name":"Christina Antoinette Neofotistou","author_uid":"13139","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1377806640,"text":"Pretty fun! kudos!!"},{"author_name":"Vaughn","author_uid":"25876","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 1:16am","epoch":1377825060,"text":"Amazing amount of polish and very tight Great audio and controls. design. Got a good strategy going and beat it. Challenging and rewarding. Overall, very nice work!"},{"author_name":"Vile Smile","author_uid":"26636","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 4:49am","epoch":1377837840,"text":"This is great! The music and graphics are superb. The controls are very good and the core mechanic is simple yet challenging."},{"author_name":"ncannasse","author_uid":"8497","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 12:05pm","epoch":1377864000,"text":"Great game, had a lot of fun. Love the music and polish"},{"author_name":"zlowrance","author_uid":"21441","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1377873000,"text":"Great effects, good game :D"},{"author_name":"rogueNoodle","author_uid":"21449","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1377880800,"text":"Super polished game, great job - but man, do I suck at TD games :P"},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1377891600,"text":"I think I found a bug! You said you fixed a bug where you would die with only one hit? I think it still exists if you restart the game. I played through once and died perfectly fairly, but when it restarted, the first monster that got through killed me."},{"author_name":"Niavlys","author_uid":"8666","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 10:39am","epoch":1377945240,"text":"It seems a lot of good work was put in the game, especially in the graphics and visual effects, and in the sounds and music. It was way too hard for me though ^^ Still, very good work."},{"author_name":"Vaughn","author_uid":"25876","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1377967680,"text":"Eeek, just replaying through and found a nasty bug! An asteroid had destroyed a turret while a wave was going through. I replaced it, but the enemies were still able to path through it like it didn't exist!"},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 1:34am","epoch":1377998940,"text":"Fun game, enjoyed the take on a ten-second tower defense. :)"},{"author_name":"domrein","author_uid":"12960","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 11:25pm","epoch":1378077600,"text":"This game is awesome. #LDTD"},{"author_name":"vikingpotato","author_uid":"27438","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 5:52am","epoch":1378187220,"text":"A simple and action packed TD! Loved the visual and the music, the meteors breaking my upgraded towers was irritating because it felt unfair, but i lasted till $705 on my first run"},{"author_name":"Raiyumi","author_uid":"25829","time":"Sep 4, 2013 @ 1:41am","epoch":1378258560,"text":"Really well-done game, and great pixelart.. although some of the UI went below the screen. Also, if you pause the game during the intro, trying to unpause it, you'll click the website and will link you back out."},{"author_name":"emveyh","author_uid":"8574","time":"Sep 6, 2013 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1378492920,"text":"Great game. The graphics are really awesome!"},{"author_name":"d__adee","author_uid":"24414","time":"Sep 7, 2013 @ 2:14pm","epoch":1378562940,"text":"Very polished! :D\rAnd I really dig the graphics. Cool game!"},{"author_name":"bitowl","author_uid":"25615","time":"Sep 8, 2013 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1378645740,"text":"awesome sound! needed a while to figure out how the gameplay worked though"},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Sep 9, 2013 @ 6:20am","epoch":1378707300,"text":"Very impressive entry! but this is SO HARD :p"},{"author_name":"PaulSB","author_uid":"1626","time":"Sep 10, 2013 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1378849320,"text":"Wow, this is pretty incredible polish for a weekend's work! I think I didn't get that there were upgrades at first, otherwise an enjoyable little tower defence effort. Great work on the whole presentation of it, very nice."},{"author_name":"commanderstitch","author_uid":"14366","time":"Sep 14, 2013 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1379175840,"text":"wow such a neat entry. don't know if the shaking camera was nessesary on placing blocks.... but yeah, graphics were fun! weeeeee"}],"images":["ld27\/11474-e132a41574b8a042a8dfce62ec6bb63d.jpg","ld27\/11474-8087aaa8847ebf2af7d45dc84ba2772d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/x01010111.com\/content\/flash\/planet_monster\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/x01010111.com\/content\/flash\/planet_monster\/PlanetMonster_source.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24640","g_author":"11474","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24670","g_title":"Planet Monster","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"57","g_commentcount":"59","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\/11474-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/11474-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The Golden Delights and Infinite Perils of Planet Monster is a Tower Defense game where you make lots of money for some space corporation by harvesting gold from PLANET MONSTER!\r\n\r\nStart a game by clicking with the mouse, you can switch between Walls, Turrets, Upgrading, and Selling with the numbers 1-4 on your keyboard, or by clicking them at the bottom of the screen.\r\n\r\nMade with:\r\nFlashDevelop\r\nFlixel\r\nPhotoshop\r\nMilkyTracker\r\n\r\nYEAH! ENJOY!\r\n\r\n*UPDATE* I fixed a bug that would give a Game Over after one hit, also made that Cash indicator faster :D\r\n\r\n*UPDATE* Whoops - I never tested it in Firefox, should be working now :) Thanks GFM and Antonijn for bringing it to my attention!","title":"Planet Monster"}