{"author_name":"robashton","cat":"LD #25","comments":[],"epoch":1355611680,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"48780","p_author":"robashton","p_authorkey":"7112","p_urlkey":"84456","p_title":"Centipede 2013 \u2013 End of Day #1 \u2013 Game finished!","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355611680","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7112","us_name":"robashton","us_username":"robashton","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/12\/15\/centipede-2013-end-of-day-1-game-finished\/centipede5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-205088\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-205088\" alt=\"centipede5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/centipede5-550x333.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/centipede5-550x333.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/centipede5.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>Playable at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centipede2013.herokuapp.com\/\">http:\/\/centipede2013.herokuapp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>I&#8217;ve managed to get it so that it&#8217;s not too easy from the very beginning, and you can actually die if you&#8217;re not careful (hurrah).<\/li>\n <li>I&#8217;ve also added animations and drawn a load of stuff in SpriteSomething on my iPad<\/li>\n <li>I&#8217;ve made sure it&#8217;s obvious that you get hurt when you&#8217;re hit by a bullet<\/li>\n <li>I made a decision to only give one flower at a time as it keeps it difficult<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I&#8217;ve actually probably spent about 6 hours putting together the game, and another 6 hours tweaking, tweaking, tweaking &#8211; it turns out it&#8217;s really hard to make a game &#8216;fun&#8217; and &#8216;difficult&#8217; etc.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m not quite there yet, tomorrow I&#8217;m going to<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Add an on-going score counter<\/span><\/li>\n <li>Add code for &#8216;game over&#8217;<\/li>\n <li>Add touch controls for mobile devices<\/li>\n <li>Add instructions on start so you know what you&#8217;re doing<\/li>\n <li>Add sounds<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>That is all pretty trivial and then I&#8217;ll get onto adding more things to make the game more &#8220;interesting&#8221; and &#8220;fun&#8221;<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">There is a tendency for the &#8216;cover&#8217; to erode by the 10th level or so, might consider a way to keep it coming back<\/span><\/li>\n <li>Power-ups would be cool. but not really sure what sort of power-ups to use<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>","time":"December 15th, 2012 5:48 pm","title":"Centipede 2013 \u2013 End of Day #1 \u2013 Game finished!"}