{"author_name":"superjoe","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"Nsmurf","time":"July 25, 2013 1:23 pm","epoch":1374776580,"text":"Submit to opengameart!
\n As a programmer who sucks at art, I’d love to have those sprites \":)\"","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1374751020,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"42289","p_author":"superjoe","p_authorkey":"24697","p_urlkey":"77912","p_title":"Pillagers! 7dRTS Game Development Journal \u2013 Day 3","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1374751020","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"24697","us_name":"superjoe","us_username":"superjoe","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

This article is copied from my personal blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today Michael gave me the first music track he composed for the game and I am impressed. I am excited to have professional sounding music for a change.<\/p>\n

That being said, the first thing I did after inserting the music into the game was program a mute button so that I could keep listening to techno while I coded.<\/p>\n

Michael also delivered an electric explosion sound effect that works perfectly.<\/p>\n

I mentioned yesterday that I could not find a meteor graphic to use on\u00a0opengameart.org<\/a>. I actually did end up finding\u00a0art that works really well<\/a>\u00a0by searching for “rock”.<\/p>\n

You can see the three rock types in the current spritesheet for the game which is autogenerated by\u00a0chem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The first thing I did today was create a electrical disintegration animation, and I’m pretty pleased with the result:<\/p>\n

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I wonder if this is considered good enough to submit to\u00a0opengameart.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After I finished that animation, I worked hard and had a productive day:<\/p>\n