{"author_link":"\/author\/shatterhand\/","author_name":"shatterhand","author_uid":"14551","comments":[{"author_name":"fakeshadows","author_uid":"8550","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:12am","epoch":1355717220,"text":"Really good fun and well put together, kudos!"},{"author_name":"Jiggawatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:47am","epoch":1355719320,"text":"It would have more longevity if the destruction wasn't so obviously constrained to a grid. I'd love to destroy the houses with some kind of beam that carves out pixels.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh, and the music fits this perfectly."},{"author_name":"Rex Peppers","author_uid":"4914","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:51am","epoch":1355719560,"text":"Can't play windows games.  Too bad cause this looks fun."},{"author_name":"shatterhand","author_uid":"14551","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:55am","epoch":1355719800,"text":"Rex Peppers, I'll be able to port this to HTML5 in the future, but I don't think it will be in the next 2 weeks :(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If I do, I'll let you know, I'll leave a message in your own game page if you wish so :)"},{"author_name":"Skyshifter","author_uid":"17648","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:16am","epoch":1355721060,"text":"Very fun but what does the bonus level do?"},{"author_name":"shatterhand","author_uid":"14551","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:21am","epoch":1355721360,"text":"Just shoot the &quot;mines&quot; quickly enough before they hit you. They get faster as you progress in the level, and if you manage to destroy them all, you get a 5000 bonus points added to your score.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You can only shot once, and will only be able to shoot again if your shot actually hits a mine. If you miss a shot, you're dead :)"},{"author_name":"Skyshifter","author_uid":"17648","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:51am","epoch":1355723160,"text":"Tnx but i keep missing =__=\r<br\/>I use Famitracker for the audio of my game, really hard to use until you get the hang of it"},{"author_name":"Edocentrique","author_uid":"18304","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:44pm","epoch":1355758740,"text":"Old style !"},{"author_name":"lando walters","author_uid":"18228","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1355764980,"text":"I enjoyed it, but I would have liked a little more dynamic movement using the GM:S physics engine. The audio was also quite good. I wish that the gameplay was a little more varied though, because it did get a little boring after you played through a few levels. overall, solid entry."},{"author_name":"shatterhand","author_uid":"14551","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1355777040,"text":"I haven't even tried the GM:S Physics engine yet. I am using GM:S like it is GM8 :D"},{"author_name":"Nik","author_uid":"8717","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:37pm","epoch":1355783520,"text":"Nice one, worked very well and went with the theme nicely too."},{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 6:10am","epoch":1355897100,"text":"Cool! Wish it was a bit more like Rampage where you just destroyed a building x% and it fell down from structural damage."},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 2:21am","epoch":1355969760,"text":"Solid gameplay. Controls could use a little smoothing\/loosening up to give it a more UFO-y feel."},{"author_name":"shatterhand","author_uid":"14551","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1356007560,"text":"I dunno, I think when you have to control something that's being shot at constantly, the player will prefer to have precise controls.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Usually no one likes shmups with inertia, and that's for a reason."},{"author_name":"NiceAlexanderAS","author_uid":"7045","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 3:33pm","epoch":1356362880,"text":"Great job on the game, i like the idea!!!! :D VERY FUN TOO! :D"},{"author_name":"ceronman","author_uid":"4896","time":"Dec 28, 2012 @ 3:42pm","epoch":1356709020,"text":"I had fun playing this. It's a great game and completely finished. I liked it."},{"author_name":"Freakill","author_uid":"14167","time":"Jan 2, 2013 @ 9:35am","epoch":1357119000,"text":"Cool entry! I really liked the music, addictive and the gameplay is good, but maybe a little bit hard learning curve :P From stage 3 it gets much more difficult to reach the lower part given the amount of tanks! I liked it a lot, office hours killer! :P"},{"author_name":"Neonlare","author_uid":"1913","time":"Jan 3, 2013 @ 12:53am","epoch":1357174080,"text":"Pretty fun and simple, reminds me of some of the older arcade games like Defender."},{"author_name":"chocobyte","author_uid":"17858","time":"Jan 3, 2013 @ 5:41pm","epoch":1357234560,"text":"Great game!"},{"author_name":"Cambrian_Man","author_uid":"4198","time":"Jan 7, 2013 @ 5:29am","epoch":1357536240,"text":"Fun and simple arcade action. I like it."}],"images":["ld25\/14551-cb212712d76ea6eb6598f79d75ded3bc.jpg","ld25\/14551-c39e5301e5e79a8af7e63578e38ce74d.jpg","ld25\/14551-30096ea3900be4b18ed0935a7d42b743.jpg","ld25\/14551-2cd0248e7dc266f4f3b50a863b78fb94.jpg","ld25\/14551-b76c51f3bad1d3e28767f318447f581f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/shatterhand.beatthegame.net\/Earth_Destroyer.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/shatterhand.beatthegame.net\/Earth_Destroyer.gmx.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27958","g_author":"14551","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27988","g_title":"Earth Destroyer","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"200","g_commentcount":"20","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\/\/201083\/14551-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/14551-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/14551-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/14551-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/14551-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are an alien force invading Earth with only one objective: Destroy everyhing on the planet.\r\n\r\nThe Earthlings won't give up easily, and will throw everything they have against you to defend planet Earth!\r\n\r\nControl your UFO with Arrows, shoot with WASD keys . \r\n\r\nDestroy all the buildings to go to the next level. When time runs out, its game over.\r\n\r\nGo back to your mothership to recharge your energy.\r\n\r\nPress F to turn on\/off SFX, press M to turn on\/off Music (It only works in-game)\r\n\r\n-\r\nCoding, Graphics, Music, SFX and Design made by Rafael Lima (AKA Shatterhand)\r\n\r\nGame made with GameMaker Studio (Source included)\r\nMusic and SFX made with EJAY, BFXR and Audacity\r\nGraphics made with GameMaker built-in Graphics Editor, GIMP and Paint.\r\n\r\n\r\nI had thought about adding a bonus round where you had to capture goats, but couldn't come up with a good gameplay idea for it. I kinda liked the Bonus Round that it's in the game anyway :)<\/p>","title":"Earth Destroyer"}