{"author_name":"Meganopteryx","cat":"LD #28","comments":[{"author_name":"Hectate","time":"December 10, 2013 9:20 am","epoch":1386685200,"text":"If you’re using free Stencyl (2.x), your AS3 experience will help because it’s built on Flixel which is an AS3 library. Always handy if you want to break into actual code; I’ve done that several times.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 10, 2013 11:12 am","epoch":1386691920,"text":"Don’t use things you never used before in jams. Just a recommendation.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 11, 2013 9:27 am","epoch":1386772020,"text":"Ha, ratking, good point. I’m definitely leaning towards Unity as it’s what I’ve been using a lot recently. But if I get stuck with that (depending on what I get stuck on), I’ll probably switch over to Stencyl.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1386684480,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"37405","p_author":"Meganopteryx","p_authorkey":"29566","p_urlkey":"73017","p_title":"First time to play","p_cat":"LD #28","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1386684480","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"29566","us_name":"Meganopteryx","us_username":"meganopteryx","event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"text":"

I’ve never done one of these competitions before. I have a bunch of other plans this weekend but I’ll see what I can make! The themes look really interesting.<\/p>\n

I also realized recently that the best way I program games is not by designing the whole thing out but rather just starting to program something and see where it goes from there. I like simulations. This will be good to get my creative juices flowing again after doing contract work for almost 3 years solid.<\/p>\n

I still haven’t decided between Unity, Haxe (which I’ve never used) and Stencyl. Anyone have thoughts or recommendations? I know js, as3, C#.<\/p>","time":"December 10th, 2013 9:08 am","title":"First time to play"}