{"author_link":"\/users\/digital-bacon","author_name":"digital bacon","author_uid":"digital-bacon","comments":[],"epoch":1728368675,"event":"LD56","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":404801,"likes":8,"metadata":{"p_key":"208453","p_author":"digital bacon","p_authorkey":"1080914","p_urlkey":"446815","p_title":"Well , bother it","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD56","p_time":"1728368675","p_likes":"8","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1080914","us_name":"digital bacon","us_username":"digital-bacon","event_start":"1728000000","event_key":"115","event_name":"Ludum Dare 56"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD56","removed_author":false},"_superparent":395186,"_trust":5,"author":80914,"body":"I didn't outright hate the theme, but I struggled to come up with an idea for a fun game that I could put together in 72 hours. Could think of lots of tiny creatures, but nothing that would make (for me) something fun to play.\n\nFinally got a good idea after about 10 hours, spent the next two hours doing design and a couple of early art pieces, decided to go to bed to get a good night's sleep, hitting the code early the next morning.\n\nOf course, next morning arrives and I'm violently sick. Always wondered why it was called \"violently sick\". Now I know.\n\nSpent all of Sunday (NZT) in bed, hoping it'd just be a 24 hour bug and I'd recover to do *something* in the remaining time. So of course, Monday rolls around -- a day I'd taken off work specifically to do LD56 -- and I'm still feeling a bit dodgy, but this time with a migraine thrown into the mix.\n\nAll this to say, I couldn't even *look* at a computer until a few hours before the jam deadline. I'm hoping I'll be able to put something in for the Extra category, but I've got to go back to work tomorrow.\n\nI hope everyone else had fun over the weekend. Even though I can't vote on your games, I look forward to playing through some and offering some constructive feedback.\n\n![wasp.png](\/\/\/raw\/21c\/31\/z\/67c04.png)![snake.png](\/\/\/raw\/21c\/31\/z\/67c05.png)","comments":3,"comments-timestamp":"2024-10-08T06:44:43Z","created":"2024-10-08T06:17:11Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":404801,"love":8,"love-timestamp":"2024-10-08T07:27:36Z","meta":[],"modified":"2024-10-08T07:27:36Z","name":"Well , bother it","node-timestamp":"2024-10-08T06:24:35Z","parent":400025,"parents":[1,5,9,395186,400025],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/56\/$400025\/well-bother-it","published":"2024-10-08T06:24:35Z","scope":"public","slug":"well-bother-it","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1269136},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"404801","n_urlkey":"446815","n_parent":"400025","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/56\/$400025\/well-bother-it","n_slug":"well-bother-it","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"80914","n_created":"1728368231","n_modified":"1728372456","n_version":"1269136","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/56\/$400025\/well-bother-it","text":"I didn't outright hate the theme, but I struggled to come up with an idea for a fun game that I could put together in 72 hours. Could think of lots of tiny creatures, but nothing that would make (for me) something fun to play.\n\nFinally got a good idea after about 10 hours, spent the next two hours doing design and a couple of early art pieces, decided to go to bed to get a good night's sleep, hitting the code early the next morning.\n\nOf course, next morning arrives and I'm violently sick. Always wondered why it was called \"violently sick\". Now I know.\n\nSpent all of Sunday (NZT) in bed, hoping it'd just be a 24 hour bug and I'd recover to do *something* in the remaining time. So of course, Monday rolls around -- a day I'd taken off work specifically to do LD56 -- and I'm still feeling a bit dodgy, but this time with a migraine thrown into the mix.\n\nAll this to say, I couldn't even *look* at a computer until a few hours before the jam deadline. I'm hoping I'll be able to put something in for the Extra category, but I've got to go back to work tomorrow.\n\nI hope everyone else had fun over the weekend. Even though I can't vote on your games, I look forward to playing through some and offering some constructive feedback.\n\n![wasp.png](\/\/\/raw\/21c\/31\/z\/67c04.png)![snake.png](\/\/\/raw\/21c\/31\/z\/67c05.png)","title":"Well , bother it","wayback_source":[]}