{"author_name":"doonay21","cat":"LD #27","comments":[],"epoch":1377794100,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"38085","p_author":"doonay21","p_authorkey":"18952","p_urlkey":"73701","p_title":"Ab Solanum \u2013 few thoughts","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377794100","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"18952","us_name":"doonay21","us_username":"doonay21","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>!WARNING!<\/strong> May contain boobs (LOL, I mean stage 9 contains)! <strong>!WARNING!<\/strong><\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Ab Solanum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-27\/?action=preview&amp;uid=18952\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ab Solanum&#8221; &#8211; Ludum Dare 27 Compo game entry page<\/a><\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stage_3.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-292772 aligncenter\" title=\"Stage 3\" alt=\"stage_3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stage_3-300x225.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stage_3-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stage_3-550x412.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stage_3.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>So we are few days after Ludum Dare 27. This was my first LD 48 hour Compo and I can say I am really satisfied with my game (above You can see pretty screenshot of stage 3). So far comments are mixed and people commenting are torn between &#8220;Great graphics!&#8221; and &#8220;It hurt my eyes&#8221;, I literally have no idea what to think about it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n <p>I was working on my game for about 26 hours, I produced exactly <strong>3278<\/strong> lines of code, <strong>41<\/strong> graphic sprites, <strong>2<\/strong> font files, <strong>10<\/strong> map data files (png files), <strong>9<\/strong> sound files and <strong>1<\/strong> music theme <strong>3 minutes 24 seconds<\/strong> long. Ab Solanum was created using Microsoft&#8217;s XNA 4.0 (C# language).<\/p>\n <p><strong>Things I used creating my game:<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><b>IDE<\/b> : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express<\/li>\n <li><b>Graphics<\/b> : GIMP 2.8<\/li>\n <li><b>Sounds<\/b> : BFXR<\/li>\n <li><b>Music<\/b> : PixiTracker<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I think 26 hours is my maximum. Starting Saturday after 11 hours of coding I could not concentrate enough to produce anything worth a dime so I started creating music. I did not know PixiTracker before, but after some time I loved it sooooo much! Finally I came out with nice music theme fitting my game exactly how I could imagine it! I got some really kind comments about my music as well, thanks for that! You people are really awesome!!<\/p>\n <p>When I started to think what kind of awesome game I should create I came up with wonderful idea&#8230; I wanted to incorporate all of the final round themes keeping &#8220;10 seconds&#8221; as the main one. One game stage would be all about one selected theme which would give whole nice shiny 20 stages. So it is Sunday, I am finishing 6th theme and suddenly realizing it is already 3 pm and&#8230; &#8220;well I am f*&amp;#ed&#8221;.. Ultimately I came up with only 10 of them, pitty, it would be real blast if I had enough time to finish them all!<\/p>\n <p>Thanks for reading, I will go back to rating games now, there are over 1800 more to go for me (oh my). I will be flattered if some more of You will play and rate my LD48 Compo game! Here is the link:\u00a0<a title=\"Ab Solanum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-27\/?action=preview&amp;uid=18952\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 29th, 2013 11:35 am","title":"Ab Solanum \u2013 few thoughts"}