{"author_link":"\/author\/torokokill\/","author_name":"torokokill","author_uid":"3932","comments":[{"author_name":"CJ","author_uid":"4082","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1314023460,"text":"Nice and fun! Congrats!"},{"author_name":"whiletruefork","author_uid":"2111","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 2:44am","epoch":1314067140,"text":"Simple and fun. The programming-specific powers are great. If you keep working on it, a portal that opened up after X seconds to take you to another level would give a nice change of scenery."},{"author_name":"mes","author_uid":"4975","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 8:28am","epoch":1314087780,"text":"cool game. i like the 1\/2 abilities. agreed with mr forkbomb that an objective like that would help."},{"author_name":"refrag","author_uid":"1277","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1314123000,"text":"Nifty! I did find it a bit difficult and it was hard to use my &quot;powers&quot; effectively.\r<br\/>Good work on a complete entry."},{"author_name":"Fififox","author_uid":"3098","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1314204300,"text":"That's an interesting game which I enjoyed playing and which reminded me of pacman: you did a good job for your first LD ! :) As you said, the graphics aren't really the best, but the sound\/music does its job. Maybe multiple levels would have been appreciable. It's great that you took time to write progress reports and also a postmortem (try to make a timelapse next time too) !"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 2:14am","epoch":1314238140,"text":"This is an awesome start and I'd like to see what you do with it next! I'd love to see this as a multiplayer with more powers and enemies."},{"author_name":"Daniel X. Moore","author_uid":"2816","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 5:46am","epoch":1314423660,"text":"Cool game, clear instructions and fun to play. The powers are interesting and work well with the maze."},{"author_name":"bach","author_uid":"5433","time":"Aug 29, 2011 @ 9:19am","epoch":1314609240,"text":"Nice little pacman style game :) Congrats on first LD"},{"author_name":"N0_Named_Guy","author_uid":"5344","time":"Sep 8, 2011 @ 11:05pm","epoch":1315522800,"text":"Cool... =)"}],"images":["ld21\/3932-c1be4285f84fac8a95a77e3ceba12271.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.machine-code.com\/ld48-21\/Viral.swf","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.machine-code.com\/ld48-21\/Viral.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32711","g_author":"3932","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32741","g_title":"Viral","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"263","g_commentcount":"9","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\/\/62148\/3932-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Viral is a 2D top-down escape game. You are a Virus. The objective of the game is to escape the anti-viruses who are trying to catch you, to delete you, for as long as possible. There is no win condition.\r\n\r\nThere are three viruses with different behaviors:\r\nScanner(Purple Magnifying Glass): Slow, but will always follow you\r\nIntegrity Checker(Blue Alarm): Will only give chase if you get too close\r\nEmulator(Yellow E): Fast and will hone in on you. Only lasts for 30 seconds at a time.\r\n\r\nTo aid in your evasion you are given two traps to use:\r\n[\/0] - Logic Bomb - Roots the first anti-virus who runs into it in place for 5 seconds\r\n[?] - EPO - After a 2 second activation period, the EPO will become part of the map for 13 seconds and block anything around it\r\n\r\nKnown Bugs:\r\nAnti-virus pathing is still a little iffy at times. I ran out of time to polish it. I'm sorry!\r\nYou will experience some slowdowns if a lot of anti-viruses need to generate paths all at the same time. As above, I wasn't able to fix it in time!\r\nNo music disable feature - Ran out of time!\r\n\r\nI hope you enjoy my first Ludum Dare entry and endure the programmer tier art and last second music. Thank-you!<\/p>","title":"Viral"}