{"author_name":"Sri Harsha Chilakapati","cat":"LD #32","comments":[],"epoch":1426734720,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"21517","p_author":"Sri Harsha Chilakapati","p_authorkey":"22490","p_urlkey":"56869","p_title":"LudumDare #32 \u2013 I\u2019m in!","p_cat":"LD #32","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1426734720","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"22490","us_name":"Sri Harsha Chilakapati","us_username":"sri-harsha-chilakapati","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"

Hello everyone, I’m Sri Harsha, and this is my second Ludum-Dare. I learnt a lot by watching others and by jumping right into game programming and I’m happy that I’m able to make a simple collectathon game in my 48 hours, it was a great experience.<\/p>\n

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My first game: MousyDare<\/p><\/div>\n

During that time, it was a learning experience for me, I have used a library called as Mercury<\/a>\u00a0(I was one of it’s contributors). One of the mistakes I have did is allocating excess time than was needed for the collision detection. I have gone for pixel-perfect collisions and I have implemented a Grid structure all by myself, when I could have got around with simple rectangles.<\/p>\n

This time, I won’t do the same mistake, and I have set-up my own library to aid me called as SilenceEngine<\/a>\u00a0(it’s opensource) that uses OpenGL and LWJGL3. This is a good learning experience as well, I have learnt OpenGL, GLFW, OpenAL and collision algorithms such as SAT and AABBTrees for broad-phase. This coming LD will be my testing ground for what I have learnt. These are the tools that I will be using in this LD.<\/p>\n