{"author_name":"Democritus","cat":"LD #30","comments":[],"epoch":1408805520,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"27878","p_author":"Democritus","p_authorkey":"35983","p_urlkey":"63325","p_title":"First Steps","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1408805520","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"35983","us_name":"Democritus","us_username":"democritus","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"<p>So&#8230; Connected worlds. For me that means an overworld and a shadowy underworld and the things that connect them.<\/p>\n <p>The idea was to have a pretty simple game and then spend a lot of time on art. I really wanted to play around with some sweet low poly style for a while. Stuff like this:<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_377729\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/happydorid.tumblr.com\/post\/53015460330\/whee-im-dizzy-from-working-on-this\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-377729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lowPolyStyle-221x300.gif\" alt=\"From Heather Penn\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Heather Penn<\/p><\/div>\n <p>So for now I want to finish the gameplay today so I have all day tomorrow to make this thing pretty. Currently it looks like this:<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_377724\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LudumDare30_1.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-377724 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LudumDare30_1-300x199.png\" alt=\"LudumDare30_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LudumDare30_1-300x199.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LudumDare30_1-550x365.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/LudumDare30_1.png 1307w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m not as far as I wanted to be because I initially struggled with the Unity Thirdperson controller. I fought with it for a few hours before I gave up and build something new from scratch. Chalk that one up to learning experience.<\/p>\n <p>Also: You can watch the stream with me here:<\/p>\n <p>http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/geelab<\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2014 9:52 am","title":"First Steps"}