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City Collision III by dwrensha

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made by dwrensha for LD20 (COMPO)
Watch and control collisions of particle clouds based on data from OpenStreetMap.

(Java Applet. Tested in Safari and Firefox with Java 1.5.)

Windows http://ugcs.caltech.edu/~renshaw/ld20/game.html
Web http://ugcs.caltech.edu/~renshaw/ld20/game.html
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?action=preview&uid=2533

Ratings

Coolness 0% 243
Overall 1.56 284
Audio 2.35 155
Community 1.44 284
Fun 1.35 284
Graphics 1.74 276
Humor 1.45 277
Innovation 2.42 213
Theme 1.24 285

Feedback

SonnyBone
02. May 2011 · 08:22 UTC
Some type of explanation would be handy.
Yezu
02. May 2011 · 15:50 UTC
This webstart doesn't seem to want to work... Why don't You make an executable jar?
Dan C
02. May 2011 · 16:11 UTC
A curious idea, and it's kind-of interesting to watch the collisions, but the 'control' part seems to be missing. I jabbed at various keys and sometimes something seemed to happen at the beginning of a simulation, but I couldn't tell you what or why.

I don't understand how it fits in with the theme at all.
Kynrael
02. May 2011 · 16:43 UTC
Technically interesting but I don't understand how that fits the theme... Hardly looks like a game really because i don't seem to be able to control anything :/
Kvisle
02. May 2011 · 20:05 UTC
Doesn't work here.
LiquidAsh
03. May 2011 · 03:21 UTC
web version not loading in chrome
TellusE
03. May 2011 · 21:16 UTC
Ditto, not loading in Chrome, does load in Firefox. And... pretty as it is (I get what's going on - city's collide! Muaha! I recognized Manhatten, right?).
Tom 7
04. May 2011 · 00:48 UTC
no worky :-(
DeadlyJoe
04. May 2011 · 07:18 UTC
I got it to load in Firefox 4, but couldn't quite figure out how to control it. Pressing space and enter seems delayed, clicking doesn't seem to do anything really, might be due to the size of the datasets you're using. Anyway, fun example of 2D particle collision. However, it does seem slow given the small number of particles. If you use a quadtree or binning approach, you probably could bump it up to 20,000 or 30,000 particles, and with improved collision response. :)
randomnine
04. May 2011 · 12:41 UTC
Couldn't get this to work in IE or Chrome. Sorry.
brainiac256
05. May 2011 · 05:45 UTC
Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu with Sun JVM, worked fine here, but doesn't seem to be interactive beyond "press enter to advance". Is this a feature or a bug?
Dark Acre Jack
06. May 2011 · 05:26 UTC
Neat tech demo.
Switchbreak
08. May 2011 · 19:42 UTC
Hmm, won't load in Chrome, Windows link seems to just go to the web version.
Hempuli
23. May 2011 · 09:33 UTC
I couldn't really understand this, either...
Instructions related to the controls would be cool!