{"author_link":"\/users\/devpaul","author_name":"devpaul","author_uid":"devpaul","comments":[],"epoch":1512430630,"event":"LD40","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":66918,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"105124","p_author":"devpaul","p_authorkey":"1002109","p_urlkey":"320914","p_title":"I'm out!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD40","p_time":"1512430630","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1002109","us_name":"devpaul","us_username":"devpaul","event_start":"1512086400","event_key":"70","event_name":"LD 40"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD40","removed_author":false},"_superparent":49883,"_trust":1,"author":2109,"body":"The man-flu won. What's nice is that this time I failed to finish not one but two games! \n\nHalf of the Jam time I spent chasing an impossible dream of mine, creating a space rts in LD, but after one and a half day when I only had a couple of planets and a design idea that had some serious black holes in it, I had to give up on this, maybe next time ...\n\n![LD40_Colonize.png](\/\/\/raw\/d38\/z\/c13a.png)\nI will definitely revisit this idea later, but I need to figure out a lot of things before I can design and draw a game like this.\n\nAfter I realized that I had no chance with this is game, I decided to try my luck with something smaller, and fail with that too. The Idea was a Battle City alike game, where you had to destroy wave after wave of enemy tanks while picking up Power-Ups that while would make your Tank stronger, they would also weaken it someway. (hence the theme)\n\n![TankCity.png](\/\/\/raw\/d38\/z\/c1b9.png)\n\nBut I messed up the Art, it looks ok, but its too complicated, too Hi-Rez, thats why it took too much time to create this much, I really need to learn how to create simpler art, and more importantly faster art. Or maybe get some help from an artist. I have no doubt in my mind that if I would have started with this idea from the beginning I would been able to finish it, maybe even in compo time. But the compo was already over when I started working on this.\n\nWell, bummer. From tomorrow I will try to make games instead of excuses. If you guys still working on your game, than good luck! You still got two an a half hours, and then some to port, build, upload, so get back at it!\n\n","comments":1,"comments-timestamp":"2017-12-04T23:41:31Z","created":"2017-12-04T22:43:12Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":66918,"love":2,"love-timestamp":"2017-12-05T00:52:10Z","meta":[],"modified":"2017-12-05T00:52:10Z","name":"I'm out!","node-timestamp":"2017-12-04T23:37:10Z","parent":62202,"parents":[1,5,9,49883,62202],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/$62202\/im-out","published":"2017-12-04T23:37:10Z","scope":"public","slug":"im-out","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":185449},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"66918","n_urlkey":"320914","n_parent":"62202","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/$62202\/im-out","n_slug":"im-out","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"2109","n_created":"1512427392","n_modified":"1512435130","n_version":"185449","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/$62202\/im-out","text":"The man-flu won. What's nice is that this time I failed to finish not one but two games! \n\nHalf of the Jam time I spent chasing an impossible dream of mine, creating a space rts in LD, but after one and a half day when I only had a couple of planets and a design idea that had some serious black holes in it, I had to give up on this, maybe next time ...\n\n![LD40_Colonize.png](\/\/\/raw\/d38\/z\/c13a.png)\nI will definitely revisit this idea later, but I need to figure out a lot of things before I can design and draw a game like this.\n\nAfter I realized that I had no chance with this is game, I decided to try my luck with something smaller, and fail with that too. The Idea was a Battle City alike game, where you had to destroy wave after wave of enemy tanks while picking up Power-Ups that while would make your Tank stronger, they would also weaken it someway. (hence the theme)\n\n![TankCity.png](\/\/\/raw\/d38\/z\/c1b9.png)\n\nBut I messed up the Art, it looks ok, but its too complicated, too Hi-Rez, thats why it took too much time to create this much, I really need to learn how to create simpler art, and more importantly faster art. Or maybe get some help from an artist. I have no doubt in my mind that if I would have started with this idea from the beginning I would been able to finish it, maybe even in compo time. But the compo was already over when I started working on this.\n\nWell, bummer. From tomorrow I will try to make games instead of excuses. If you guys still working on your game, than good luck! You still got two an a half hours, and then some to port, build, upload, so get back at it!\n\n","title":"I'm out!","wayback_source":[]}