{"author_link":"\/users\/lsummers","author_name":"lsummers","author_uid":"lsummers","comments":[],"epoch":1534121537,"event":"LD42","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":112859,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"119017","p_author":"lsummers","p_authorkey":"1111247","p_urlkey":"335040","p_title":"SPACE.ME","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1534121537","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1111247","us_name":"lsummers","us_username":"lsummers","event_start":"1533859200","event_key":"73","event_name":"LD 42"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD42","removed_author":false},"_superparent":97793,"_trust":1,"author":111247,"body":"Well, I'm done for the day.  Lots of really cool games and concepts out there today which is exciting.\n\nI decided to go with something with large buttons, cartoony.  I was picturing a transport system, but based around space ships.\n\n![ludum42.png](\/\/\/raw\/f82\/b1\/z\/170dc.png)\n\nAltogether I'm pretty happy with the outcome.  \n\n![jam4.png](\/\/\/raw\/f82\/b1\/z\/170de.png)\n\nMy micro postmortem:\n\n- The UI pop-ups works OK.  If I could do it again, I'd build it a stacking dialog system combined with a toast system (as I seem to spend more time just hitting OK to get the darn message out of the way).\n- I drafted up the concepts of red space pirates to steal stuff, I never got around to finishing that part, but I fee like that could have been a cool addition.\n- The game is a bit of an active clicker but started originally as a strategy design.  \n- Found it is helpful to turn off the feeders (dock area) to save cash while waiting for new transport ships\n- I would have like time to add a skip-tutorial button\n- I also had another crate\/box\/object type that I didn't incorporate that I pictured as an accidental bomb-type\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/shipme-starbase-shipping-simulation-1","comments":0,"created":"2018-08-13T00:43:08Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":112859,"love":1,"love-timestamp":"2018-08-13T02:58:53Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-08-13T02:58:53Z","name":"SPACE.ME","node-timestamp":"2018-08-13T00:52:17Z","parent":111250,"parents":[1,5,9,97793,111250],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/shipme-starbase-shipping-simulation-1\/space-me","published":"2018-08-13T00:52:17Z","scope":"public","slug":"space-me","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":322409},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"112859","n_urlkey":"335040","n_parent":"111250","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/shipme-starbase-shipping-simulation-1\/space-me","n_slug":"space-me","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"111247","n_created":"1534120988","n_modified":"1534129133","n_version":"322409","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/shipme-starbase-shipping-simulation-1\/space-me","text":"Well, I'm done for the day.  Lots of really cool games and concepts out there today which is exciting.\n\nI decided to go with something with large buttons, cartoony.  I was picturing a transport system, but based around space ships.\n\n![ludum42.png](\/\/\/raw\/f82\/b1\/z\/170dc.png)\n\nAltogether I'm pretty happy with the outcome.  \n\n![jam4.png](\/\/\/raw\/f82\/b1\/z\/170de.png)\n\nMy micro postmortem:\n\n- The UI pop-ups works OK.  If I could do it again, I'd build it a stacking dialog system combined with a toast system (as I seem to spend more time just hitting OK to get the darn message out of the way).\n- I drafted up the concepts of red space pirates to steal stuff, I never got around to finishing that part, but I fee like that could have been a cool addition.\n- The game is a bit of an active clicker but started originally as a strategy design.  \n- Found it is helpful to turn off the feeders (dock area) to save cash while waiting for new transport ships\n- I would have like time to add a skip-tutorial button\n- I also had another crate\/box\/object type that I didn't incorporate that I pictured as an accidental bomb-type\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/shipme-starbase-shipping-simulation-1","title":"SPACE.ME","wayback_source":[]}