{"author_name":"zzorn","cat":"LD #29","comments":[],"epoch":1398734580,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"30296","p_author":"zzorn","p_authorkey":"2534","p_urlkey":"65768","p_title":"Crushing Depth","p_cat":"LD #29","p_event":"LD29","p_time":"1398734580","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2534","us_name":"zzorn","us_username":"zzorn","event_start":"1398384000","event_key":"22","event_name":"LD29"},"text":"

I wrapped up my submarine simulator into a slightly playable version<\/a> and submitted it.<\/p>\n

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

As a game, it’s pretty unfinished – there’s no menu screen, no sounds, and no goals beyond shooting the surrounding submarines.<\/p>\n

But as a learning experience it was great – I got the opportunity to implement a pretty accurate underwater physics engine, a 3D object-based UI, a system simulation for vehicles, build a custom underwater shader, and really learn the ease of use of game entity systems first hand.<\/p>\n

After all that, there was not much time to craft a game as well.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I can now take the lessons learned and parts of the code from this project, and expand on my arsenal of useful game utility libraries and basecode.\u00a0 LudumDare was a great incentive to prototype these, and a motivation to carry on developing them.\u00a0 Thanks to everyone in the community! \":)\"<\/p>","time":"April 28th, 2014 8:23 pm","title":"Crushing Depth"}