{"author_name":"nevyn","cat":"LD #31","comments":[],"epoch":1417933260,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"23510","p_author":"nevyn","p_authorkey":"503695","p_urlkey":"58902","p_title":"ld31 progress 1","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1417933260","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"503695","us_name":"nevyn","us_username":"nevyn","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"

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Hey, I got started!! That was unexpected. I decided to recreate one of my favorite games from my childhood. Way-back childhood, I don’t even remember the name of the game! It was an old Mac shareware game.\u00a0Side-on perspective, where you built your own mine, with conveyor belts and excavators and escalators, and you were supposed to mine diamonds and get them out of the mine.<\/p>\n

I decided to use SpriteKit, Swift and Mac as framework, language and platform respectively. I just happen to know those specific environments pretty well. I’ve only been working on it for a couple of hours, but doing this with an actual physics engine is fun \":)\" progress (300 lines of swift):<\/p>\n

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\"ld31-nev-mac-progress-day1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I won’t have time to make anything serious out of this, but it does actually feel possible that I could make this into something that resembles a game tomorrow. Plan of attack:<\/p>\n

* make it so you can\u00a0progress through levels
\n * add tiles for: ground\/dirt, dirt that falls?, resource tiles you can build extractors on, rock that can’t be removed
\n * make a tool for digging out dirt
\n * make it so resources that touch dirt disappear
\n * import levels from tiled<\/a> or something
\n * escalators
\n * make levels clearable<\/p>\n

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