Ludum Dare 20
April 29th-May 2nd, 2011
Theme: It’s Dangerous to go Alone! Take this!
More Info: Ludum Dare 20 Has Begun! (Keynote), Theme Voting Results.
City Collision III - dwrensha - Competition Entry
Watch and control collisions of particle clouds based on data from OpenStreetMap.
(Java Applet. Tested in Safari and Firefox with Java 1.5.)
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Ratings
| #155 | Audio | 2.35 |
| #213 | Innovation | 2.42 |
| #243 | Coolness | 0% |
| #276 | Graphics | 1.74 |
| #277 | Humor | 1.45 |
| #284 | Fun | 1.35 |
| #284 | Community | 1.44 |
| #284 | Overall | 1.56 |
| #285 | Theme | 1.24 |
Comments
This webstart doesn't seem to want to work... Why don't You make an executable jar?
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.
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 :/
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?).
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. :)
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?
Hmm, won't load in Chrome, Windows link seems to just go to the web version.
I couldn't really understand this, either...
Instructions related to the controls would be cool!
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Some type of explanation would be handy.