{"author_link":"\/author\/diningphilosopher\/","author_name":"Dining Philosopher","author_uid":"18490","comments":[{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:27am","epoch":1450156920,"text":"I think it's a great game concept!"},{"author_name":"JamesMowery","author_uid":"64932","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 6:33am","epoch":1450160880,"text":"This is really fun! This is the best game I've played so far. I really like the modular aspect of building your space ship. Unfortunately, I got so big that the game tried to die on me. But then I just went into super 360 mode and tried killing everything for as long as I could.\r\rThe graphics, music, and presentation was also incredible.\r\rVery very nice work! :)"},{"author_name":"AdamAlexander","author_uid":"64995","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1450188720,"text":"Really great fun! Once I got the hang of it it didn't take long for my ship to become a big floppy mess. I didn't know which way was forward, but with so many cannons it didn't matter :)."},{"author_name":"lordsavage","author_uid":"43141","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:00pm","epoch":1450191300,"text":"A great idea, and executed well to - Brutally hard though :)\r\rVery good work."},{"author_name":"silkworm_sweatshop","author_uid":"47199","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:08am","epoch":1450224180,"text":"It's like Katamari Damacy but with more lasers :D"},{"author_name":"Komradus","author_uid":"11076","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:11am","epoch":1450260360,"text":"Really fun once I got the hang of it. Tough to control but that's the idea I guess. The game does crash occasionally when there are a lot of things on the screen."},{"author_name":"DrTeaSpoon","author_uid":"60315","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:40pm","epoch":1450272900,"text":"The game is silly. Fun but sill. Biggest issue is that the game starts to bog down in performance fast. Best way to play is just turn and shoot, collect the parts from aftermath. :D"},{"author_name":"Rodaja","author_uid":"29557","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:40pm","epoch":1450272900,"text":"Had a lot of fun growing the ship in such a chaotic way, and it became hard to control the ship when I had engines in different directions.\r\rIt became kind of easy to survive, though.\r\rGood job!"},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:41pm","epoch":1450272960,"text":"Nice game and concept. Found it really hard at first, would have liked more time at the start before getting attacked so much. Once you get the hang of it the game is more fun."},{"author_name":"NirabazGAMES","author_uid":"65891","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1450273920,"text":"good graphic and atmosphere!\rplease make the play button at the beginning, I have no time to read tutorial.\rgood work, smells like teen spirit :)"},{"author_name":"Dining Philosopher","author_uid":"18490","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 2:00pm","epoch":1450274100,"text":"Thanks for all the comments and feedback so far! You all have good points. Our defense is the over-used "yeah we know, but Ludum Dare and not enough time to fix everything".\r\rWho knows, maybe we'll clean things up later ;)"},{"author_name":"bakudas","author_uid":"23827","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1450291860,"text":"Good idea! Great job"},{"author_name":"batmanasb","author_uid":"63802","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 7:13am","epoch":1450422480,"text":"WOW, those mechanics. Could you please zip up the source code so I don't have to use git to get it. Also, can you explain how you made it modular? Is each part an object? How do they attach? This can help me so much!"},{"author_name":"Dining Philosopher","author_uid":"18490","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 7:58am","epoch":1450425180,"text":"@batmanasb: You don't have to use git: you can browse the source via https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/ttencate\/ld34\/src and download a zip of the master branch via https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/ttencate\/ld34\/downloads.\r\rWe used Phaser.js with its built-in P2 physics system. Each component is an individual object (see src\/component.ts). We attach them using a LockConstraint, which is supposed to glue them together rigidly, but as you can see it has quite a bit of floppiness. Additionally, we maintain a tree structure of which components are attached to which, so we can control them from the ship's core and detach them correctly* when something blows up.\r\rIf you have more questions, hit me up via @frozenfractal on Twitter or thomas@frozenfractal.com on plain old email!\r\r*Mostly correctly. Sometimes something crashes inside Phaser, and we never got to the bottom of why."},{"author_name":"batmanasb","author_uid":"63802","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1450468140,"text":"@dining, aww... I was hoping you wouldn't say that lol. The engine I'm using (Godot Engine) doesn't have a fixed\/lock constraint (although it has one that doesn't lock rotation). Thanks anyways, nice job on the game."},{"author_name":"psychonull","author_uid":"31386","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1450643940,"text":"Cool game. Great concept and use of theme. Congratulations!!"},{"author_name":"Dayko","author_uid":"15661","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 2:13pm","epoch":1450879680,"text":"12900, 16 parts, that was cool ! Good game concept and the hectic pace was perfect"},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 12:06am","epoch":1451865660,"text":"This is a great concept, i bet it would work very well with multiplayer too, you should think about continuing the work on it!"},{"author_name":"utgarda","author_uid":"62981","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1451950740,"text":"Lots of fun! Really hangs the first several times though, probably loading new assets."},{"author_name":"BunchaSapsGames","author_uid":"64862","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1451951040,"text":"An absurdly silly game. Really good concept and fun to boot."},{"author_name":"chabuduo","author_uid":"24888","time":"Jan 5, 2016 @ 3:20am","epoch":1451963700,"text":"fantastic game!"}],"images":["ld34\/18490-c485227b6092578a5b2e71a51ffd7bcc.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/blindedcyclops.neocities.org\/ld34\/index.html","text":"Web (Chrome)"},{"url":"http:\/\/jellenauta.com\/games\/LudumDare\/LD34\/","text":"Web 2 (Chrome)"},{"url":"http:\/\/frozenfractal.com\/","text":"Frozen Fractal"},{"url":"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/ttencate\/ld34\/","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"6640","g_author":"18490","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"6758","g_title":"Carrion Forge: Fusion Gunship","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"344","g_commentcount":"21","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\/18490-shot0-1450146763.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Grow your spaceship by salvaging thrusters, lasers, shields and sensors from the ships that you destroy.\r\n\r\n\r\nControls: Arrow keys to rotate and fire thrusters, Space to fire lasers.\r\n\r\nTools: Phaser, Gimp, jfxr and google hangouts.\r\n\r\nMade by FrozenFractal, Marten, Job, Otto and me from Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK.","title":"Carrion Forge: Fusion Gunship"}