{"author_link":"\/users\/meelo","author_name":"meelo","author_uid":"meelo","comments":[],"epoch":1589382269,"event":"LD46","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":210818,"likes":10,"metadata":{"p_key":"146568","p_author":"meelo","p_authorkey":"1186937","p_urlkey":"362981","p_title":"Graphics: A Murder Mystery!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD46","p_time":"1589382269","p_likes":"10","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1186937","us_name":"meelo","us_username":"meelo","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":186937,"body":"Oh, what's this? Ratings are in? Wow, let's go take a look:\n![Screen Shot 2020-05-13 at 10.18.20 AM.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34245.png)\nHmm... a little small... let's zoom in...\n![screen_mid.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34247.png)\nAlright, things looking normal... scores in the 50 - 70th percentile, not bad not bad...\n\nWait... what's that? ENHANCE!\n![graphics.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34248.png)\nWHAT!? An outrage! An absolute shock! An affront to the dignity of my did-it-in-less-than-five-minutes graphics! We must get to the bottom of this. Okay, let's empty out the folder of assets in my game and get a line-up. Alright, here are the suspects:\n\n## Suspect No. 1: The Concept of Love\n\n![Love.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34249.png)\n\nA bit lumpy, but this one seems to have an alibi: it's just a particle effect and, to be honest, probably the most polished thing in the game, graphics-wise... what's the next suspect?\n\n## Suspect No. 2: The Concept of Heartbreak\n\n![BrokenLeft.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/3424a.png)![BrokenRight.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/3424b.png)\n\nWell now, this pair of shady fellows seems like a plausible MURDERER for my graphics score! I mean, they might look good if they actually coordinated, but as a particle effect where each is just randomly placed... hmm... looks pretty bad, huh. Well, let's keep 'em here and see who else might be to blame.\n\n## Suspect No. 3: The Negative of the Concept of Love\n\n![LoveFader.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34252.png)\n\nOkay, all these images that are clearly derivatives of the first one are getting a bit suspicious - and this one is just for a fade in\/fade out. Granted, it is way too low resolution to be scaled as big as it is used, and it's a bit weird when it clips into the edges... but, I don't think it murdered the graphics score...\n\nCome on... think... what are the graphics that the player stares at for the whole time...? \n\nAHA!\n\n## Suspect No. 4: A circle\n\n![HappyCircle.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/3424f.png)\n\nOh man, now that I look at it again, Circle is pretty unpleasant to look at... as one commenter put it, Circle has a bit of a resting \"horrified screaming stare\" face. Of course, it's not like Circle plays a big role in the game, right? Oh, it's one of two main characters? Well that's not good, but I feel there must be something more. Still, it's gonna be hard to tell Circle how ugly it is...\n\nDoesn't the player control something? And what about the background? Or the levels? I don't see anything in here for them... really suspicious how I can't find the sprites that make up the majority of the game... hmm... wait... what's that little thing? Is it even there! ZOOM IN! Oh, I think we've solved this!\n\n## Suspect No. 5: A single white pixel\n\n![pixel.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34257.png)\n\nAHA! This must be it! This little pixel was masquerading as *most* of the graphics - just using various colors and scales as disguise! Heck, it thought it might be able to be the main character without much modification! I bet this didn't help either... of course, Suspect No. 4 is still... certainly a contender for the ~murderer of the graphics score~.\n\nWelp, I'm exhausted. That was a lot of investigative work. Still, I think these graphics are better than average for me - at least there was a color scheme this time, haha!","comments":5,"comments-timestamp":"2020-05-14T04:18:18Z","created":"2020-05-13T14:17:21Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":210818,"love":10,"love-timestamp":"2020-05-14T04:08:26Z","meta":[],"modified":"2020-05-14T04:18:18Z","name":"Graphics: A Murder Mystery!","node-timestamp":"2020-05-13T15:05:00Z","parent":194815,"parents":[1,5,9,176557,194815],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/square-loves-circle\/graphics-a-murder-mystery","published":"2020-05-13T15:04:29Z","scope":"public","slug":"graphics-a-murder-mystery","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":641304},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"210818","n_urlkey":"362981","n_parent":"194815","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/square-loves-circle\/graphics-a-murder-mystery","n_slug":"graphics-a-murder-mystery","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"186937","n_created":"1589379441","n_modified":"1589429898","n_version":"641304","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/square-loves-circle\/graphics-a-murder-mystery","text":"Oh, what's this? Ratings are in? Wow, let's go take a look:\n![Screen Shot 2020-05-13 at 10.18.20 AM.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34245.png)\nHmm... a little small... let's zoom in...\n![screen_mid.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34247.png)\nAlright, things looking normal... scores in the 50 - 70th percentile, not bad not bad...\n\nWait... what's that? ENHANCE!\n![graphics.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34248.png)\nWHAT!? An outrage! An absolute shock! An affront to the dignity of my did-it-in-less-than-five-minutes graphics! We must get to the bottom of this. Okay, let's empty out the folder of assets in my game and get a line-up. Alright, here are the suspects:\n\n## Suspect No. 1: The Concept of Love\n\n![Love.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34249.png)\n\nA bit lumpy, but this one seems to have an alibi: it's just a particle effect and, to be honest, probably the most polished thing in the game, graphics-wise... what's the next suspect?\n\n## Suspect No. 2: The Concept of Heartbreak\n\n![BrokenLeft.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/3424a.png)![BrokenRight.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/3424b.png)\n\nWell now, this pair of shady fellows seems like a plausible MURDERER for my graphics score! I mean, they might look good if they actually coordinated, but as a particle effect where each is just randomly placed... hmm... looks pretty bad, huh. Well, let's keep 'em here and see who else might be to blame.\n\n## Suspect No. 3: The Negative of the Concept of Love\n\n![LoveFader.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34252.png)\n\nOkay, all these images that are clearly derivatives of the first one are getting a bit suspicious - and this one is just for a fade in\/fade out. Granted, it is way too low resolution to be scaled as big as it is used, and it's a bit weird when it clips into the edges... but, I don't think it murdered the graphics score...\n\nCome on... think... what are the graphics that the player stares at for the whole time...? \n\nAHA!\n\n## Suspect No. 4: A circle\n\n![HappyCircle.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/3424f.png)\n\nOh man, now that I look at it again, Circle is pretty unpleasant to look at... as one commenter put it, Circle has a bit of a resting \"horrified screaming stare\" face. Of course, it's not like Circle plays a big role in the game, right? Oh, it's one of two main characters? Well that's not good, but I feel there must be something more. Still, it's gonna be hard to tell Circle how ugly it is...\n\nDoesn't the player control something? And what about the background? Or the levels? I don't see anything in here for them... really suspicious how I can't find the sprites that make up the majority of the game... hmm... wait... what's that little thing? Is it even there! ZOOM IN! Oh, I think we've solved this!\n\n## Suspect No. 5: A single white pixel\n\n![pixel.png](\/\/\/raw\/93a\/d2\/z\/34257.png)\n\nAHA! This must be it! This little pixel was masquerading as *most* of the graphics - just using various colors and scales as disguise! Heck, it thought it might be able to be the main character without much modification! I bet this didn't help either... of course, Suspect No. 4 is still... certainly a contender for the ~murderer of the graphics score~.\n\nWelp, I'm exhausted. That was a lot of investigative work. Still, I think these graphics are better than average for me - at least there was a color scheme this time, haha!","title":"Graphics: A Murder Mystery!","wayback_source":[]}