{"author_link":"\/users\/kepsert","author_name":"Kepsert","author_uid":"kepsert","comments":[],"epoch":1650235473,"event":"LD50","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":292970,"likes":10,"metadata":{"p_key":"166186","p_author":"Kepsert","p_authorkey":"1251170","p_urlkey":"391922","p_title":"Thank you, LD community! (And a small announcement)","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD50","p_time":"1650235473","p_likes":"10","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1251170","us_name":"LDJam user 251170","us_username":"251170","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":251170,"body":"Hello! It's me again, [Giraffe o'Clock](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/giraffe-oclock) 's dev! I just wanted to drop a massive thank you to the LD community. As I've mentioned in a feed before, I've been struggling with depression for a long time - as LD was about to begin I was just about climbing out of my last episode, not quite in the mindset to do anything at all, and I didn't quite want to participate. Instead, I powered through and decided to see what I could do.\n\n72 hours later there was Giraffe o'Clock, which is now nearing 200 received ratings and more plays on itch than I could've ever imagined when I started working on it as just silly fun project. On top of that, watching a lot of people play this game and getting great enjoyment out of this has really done me well, and I appreciate you all! It's been very motivational and helpful to me!\n\nThank you to all those who have tried Giraffe o'Clock over the past weeks - whether you loved it or not, I appreciate everybody who gave it a try throughout these weeks.\n\nWith that said; this entire thing has gotten me motivated to hop straight into the next game project - inspired and encouraged by the LD community as a whole. Today I made an (albeit very bad) introduction GIF - and I therefore want to share it with y'all first!\n![Opening Cutscene.gif](\/\/\/raw\/225\/d3\/z\/4e1e1.gif)\n\nMore information will be released over time ([twitter](https:\/\/twitter.com\/kepsert) and [itch](https:\/\/kepsert.itch.io\/), but I can assure you, this game is not going to be what you think it might be <3\n\nHave a lovely final few ratings days, everybody!","comments":2,"comments-timestamp":"2022-04-18T00:15:42Z","created":"2022-04-17T22:37:41Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":292970,"love":10,"love-timestamp":"2022-04-21T19:38:07Z","meta":[],"modified":"2022-04-21T19:38:07Z","name":"Thank you, LD community! (And a small announcement)","node-timestamp":"2022-04-17T22:58:18Z","parent":280677,"parents":[1,5,9,276397,280677],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/giraffe-oclock\/thank-you-ld-community-and-a-small-announcement","published":"2022-04-17T22:44:33Z","scope":"public","slug":"thank-you-ld-community-and-a-small-announcement","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":910120},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"292970","n_urlkey":"391922","n_parent":"280677","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/giraffe-oclock\/thank-you-ld-community-and-a-small-announcement","n_slug":"thank-you-ld-community-and-a-sma","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"251170","n_created":"1650235061","n_modified":"1650569887","n_version":"910120","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/giraffe-oclock\/thank-you-ld-community-and-a-small-announcement","text":"Hello! It's me again, [Giraffe o'Clock](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/giraffe-oclock) 's dev! I just wanted to drop a massive thank you to the LD community. As I've mentioned in a feed before, I've been struggling with depression for a long time - as LD was about to begin I was just about climbing out of my last episode, not quite in the mindset to do anything at all, and I didn't quite want to participate. Instead, I powered through and decided to see what I could do.\n\n72 hours later there was Giraffe o'Clock, which is now nearing 200 received ratings and more plays on itch than I could've ever imagined when I started working on it as just silly fun project. On top of that, watching a lot of people play this game and getting great enjoyment out of this has really done me well, and I appreciate you all! It's been very motivational and helpful to me!\n\nThank you to all those who have tried Giraffe o'Clock over the past weeks - whether you loved it or not, I appreciate everybody who gave it a try throughout these weeks.\n\nWith that said; this entire thing has gotten me motivated to hop straight into the next game project - inspired and encouraged by the LD community as a whole. Today I made an (albeit very bad) introduction GIF - and I therefore want to share it with y'all first!\n![Opening Cutscene.gif](\/\/\/raw\/225\/d3\/z\/4e1e1.gif)\n\nMore information will be released over time ([twitter](https:\/\/twitter.com\/kepsert) and [itch](https:\/\/kepsert.itch.io\/), but I can assure you, this game is not going to be what you think it might be <3\n\nHave a lovely final few ratings days, everybody!","title":"Thank you, LD community! (And a small announcement)","wayback_source":[]}