{"author_link":"\/users\/matt-green","author_name":"Matt Green","author_uid":"matt-green","comments":[],"epoch":1664745181,"event":"LD51","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":305891,"likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"167763","p_author":"Matt Green","p_authorkey":"1299570","p_urlkey":"395030","p_title":"First time excitement","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD51","p_time":"1664745181","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1299570","us_name":"Matt Green","us_username":"matt-green","event_start":"1664496000","event_key":"114","event_name":"Ludum Dare 51"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD51","removed_author":false},"_superparent":296586,"_trust":1,"author":299570,"body":"Hey everyone! This is probably just post-submission emotion and sleep deprivation, but I want to say that I'm so proud of everyone who participated. Even if you didn't finish, or you don't think your work is as good as you wanted - what matters is that you tried where lots of other people didn't.\n\nI've been dreaming about game design my whole life, and even graduated with a minor in game design a DECADE ago but had to put off my game design dreams for personal reasons.\n\nI just started tinkering with games again last year but it all felt so overwhelming. I appreciate the Compo because I don't know if I'd enter a jam if I knew I were competing against teams of people with pre-built assets. LD certainly helps level the playing field for us noobs.\n\n\nI'm looking forward to playing all your games and being a part of this awesome community for hopefully years to come!\n\nCheers,\nMatt\n\n:smile:","comments":0,"created":"2022-10-02T21:08:04Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":305891,"love":5,"love-timestamp":"2022-10-02T22:40:07Z","meta":[],"modified":"2022-10-02T22:40:07Z","name":"First time excitement","node-timestamp":"2022-10-02T21:13:01Z","parent":299571,"parents":[1,5,9,296586,299571],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/feed-the-deep\/first-time-excitement","published":"2022-10-02T21:13:01Z","scope":"public","slug":"first-time-excitement","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":937238},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"305891","n_urlkey":"395030","n_parent":"299571","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/feed-the-deep\/first-time-excitement","n_slug":"first-time-excitement","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"299570","n_created":"1664744884","n_modified":"1664750407","n_version":"937238","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/feed-the-deep\/first-time-excitement","text":"Hey everyone! This is probably just post-submission emotion and sleep deprivation, but I want to say that I'm so proud of everyone who participated. Even if you didn't finish, or you don't think your work is as good as you wanted - what matters is that you tried where lots of other people didn't.\n\nI've been dreaming about game design my whole life, and even graduated with a minor in game design a DECADE ago but had to put off my game design dreams for personal reasons.\n\nI just started tinkering with games again last year but it all felt so overwhelming. I appreciate the Compo because I don't know if I'd enter a jam if I knew I were competing against teams of people with pre-built assets. LD certainly helps level the playing field for us noobs.\n\n\nI'm looking forward to playing all your games and being a part of this awesome community for hopefully years to come!\n\nCheers,\nMatt\n\n:smile:","title":"First time excitement","wayback_source":[]}