{"author_name":"Ashambles","cat":"LD #26","comments":[{"author_name":"ScreamRawr","time":"April 27, 2013 8:07 pm","epoch":1367111220,"text":"I am loving the art direction here! I can’t wait to play this one.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1367109720,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"44474","p_author":"Ashambles","p_authorkey":"507498","p_urlkey":"80132","p_title":"First Day","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1367109720","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"507498","us_name":"Ashambles","us_username":"Ashambles","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"

Well, I’d like to be further along, but I’m enjoying myself. I’m finding GameMaker: Studio to be fun to work with and I wouldn’t be as far along as I am without it. I’ll write more about that later probably.<\/p>\n

At this point I have a bit of funky DIY art made from photos of crumpled up construction paper. I particularly like my \u00a0mountain \":)\" I’m using an isometric perspective (or dimetric technically) so I have 8 degrees of movement via keyboard or mouse, dynamic depth sorting for objects, and collision checking. These all feel like achievements for me, so I’m happy there.<\/p>\n

One\u00a0thing\u00a0I hope to get out of this weekend is a nice\u00a0flexible\u00a0text box widget for GM:S. So far that’s working well. Usually I work in Javascript and I guess I’ve taken for granted how easy it is to do text and box stuff in the browser context.<\/p>\n

I have a few game rules coded in, but that has got to be my push now. I may abandon the 7 cities idea and keep to the overland map. Not sure.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here’s, a screenshot:<\/p>\n

\"shot-0012\"<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 27th, 2013 7:42 pm","title":"First Day"}