{"author_link":"\/users\/flaterectomy","author_name":"Flaterectomy","author_uid":"flaterectomy","comments":[],"epoch":1648939858,"event":"LD50","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":286528,"likes":6,"metadata":{"p_key":"163627","p_author":"Flaterectomy","p_authorkey":"1003398","p_urlkey":"388471","p_title":"Try Again: Day #1 Progress","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD50","p_time":"1648939858","p_likes":"6","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1003398","us_name":"Flaterectomy","us_username":"flaterectomy","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":15,"author":3398,"body":"Well, this day just flew by, didn't it? I don't know if it's thew fact that I chose to write a story and do some very minor coding in Twine 2, rather than taking on pixel art or even 3D responsibilities, like I usually do... but man it feels like today was just 12 hours rather than 24.\n\n## The Plan\nA couple of ideas floated to the top, but the one I decided on is something I have been meaning to do for a while, with the theme simply giving me a direction to work in.\n\n![title_screen.png](\/\/\/raw\/64d\/z\/491a7.png)\n\nWriting a complete start-to-end narrative with some branching, and choices affecting story beats that follow later was the reason I picked up Twine 2 to begin with. I just never really got around to giving it a go. So that's what I am doing, writing a *side mission* for a fictional cyberpunk game. But it won't be a side mission for our protagonist, oh no. He's just *delaying the inevitable.*\n\n## The Tone\nCyberpunk also somehow means Film Noir, right? So I have to write it from first person view, like a detective from the 50's who just threw his fedora aside and is now sipping a bourbon.\n\n![intro.png](\/\/\/raw\/64d\/z\/491a8.png)\n\nAside from writing a story I've spent a good chunk of time tweaking the CSS to get an appropriate vibe through color, font choice and, uh... border widths? As shown in the first image, a brief bit of photoshopping a logo was also a part of the day.\n\n## The Big Picture\nThese nodes might say *'chapter'* but don't worry, these chapters are merely paragraphs. And the colors indicate *things!* Oooh, exciting.\n\n![schematic.png](\/\/\/raw\/64d\/z\/491ab.png)\n\nThere is a lot left to do to try and make the story satisfactory to play through, but I am glad I planned out the entire outline. I always thought I was better at starting small and scaling from there, but going from macro to micro gives me a lot more confidence, given that I know where I need to go with it all.\n\nBut now I sleep.\n\n \n\n![Thumbs v6.png](\/\/\/raw\/64d\/z\/491a0.png)","comments":0,"created":"2022-04-02T22:30:45Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":286528,"love":6,"love-timestamp":"2022-04-03T11:41:27Z","meta":[],"modified":"2022-04-03T11:41:27Z","name":"Try Again: Day #1 Progress","node-timestamp":"2022-04-02T22:50:58Z","parent":283378,"parents":[1,5,9,276397,283378],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/try-again\/try-again-day-1-progress","published":"2022-04-02T22:50:58Z","scope":"public","slug":"try-again-day-1-progress","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":870371},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"286528","n_urlkey":"388471","n_parent":"283378","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/try-again\/try-again-day-1-progress","n_slug":"try-again-day-1-progress","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"3398","n_created":"1648938645","n_modified":"1648986087","n_version":"870371","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/try-again\/try-again-day-1-progress","text":"Well, this day just flew by, didn't it? I don't know if it's thew fact that I chose to write a story and do some very minor coding in Twine 2, rather than taking on pixel art or even 3D responsibilities, like I usually do... but man it feels like today was just 12 hours rather than 24.\n\n## The Plan\nA couple of ideas floated to the top, but the one I decided on is something I have been meaning to do for a while, with the theme simply giving me a direction to work in.\n\n![title_screen.png](\/\/\/raw\/64d\/z\/491a7.png)\n\nWriting a complete start-to-end narrative with some branching, and choices affecting story beats that follow later was the reason I picked up Twine 2 to begin with. I just never really got around to giving it a go. So that's what I am doing, writing a *side mission* for a fictional cyberpunk game. But it won't be a side mission for our protagonist, oh no. He's just *delaying the inevitable.*\n\n## The Tone\nCyberpunk also somehow means Film Noir, right? So I have to write it from first person view, like a detective from the 50's who just threw his fedora aside and is now sipping a bourbon.\n\n![intro.png](\/\/\/raw\/64d\/z\/491a8.png)\n\nAside from writing a story I've spent a good chunk of time tweaking the CSS to get an appropriate vibe through color, font choice and, uh... border widths? As shown in the first image, a brief bit of photoshopping a logo was also a part of the day.\n\n## The Big Picture\nThese nodes might say *'chapter'* but don't worry, these chapters are merely paragraphs. And the colors indicate *things!* Oooh, exciting.\n\n![schematic.png](\/\/\/raw\/64d\/z\/491ab.png)\n\nThere is a lot left to do to try and make the story satisfactory to play through, but I am glad I planned out the entire outline. I always thought I was better at starting small and scaling from there, but going from macro to micro gives me a lot more confidence, given that I know where I need to go with it all.\n\nBut now I sleep.\n\n \n\n![Thumbs v6.png](\/\/\/raw\/64d\/z\/491a0.png)","title":"Try Again: Day #1 Progress","wayback_source":[]}