{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tdotvshot1.thumbnail.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2007\/11\/a2df6d155713f48ff19997aec35ca5e2.png"}],"author_link":"author\/jolle\/","author_name":"jolle","cat":"LD #04 - Infection - 2004","categories":["LD #04 - Infection - 2004"],"comments":[],"epoch":1196247480,"event":"LD4","likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"75777","p_author":"jolle","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"283468","p_title":"The Destruction of the Viruses","p_cat":"LD #04 - Infection - 2004","p_event":"LD10","p_time":"1196247480","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1197590400","event_key":"88","event_name":"LD10"},"source_url":"2007\/11\/28\/the-destruction-of-the-viruses\/","text":"

The Destruction of the Viruses<\/em> was a fairly ambitious (but not very innovative) game written for the Infection theme. The player had to clean out the insides of a computer by killing all the viruses that resided there. The viruses could clone themselves, so it wasn\u2019t always that easy.<\/p>\n

It played like a top-down shooter, with FPS controls, and used OpenGL to draw a level that could be rotated around the player.<\/p>\n

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There were many good intentions, and much love for the number 5 (there being 5 levels, 5 enemy types, and 5 weapon types), yet the game failed badly. The biggest mistake was a bug which made some parts of the game framerate dependent, leaving it extremely hard if you had a low framerate (it played as intended at about 180 FPS). It\u2019s hard to say how it would have fared without the bug, but as it were, it placed about 23th.<\/p>\n

You can get the compo version<\/a>, or its source<\/a>, if you want to, but I really must urge you not to! Better to get the \u2018made working dist\u2019<\/a> released a few days after the deadline. Both of them are for Windows and OpenGL.<\/p>\n

I have an even better version around somewhere, that I haven\u2019t packaged and released yet. I\u2019ll do that soon, and then I\u2019ll include it here.<\/p>\n

Tags: 2D<\/a>, allegro<\/a>, C++<\/a>, destruction<\/a>, explosions<\/a>, final<\/a>, infection<\/a>, opengl<\/a>, railgun<\/a>, rocket launcher<\/a>, shooter<\/a>, tiles<\/a>, viruses<\/a>, Windows<\/a><\/p>","time":"November 28th, 2007 10:58 am","title":"The Destruction of the Viruses"}