{"author_link":"\/author\/mrnyarlathotep\/","author_name":"MrNyarlathotep","author_uid":"56069","comments":[{"author_name":"steph88","author_uid":"113244","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 6:55am","epoch":1472539800,"text":"Hi, nice game and congratulations ! Simple mechanics that still offered a decent amount of challenge.We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #36. We made the same thing at the previous jam.\r\rCan you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free) \rSo we can include also your game in the video ;) \rp.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description."},{"author_name":"MrNyarlathotep","author_uid":"56069","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 1:13pm","epoch":1472562480,"text":"@steph88 (and any other youtubers who might be interested) - you have my permission to put this in your video, but I can't be arsed to sign up to yet another site, sorry!"},{"author_name":"Coomzy","author_uid":"45176","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1472584860,"text":"I like tower defence but I'm afraid this seems broken and unbalanced couldn't get anywhere on it :\/"},{"author_name":"johnbrynte","author_uid":"47137","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 9:18pm","epoch":1472591580,"text":"Nice graphics! Would have felt less unbalanced if you could choose the placement of the plants more freely, and if the humans were a bit more aggressive."},{"author_name":"scriptorum","author_uid":"17811","time":"Aug 31, 2016 @ 4:13am","epoch":1472616480,"text":"Pretty game. One of my plants would always fire at the out-of-range target before swiveling around to the closer target. Harumph!"},{"author_name":"tomisoka","author_uid":"108013","time":"Aug 31, 2016 @ 6:07am","epoch":1472623320,"text":"Nice game!\rHowever plants sometimes choose target which is almost on the other side of map and then they don't switch to another closer target."},{"author_name":"MrNyarlathotep","author_uid":"56069","time":"Aug 31, 2016 @ 11:22am","epoch":1472642220,"text":"Yeah, there's a number of (mostly graphical) bugs I'm aware of which has towers sometimes shooting when they're not in code, and shooting at targets that don't exit.\rAlso menu prices are sometimes for the wrong tower, which looks like nobody has found yet.\r\rThat's what first try code on a time limit ends up like - I think I'd have to refactor a bunch of stuff entirely to fix, but I had fun making this one, so I might do a bugfix 'sequel'"},{"author_name":"Aaranos","author_uid":"51253","time":"Aug 31, 2016 @ 5:54pm","epoch":1472665740,"text":"I would of liked some kind of win condition to be there. After a rocky start I beefed up one plant that basically took care of everything for 10 minutes. I think it is a very solid tower defense game."},{"author_name":"MrNyarlathotep","author_uid":"56069","time":"Sep 1, 2016 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1472748480,"text":"@Aaranos - thanks!"},{"author_name":"JonathanG","author_uid":"11515","time":"Sep 3, 2016 @ 10:15am","epoch":1472897400,"text":"Good effort. Could use more polish like music\/sound effects and lots of bug fixing. :)"},{"author_name":"Alsatian Studio","author_uid":"45833","time":"Sep 5, 2016 @ 4:09am","epoch":1473048240,"text":"Sorry, but the theme is: "Ancient Technology", and I don't see it in your game?"},{"author_name":"MrNyarlathotep","author_uid":"56069","time":"Sep 6, 2016 @ 12:40am","epoch":1473122100,"text":"@Alsatian Studio - Agricultural breeding of plants to have specific traits and placement of plants to provide things like defence against pests is one of the oldest technologies known to man.\rI just had the planets self evolving to kill 'pests' that are ancient humans"}],"images":["ld36\/56069-a4b4db355de4e39dca83e6915a5c6f18.jpg","ld36\/56069-ac8df8ec3a05c8e263c60987165a88e6.jpg","ld36\/56069-5ec7df78713f20406c346a448550e7ba.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/nologogames.itch.io\/ld36-biomass","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/opengameart.org\/users\/nologogames","text":"Assets"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32","g_author":"56069","g_event":"LD36","g_eventkey":"35","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"32","g_title":"Biomass","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"12","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\/\/570486\/56069-shot0-1472515610.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/56069-shot1-1472515610.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/56069-shot2-1472515610.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"As a sentient plant force, you must destroy the local villagers and consume their biomass to grow stronger!\r\n\r\nThis is a Tower Defence game - I've never made one before!\r\n\r\nWASD \/ Cursors = move camera\r\nMouse = Select \/ Grow \/ Upgrade plants\r\nF key = speed up time\r\n\r\nHTML5 \/ Web build only for ease of play.\r\nSomeday I'm going to not run out of time... No music or sounds I'm afraid, and a lot of visual bugs :(\r\n\r\nLike all my other entries, I made all the assets myself, so I'll be uploading them to OpenGameArt for others to use if they want when I get around to it.\r\n\r\nEnjoy! :D\r\n#LDJAM\r\n\r\n-----------------------------------------\r\nTools Used:\r\nBlender for my models\r\nPhotoshop elements for my textures \/ sprites \/ VFX\r\nUnity was my engine\r\nThe Font used is VTC Letterer Pro\r\n\r\nUPDATE:\r\nUploaded assets to OpenGameArt\r\n","title":"Biomass"}