{"author_link":"\/users\/sarah-alexa","author_name":"Sarah Alexa","author_uid":"sarah-alexa","comments":[],"epoch":1664752491,"event":"LD51","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":306119,"likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"167846","p_author":"Sarah Alexa","p_authorkey":"1286602","p_urlkey":"395175","p_title":"I did it! A game in 32 hours!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD51","p_time":"1664752491","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1286602","us_name":"Sarah Alexa","us_username":"sarah-alexa","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":3,"author":286602,"body":"I never thought I'd be able to enter a game jam within 2 days, let alone 32 hours (I started late)! I struggled with a 7 day jam years ago later extended to 9 (didn't help much) and I struggled to wrap up the last Ludum Dare for the 3 day jam which I think I also started late! It was a near miss though, 1 minute till the compo deadline for working on the game!\n\nHere is my compo entry: [Life is Fleeting](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/life-is-fleeting)\n\n![screenshot-3.png](\/\/\/raw\/a8f\/54\/z\/4fed0.png)\n\nMy confidence as a game dev has been low for a while now but I managed to do a whole bunch of things I've never done before. The cursor is based on which direction the player is facing and snaps to a tile based on it and the tilemap position, I created a farming system, shops and a few other bits here and there. I'm quite pleased with that. Weirdly I think this is one of the only projects where scope creep just hasn't been a factor at all.\n\nAnyways, I very much enjoyed this! I had a horrible night a couple of days ago and this jam has been just what I needed! I can't wait to see what everyone else has come up with. The posts showing little bits of progress up till now have been looking great!\n\nIf you take a look at my game, thank you very much and you get bonus points if you spot a typo that I knew about and didn't have time to fix! Now... time to chill for a bit.\n\n![seed bag.png](\/\/\/raw\/a8f\/54\/z\/4fec5.png)","comments":0,"created":"2022-10-02T23:01:21Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":306119,"love":5,"love-timestamp":"2022-10-02T23:50:38Z","meta":[],"modified":"2022-10-02T23:50:38Z","name":"I did it! A game in 32 hours!","node-timestamp":"2022-10-02T23:15:29Z","parent":302273,"parents":[1,5,9,296586,302273],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/life-is-fleeting\/i-did-it-a-game-in-32-hours","published":"2022-10-02T23:14:51Z","scope":"public","slug":"i-did-it-a-game-in-32-hours","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":939740},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"306119","n_urlkey":"395175","n_parent":"302273","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/life-is-fleeting\/i-did-it-a-game-in-32-hours","n_slug":"i-did-it-a-game-in-32-hours","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"286602","n_created":"1664751681","n_modified":"1664754638","n_version":"939740","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/life-is-fleeting\/i-did-it-a-game-in-32-hours","text":"I never thought I'd be able to enter a game jam within 2 days, let alone 32 hours (I started late)! I struggled with a 7 day jam years ago later extended to 9 (didn't help much) and I struggled to wrap up the last Ludum Dare for the 3 day jam which I think I also started late! It was a near miss though, 1 minute till the compo deadline for working on the game!\n\nHere is my compo entry: [Life is Fleeting](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/life-is-fleeting)\n\n![screenshot-3.png](\/\/\/raw\/a8f\/54\/z\/4fed0.png)\n\nMy confidence as a game dev has been low for a while now but I managed to do a whole bunch of things I've never done before. The cursor is based on which direction the player is facing and snaps to a tile based on it and the tilemap position, I created a farming system, shops and a few other bits here and there. I'm quite pleased with that. Weirdly I think this is one of the only projects where scope creep just hasn't been a factor at all.\n\nAnyways, I very much enjoyed this! I had a horrible night a couple of days ago and this jam has been just what I needed! I can't wait to see what everyone else has come up with. The posts showing little bits of progress up till now have been looking great!\n\nIf you take a look at my game, thank you very much and you get bonus points if you spot a typo that I knew about and didn't have time to fix! Now... time to chill for a bit.\n\n![seed bag.png](\/\/\/raw\/a8f\/54\/z\/4fec5.png)","title":"I did it! A game in 32 hours!","wayback_source":[]}