{"author_link":"\/author\/lattyware\/","author_name":"Lattyware","author_uid":"5642","comments":[{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:03pm","epoch":1335614280,"text":"Got a black screen running it :(. Screenshot looks fun though."},{"author_name":"ExciteMike","author_uid":"935","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1335615420,"text":"I found Earth!"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:25pm","epoch":1335615600,"text":"Interesting, the idea to navigate the asteroid belt. It took me a while to get used to the "mouse pushes away", and I couldn't quite figure out how to control acceleration, but those obstacles were surmountable.\r\rYou need to put a bit more explanation IN the game about what you were supposed to be doing - a small text as the game begin "find your way to the planet", would suffice. As it is right now, I spent quite some time messing with the X asteroid until I figured out it was just for show!"},{"author_name":"PabloAM","author_uid":"12649","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:45pm","epoch":1335616800,"text":"Not bad, remains me a classic game ;)"},{"author_name":"Raptor85","author_uid":"7131","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:52pm","epoch":1335617220,"text":"requires unstable dev-branch gcc 4.6 to run due to unstable glibc2.14 dep so can't test, sorry. (i'm on stable 4.5 and a 4.6 upgrade would be pretty dangerous to do on this system right now)"},{"author_name":"Lattyware","author_uid":"5642","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1335646380,"text":"@caranha: Yeah, I would have had far more if I had gone with my original plan for the game, but unfortunately the physics stuff didn't work out well towards the end, so I had to massively simplify the game - it was originally going to be an RTS-like game where you had to colonise asteroids to build up enough resources to build a spaceship to get to the planet. There was quite a bit of explanation for that, but unfortunately it all had to be scrapped.\r\r@Jhelle: Weird, what platform?\r\r@Raptor85: No worries."},{"author_name":"gormio","author_uid":"11119","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1335981240,"text":"On Linux 64-bit here. I see the splash screen and then after a while it exits with this:\r\rTraceback (most recent call last):\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/cx_Freeze\/initscripts\/Console.py", line 27, in <module>\r File "main.py", line 100, in <module>\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/app\/__init__.py", line 264, in run\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/app\/xlib.py", line 93, in run\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/app\/__init__.py", line 187, in idle\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/clock.py", line 700, in tick\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/clock.py", line 303, in tick\r File "main.py", line 78, in update\r File "main.py", line 65, in scene\r File "scenes.py", line 66, in _load\r File "scenes.py", line 171, in load\r File "entities.py", line 109, in populate\r File "entities.py", line 86, in __init__\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/resource.py", line 492, in image\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/resource.py", line 437, in _alloc_image\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/image\/__init__.py", line 186, in load\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/pyglet\/image\/codecs\/pil.py", line 62, in decode\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/PIL\/Image.py", line 1676, in transpose\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/PIL\/ImageFile.py", line 164, in load\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/PIL\/PngImagePlugin.py", line 381, in load_prepare\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/PIL\/ImageFile.py", line 231, in load_prepare\r File "\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/site-packages\/PIL\/Image.py", line 37, in __getattr__\rImportError: The _imaging C module is not installed"},{"author_name":"davidwparker","author_uid":"7737","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1336413840,"text":"Sorry, I don't have Windows so I can't play."},{"author_name":"asfdfdfd","author_uid":"2404","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 6:42pm","epoch":1336415820,"text":"Controls a bit hard."},{"author_name":"icefox","author_uid":"7186","time":"May 10, 2012 @ 8:57am","epoch":1336639920,"text":"Cool little game! Great physics. Took me a little while to realize what was going on though; better instructions might help. But hey, rocket pants!"}],"images":["ld23\/5642-55ac722ccda9712256135e53ae5b83b1.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.lattyware.co.uk\/projects\/asteroidbelt","text":"About Page"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lattyware.co.uk\/projects\/asteroidbelt-src.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lattyware.co.uk\/projects\/asteroidbelt-win.zip","text":"Windows Build"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lattyware.co.uk\/projects\/asteroidbelt-linux.zip","text":"Linux Build"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31121","g_author":"5642","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31151","g_title":"Asteroid Belt","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"863","g_commentcount":"10","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\/5642-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You play as a man fed up of living on an asteroid, find your way to the edge\r\nof the asteroid belt, and to a real planet.\r\n\r\nI originally had a much grander game in mind, but then I hit some problems and couldn't get it finished in time, so instead I ripped it down to a simple game to get something submitted. Check the about page for more about what I was aiming for.\r\nWhat was implemented is mainly just commented out and left unused.\r\n\r\nNote the builds are untested off my own machines, they should work, but let me know if not.<\/p>","title":"Asteroid Belt"}