{"author_name":"koredozo","cat":"LD #25","comments":[],"epoch":1355558940,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"49557","p_author":"koredozo","p_authorkey":"12006","p_urlkey":"85243","p_title":"First Steps","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355558940","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"12006","us_name":"koredozo","us_username":"koredozo","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

Took a break from content creation. It’s probably a smarter move to do some prototyping first anyway and worry about visuals & audio later.<\/p>\n

I tried using JavaScript for about an hour or two and found out I couldn’t bear to program without tuples and list comprehensions (Python is my usual programming language of choice.) So I went hunting for alternatives and discovered CoffeeScript<\/a>. It’s similar enough that it feels like home, though I did encounter an amusing case of… unexpected behavior where testing for “array.length = 0” resulted not in the syntax error I would expect, but the array mysteriously becoming blank (in other words, length 0.)<\/p>\n

I’ve successfully implemented a very lazy dungeon generator; it creates a maze and then carves some rooms out atop it, with the maze guaranteeing connectivity. It’ll do the job for what I have in mind, though the corridors with dead ends might be a bit hard on players.<\/p>\n

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Tags: journal<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 15th, 2012 3:09 am","title":"First Steps"}