{"author_link":"\/users\/rsim","author_name":"rsim","author_uid":"1002392","comments":[],"format":"md","images":["ld45\/159750-b3346cc5b4e4294b3fb001ef7322c46a.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cutecrittergames.com\/ld45\/","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"http:\/\/cutecrittergames.com\/ld45\/ld45-src.zip","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"64129","g_author":"1002392","g_event":"LD45","g_eventkey":"78","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"280170","g_title":"B.E.A.N.N.","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"0","g_site2_node_id":"159750","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"159750","n_urlkey":"280170","n_parent":"159347","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/b-e-a-n-n","n_slug":"b-e-a-n-n","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"2392","n_created":"1567445546","n_modified":"1570512380","n_version":"521407","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":159750,"parent":159347,"superparent":9,"author":2392,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2019-10-06T22:56:29Z","created":"2019-09-02T17:32:26Z","modified":"2019-10-08T05:26:20Z","version":521407,"slug":"b-e-a-n-n","name":"B.E.A.N.N.","body":"### Bio-Energy Artificial Neural Network\n\n### How to Play\nPick up Blue energy spheres and Purple ammo spheres.\nCollect the Green key-spheres to end the level.\nWatch out for the grey-sphere enemies, they'll drain your precious energy!\n\n**Keyboard:** WASD to move, Left mouse to jump, Right mouse to shoot.\n\n**Gamepad:** D-pad or directional stick, primary button to jump, secondary button to shoot.\n\n_**Protip:** Hold jump or shoot to charge up for more air or bullets!_\n\n\n### Concept\nYou're a bio-powered robot who's long been out of service. Your batteries are drained, sitting lifeless until out of nowhere a energy sphere drops on your head, restoring your system. It's a treacherous world though, so you'll have to find more energy to survive.\n\n### Development\nThe game idea I was developing was of a bio-powered robot who has sat abandoned in a storage shed in the jungle for many years, until the shed falls apart and nature reclaims it. Being bio-powered, the first energy source that you absorb is a sweet, sweet coffee plant (hence the name B.E.A.N.N.), and from then on you're addicted. More coffee!\n\nUnfortunately that much art and storytelling was beyond me for a 48 hour competition, so I had to do what I could. I feel that the gameplay _elements_ are all there and I'm quite happy with most of them (the camera could've definitely done with more work for instance), but wish I could've made a more complete level (or levels!) and introduced the story in at least some way.\n\n\n### Tools Used\n* Unity 2019.2 with ProBuilder, ProGrids, TextMesh Pro, and the new Input System (all Unity-provided packages).\n* Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition\n* Blender 2.81 alpha for the robot model and texture\n* Abundant Music and LMMS for the music","meta":{"author":[2392],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/859\/z\/26936.png","link-01":"http:\/\/cutecrittergames.com\/ld45\/","link-01-tag":[42336],"link-02":"http:\/\/cutecrittergames.com\/ld45\/ld45-src.zip","link-02-tag":[42332]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/b-e-a-n-n","parents":[1,5,9,159347],"love":0,"notes":0,"grade":{"grade-01":3,"grade-02":3,"grade-03":3,"grade-04":3,"grade-05":3,"grade-06":3,"grade-07":3,"grade-08":3},"magic":{"cool":0,"feedback":0,"given":0,"grade":3,"grade-01-average":3,"grade-02-average":2,"grade-03-average":2,"grade-04-average":2,"grade-05-average":3.5,"grade-06-average":3,"grade-07-average":2,"grade-08-average":2,"smart":-42.264973081037}},"text":"### Bio-Energy Artificial Neural Network\n\n### How to Play\nPick up Blue energy spheres and Purple ammo spheres.\nCollect the Green key-spheres to end the level.\nWatch out for the grey-sphere enemies, they'll drain your precious energy!\n\n**Keyboard:** WASD to move, Left mouse to jump, Right mouse to shoot.\n\n**Gamepad:** D-pad or directional stick, primary button to jump, secondary button to shoot.\n\n_**Protip:** Hold jump or shoot to charge up for more air or bullets!_\n\n\n### Concept\nYou're a bio-powered robot who's long been out of service. Your batteries are drained, sitting lifeless until out of nowhere a energy sphere drops on your head, restoring your system. It's a treacherous world though, so you'll have to find more energy to survive.\n\n### Development\nThe game idea I was developing was of a bio-powered robot who has sat abandoned in a storage shed in the jungle for many years, until the shed falls apart and nature reclaims it. Being bio-powered, the first energy source that you absorb is a sweet, sweet coffee plant (hence the name B.E.A.N.N.), and from then on you're addicted. More coffee!\n\nUnfortunately that much art and storytelling was beyond me for a 48 hour competition, so I had to do what I could. I feel that the gameplay _elements_ are all there and I'm quite happy with most of them (the camera could've definitely done with more work for instance), but wish I could've made a more complete level (or levels!) and introduced the story in at least some way.\n\n\n### Tools Used\n* Unity 2019.2 with ProBuilder, ProGrids, TextMesh Pro, and the new Input System (all Unity-provided packages).\n* Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition\n* Blender 2.81 alpha for the robot model and texture\n* Abundant Music and LMMS for the music","title":"B.E.A.N.N."}