{"author_link":"\/author\/themaster99\/","author_name":"TheMaster99","author_uid":"20812","comments":[{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"14323","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1367273100,"text":"Very nice and simple. Gotta be fast to make sure those shards don't go off screen."},{"author_name":"netguy204","author_uid":"5044","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:44pm","epoch":1367275140,"text":"Thanks for the mac fix!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Like the music and the colors. I want me one of those heat-seeking cannons!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Gameplay is simple. Well done for what it is. I find myself wishing for more emergent behavior. For example, what if there was a powerup that the center cannon rapid fire oneshot things. That'd be cool but I'd have to decide if I was willing to deal with the rain of shards. What if my scoop could grow? What if there were shards I didn't want to catch? What if I had to make sure my cannon was powered by some resource?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As it is, not much gameplay can emerge beyond what is explicit. That's fine but it's a limitation.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good work."},{"author_name":"stqn","author_uid":"2181","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:56am","epoch":1367286660,"text":"There's a problem with the game (under Linux with openjdk7), when I start the game the cannon shoots a couple bullets but then nothing happens, clicking doesn&rsquo;t shoot anything, there is nothing to do. Nice music."},{"author_name":"TheMaster99","author_uid":"20812","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:15am","epoch":1367313000,"text":"Sorry, but frankly I don't know what could be causing it :\/"},{"author_name":"Tainted_Code","author_uid":"5752","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:42pm","epoch":1367357820,"text":"Overall, a fun game to play. I liked the idea of it! I'm sorry my computer has terrible FPS but still, good game! :)"},{"author_name":"Jod","author_uid":"20442","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:40pm","epoch":1367361300,"text":"Quite cool, and quite hard when the cannon ups his game! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I sometimes saw some dove-like things in the screen, but didn't really know what they were. Also really liked the time-warp power up, cool effect."},{"author_name":"Shugor","author_uid":"14284","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:49pm","epoch":1367361840,"text":"A nice game, with pretty music and graphics. For as long as I played, I didn't find any apparent bugs. However, the relaxing background music and background makes me feel so sleepy zzzzz."},{"author_name":"TheMaster99","author_uid":"20812","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:43pm","epoch":1367365080,"text":"Jod: They are birds that're supposed to pick up shards for you (Potato power-up. Birds. Geddit?) but I didn't really have enough time to make them work correctly.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for all the comments so far!"},{"author_name":"Aaron4576","author_uid":"20855","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:52pm","epoch":1367365620,"text":"Great game! seems like it has a lot of potential! Some quirks I found were, after getting a power up(Time warp)it didn't were off. And game could be a little faster paced(I got 45,0 first try). But overall for a game made in 72 hours great!"},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:12am","epoch":1367366820,"text":"Really nice gameplay concept. The heat seeking cannon mechanics could use a bit more work though (the time to fire was a bit too plus the heat-seeking bullets\/cannonballs etc. were too jittery and took too long to actually hit something)."},{"author_name":"TheMaster99","author_uid":"20812","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:24am","epoch":1367399940,"text":"Xajnos: That's an issue with playing at a low framerate.  Unfortunately, slower computers will experience this issue. The power-ups taking extreme amounts of time to wear off that Aaron4576 was experiencing also is due to the low framerate you may have.  I didn't expect there to be as many people with this issue as there are, because those seem to be the most common complaint.  I guess I've learned me lesson, and will plan for future games to be playable on a much wider amount of computers!"},{"author_name":"Anickyan","author_uid":"11722","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:33am","epoch":1367400480,"text":"This game was pretty boring. Nothing ever happened, except for one block or triangle breaking."},{"author_name":"TheMaster99","author_uid":"20812","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1367439240,"text":"Only one thing? I can assure you that more than one thing is meant to happen..."},{"author_name":"Jellycakes","author_uid":"13474","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 11:58pm","epoch":1367452380,"text":"Pretty nice, but dragged on a little. Didn't understand how to play at first, guess I should have read the readme but still would have liked to have just dived into the game."},{"author_name":"avidgamerNino","author_uid":"20551","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 5:55am","epoch":1367733000,"text":"I still don't know what makes me die. Nice and simple unique concept."},{"author_name":"TheMaster99","author_uid":"20812","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 10:28am","epoch":1367749380,"text":"If you miss too many shards (don't collect them) you lose!"},{"author_name":"HakitoCZ","author_uid":"23200","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 2:10pm","epoch":1367849100,"text":"Sweet game. I raelly loke it :)"},{"author_name":"yellowlemming","author_uid":"23037","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 7:30pm","epoch":1368041100,"text":"game certainly works very well and can be quite challenging to stop the things going off the screen"}],"images":["ld26\/20812-8aa1da19cee38c23763e5284797d2fc9.jpg","ld26\/20812-919aa09512e9685c6bd870fa71697907.jpg","ld26\/20812-fed1d24dd18d7abfdc80cd16aa32a888.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?3v82591p6ff35k5","text":"Download Link"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?wg44ze3uwj6s5q2","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25079","g_author":"20812","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"25109","g_title":"Raining Shards","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"377","g_commentcount":"18","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\/\/233892\/20812-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/20812-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/20812-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Thank you for trying out Raining Shards!\r\n\r\nThe objective of the game is to collect the \r\n\r\nfragments of asteroids that are destroyed by \r\n\r\na cannon in the center of the screen. Sounds \r\n\r\neasy? Trust me, it's harder than you think.\r\n\r\nYou control a basket at the bottom of the \r\n\r\nscreen to collect the fragments, using AD, \r\n\r\nLeft\/Right, or the mouse. (PROTIP: mouse \r\n\r\nworks best). See how high of a score you can \r\n\r\nget!\r\n\r\nCredits:\r\nTheMaster99 - Programmer\r\nLouthinator - Audio and main game design\r\nDerek - Graphics\r\nEverybody who watched on my stream - You guys \r\n\r\nhelped me with a lot of bugs that I otherwise \r\n\r\nwould not have fixed (or even found the \r\n\r\nsource of!) Thank you guys!\r\n\r\n\r\nTEAM OCLU","title":"Raining Shards"}