{"author_link":"\/users\/datagreed","author_name":"DataGreed","author_uid":"datagreed","comments":[],"epoch":1556039582,"event":"LD44","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":144452,"likes":8,"metadata":{"p_key":"128118","p_author":"DataGreed","p_authorkey":"1139000","p_urlkey":"344252","p_title":"I'm in, going compo. Scared. Next to none experience.","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD44","p_time":"1556039582","p_likes":"8","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1139000","us_name":"DataGreed","us_username":"datagreed","event_start":"1556236800","event_key":"75","event_name":"LD 44"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD44","removed_author":false},"_superparent":139254,"_trust":3,"author":139000,"body":"I've recently gave up a job at a medium-sized company where I was acting as a CTO for six years; mostly working with mobile apps and highload backends. This was quite a journey, but at some point I felt bored and decided to get into something that always tempted me: game development (is 30 years too soon for a midlife crisis? :D)\n\nI've only published one game since then - an endless runner for iOS and Android heavily inspired by an old-school classic [SkiFree](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SkiFree) game for windows. The game is called [Avalanche Run](http:\/\/datagreed.pro\/projects\/avalancherun\/) and I will be really glad if you could provide some feedback :) \n\nYou [can check it out here](http:\/\/datagreed.pro\/projects\/avalancherun\/).\n![1_qGFstn6pKEDgA_PhzG0T5A (1).png](\/\/\/raw\/8fe\/12\/z\/2032f.png)\n\nSo I decided to challenge myself and come up with something creative. I will do the compo and I hope I won't mess it up too bad, since I have really next to none experience with game development and I am still fairly new to both C# and Unity :) :v: \n\nI am almost certain that I will make something in 2d, since it's easier for me (yes, as a total Unity noob I am still wrapping my head around Quaternions xD) and 10 years ago I had some experience working with Flash when it was still not dead. \n\nHope the theme would me awesome.\n\nBtw, why does the jam start at night? Seems a little strange :)\n\nI would probably try to set up a twitch stream, but it seems that there are not much working software for mac to stream the screen that don't try to set the CPU on fire :D","comments":2,"comments-timestamp":"2019-04-23T17:40:30Z","created":"2019-04-23T16:58:57Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":144452,"love":8,"love-timestamp":"2019-04-23T18:32:04Z","meta":[],"modified":"2019-04-23T18:32:04Z","name":"I'm in, going compo. Scared. 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This was quite a journey, but at some point I felt bored and decided to get into something that always tempted me: game development (is 30 years too soon for a midlife crisis? :D)\n\nI've only published one game since then - an endless runner for iOS and Android heavily inspired by an old-school classic [SkiFree](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SkiFree) game for windows. The game is called [Avalanche Run](http:\/\/datagreed.pro\/projects\/avalancherun\/) and I will be really glad if you could provide some feedback :) \n\nYou [can check it out here](http:\/\/datagreed.pro\/projects\/avalancherun\/).\n![1_qGFstn6pKEDgA_PhzG0T5A (1).png](\/\/\/raw\/8fe\/12\/z\/2032f.png)\n\nSo I decided to challenge myself and come up with something creative. I will do the compo and I hope I won't mess it up too bad, since I have really next to none experience with game development and I am still fairly new to both C# and Unity :) :v: \n\nI am almost certain that I will make something in 2d, since it's easier for me (yes, as a total Unity noob I am still wrapping my head around Quaternions xD) and 10 years ago I had some experience working with Flash when it was still not dead. \n\nHope the theme would me awesome.\n\nBtw, why does the jam start at night? Seems a little strange :)\n\nI would probably try to set up a twitch stream, but it seems that there are not much working software for mac to stream the screen that don't try to set the CPU on fire :D","title":"I'm in, going compo. Scared. Next to none experience.","wayback_source":[]}