{"author_link":"\/author\/mrphil\/","author_name":"MrPhil","author_uid":"165","comments":[{"author_name":"mdkess","author_uid":"14701","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 2:27am","epoch":1346120520,"text":"If you're looking to implement flocking behavior, check out the game Programming Game AI By Example by Mat Buckland. It's my favorite game development book - awesome results, and beautiful code too."},{"author_name":"MrPhil","author_uid":"165","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:29am","epoch":1346124240,"text":"Thanks @mdkess, I actually used this resource: http:\/\/harry.me\/2011\/02\/17\/neat-algorithms---flocking\/  There just some bug somewhere and ran out of time."},{"author_name":"Amoaeba Junior","author_uid":"15074","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 1:45pm","epoch":1346161200,"text":"Its quite seizurely! And with such a wacky thing u should explain how to play it XD"},{"author_name":"rwos","author_uid":"14690","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1346163480,"text":"It's quite - colorful, if you will. My eyes hurt now. :-P\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I also couldn't figure out the game-play. Is there any or this this just a visual demo? I could click and move the mouse and stuff happened, but I didn't know what to do..."},{"author_name":"MrPhil","author_uid":"165","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:08pm","epoch":1346166180,"text":"It's hard to figure out because it is so broken.  The idea is each time you click a box it mutates and you are selecting on being hard to click.  Its hard to tell because I didn't have to time fix all the bugs and polish."},{"author_name":"lazybraingames","author_uid":"11617","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 5:47am","epoch":1346218920,"text":"I'm not sure what was happening exactly but I had some fun doing it! Kinda reminds me of an exhibit I saw at the San Francisco exploritorium back in the day. Neato!"},{"author_name":"leafo","author_uid":"4321","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 6:53am","epoch":1346309280,"text":"Well it certainly is weird :O"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1346355300,"text":"Well you nailed the weirdness, the crazy flashing background was hurting my eyes though."},{"author_name":"MurrayL","author_uid":"7835","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 7:58pm","epoch":1346529180,"text":"I have no idea what was meant to be happening, and I think I lost my 'flock'.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I hope you get this working as you intended at a later date ;)"},{"author_name":"Gaeel","author_uid":"1561","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 8:01pm","epoch":1346529360,"text":"What the flock? Indeed..."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Sep 4, 2012 @ 12:18am","epoch":1346717580,"text":"Is this based on and an elaborate in-joke on the ChevyRay-keynote from LD23? Nice take :)"},{"author_name":"nseward","author_uid":"15218","time":"Sep 4, 2012 @ 4:13pm","epoch":1346774880,"text":"This was a fun break from the typical submissions.  I enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"MrPhil","author_uid":"165","time":"Sep 4, 2012 @ 5:03pm","epoch":1346777880,"text":"@matthias_zarzecki exactly correct."},{"author_name":"Cthulhu","author_uid":"14665","time":"Sep 18, 2012 @ 12:25am","epoch":1347927600,"text":"My eyes :("}],"images":["ld24\/165-c7ab2dcee106852de2bd0cb9992ed3f5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mrphilgames.com\/ld23-what-the-flock\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/MrPhil\/Ludum-Dare-23-Keycode-Games\/tree\/MrPhil","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28799","g_author":"165","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28829","g_title":"What The Flock","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"761","g_commentcount":"14","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\/\/163678\/165-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I got stuck Sunday morning with my original game, so this is my second attempt.  I took some advice and code from Chevy Ray's keynote for Ludum Dare 23 and made something WEIRD!  It is suppose to have Flocking behavior, but I never figure out what was wrong with the code. \r\n:(<\/p>","title":"What The Flock"}