{"author_link":"\/author\/murphy\/","author_name":"Murphy","author_uid":"4904","comments":[{"author_name":"Chinchilla","author_uid":"5017","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 12:05pm","epoch":1314014400,"text":"Aaaarrrgh... that S-shaped room (in the screenshot) is a killer. Couldn't get past it...Good fun though! \r\rI also went with "Escape Velocity" as the name ... so I had to come scope out the competition ;)"},{"author_name":"Hangedman","author_uid":"4368","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:42pm","epoch":1314027420,"text":"A few bugs, but I could see what you were going for, and a few good moments of flinging myself about. I kind of wish placing one would kill the last one, although that might be integral to expanding the puzzles later. Didn't really feel like I was in complete control of where i was firing."},{"author_name":"Hanoran","author_uid":"5465","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1314033420,"text":"I didn't get very far, but I like the concept. Not bad!"},{"author_name":"puffi","author_uid":"5300","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 5:57pm","epoch":1314035520,"text":"Already the 3rd web-based game that doesn't work for me, must be something wrong with my flash =\/\r\rLoved the music tho!"},{"author_name":"Murphy","author_uid":"4904","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1314037140,"text":"There really are a lot of things I wanted to tweak more (e.g. the direction of the shot currently is not accurate), but had no time ): Maybe I'll revise the whole thing soon.\r\r@puffi: Huh, that's weird.. what Browser (& Version) did you use? There's no flash in there, it's all Javascript. (:"},{"author_name":"puffi","author_uid":"5300","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1314050760,"text":"I was using FF 3.6.20 ( seems like I updated to 6 only on my laptop) which should explain a lot. \r\rRuns fine on Chromium so I'll get around rating it."},{"author_name":"Trancelucid","author_uid":"5067","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 5:57am","epoch":1314078720,"text":"I should know better than to steal a black hole gun. ;) Riding an event horizon is hard, and this little guy can whiz through a dozen of them! Fun game, if rather buggy. The first time around I reached the end level without knowing it, I was just stuck in a blank grey level."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 10:30am","epoch":1314095100,"text":"Nice idea, too bad you hadn't spent more time on it and less on getting drunk :)"},{"author_name":"RichMakeGame","author_uid":"5541","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 12:03am","epoch":1314230280,"text":"great idea, i just couldn't play it very well :) would be good to polish up the gameplay"},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 1:15am","epoch":1314234600,"text":"Concept is fine, but the execution somewhat lacking. Physics of the gravity-pull behave quite strange, at least under Firefox - I'm gonna try chrome later. I guess that's the beauty and the curse of JS.\rOn the other hand, this is quite a good entry, with decent graphics and background music, so it's fine by me. Congrats!"},{"author_name":"wonderwhy-er","author_uid":"232","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 8:27pm","epoch":1314303720,"text":"Concepty is interesting, sadly does not feel to play so good. Allowing to making many of black holes probably not a good idea. May be one with variable size\/charge would work better.\r\rAnyways good idea but somehow does not feel that good play."},{"author_name":"Codexus","author_uid":"187","time":"Sep 11, 2011 @ 10:46am","epoch":1315737660,"text":"Nice idea but I couldn't control the effect of the gun well enough and got stuck really early."},{"author_name":"Gjarble","author_uid":"5467","time":"Sep 13, 2011 @ 2:01am","epoch":1315878960,"text":"I love the concept. I do want to let you know, though, that the controls don't work at all in Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. I tried it again in Firefox 5.0, and it worked most of the time, but going through the exit occasionally led me to an empty room where I couldn't move, and I had to restart the game. I think it happened whenever I went through a door with black holes on it."}],"images":["ld21\/4904-a385f03219df861f5a10e4b69a023ff9.jpg","ld21\/4904-88d9d2164f79dcd1d4927464b444d251.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/murphy.metafnord.org\/_games\/escape","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/murphy.metafnord.org\/_games\/escape\/src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32770","g_author":"4904","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32800","g_title":"Escape Velocity","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"410","g_commentcount":"13","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\/4904-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/4904-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Worked on this about 12 hours.. the other 36 were filled with sweet sleep, bbq and getting drunk with friends.\r\n\r\nI wanted to do something space-related first, but couldn't think of anything cool.. so I took the coolest thing from space (black holes) and made them into a weapon (:\r\n\r\nThe gameplay is pretty straightforward: use the gravitational pull of the black holes to get to the end and escape the facility.\r\n\r\nDon't expect nice graphics or audio.. (:\r\n\r\nShould work in recent versions of Chrome, Opera and Firefox. Probably not in IE.\r\n\r\n\r\n(hihi, now there are three games with that name)<\/p>","title":"Escape Velocity"}