{"author_name":"fpMiguel","cat":"LD #26","comments":[],"epoch":1367095560,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"44695","p_author":"fpMiguel","p_authorkey":"6214","p_urlkey":"80353","p_title":"First day over and not very happy with the result","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1367095560","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"6214","us_name":"fpMiguel","us_username":"fpmiguel","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"<p>After a few hours of working, I have a playable version of my game. The goal is to destroy all &#8216;robots&#8217; by directing them to some kind of destroyer. It has sound effects and I&#8217;ve worked on some basic music (generated with abundant-music).<\/p>\n <p>I thought that this would fit well with the theme of Minimalism: <em>&#8220;Minimalism is any design in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.&#8221;<\/em> (since you need to complete the levels in as few moves as possible).<\/p>\n <p>In\u00a0overall\u00a0I think this game is not original and pretty boring. Maybe I can add some new gameplay elements which would make it more interesting.<\/p>\n <p>While I don&#8217;t like the game, I&#8217;ve learned a few new things creating it.<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;m working with:<\/span>\n <ul>\n <li>Libgdx (game development framework)<\/li>\n <li>Tiled (levels)<\/li>\n <li>Linux MultiMedia Studio (music)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li>It&#8217;s my first attempt to create an Entity framework although\u00a0it&#8217;s probably not that good. I think I need to read more about game programming architectures.<\/li>\n <li>It&#8217;s the first game I created which has levels and possibly also a &#8216;game over&#8217; or &#8216;game completed&#8217; state <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img class=\" \" alt=\"Crappy GIF\" src=\"http:\/\/s21.postimg.org\/502d6t5lh\/Cropper_Capture_2.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of gameplay<\/p><\/div>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>","time":"April 27th, 2013 3:46 pm","title":"First day over and not very happy with the result"}