{"author_link":"\/users\/whydoidoit","author_name":"whydoidoit","author_uid":"whydoidoit","comments":[],"epoch":1587540990,"event":"LD46","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":206260,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"143824","p_author":"whydoidoit","p_authorkey":"1038392","p_urlkey":"360237","p_title":"Could you help out with a rating?  We'd love to get to 20 for the first time!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD46","p_time":"1587540990","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1038392","us_name":"whydoidoit","us_username":"whydoidoit","event_start":"1587081600","event_key":"77","event_name":"Ludum Dare 46"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD46","removed_author":false},"_superparent":176557,"_trust":1,"author":38392,"body":"# LIFE:anti-viral\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/lifeanti-viral\n\n![LIFE.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/8f5\/9\/z\/2fd96.jpg)\n\nWell after 60 hours of pretty solid coding I'm super happy to say that we managed to get something together with a few minutes to spare.  We built everything from scratch in the time and are happy we managed to not fall out too badly!\n\nGiven that John Conway, the author of Life, died this week of Coronavirus it felt like a proper time to benefit from his huge contribution to mathematics and computing.  Plus who else wrote a zero player game!  We've made ours a kind of tower defence simulation.\n\nThe game is a super chaotic simulation with tons of particles and 3 types of offensive troops and 3 types of defensive towers.\n\n![Screenshot 2020-04-21 at 01.23.19.png](\/\/\/raw\/8f5\/9\/z\/2fdbe.png)\n\nIt includes a level editor and the ability to share files to play each others sims.  We ran out of time for the network storage for these in the cloud.  Something to do later.\n\n![Screenshot 2020-04-20 at 00.20.18.png](\/\/\/raw\/8f5\/9\/z\/2fe1e.png)\n\nWe hope you enjoy it, it's been a very exciting few days for us, we normally bite off more than we can chew...\n\nThis time:\n\n* PIXI \/ React\n\nSource code is included with the game.\n\n![Ziggy S.gif](\/\/\/raw\/8f5\/9\/z\/2fe63.gif)","comments":1,"comments-timestamp":"2020-04-22T07:43:41Z","created":"2020-04-22T07:35:44Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":206260,"love":1,"love-timestamp":"2020-04-22T07:38:59Z","meta":[],"modified":"2020-04-22T07:43:41Z","name":"Could you help out with a rating?  We'd love to get to 20 for the first time!","node-timestamp":"2020-04-22T07:39:04Z","parent":190151,"parents":[1,5,9,176557,190151],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/lifeanti-viral\/could-use-just-a-couple-more-ratings-can-you-help","published":"2020-04-22T07:36:30Z","scope":"public","slug":"could-use-just-a-couple-more-ratings-can-you-help","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":621869},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"206260","n_urlkey":"360237","n_parent":"190151","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/lifeanti-viral\/could-use-just-a-couple-more-ratings-can-you-help","n_slug":"could-use-just-a-couple-more-rat","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"38392","n_created":"1587540944","n_modified":"1587541421","n_version":"621869","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/lifeanti-viral\/could-use-just-a-couple-more-ratings-can-you-help","text":"# LIFE:anti-viral\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/lifeanti-viral\n\n![LIFE.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/8f5\/9\/z\/2fd96.jpg)\n\nWell after 60 hours of pretty solid coding I'm super happy to say that we managed to get something together with a few minutes to spare.  We built everything from scratch in the time and are happy we managed to not fall out too badly!\n\nGiven that John Conway, the author of Life, died this week of Coronavirus it felt like a proper time to benefit from his huge contribution to mathematics and computing.  Plus who else wrote a zero player game!  We've made ours a kind of tower defence simulation.\n\nThe game is a super chaotic simulation with tons of particles and 3 types of offensive troops and 3 types of defensive towers.\n\n![Screenshot 2020-04-21 at 01.23.19.png](\/\/\/raw\/8f5\/9\/z\/2fdbe.png)\n\nIt includes a level editor and the ability to share files to play each others sims.  We ran out of time for the network storage for these in the cloud.  Something to do later.\n\n![Screenshot 2020-04-20 at 00.20.18.png](\/\/\/raw\/8f5\/9\/z\/2fe1e.png)\n\nWe hope you enjoy it, it's been a very exciting few days for us, we normally bite off more than we can chew...\n\nThis time:\n\n* PIXI \/ React\n\nSource code is included with the game.\n\n![Ziggy S.gif](\/\/\/raw\/8f5\/9\/z\/2fe63.gif)","title":"Could you help out with a rating?  We'd love to get to 20 for the first time!","wayback_source":[]}