{"author_name":"Balaam","cat":"LD #25","comments":[],"epoch":1355581800,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"49253","p_author":"Balaam","p_authorkey":"729","p_urlkey":"84929","p_title":"Final Decided on a direction","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355581800","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"729","us_name":"Balaam","us_username":"balaam","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

I’ve worked a few hours on various games this morning, it’s around 4pm now and there’s other stuff I’ve had to do unfortunately. Still quite optimistic about making a game, it might actually be fun this time.<\/p>\n

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I carried on with bank robbery idea until I came to the realisation I’d need A* and maybe a navmesh and I wasn’t setup to quickly add those things.\u00a0 I briefly considered and started on the idea of doing the bank robbery as side on final fantasy style battle but then came up with something the fit my resources better.<\/p>\n

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I think this is where I decided to give up on a general nav mesh, porting this old C# to Lua didn’t work first time and I sensed a time-sink.<\/p>\n

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I had the start of nav mesh on screen and selectable hired goons with cards that where going to display some stats. But I realised I wasn’t going to get to a minimum playable game until I put in a lot more work and I couldn’t afford to wait that long.<\/p>\n

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The current game is minimally playable now and I’ve stopped there to handle some non-Ludum dare stuff and hopefully and I’ll get back into it tonight. I’m going to concentrate on graphics tomorrow!\u00a0 I think at this point it’s a little hard to guess how it’ll play (though you might be able to guess), I’m going to leave it a mystery for now.<\/p>\n

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","time":"December 15th, 2012 9:30 am","title":"Final Decided on a direction"}