{"author_name":"stevejohnson","cat":"LD #26","comments":[],"epoch":1367180880,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"43739","p_author":"stevejohnson","p_authorkey":"3120","p_urlkey":"79389","p_title":"How It Do What It Do","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1367180880","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3120","us_name":"stevejohnson","us_username":"stevejohnson","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"<p>We Dreamers is a [potentially] massively multiplayer online&#8230;thingy. It&#8217;s under 1,100 lines of Coffeescript and runs entirely on static files and Firebase. And for the purposes of LD26, it&#8217;s done!<\/p>\n <p><strong>Secret weapons:<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/raimohanska\/bacon.js\">Bacon.js<\/a>:\u00a0Functional Reactive Programming in JS\/Coffeescript)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firebase.com\/\">Firebase<\/a>: A magic event-driven data structure in the sky that live updates across all clients in real time<\/li>\n <li>Good old-fashioned HTML and CSS know-how (all graphics are pure HTML and CSS, not a <tt>&lt;canvas&gt;<\/tt> element to be seen)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>Other stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/jquery.com\/\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">jQuery 2.0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewbj.github.io\/Colors\/\">Colors.js<\/a>: Basic color conversions (though as I found out, missing some basic features)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/craig.is\/killing\/mice\">Mousetrap.js<\/a>: Hotkey binding library<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/underscorejs.org\/\">Underscore.js<\/a>: Bringing sanity to the JS standard library<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schillmania.com\/projects\/soundmanager2\/\">SoundManager 2<\/a>: Javascript sound for the web<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I&#8217;ll write up further thoughts when I&#8217;m less burned out. It&#8217;s been a successful but draining couple of days.<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-26\/?action=preview&amp;uid=3120\">Entry page<\/a><\/p>\n <p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/steveasleep.com\/we_dreamers\">Play the game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","time":"April 28th, 2013 3:28 pm","title":"How It Do What It Do"}