{"author_name":"jpverkamp","cat":"LD #30","comments":[],"epoch":1408839840,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"27555","p_author":"jpverkamp","p_authorkey":"19702","p_urlkey":"62999","p_title":"24 hours in\u2026 we have a game!","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1408839840","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"19702","us_name":"jpverkamp","us_username":"jpverkamp","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"

24 hours in, and we’ve actually turned it into a game. Using some nice HTML tricks to layer everything correctly, we now have an options screen:<\/p>\n

\"options\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’ll fade in and out as you want.\u00a0When you actually start playing,\u00a0all of the instructions fade out:<\/p>\n

\"in-game-2\"<\/p>\n

I actually had to spend a few hours re-factoring here too, unfortunately. Originally, I had everything as ‘threaded’ as JavaScript can get, with setTimeout chains for each tile, along with for controls. Unfortunately, I was getting a bit of an issue with synchronization, so I had to make it single threaded. Amusingly, that’s a bit harder in JavaScript, but it worked out for the best.<\/p>\n

And then at the end, I spent a few hours making the scoring look nice.\u00a0You can’t see it here, but there’s a nice animation running from the bottom to\u00a0the top of each player counting up the total\u00a0types of sand.\u00a0At the moment, the overall most sand wins, but I’m probably going to play with that.<\/p>\n

\"scoring-in-progress\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And that’s it. It’s going pretty well.<\/p>\n

For a full demo and the rest of\u00a0the write up (along with a fully playable demo!)<\/strong>, check out\u00a0the full length post on my blog: Ludum Dare 30: 24 hours @ jverkamp.com<\/a>.<\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2014 7:24 pm","title":"24 hours in\u2026 we have a game!"}