{"author_link":"\/users\/alex-mulkerrin","author_name":"Alex Mulkerrin","author_uid":"alex-mulkerrin","comments":[],"epoch":1648919760,"event":"LD50","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":286189,"likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"163473","p_author":"Alex Mulkerrin","p_authorkey":"1012101","p_urlkey":"388274","p_title":"Day 1 Progress: Poor :(","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD50","p_time":"1648919760","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1012101","us_name":"Alex Mulkerrin","us_username":"alex-mulkerrin","event_start":"1648857600","event_key":"110","event_name":"Ludum Dare 50"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":276397,"_trust":2,"author":12101,"body":"It is almost 6pm where I am now and I feel I have mismanaged my time and have nothing to show for it.\n\nI was up and awake when the theme was announced at 2am which wasn't ideal. But the theme was a really good fit for what I wanted to do so I was excited! Rather than go back to sleep I stayed up and started writing up plans for my game.\n\nI had the rough idea for a city builder set in ancient Mesopotamia where you would try to rebuild a town after it was abandoned. With the theme of \"Delay the Inevitable\" I had all sorts of ideas for different disasters which would wreak havoc on your city until eventually they prove to be too much. I did research online and from textbooks in order to getting the setting and technology just right. There was going to be trade, water simulations, even realistic generation of fields and roads. I was most excited...\n\n![Ziggurat.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/54f\/2\/z\/490b7.jpg)\nAncient Sumerian Ziggurat :D\n\nI wasn't able to start work on it properly though until later in the day due to other things I had to get done, at which point I was getting very tired. Getting up at 2am was, unwise. When I actually came to start writing code I just couldn't focus and had to go lie down. It felt overwhelming and just too much :(\n\nI think I got ahead of myself in the planning phase and thought up a project massively over scoped. I do not think I could accomplish everything I wanted to do for the compo even if I had slept properly and hadn't had to take up a lot of time with other things. I'm going to take a step back and reassess the scope. Hopefully I can get some rest tonight and things will look better tomorrow.","comments":0,"created":"2022-04-02T16:49:10Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":286189,"love":4,"love-timestamp":"2022-04-02T17:37:47Z","meta":[],"modified":"2022-04-02T17:37:47Z","name":"Day 1 Progress: Poor :(","node-timestamp":"2022-04-02T17:16:00Z","parent":281536,"parents":[1,5,9,276397,281536],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/ludum-dare-50-entry-princess-of-larak\/day-1-progress-poor","published":"2022-04-02T17:16:00Z","scope":"public","slug":"day-1-progress-poor","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":869471},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"286189","n_urlkey":"388274","n_parent":"281536","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/ludum-dare-50-entry-princess-of-larak\/day-1-progress-poor","n_slug":"day-1-progress-poor","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"12101","n_created":"1648918150","n_modified":"1648921067","n_version":"869471","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/ludum-dare-50-entry-princess-of-larak\/day-1-progress-poor","text":"It is almost 6pm where I am now and I feel I have mismanaged my time and have nothing to show for it.\n\nI was up and awake when the theme was announced at 2am which wasn't ideal. But the theme was a really good fit for what I wanted to do so I was excited! Rather than go back to sleep I stayed up and started writing up plans for my game.\n\nI had the rough idea for a city builder set in ancient Mesopotamia where you would try to rebuild a town after it was abandoned. With the theme of \"Delay the Inevitable\" I had all sorts of ideas for different disasters which would wreak havoc on your city until eventually they prove to be too much. I did research online and from textbooks in order to getting the setting and technology just right. There was going to be trade, water simulations, even realistic generation of fields and roads. I was most excited...\n\n![Ziggurat.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/54f\/2\/z\/490b7.jpg)\nAncient Sumerian Ziggurat :D\n\nI wasn't able to start work on it properly though until later in the day due to other things I had to get done, at which point I was getting very tired. Getting up at 2am was, unwise. When I actually came to start writing code I just couldn't focus and had to go lie down. It felt overwhelming and just too much :(\n\nI think I got ahead of myself in the planning phase and thought up a project massively over scoped. I do not think I could accomplish everything I wanted to do for the compo even if I had slept properly and hadn't had to take up a lot of time with other things. I'm going to take a step back and reassess the scope. Hopefully I can get some rest tonight and things will look better tomorrow.","title":"Day 1 Progress: Poor :(","wayback_source":[]}