{"author_link":"\/author\/enfyrneaux\/","author_name":"enfyrneaux","author_uid":"11040","comments":[{"author_name":"TheCze","author_uid":"17841","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:54am","epoch":1355716140,"text":"Tested it on an Android Tablet. Plays nice, would be really cool if it would use gyro for movement :)"},{"author_name":"enfyrneaux","author_uid":"11040","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:55am","epoch":1355716200,"text":"That really should have occurred to me!  Tilt control will go into the next version, then."},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:18am","epoch":1355717580,"text":"Tested on a Asus Transformer TF101 (Tegra2). Also plays nice. I agree gyro would be the perfect addition I think :) Also the gameplay could be improved by more variance. Nevertheless a nice use of physics! Well done."},{"author_name":"netgrind","author_uid":"12128","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:35am","epoch":1355718600,"text":"The physics felt really nice in this game"},{"author_name":"Falkreon","author_uid":"5762","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:37am","epoch":1355718720,"text":"I like the sound effects, especially the giggle when you abduct a goat. Fits the secondary theme better than the first. I'm sad that I couldn't test it on an android, the mouse controls on a desktop don't seem to work nearly as well."},{"author_name":"nihilocrat","author_uid":"2014","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:07am","epoch":1355720520,"text":"My score was 9 goats!"},{"author_name":"KhaoTom","author_uid":"7425","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:09am","epoch":1355720640,"text":"Getting that giggle is so fun."},{"author_name":"SimianLogic","author_uid":"15570","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:16am","epoch":1355721060,"text":"Fun toy! I had a really hard time stopping my saucer once I got it going, but otherwise it works as advertise. Abduct goats!"},{"author_name":"deathray","author_uid":"17861","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:55am","epoch":1355723400,"text":"The controls and the physics are nice, but not much gameplay yet. Randomly abducting goats did turn out to be fun though."},{"author_name":"ix","author_uid":"18837","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:20am","epoch":1355724900,"text":"I agree with a previous comment -- not much gameplay.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>However, there's a germ of something good in here. With a little bit of adjustment (maybe some damping) that saucer could be just tricky enough to pilot.\r<br\/>Throw in some sort of threat to dodge, and a risk-reward mechanism to convince the player to fly around while trailing a lot of goats (and only then off the screen). Definitely worthwhile."},{"author_name":"hints","author_uid":"18151","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:15am","epoch":1355728200,"text":"Played on PC. Something about the controls makes me grin. It always feels like the saucer is about to crash, and that's just perfect."},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:16am","epoch":1355728260,"text":":D I love the animation for the flying saucer. The control scheme is very interesting. And I like how the goats will fall off if you go to fast."},{"author_name":"MrEvilGuy","author_uid":"11072","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:21am","epoch":1355728560,"text":"Hilarious! I went flying along hitting goats. So awesome. Kind of reminds me of a old game called Mars Taxi. Great job!"},{"author_name":"jmk","author_uid":"17972","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:40am","epoch":1355736900,"text":"Haha, I actually kind of like the drunken ship effect. It seems oddly appropriate for an alien ship that spends its time abducting goats in the middle of nowhere ... :)"},{"author_name":"Drabiter","author_uid":"8337","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1355747820,"text":"I use same library, and this is very good :)"},{"author_name":"impulse9","author_uid":"18690","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:29pm","epoch":1355765040,"text":"Lovely game. Funny sound effects. :)"},{"author_name":"dom2d","author_uid":"1893","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1355766120,"text":"Played on Windows, and it's pretty hard to control? And how do we score points? The goats just stay floating around and my score does not go up."},{"author_name":"enfyrneaux","author_uid":"11040","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1355768280,"text":"Take the goat to the top of the screen and the flying saucer will &quot;abduct&quot; it."},{"author_name":"Mythalore","author_uid":"12844","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:31pm","epoch":1355779560,"text":"Nice graphics, unfortunately very over done gameplay."},{"author_name":"amassingham","author_uid":"1282","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 1:30am","epoch":1355793900,"text":"Maybe consider adding some visual effects when a goat is under the influence of your tract. beam ?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Other than that, I love the drunken UFO and the general game is nice!"},{"author_name":"drewfitz","author_uid":"18450","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:35am","epoch":1355797800,"text":"Haha, the little laughing sound is great."},{"author_name":"31eee384","author_uid":"1712","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:41am","epoch":1355801760,"text":"Great graphics, good sound. I just wish there was more physical interaction, so I could get a better feel for how the controls work. Enemies to avoid, other things to abduct, anything--the game did feel somewhat bare as it is. Funny when the goats go flying across the screen, though, haha."},{"author_name":"EatenAlive3","author_uid":"15753","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:54am","epoch":1355802540,"text":"Interesting. I got a score of 31! I'd love to see more when you develop it :D and nice goat sounds."},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:36am","epoch":1355805060,"text":"Poor goats floating around in space"},{"author_name":"OU GDA","author_uid":"19139","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:14am","epoch":1355807340,"text":"it would be nice to have some kind of visual representation of the force your ship is exerting on the goats. also, it would be cool if they exploded if they hit the ground with a lot of force"},{"author_name":"boena","author_uid":"18291","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 9:42am","epoch":1355823420,"text":"Hahaha loved the sound fx. Fun game, good job!"},{"author_name":"Lashiz121","author_uid":"9874","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:13pm","epoch":1355843280,"text":"Amazing game but in my opinion it need more goats xD"},{"author_name":"xandy","author_uid":"15304","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:33pm","epoch":1355858880,"text":"loked the idea but the controlls wrern't much fun"},{"author_name":"recursive frog","author_uid":"8342","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 8:43am","epoch":1355906280,"text":"Plays great on a Transformer Prime :)  I really dig the physics you have going on here."},{"author_name":"voidstar69","author_uid":"18183","time":"Jan 2, 2013 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1357164420,"text":"I preferred this on my PC than on my Android phone - on my Galaxy S3 controlling the UFO seemed much more difficult. Fun game, and great sound effects and humor!"}],"images":["ld25\/11040-cf7c116de5897eba61a95e661940a269.jpg","ld25\/11040-94a07b05815b4616a030169b281f0c13.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.korphane.com\/abductor_ld48.jar","text":"Java Win\/OSX\/Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.korphane.com\/LD25-abductor.apk","text":"Android"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.korphane.com\/ld25.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28276","g_author":"11040","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28306","g_title":"Flight of the Abductor","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"403","g_commentcount":"30","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\/11040-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/11040-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Operate a devious little flying saucer and abduct goats.  Get a goat to the top of the screen underneath your ship to score points.  Controls are a bit tricky - just remember that the ship will always try to fly to where you last clicked\/touched.\r\n\r\nBased on LibGDX with Box2D physics and more than a few simple PID controllers - the ship only has one \"thrust\" vector, and it tries to keep balance like a drunken helicopter pilot.  Funny enough, I spent much time tuning the saucer controllers so it wouldn't spiral out of control the instant it bumped into anything.\r\n\r\nTested on an Acer A100 (Tegra 2), should work on similar Android devices.  The JAR should work on all desktop platforms so long as the machine has OpenGL 2.0 and a decent VM.\r\n\r\nI am continuing development of this game, any updates will be posted here or on my homepage at www.korphane.com.<\/p>","title":"Flight of the Abductor"}