{"author_name":"LostTrainDude","cat":"LD #30","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 26, 2014 6:49 am","epoch":1409053740,"text":"Awww… windows only \":(\" looks so cool! Great job!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1408983720,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"26754","p_author":"LostTrainDude","p_authorkey":"39571","p_urlkey":"62186","p_title":"Ambassadors of Ruin","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1408983720","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"39571","us_name":"LostTrainDude","us_username":"losttraindude","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"

My first Ludum Dare entry ever<\/strong>. I’m so excited that I can’t get to sleep even if I’m completely out of energy!<\/p>\n

I spent most of the 48 hours drawing pixels in Hexels and trying to make them move in Game Maker, trying to find a way to connect those two planets I drew on the screen.<\/p>\n

Then the little spark arrived and made room for an avalanche of ideas which I had to skim almost entirely. I’m too bad as a programmer to make those ideas actually work in just 48 hours.<\/p>\n

Anyway this is it!<\/p>\n

Ambassadors of Ruin<\/h2>\n

\"Ambassadors
\n Entry page<\/a><\/p>\n

In a nutshell: a trading game in which you must lead a planet to a new beginning by tradingcreating what your citizens demand.<\/p>\n

The game was developed with GameMaker: Studio (Standard Edition)<\/a>. That’s why the build is currently available on Windows only.<\/p>\n

All graphics were made with Hexels Pro<\/a> while the looping music was rendered from a slightly modified version of a very little ChucK<\/a> script I wrote last month. I’ve tried to describe it in detail here<\/a>, and as you can see it’s pretty basic (and very spaghetti as well).<\/p>\n

I really hope that this is not an issue, since I programmed it a month ago. It’s a really really<\/strong> simple script, which of course is also included in the source for everybody to expand and use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By the way, I hope you can enjoy this little experiment which lives by miracle<\/em> thanks to caffeine, poorly managed polyphasic sleep, spaghetti code, good will and, of course, Ludum Dare!<\/p>\n

Can’t wait to play all your games and, most of all, can’t wait for the next edition!<\/p>\n \n

Tags: ambassadors of ruin<\/a>, ChucK<\/a>, GameMaker Studio<\/a>, hexels<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 25th, 2014 11:22 am","title":"Ambassadors of Ruin"}