{"author_name":"rburema","cat":"LD #32","comments":[],"epoch":1429352760,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"19823","p_author":"rburema","p_authorkey":"50394","p_urlkey":"55155","p_title":"An early setback","p_cat":"LD #32","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1429352760","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"50394","us_name":"rburema","us_username":"rburema","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"

Woke up before 6:00 local time (that’s 3 hours after the start of the compo), checked the theme. At first somehwat reluctant, but got enthousiastic of an idea pretty quickly. Worked out a design first. Then the (imaginary) orange warning light going off in my mind –I had been ignoring– became too pressing, and I started to check if there’s a (too) similar game out there. Turns out there is, at least when it concerns the basic idea; Medusa turning opponents into statues: Medusa’s Lament<\/a><\/p>\n

Wouldn’t have been too much of a problem, but it was also a compo game (in 2007)…<\/p>\n

Giving myself one-and-a-half hours to either decide to press on anyway (with a disclaimer added in front of the game) or come up with a new design. What to do, what to do…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>","time":"April 18th, 2015 5:26 am","title":"An early setback"}