{"author_name":"MrDave","cat":"LD #32","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 2, 2015 12:51 pm","epoch":1427997060,"text":"Welcome to Ludum Dare! I’ve participated a fair amount in Ludum Dare, and just know this –","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 3, 2015 2:54 am","epoch":1428047640,"text":"Thanks for the advice guys!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1427978940,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"21338","p_author":"MrDave","p_authorkey":"49905","p_urlkey":"56686","p_title":"I\u2019m in \u2013 from a first time attendee","p_cat":"LD #32","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1427978940","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"49905","us_name":"MrDave","us_username":"mrdave","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"

First time entering and everyone else seems to be posting that they are in so I thought I better as well.<\/p>\n

I’m a programmer by profession so I plan to do something technically interesting to try and hide my lack of artistic skill.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if anyone has any advice for new people as I dont quite know what to expect?<\/p>\n

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I will be using GameMaker as I find it really quick to develop games and I think that will be key. I haven’t tried many other engines for building game but I use GameMaker through Steam and that tells me I have over 500 hours racked up on GameMaker and while I’m sure plenty of people have a massive amount more than that I’m quite confident I can finish something in the time frame.<\/p>\n

How many hours do other people have using their tools of choice?<\/p>","time":"April 2nd, 2015 7:49 am","title":"I\u2019m in \u2013 from a first time attendee"}