{"author_name":"hexagore","cat":"LD #32","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"March 30, 2015 5:36 pm","epoch":1427754960,"text":"Hey, question: I can’t seem to embed my tweet in my post the same way you have – it just comes up as text. Did you have to do anything special to put it in the post?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"hexagore","time":"March 31, 2015 12:36 am","epoch":1427780160,"text":"I just cut and paste the direct link to the tweet into the post editor (in the normal visual mode) and it Just Magically Worked \":)\"","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1427735520,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"21389","p_author":"hexagore","p_authorkey":"34027","p_urlkey":"56739","p_title":"Slightly More Blorf","p_cat":"LD #32","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1427735520","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"34027","us_name":"hexagore","us_username":"hexagore","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"

I wanted to learn Box2D just in case I need it for the main Ludum Dare. Then I thought, hey, you know what’s really simple and what I’ve just been working on? Pong! And the competition is still open? WOOO!<\/p>\n

I’d done Blorf Pong<\/a>\u00a0(a WebGL game) as a joke but I thought I could probably at least put in *some* effort.<\/p>\n

Box2D in javascript is a hellish nightmare – using a library automatically converted to Javascript from the C++ – it’s not pretty. It’s taken me a day but I’ve finally got the hang of it – enough to add pistons to the paddles which makes the basic Pong game a lot more interesting and bizarrely tactical.<\/p>\n

I also decided to fine tune the AI a little bit too. It’s all driven by impulses through the physics engine now, so the AI is now “perfect” except for doesn’t quite have the level of accuracy it might want. It *can* be beaten but you have to be really quick.<\/p>\n

On the visual side I thought I’d add some particles as well. Because particles.<\/p>\n

On a mission to get @llamasoft_ox<\/a> to leave me all his sheep. Blorf Pong, now with added blorf! http:\/\/t.co\/lJ8jUSeNOu<\/a><\/p>\n

— Totes Inapprops (@CharlotteGore) March 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n