{"author_name":"recursor","cat":"LD #28","comments":[{"author_name":"Moosefly","time":"December 20, 2013 6:16 am","epoch":1387538160,"text":"Seems like we had almost identical ideas! Even the execution seems pretty similar from the screenshots.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1387537200,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"34182","p_author":"recursor","p_authorkey":"1105","p_urlkey":"69728","p_title":"The super-special, one-of-a-kind, highly tempermental, grandfather-given, seed","p_cat":"LD #28","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1387537200","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1105","us_name":"recursor","us_username":"\/author\/recursor\/","event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"text":"

Usually when the theme is announced, which is 9PM in my timezone, I try to think up an idea,\u00a0 get some rest, and start work in the morning. This time, however, I had several other events that I need to attend, so I started\u00a0 around 10 PM Friday night on my idea. \u00a0I’ve always wanted to do a gardening\/grow game, and I felt it would fit the theme pretty well, so that became my task for the next 48 hours. \u00a0My idea was that you would get this seed in the mail with a letter explaining that it is a unique one-of-a-kind seed which, when grown, could produce some unique fruit\/berries that might have very interesting properties. \u00a0I really wanted the plant to be in 3D, but after playing with Blender for the first hour or so, I gave up on it. Trying to get the plant to grow using a 3D model was something that I did not think I could tackle in 48 hours. \u00a0With the 3D experiment a bust, I went to Paint .Net and began to create my 2D art assets.<\/p>\n

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While I’m not an artist, I felt ok with how the graphics turned out. It has sort of a lo-fi old C64 game feel to it. \u00a0I ended up losing a bit of time fixing a few bugs I found in some 3rd party libraries including one that appeared about 5 minutes before the submission deadline. That was a bit stressful, but I got it sorted out.<\/p>\n

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The stories, 2 for each berry type, ended up being the most work. \u00a0I first wrote down a list of berries you could grow along with a couple of sentences about what happened when you either sent it to the lab for examination, or ate it. Then I proceeded to add each of them to the game fleshing out each story which, in a few cases, got pretty long. In the end, I managed to get 15 berries into the game. That’s 30 separate stories. A few of them are pretty short, but that’s still not bad for the time given. Click\u00a0HERE\u00a0<\/a>to play\/rate “The Seed”, and check out the video below to see a time-lapse of the game being created.
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