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Definitely has potential, though - I'd love to see an expanded version of this!\n\nGood job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":728601,"author_name":"Tesseract","author_uid":"tesseract","epoch":1633447117,"text":"I really like this game. Did you consider scraping Wikipedia to support larger nuclei?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":733633,"author_name":"Gus the Shark","author_uid":"gus-the-shark","epoch":1633470811,"text":"Wow, you get max innovation and theme for this one! I'm pumped and nerding-out I just played a nuclear physics LD game :sunglasses: I only wish it was a bit longer or had more levels\/objectives","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":735767,"author_name":"Myles Doupe","author_uid":"myles-doupe","epoch":1633488148,"text":"Take that, grade 10 Chemistry teacher!\n\nAh who am I kidding? I still know nothing about Chemistry. I did, however, quite enjoy your game. It's quick to pick up, there's a little challenge to it, it looks good. Good game, Thanks!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":739439,"author_name":"DzejPi","author_uid":"dzejpi","epoch":1633527430,"text":"Yay, I won! Few weeks ago, I found my old chemistry book from the secondary school and was surprised how many things I forgot since then. What I liked was that your game was easy to understand even for people like me who don\u2019t remember almost anything from chemistry. \nWhen it comes to the things I would improve, then maybe make your hitbox a little bit higher. Was pretty easy to miss protons\/neurons flying at you. Otherwise really nice and clever game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":740147,"author_name":"c64cosmin","author_uid":"c64cosmin","epoch":1633533696,"text":"This was the first thing that came into my mind, glad to see someone actually put the physics behind it in practice. A really good game idea, this has really nice potential, having larger atoms, interacting with larger particles or atoms. Unfortunately the control is not that smooth, I suggest to invest in seeing how you could improve controls in the future, other advice I'd give would be to make the atom have a larger collision box to catch particles easier, and then see what feels good. Thank you for making this game, I was really hoping to see a physics based game. Good game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":744161,"author_name":"cppchriscpp","author_uid":"cppchriscpp","epoch":1633568120,"text":"What a clever idea! I had a lot of ideas when the unstable theme came up, but this one didn't even begin to occur to me. \n\nIt was short and simple, but in a jam like this, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. You definitely achieved the chill atmosphere you were going for. Thanks for a fun entry!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":746498,"author_name":"FabDynamic","author_uid":"fabdynamic","epoch":1633612251,"text":" How cool I got to level Neon-20 and I won!  It makes me happy to be able to win games like this.  I like the graphics and gameplay and liked how the molecules stick together.  I also like  how it climbed the periodic table and thought that was a cool touch and almost made a story out of the game.  In a future version I think it would be cool to get to neon and then go to a new level where you start over but where theres an obstacle or something.  Then on a later level you have to get a specific balance of blue and red or something.  Thank you and great work!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":761708,"author_name":"Harmadillo","author_uid":"harmadillo","epoch":1634059668,"text":"Nice idea. Plays well and is easy to understand. Graphics are simple but clean and easy to read. Music is nice and chill, matches the mood nicely.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":764307,"author_name":"nyxkn","author_uid":"nyxkn","epoch":1634247951,"text":"Seemed like a very interesting idea. At the beginning I was trying to be careful about which particles to pick up but towards the end it was mostly random and I somehow managed to win. The music became a little uninteresting after a while, and I wished the atom would move a little faster maybe. I liked the simple graphics and overall it was quite intuitive gameplay to pickup.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":765434,"author_name":"zimny11","author_uid":"zimny11","epoch":1634404145,"text":"I love that it is based on real physic phenomena! I got to Neon-24, so close. Really nice music! I think, I would prefer to my atom to follow my mouse instead of using arrows key. Good job with the game. It was a pleasant experience.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/29\/29b5bd7ca4b8b2b3ca3bec16dee7a1ba35c6c82bce0a68ac1615dc9b38f16145.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/mdschuster\/LD49","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/mdschuster.github.io\/","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"80497","g_author":"1035829","g_event":"LD49","g_eventkey":"119","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"382349","g_title":"Nucleon Soup","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"230","g_commentcount":"13","g_site2_node_id":"269504","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"269504","n_urlkey":"382349","n_parent":"258323","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/49\/nucleon-soup","n_slug":"nucleon-soup","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"35829","n_created":"1633289102","n_modified":"1778431322","n_version":"815025","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD49","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":7,"author":35829,"body":"![screenshot1.png](\/\/\/raw\/5fb\/8\/z\/43c51.png) ![screenshot2.png](\/\/\/raw\/5fb\/8\/z\/43c54.png)\n\n## Introduction\n\nI was formally trained as a nuclear physicist for many years and have always thought of creating a simple game where you collected neutrons and protons to manage an ever growing nucleus. 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