{"author_name":"nuno","cat":"LD #31","comments":[],"epoch":1418477400,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"22017","p_author":"nuno","p_authorkey":"44508","p_urlkey":"57381","p_title":"Layerd \u2013 Ludum Dare and beyond (maybe?)","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1418477400","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"44508","us_name":"nuno","us_username":"nuno","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"

This is the first time I participated in LD, so I’m pretty excited about everything, including the voting phase.<\/p>\n

Being in western europe, the theme announcement came at 2am, so I was worried that I’d miss precious time. I woke up at 4.30, read the theme on twitter while still in bed and went back to sleep to let my brain do the hard work! \ud83d\ude00 Woke up 2 hours later and in 30min of brainstorming I came up with what seemed a cool idea for a game: Layerd<\/a><\/p>\n

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I started working after breakfast (around 8.30), and during the first day I only stopped to cook, eat and meditate (things I can’t miss :). Most of the day was spent coding and brainstorming the ideas. The second day I improved the artwork, did the background music and finished the puzzles.<\/p>\n

I had plenty of ideas that unfortunately I could not include in the game due to time constraints, from 100 steps I had to come down to only 50 steps. But between that or having no sounds, music or a lousy mood, I preferred to cut back and look it this is a tech-demo \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Funny thing was, as I was coding and play testing the game, I actually thought this could turn out to be a “full” game after LD, since the mechanic is really nice (sorry but you won’t get it by looking at screenshots, give it a real try \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

Many comments I received point me in the same direction, so I’m really considering putting more time into it to turn it into a real game.. but I’m still undecided. What do you think? \":)\" My plan was to develop a custom map editor that could create custom levels for the game’s mechanics, and maybe have people also create their own levels and share around online. I guess I still need some words of encouragement to put my time on this, not sure if it will be worth it…<\/p>","time":"December 13th, 2014 8:30 am","title":"Layerd \u2013 Ludum Dare and beyond (maybe?)"}