{"author_link":"\/users\/lucydango","author_name":"lucydango","author_uid":"lucydango","comments":[],"epoch":1696099690,"event":"LD54","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":377974,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"202291","p_author":"lucydango","p_authorkey":"1377666","p_urlkey":"436263","p_title":"Hour 12 of 24 Progress","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD54","p_time":"1696099690","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1377666","us_name":"lucydango","us_username":"lucydango","event_start":"1695945600","event_key":"117","event_name":"Ludum Dare 54"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD54","removed_author":false},"_superparent":371459,"_trust":1,"author":377666,"body":"Unable to start until mid-day today and unable to continue working after mid-day tomorrow, this jam is proving to be very much a test of my time-management skills. Still, it's a fun challenge to see what I can get done in, essentially, **just a day's worth of hours**.\n\n![d1prog.png](\/\/\/raw\/243\/c5\/z\/5c50c.png)\n\n\nMy idea is a game that takes place on a desktop that is so terribly fragmented there is hardly any **space** left to install new programs. You're tasked with running a defragmentation program, all the while protecting what little disk space you have left. It's a classic tower defence game, basically.\n\nOriginally, I had planned a neat little unique mechanic where the boundaries of windows you dragged around would act as the \"track\" for each wave, but after an hour messing with pathfinding to little avail I ultimately scrapped that in favour of a linear, pre-placed course. I think I would rather have a functional game at the end of this that isn't particularly boundary breaking instead of a couple of cool ideas that aren't properly implemented. \n\nThough, I do hope for the next jam I'm able to use the full 72 hours instead of having to cobble something together in just a fraction of the time!","comments":0,"created":"2023-09-30T18:37:49Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":377974,"love":0,"meta":[],"modified":"2023-09-30T18:48:10Z","name":"Hour 12 of 24 Progress","node-timestamp":"2023-09-30T18:48:10Z","parent":377667,"parents":[1,5,9,371459,377667],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/defrag-mentor\/hour-12-of-24-progress","published":"2023-09-30T18:48:10Z","scope":"public","slug":"hour-12-of-24-progress","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1158882},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"377974","n_urlkey":"436263","n_parent":"377667","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/defrag-mentor\/hour-12-of-24-progress","n_slug":"hour-12-of-24-progress","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"377666","n_created":"1696099069","n_modified":"1696099690","n_version":"1158882","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/defrag-mentor\/hour-12-of-24-progress","text":"Unable to start until mid-day today and unable to continue working after mid-day tomorrow, this jam is proving to be very much a test of my time-management skills. Still, it's a fun challenge to see what I can get done in, essentially, **just a day's worth of hours**.\n\n![d1prog.png](\/\/\/raw\/243\/c5\/z\/5c50c.png)\n\n\nMy idea is a game that takes place on a desktop that is so terribly fragmented there is hardly any **space** left to install new programs. You're tasked with running a defragmentation program, all the while protecting what little disk space you have left. It's a classic tower defence game, basically.\n\nOriginally, I had planned a neat little unique mechanic where the boundaries of windows you dragged around would act as the \"track\" for each wave, but after an hour messing with pathfinding to little avail I ultimately scrapped that in favour of a linear, pre-placed course. I think I would rather have a functional game at the end of this that isn't particularly boundary breaking instead of a couple of cool ideas that aren't properly implemented. \n\nThough, I do hope for the next jam I'm able to use the full 72 hours instead of having to cobble something together in just a fraction of the time!","title":"Hour 12 of 24 Progress","wayback_source":[]}