{"author_name": "Jed T.", "cat": "LD #29", "comments": [], "epoch": 1398559080, "likes": 1, "metadata": {"p_key": "31366", "p_author": "Jed T.", "p_authorkey": "503128", "p_urlkey": "66857", "p_title": "Game Dev Report – Progress is slow", "p_cat": "LD #29", "p_event": "LD29", "p_time": "1398559080", "p_likes": "1", "p_comments": "0", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "503128", "us_name": "Jed T.", "us_username": "Jed T.", "event_start": "1398384000", "event_key": "22", "event_name": "LD29"}, "text": "

This theme is hard, being ill is hard (I have a cold and a sore throat.) But making a game with a hard theme with a mild illness in just 48 hours?? Challenge accepted.

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So, yesterday I couldn’t figure out a unique concept with a “fun” mechanic. If you notice there are two major game types so far – underground and underwater. So after about 2-3 hours of boring ideas, I just went with fishing/diving game where you would have to dive to catch fish to survive. Some of the game ides that I thrown out were Dermatologist simulator and Snake oil salesman simulator. But I wanted the game to be as much as relevant to the theme as possible and I want to be a cool Gamedev dad so my kids would love to play my game.

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Here is the screenshot, most of the core elements are still unfinished such as the fishing part.

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it’s like 15% done and I only have 22 hours left.

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This art style was inspired from Ultima V from the Commodore 64. Yeah that game has like 4 floppy disks. And I still remember the numerous times I had to switch floppy disks and wait 10 minutes just to enter a town \":)\"

", "time": "April 26th, 2014 7:38 pm", "title": "Game Dev Report – Progress is slow"}