{"author_link":"\/author\/bitbof\/","author_name":"bitbof","author_uid":"4912","comments":[{"author_name":"keenblaze","author_uid":"5729","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1335187920,"text":"Simple and great! Love this type of games"},{"author_name":"ratboy2713","author_uid":"5162","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:37pm","epoch":1335191520,"text":"Very fun, however it is quite large (too big to fit in my browser) and at that size runs very slowly. Still, great concept and love the music."},{"author_name":"Acheron","author_uid":"2493","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1335193920,"text":"The spinning mechanic is a nice concept. Controls are rather wonky, but still rather neat."},{"author_name":"cantorfew","author_uid":"12835","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1335196500,"text":"I liked this. I thought two of the levels were too similar (the tree and inverted tree) but then realised how much I learned between these levels. So I think it was a good difficulty ramp.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'm not sure if this is intentional but its really hard to aim properly while spinning (holding space)."},{"author_name":"hulahulahest","author_uid":"528","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:13pm","epoch":1335197280,"text":"Fun game, but it screwed up the color balance on my monitor after closing! Bad!"},{"author_name":"Taugeshtu","author_uid":"8746","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1335198000,"text":"This was awesome expirience! Thank you for that joy, and curse on you for making it so short!) I want moar!!!"},{"author_name":"KevinZuhn","author_uid":"8695","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:02am","epoch":1335236220,"text":"Navigating the world as an awkwardly long stringamajig was great! It's like an arthritic version of snake. There needs to be more!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It would be nice if something marked the end goals of the level, there were a few times I didn't know where to go or thought I had already reached the end."},{"author_name":"the8donut","author_uid":"10453","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 8:53am","epoch":1335257280,"text":"Fun mechanics, clever level design, and sweet art style and music. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Lidfrid","author_uid":"12884","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:38am","epoch":1335259980,"text":"Very good game, cool concept and realization!"},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:57am","epoch":1335261120,"text":"The game surprised me very positively. Nice idea and realization."},{"author_name":"piterlouis","author_uid":"10856","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:03pm","epoch":1335268680,"text":"Excellent game, you have five stars in innovation!. Good work."},{"author_name":"Pacifist Games","author_uid":"10510","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:12pm","epoch":1335269220,"text":"Excellent!  As of right now, best LD23 game I've played!  Great concept, great execution!  I got stuck on the puzzle with the giant room full of white balls."},{"author_name":"vrld","author_uid":"3805","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1335269400,"text":"Simple, yet very effective. This is how a ludum dare game should be."},{"author_name":"tequibo","author_uid":"5180","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:30pm","epoch":1335281100,"text":"Interesting mechanics, but controls are confusing, sometimes direction is unpredictable. And I think it would be nice if there was some visual indication of goal on each level."},{"author_name":"bitbof","author_uid":"4912","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:49pm","epoch":1335282240,"text":"@KevinZuhn and @tequibo\r<br\/>The goal emits waves that are visible in the background. I guess it's too subtle a hint for people to notice."},{"author_name":"zenasprime","author_uid":"11485","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:03pm","epoch":1335286680,"text":"The game didn't load in Safari for Mac.  :("},{"author_name":"hungyg","author_uid":"8391","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:03pm","epoch":1335286680,"text":"The spinning thing is good, the graphics are great, on one hand. On the other, it has got nothing to do with the theme, the controls are illogical (or at least I don't see the sense in which end I'm controlling when), and the music is rather annoying."},{"author_name":"NateNaterson","author_uid":"1554","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:07pm","epoch":1335286920,"text":"Great game! Got very frustrating sometimes but there's a lot of great concepts going on."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1335287340,"text":"Good, simple idea!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The controls felt a bit too slow. Other than that, solid game."},{"author_name":"naufr4g0","author_uid":"4310","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1335287760,"text":"Graphics is simple but cool!\r<br\/>Spinning mechanic is an innovative concept.\r<br\/>I haven't played all levels but I can see a good design. :)\r<br\/>Good work!"},{"author_name":"vilya","author_uid":"10456","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 7:37pm","epoch":1335295920,"text":"Couldn't get this working on Linux. I don't have lwjgl installed and installing it looks like it would pull in a lot of extra dependencies. :-( I'll try again on my MacBook when I get home."},{"author_name":"Julian Ceipek","author_uid":"8564","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1335305160,"text":"Didn't get past a white empty screen (after downloading a bunch of java related files) in Chrome and Firefox on Mac OS X Lion. Clicking on the empty screen redirected me to http:\/\/bitbof.com\/"},{"author_name":"natpat","author_uid":"3501","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1335305580,"text":"I liked it! Cool concept and the simple artwork works as it is."},{"author_name":"demonpants","author_uid":"531","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:20pm","epoch":1335460500,"text":"Hmm, links appear to be dead."},{"author_name":"omaha","author_uid":"5229","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:23pm","epoch":1335460680,"text":"this was terrific!  I too made a game with libgdx, glad to see more of us here :)  I couldn't get the webgl version to run on my linux machine (chrome 18), but the desktop version played perfectly."},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:29pm","epoch":1335461040,"text":"Great concept! really nice and calm, and the controls were very well done."},{"author_name":"FlaxenFlash","author_uid":"11372","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1335478380,"text":"Really loved this, simple and beautiful. The only thing I would have made would be to give more precise control over the way the spinning works however it is only a minor point and I thought the rest of the controls were great. I hope you make more of this!"},{"author_name":"AlwaysGeeky","author_uid":"11531","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 2:36am","epoch":1335493860,"text":"Nice concept, executed well. I like this! :)"},{"author_name":"pighead10","author_uid":"8539","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1335548640,"text":"Should have focused less on the frustrating parts trying to get the long chain through the narrow sections and more on the spinning, but still enjoyable. Nice graphics."},{"author_name":"Jiddo","author_uid":"11351","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:56pm","epoch":1335549060,"text":"Really, really, really liked this game, definitely in my top three right now! The gameplay mechanic is very simple, but in a &quot;why didn't I think of that?&quot; kind of way. It is put to good use in the different levels which have a large variation of puzzles. I would just have changed the turning speed a bit for those situations when more than 45 degree accuracy is needed. Right now it is kind of hard to get the right positioning sometimes. I really liked the way the pivot switched from head to head, felt very natural to control. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>A very good example of coming up with a great core mechanic and polishing the hell out of it, great job!"},{"author_name":"Pacifist Games","author_uid":"10510","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:52am","epoch":1335574020,"text":"Only LD23 game I've played twice, was stuck last time, beat it this time!  Love the mechanic.  :)"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1335821580,"text":"Neat mechanic!"},{"author_name":"vilya","author_uid":"10456","time":"May 4, 2012 @ 1:37am","epoch":1336095120,"text":"Came back to this on a different machine to see if I had better luck getting it running. Glad I did - it's a really nice game. The audio in particular is very atmospheric and it's really interesting concept. Good work!"},{"author_name":"MadGnomeGamer","author_uid":"10251","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 2:53am","epoch":1336272480,"text":"I came to this purely because your avatar caught my eye! True story.\r<br\/>.........................20 minutes and counting, waiting for it to load................................................\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh for CHRISSAKES! It failed to load! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Looks cool, anyways."},{"author_name":"Dr.Pingu","author_uid":"12088","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 11:49am","epoch":1336391040,"text":"I've never taken LSD, but I think I can imagine the thing now.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>More seriously, why did you choose to have the background color changing ? This is a good idea but misused in my opinion.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The rest of the game is a classic very well done.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good job :)"},{"author_name":"chambers","author_uid":"11981","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 1:02am","epoch":1336870620,"text":"I enjoyed the game a lot, the rules are very well explained and you learn them by yourself, with no need for tutorials. There's also some emergent gameplay; what you first learned as an action that let you transverse gaps is eventually used as a solution to aligning your character and moving in right angles. The last level was pretty hard and I probably wouldn't have found the exit if I hadn't read your comment in response to KevinZuhn and tequibo.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, congrats on the game, really original and fun!"},{"author_name":"Angerus","author_uid":"12361","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 2:30pm","epoch":1336919100,"text":"I love the concept and the main idea ! And this was well realize too ! A very good job !"}],"images":["ld23\/4912-b0d07866149f224e185ca4d4049c989a.jpg","ld23\/4912-59e97eac64cbccec3d9f56f18510b6b8.jpg","ld23\/4912-db8f217e497aff0ee5d084780b424369.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bitbof.com\/stuff\/ludum\/nanospin\/ld23_nano_spin.zip","text":"Desktop"},{"url":"http:\/\/bitbof.com\/stuff\/ludum\/nanospin\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/bitbof.com\/stuff\/ludum\/nanospin\/ld23_nano_spin_src.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1-tg4_bKHE","text":"YouTube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30336","g_author":"4912","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30366","g_title":"Nano Spin","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"61","g_commentcount":"37","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\/\/123793\/4912-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/4912-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/4912-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In a world inhibited by nanobots you have to get from A to B. But how? Rumor has it there is a lot of spinning involved.\r\n\r\nThis is my third game here at Ludum Dare.\r\n\r\nEverything is explained in game.\r\nHave Fun.\r\n\r\nmade using:\r\nLibgdx, Photoshop, Ableton Live, Sfxr<\/p>","title":"Nano Spin"}