{"author_link":"\/users\/hindbodes","author_name":"Hindbodes","author_uid":"hindbodes","comments":[],"epoch":1523688054,"event":"LD41","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":77605,"likes":8,"metadata":{"p_key":"108369","p_author":"Hindbodes","p_authorkey":"1073227","p_urlkey":"324235","p_title":"Philosophical Question: What constitutes a First Game?","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD41","p_time":"1523688054","p_likes":"8","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1073227","us_name":"Hindbodes","us_username":"hindbodes","event_start":"1524182400","event_key":"72","event_name":"LD 41"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD41","removed_author":false},"_superparent":73256,"_trust":1,"author":73227,"body":"I spent my whole life so far attempting to make and finish a game, and I spent a smaller amount of time trying to enforce that my first game would be carefully constructed and legitimately, unambiguously defined.\n\nTrying to make a game under these rules when you're 12 and don't know how to  \nprogram, however, has semantic consequences.\n\nFast forward to now, and it's actually pretty vague if I really have made a game in my life, or what my first game *will* technically be. Is it what I post in Ludum Dare 10 days from now? Is it Ferst or FACE of this decade? Was it something I threw together a long time ago in Microsoft Powerpoint? Oh hell, was it Ebnosis from 2008 gamemaker all along, which got compiled but didn't even have traces of original code?\n\nLast month, I thought about things a bit harder.  \nI decided that if I was going to sanction my first game anywhere near the way I wanted to, Ludum Dare would be a good choice - it would be perfect for being understood and to retcon that garbage Ebnosis game.\n\nBefore that, I was still progressing pretty well with projects and even before that I was learning how to code.\n\nIn no chronological order whatsoever, this is what I was working on kinda recently *before* I let myself participate in Ludum Dare.\n\n![Game FACE 2018-02-02 2 What da fuck.png](\/\/\/raw\/b0e\/11\/z\/f08a.png)\n![Game Ferst 2018-02-13 Successfully Pausing The Game (my first pause and unpause switch!).png](\/\/\/raw\/b0e\/11\/z\/f08b.png)\n![Game Sedimentary 2017-10-10 2 Eww, blurry zero text..png](\/\/\/raw\/b0e\/11\/z\/f08c.png)\n\nI'll finish these eventually, but for now, it's time to fry a small and speedy fish.","comments":2,"comments-timestamp":"2018-04-14T08:51:55Z","created":"2018-04-14T06:09:16Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":77605,"love":8,"love-timestamp":"2018-04-15T05:01:17Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-04-15T05:01:17Z","name":"Philosophical Question: What constitutes a First Game?","node-timestamp":"2018-04-14T06:40:54Z","parent":73285,"parents":[1,5,9,73256,73285],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/$73285\/philosophical-question-what-constitutes-a-first-game","published":"2018-04-14T06:40:54Z","scope":"public","slug":"philosophical-question-what-constitutes-a-first-game","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":220293},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"77605","n_urlkey":"324235","n_parent":"73285","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/$73285\/philosophical-question-what-constitutes-a-first-game","n_slug":"philosophical-question-what-cons","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"73227","n_created":"1523686156","n_modified":"1523768477","n_version":"220293","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/$73285\/philosophical-question-what-constitutes-a-first-game","text":"I spent my whole life so far attempting to make and finish a game, and I spent a smaller amount of time trying to enforce that my first game would be carefully constructed and legitimately, unambiguously defined.\n\nTrying to make a game under these rules when you're 12 and don't know how to  \nprogram, however, has semantic consequences.\n\nFast forward to now, and it's actually pretty vague if I really have made a game in my life, or what my first game *will* technically be. Is it what I post in Ludum Dare 10 days from now? Is it Ferst or FACE of this decade? Was it something I threw together a long time ago in Microsoft Powerpoint? Oh hell, was it Ebnosis from 2008 gamemaker all along, which got compiled but didn't even have traces of original code?\n\nLast month, I thought about things a bit harder.  \nI decided that if I was going to sanction my first game anywhere near the way I wanted to, Ludum Dare would be a good choice - it would be perfect for being understood and to retcon that garbage Ebnosis game.\n\nBefore that, I was still progressing pretty well with projects and even before that I was learning how to code.\n\nIn no chronological order whatsoever, this is what I was working on kinda recently *before* I let myself participate in Ludum Dare.\n\n![Game FACE 2018-02-02 2 What da fuck.png](\/\/\/raw\/b0e\/11\/z\/f08a.png)\n![Game Ferst 2018-02-13 Successfully Pausing The Game (my first pause and unpause switch!).png](\/\/\/raw\/b0e\/11\/z\/f08b.png)\n![Game Sedimentary 2017-10-10 2 Eww, blurry zero text..png](\/\/\/raw\/b0e\/11\/z\/f08c.png)\n\nI'll finish these eventually, but for now, it's time to fry a small and speedy fish.","title":"Philosophical Question: What constitutes a First Game?","wayback_source":[]}