{"author_name":"Erunaamo","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"missn","time":"March 24, 2015 11:42 am","epoch":1427215320,"text":"Nice, I’ve always like the concept of a circular Pong because you can pretty much just play against yourself (i.e. if you don’t reach the other side in time, you lose!).","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Shadowspaz","time":"March 24, 2015 3:08 pm","epoch":1427227680,"text":"Circular Pongs unite!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1427214240,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"21448","p_author":"Erunaamo","p_authorkey":"22869","p_urlkey":"56798","p_title":"Deflectus!","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1427214240","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"22869","us_name":"Erunaamo","us_username":"erunaamo","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"

I’m in for Mini LD #58.<\/p>\n

After creating CAN’T STOP THE HYPE TRAIN<\/a>, a 1024-byte JavaScript game for JS1k<\/a>, I was still itching to do some more minimalist game development for the HTML5 canvas.<\/p>\n

\"CAN'T<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I happened to check the LD site…sure enough, a Mini LD had just begun, with just the kind of theme I was already leaning towards: very old school, minimalist, arcade-like. (Someone else<\/a> in the JS1k rather astonishingly implemented most of Defender in 1k of (compressed) JavaScript. I’m jealous, and it got me thinking about old old games.)<\/p>\n

So, PONG? Heck yes! Let’s have some PONG!<\/p>\n

I did some late-night experiments and came up with a non-interactive demo of the visual concept I’ll be working with. It’ll be a game, hopefully, in a day or three, but for now it just looks pretty. (I<\/em> think.) So click the pic to come to my blog and gaze at the glow of…<\/p>\n

\"Preliminary<\/a>
\n Deflectus!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>","time":"March 24th, 2015 11:24 am","title":"Deflectus!"}