{"author_name":"VoxPlacitum","cat":"LD #27","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 20, 2013 5:04 pm","epoch":1377036240,"text":"Also, I reccomend Paint.Net for newer people, Gimp is GREAT but it&#8217;s a little more advanced.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Datw","time":"August 20, 2013 5:24 pm","epoch":1377037440,"text":"My experience tells me that you should focus on a simple game that is really well polished. I usually split my time in half, the first one to make the game and the second one to polish it. Use it at your own discretion though <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/>","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"TammiLion","time":"August 20, 2013 11:13 pm","epoch":1377058380,"text":"I found these resources here as I scroll daily through all the I&#8217;m in posts:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"VoxPlacitum","time":"August 27, 2013 1:52 pm","epoch":1377629520,"text":"Thanks for the advice guys&#8230; Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t take most of it&#8230; <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/frownie.png\" alt=\":(\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><br \/>\n I managed to not have enough time to make sound effect, and only barely enough time to finish putting stand in sprites. But hey! It got finished! \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1377035160,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"41796","p_author":"VoxPlacitum","p_authorkey":"25802","p_urlkey":"77419","p_title":"Newbie here","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377035160","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"5","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"25802","us_name":"VoxPlacitum","us_username":"voxplacitum","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"<p>I will be trying to use\/learn these for the compo<\/p>\n <p>GameMaker<\/p>\n <p>Gimp<\/p>\n <p>Music creator (maybe)<\/p>\n <p>Any advice?<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>-R<\/p>","time":"August 20th, 2013 4:46 pm","title":"Newbie here"}