{"author_link":"\/author\/thomz12\/","author_name":"thomz12","author_uid":"35164","comments":[{"author_name":"Dinomode","author_uid":"60207","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:49am","epoch":1450053840,"text":"I like the music. The controls being a and d are pretty hard to use with little floor friction. But I like it."},{"author_name":"MorseAmalgam","author_uid":"57477","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:30am","epoch":1450070700,"text":"Interesting setup! Having the bullets actually delayed by the amount of travel time through the extended chambers was a nice touch. Only problem I ran into was that even the base source of fire was further out than a zombie in melee range, so I usually died because 2-3 zombies swarmed me and I had no way to put distance between them or get them off me."},{"author_name":"Elenesski","author_uid":"57748","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:09am","epoch":1450076640,"text":"Good music and idea.  I agree with dinomode that it is a little hard to control with little friction."},{"author_name":"Ethan Allwood","author_uid":"54954","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:04pm","epoch":1450112340,"text":"Love it"},{"author_name":"Anshul Goyal","author_uid":"18701","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:12pm","epoch":1450120020,"text":"Kinda hard to control, especially the jump. It took me a minute to clear the first cluster of boxes."},{"author_name":"propter_ludus","author_uid":"60551","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:38am","epoch":1450153980,"text":"Very neat concept!"},{"author_name":"Tuism","author_uid":"35114","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:20pm","epoch":1450282500,"text":"So the controls were too drifty for me to feel like I was in control.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Then, I don't think I got to the point of the game because the enemies were basically too strong - or I wasn't equipped to kill them. It would have been nice to be able to turn around!!! I was stuck facing right. Which sucked. Then when I landed ON a bunch of zombies, they killed me and I couldn't do anything about it because I can't shoot down or fall through or anything. And I couldn't kill them earlier because I couldn't turn around.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Frustrating. Not sure what &quot;gun seeds&quot; were for :\/"},{"author_name":"thomz12","author_uid":"35164","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:41pm","epoch":1450305360,"text":"Did you check out the tutorial Tuism? That will explain why you can't turn or shoot down. \r<br\/>If you press F, you'll be able to grow the gun, in different directions. Also, I agree that the movement is a bit drifty, I'll have to fix that :)"},{"author_name":"Skruffye","author_uid":"63924","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 5:52am","epoch":1450331220,"text":"Went for the &quot;long gun shoots through boxes approach&quot;. It didn't work out. :P Very interesting idea, slick animation. The realisation of the core mechanic could have been more central to the level design, but overall, a good game. :)"},{"author_name":"Weeping Rupee","author_uid":"60016","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 8:28pm","epoch":1450383780,"text":"I had an interesting moment in this one-- I was surrounded by zombies on both sides they were closing in and I jumped just to find that I was crowd surfing on them. It made me happy. I was less happy to find I couldn't jump off of the crowd of zombies and more and more just kept adding to the pile.  Finally, I died and my gun fell on top of them while I was still firing and managed to kill a couple. It was entertaining, certainly... but I felt like the theme was shoe-horned in on this one."},{"author_name":"kanatohodets","author_uid":"60512","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1450384080,"text":"Cool game! The platformer bit of the tutorial took me longer than you probably intended (echoing the 'slightly float-y\/disorienting physics comments from others) but the mechanic is very cool :) I had lots of fun building up my gun in goofy ways, and seeing the bullets pulse through my contraption made me chuckle. Good work!"},{"author_name":"fxtagn","author_uid":"59593","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1450384740,"text":"Fun, but control is too hard: inertia and keymap A\/D\/Space + mouse is not comfortable."},{"author_name":"sonelliot","author_uid":"55213","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 1:39am","epoch":1450402440,"text":"Really cool idea. It took me a while to figure out that you need to build a gun that fires backwards because you can't turn around. That might've been because I glossed over the tutorial a bit.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I found myself getting stuck at the first big zombie bunch. I think I probably could have killed him by queuing up a bunch of shots before jumping down to their level.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I think it would be cool to have a diagonal barrel attachment, so you can fire at angles. Or maybe different starting weapons, like shotguns or machine guns.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I really enjoyed this game. Great job! :-)"},{"author_name":"Techblogogy","author_uid":"25556","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 6:16pm","epoch":1451239860,"text":"This game is very fun and quite nice looking, but as many people pointed out, controls are a bit iffy. Great job!"},{"author_name":"gallerdude","author_uid":"16506","time":"Jan 2, 2016 @ 5:12pm","epoch":1451754420,"text":"Good music and fun game idea."},{"author_name":"Instant Noodles","author_uid":"44379","time":"Jan 2, 2016 @ 6:45pm","epoch":1451760000,"text":"Was full of bug when running full screen but in windosed it was much better.\r<br\/>Fun concept, still a lot of elements to adjust but it's a nice base."},{"author_name":"flakoflak","author_uid":"65388","time":"Jan 2, 2016 @ 6:51pm","epoch":1451760360,"text":"Fun Game!"},{"author_name":"gelisam","author_uid":"46246","time":"Jan 2, 2016 @ 10:36pm","epoch":1451773860,"text":"Great use of the theme! At first I assumed I'd find the optimal gun configuration and stick with it, but it turns out it's easier (and more fun, and more thematically-appropriate!) to constantly reconfigure the gun according to changing circumstances."}],"images":["ld34\/35164-22341e2688c6cc275145532d88cfa0d8.jpg","ld34\/35164-adfa43e9ff207c17833ed0a24e76e066.jpg","ld34\/35164-2fd0bccd95aba6161c17500b8b787882.jpg","ld34\/35164-8351fd24d49f87c9572fad1d199bbb4c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/gun-growers\/113543","text":"Gamejolt"},{"url":"http:\/\/thomz.xyz\/LD34\/Standalone\/","text":"StandAlone (Win, OSX, Linux)"},{"url":"http:\/\/thomz.xyz\/LD34\/WebGL\/","text":"WebGL"},{"url":"http:\/\/thomz.xyz\/LD34\/Source\/","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5658","g_author":"35164","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"5618","g_title":"Gun Growers","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"308","g_commentcount":"18","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\/\/511439\/35164-shot1-1450041981.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/35164-shot2-1450041981.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/35164-shot3-1450041981.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/35164-shot0-1450042017.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"My Ludum Dare 34 entry!\r\n\r\nTheme: Growing\r\n\r\nControl the growth of your gun, and shoot all the zombies you can find with it!\r\n\r\nControlls:\r\n\r\nA \/ D     : Walk\r\nSpace     : Jump\r\nLeft Mouse: Shoot\r\nF         : Enter Gun Grow Mode\r\nR         : Reset Gun Growth\r\nEsc       : 1x = reset, 2x = quit\r\n\r\nThanks for playing!\r\n\r\nNote: OSX and Linux version are untested\r\n","title":"Gun Growers"}