{"author_name":"Andrew Quartermain","cat":"LD #32","comments":[],"epoch":1429038780,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"21011","p_author":"Andrew Quartermain","p_authorkey":"505054","p_urlkey":"56353","p_title":"I\u2019m here, like it or not","p_cat":"LD #32","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1429038780","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"505054","us_name":"Andrew Quartermain","us_username":"Andrew Quartermain","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"<p>This will be my third Ludum Dare.<\/p>\n <p>I entered the previous two as ElectricSeagull, but I&#8217;m a bit tired of that name.<\/p>\n <p>Since I&#8217;ve not done any kind of game development stuff since the last LD (that was a whole third of a year ago!?!) and I haven&#8217;t left myself any time to practice new tools, I&#8217;ll stick within my comfort zone, using Java, libGDX, Eclipse. I wanted to try out Phaser, but&#8230;<\/p>\n <p>Nevertheless, inspired by the great key note speech, I want to push forward into some new areas for me and try and do one or more (or none) of the following:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>hand drawn\/painted graphics:<br \/>\n Drawing and painting are things that I do, but hand drawn animation is way out of my comfort zone.<\/li>\n <li>narrative:<br \/>\n always something I ignore &#8230; but could be really interesting to explore<\/li>\n <li>nice acoustic audio:<br \/>\n I don&#8217;t play a musical instrument, but I can try some kind of sound effects<\/li>\n <li>joining in, Twitter, the site blog, IRC, etc:<br \/>\n I&#8217;m absolutely atrocious at social media (or anything at all social for that matter (I&#8217;m nice really, just shy, don&#8217;t hate me!))<\/li>\n <li>not using Box2d:<br \/>\n It&#8217;s a great physics engine and it worked really well for my last game, but I don&#8217;t want to rely on it for some simple collision system I should write myself.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>That&#8217;s about it, thankfully. Good luck everybody and god willing a good theme.<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/im-in\/\" rel=\"tag\">im in<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/java\/\" rel=\"tag\">java<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/libgdx\/\" rel=\"tag\">libgdx<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 14th, 2015 2:13 pm","title":"I\u2019m here, like it or not"}