{"author_link":"\/author\/koller-digital\/","author_name":"koller-digital","author_uid":"5050","comments":[{"author_name":"hints","author_uid":"18151","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:19am","epoch":1355728440,"text":"Really quite enjoyable; maybe I don't fully understand it but it's difficult as well."},{"author_name":"ddionisio","author_uid":"17724","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:21am","epoch":1355728560,"text":"I can't seem to run the game...Windows 7 64-bit, if that helps. Also ran it on the desktop.  Nothing happens when I run it (not even showing in the task manager processes)"},{"author_name":"celeron55","author_uid":"16208","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:23am","epoch":1355728680,"text":"@ddionisio: Same thing for me."},{"author_name":"koller-digital","author_uid":"5050","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:48am","epoch":1355730180,"text":"@ddionisio, @celeron55: You need java version 7. Type &quot;java -version&quot; in a Command prompt. Your java version have to be &quot;1.7.0_xx&quot;. If it is, maybe try the jar-version from the linux-link. And if it still doesn't work, try in a Command Prompt &quot;java -jar Neutral_Balance.jar&quot; and tell me what it says."},{"author_name":"Gemberkoekje","author_uid":"5952","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:39am","epoch":1355733240,"text":"I found this game pretty hard, in addition to that it took a bit for me to understand it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/> - Graphics are pretty good, though I guess you could've added some variety.\r<br\/> - I'd have liked a menu and\/or a tutorial, especially as your concept is quite unique it could've used some explanation.\r<br\/> - I think it would've been better if one of the sides was AI-controlled, or by another player, but I'm not fan of the equilibrium."},{"author_name":"h8urf8","author_uid":"19227","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:38am","epoch":1355736780,"text":"I also have problems to run it on windows 7 64-bit.\r<br\/>LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated."},{"author_name":"h8urf8","author_uid":"19227","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:42am","epoch":1355737020,"text":"Ok, the system I used, didn't support OpenGL..."},{"author_name":"Ragepyro","author_uid":"10261","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:55am","epoch":1355737800,"text":"Fairly cool, my only regret is that my aim is terrible, so evil always loses."},{"author_name":"tompudding","author_uid":"12467","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:20am","epoch":1355739300,"text":"This was very enjoyable, jolly good show. A really simple mechanic that's easy to grasp, but is fun and addictive too."},{"author_name":"Robotic","author_uid":"8502","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:31am","epoch":1355739960,"text":"I really enjoyed the concept, even though the good side always won :("},{"author_name":"Starspell","author_uid":"1791","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:39am","epoch":1355740440,"text":"Unfortunately with my laptop being a load of fail I can't run this game :_:"},{"author_name":"lorancou","author_uid":"8588","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 12:37pm","epoch":1355747520,"text":"Took me a while to grasp the mechanics but I finally found out out to get the evil side growing. Problem is the game tends to crash after 30s of play so I can't really try beating my highscores :\/"},{"author_name":"svenardo","author_uid":"19180","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:26pm","epoch":1355761260,"text":"Good concept, also challenging. Seems like the good side has some unfair advantages. For some reason it crashes after a short while (Windows 8)."},{"author_name":"koller-digital","author_uid":"5050","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:25pm","epoch":1355764800,"text":"Sadly I have no Window 8 machine to test it on. So I can't reproduce these crashes. If possible, please start the jar-version (linux) with a Command Prompt and tell me the exception if it throws any."},{"author_name":"BipolarMike","author_uid":"13748","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:53pm","epoch":1355788080,"text":"It's an interesting concept, but I didn't find myself having much fun..."},{"author_name":"ddionisio","author_uid":"17724","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:31am","epoch":1355808360,"text":"@koller-digital Yeah that was it. I was under the assumption my java is up-to-date since it always nags me to update it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Definitely took a while for me to understand the mechanics.  Pretty good game, may actually work well for 2-player."},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1355847420,"text":"Trying to open this on Ubuntu 12 with Oracle Java v7, got this as output:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Exception in thread &quot;main&quot; java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setSelectedIndex: 0 out of bounds\r<br\/>\tat javax.swing.JComboBox.setSelectedIndex(JComboBox.java:622)\r<br\/>\tat de.koller.ld25.launcher.Launcher.&lt;init&gt;(Launcher.java:15)\r<br\/>\tat de.koller.ld25.LDStart.main(LDStart.java:9)"},{"author_name":"DaGamesta","author_uid":"18923","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 5:27am","epoch":1355980920,"text":"Interesting concept.  You have to use your good ammo to gain bad ammo, it's a nice twist.  Personally I felt there needed to be something more, or perhaps some rebalancing, but I think this was a good job under the circumstances."},{"author_name":"youdonotexist","author_uid":"1170","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 12:39am","epoch":1356136440,"text":"@ koller-digital: Tried to open on my Mac (Mountain Lion, Java 7) and got the following: \r<br\/>\r<br\/>mdaly@mikedaly:~\/Downloads$ java -jar Neutral_Balance.jar \r<br\/>Exception in thread &quot;main&quot; java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setSelectedIndex: 0 out of bounds\r<br\/>\tat javax.swing.JComboBox.setSelectedIndex(JComboBox.java:622)\r<br\/>\tat de.koller.ld25.launcher.Launcher.&lt;init&gt;(Launcher.java:15)\r<br\/>\tat de.koller.ld25.LDStart.main(LDStart.java:9)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Ping me on twitter (@youdonotexist) if you need any help troubleshooting."},{"author_name":"sclark39","author_uid":"15443","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 4:30am","epoch":1356150300,"text":"Can't run :("},{"author_name":"koller-digital","author_uid":"5050","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 8:18am","epoch":1356163980,"text":"@zenmumbler, @youdonotexist: Thank you for the report. This exception occured, when no 16:9 DisplayMode was found, but it should work now."},{"author_name":"CoffeeOnimal","author_uid":"1643","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 12:59pm","epoch":1356267240,"text":"I guess no-one said you couldn't NOT be the good guy too.\r<br\/>I applaud your innovative take on the theme. Very well crafted game as well."},{"author_name":"barigorokarl","author_uid":"3036","time":"Dec 25, 2012 @ 10:36am","epoch":1356431460,"text":"Interesting concept, but you have to polish more. I didn't understand how to balance g&lt;-&gt;e at first and as I did there was no difference in points because it was to hard for me. But the idea definitly has something to it."},{"author_name":"delpes","author_uid":"8513","time":"Dec 31, 2012 @ 3:22am","epoch":1356923820,"text":"Really love that concept! And of course the faces of the sun\/the red thing when the opposing surface came closer :)"},{"author_name":"Beanalby","author_uid":"11055","time":"Dec 31, 2012 @ 6:36pm","epoch":1356978660,"text":"I liked the yin\/yang take on You Are the Villain, rather than the &quot;pure evil&quot; aspect of most entries."},{"author_name":"Maikeroppi","author_uid":"2905","time":"Dec 31, 2012 @ 7:49pm","epoch":1356983040,"text":"One of the more interesting game concepts I've played, well done! A few notes:\r<br\/>-It took me a bit to figure out as I just started firing, but playing both sides at once is cool.\r<br\/>-I feel like the gameplay mechanics are well designed and balanced. The fact that one side grows if it gets too large, and each shot produces a shot for the opposite side results in quite a bit of strategy for such a game.\r<br\/>-Seems heavily tilted to the light side. I couldn't last too long when the light side auto growing speeds up.\r<br\/>-There didn't seem to be any sound. Not sure if a bug or you didn't have time for this.\r<br\/>-I thought the graphics were kind of charming, even though you're mostly killing the poor little green guys.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very well done!"},{"author_name":"Dining Philosopher","author_uid":"18490","time":"Jan 1, 2013 @ 6:02pm","epoch":1357063020,"text":"Awesome, and really hard! I didn't manage to let evil win, if that's possible."},{"author_name":"Freakill","author_uid":"14167","time":"Jan 2, 2013 @ 4:23pm","epoch":1357143480,"text":"Really nice idea, one could the message out of the game! I really liked the mechanics, fluent and well balanced, not meaning it is not difficult ;)"},{"author_name":"ceronman","author_uid":"4896","time":"Jan 2, 2013 @ 9:51pm","epoch":1357163160,"text":"Very interesting gameplay. I enjoyed it playing it."},{"author_name":"Neonlare","author_uid":"1913","time":"Jan 3, 2013 @ 7:16am","epoch":1357197060,"text":"Pretty darn fun once I got the hang of it, does need some more tutorialness though ;o."},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Jan 3, 2013 @ 1:53pm","epoch":1357220880,"text":"interesting idea, but in my case evil always loses"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 2:47am","epoch":1357353720,"text":"This is a fun idea and could make an interesting 2-player mechanic, with each side able to help or hurt the other. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>By the way, if you're looking for a better host than dropbox, you might check out the free Java hosting I offer at http:\/\/StaticVoidGames.com. Either way, nice work!"}],"images":["ld25\/5050-9dec5ba02336ed72d99a42d876c0c935.jpg","ld25\/5050-c4b4b07a0166c1f87b980557f0ef3007.jpg","ld25\/5050-f12f84a0aa95137e6fe2fab82c75821d.jpg","ld25\/5050-4c9390ceb312ff05a349156cddea4e98.jpg","ld25\/5050-e5ce4d7518fafc471b11246a6d78e3c5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/14906323\/ld48\/Neutral_Balance.exe","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/14906323\/ld48\/Neutral_Balance.jar","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/14906323\/ld48\/Neutral_Balance_src.7z","text":"Source"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/14906323\/ld48\/Neutral_Balance_fixed.jar","text":"Windows\/Linux fixed"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28136","g_author":"5050","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28166","g_title":"Neutral Balance","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"350","g_commentcount":"32","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\/5050-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/5050-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/5050-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/5050-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/5050-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In this game you have to be Good and Evil. To earn points with the good side, you have to be evil on the other.\r\n\r\nYou need Java Version 7 and OpenGL to start this game.\r\nFixed the bug, where an exception was thrown if no 16:9 DisplayMode was found.<\/p>","title":"Neutral Balance"}