{"author_name":"isharacomix","cat":"LD #27","comments":[{"author_name":"namrog84","time":"August 19, 2013 3:44 pm","epoch":1376945040,"text":"I recently have been working on a ‘warm up’ type game. and was restricting myself to 3 colors(total) and very limited other aspects as well. It can help you focus more on gameplay\/fun value much more than trying to make it fun by making it eye candy pretty.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"soulrot","time":"August 19, 2013 3:55 pm","epoch":1376945700,"text":"And here my Ludum Dare teammate was joking we should create a game in Assembly…
\n There isn’t some kind of ‘track’ button on this website is there? Would love to follow your progress on this (as I love Assembly even though I’m a complete newbie), but I don’t have a Twitter account!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 22, 2013 1:33 am","epoch":1377153180,"text":"Interesting!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1376943600,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"41891","p_author":"isharacomix","p_authorkey":"23902","p_urlkey":"77514","p_title":"Howdy, everybody~","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1376943600","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"23902","us_name":"isharacomix","us_username":"isharacomix","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

Greetings from Raleigh, North Carolina! I kept telling myself that I’d do a Ludum Dare at some point, so here I am, ready for Challenge #27 this weekend!<\/p>\n

My name’s Barry, and I’m a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science studying Computer Science Education. In addition to my research, I teach programming to pay the bills, and I’m currently developing a course to teach assembly programming – the catch is that this course teaches assembly for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I actually gave a workshop on this topic last week, and was terribly afraid that nobody would be interested in it, yet I had a pile of people attend not only the high-level intro, but the hard-core programming portion! This was super-validating, and now I can’t wait to teach my course! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

So for this Ludum Dare, whatever the theme may be, I will be developing an NES game in Assembly. I’ll be limiting myself to only 16 KB of PRG ROM and a single 512 x 256 pixel sprite sheet, so I’m expecting this to be a heck of a challenge. The idea is that by participating in this challenge, I’ll actually get some mastery making NES games before I try to teach students how to do it.<\/p>\n

I’ll be tweeting my progress from @isharacomix<\/a>, so if this piques your interest, I’ll be sharing demos and screenshots throughout the compo. \":)\"<\/p>\n \n

Tags: 8bit<\/a>, nes<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 19th, 2013 3:20 pm","title":"Howdy, everybody~"}