{"author_name":"adventureloop","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 13, 2012 2:44 pm","epoch":1355427840,"text":"Yay, the LD needs more adventure games!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1355424900,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"50500","p_author":"adventureloop","p_authorkey":"6827","p_urlkey":"86193","p_title":"I am in","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355424900","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"6827","us_name":"adventureloop","us_username":"adventureloop","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<h1>Im in<\/h1>\n <p>I am going to write an adventure game.<\/p>\n <p>I have some notes jotted in my development notebook. Sitting just within an arms<br \/>\n reach I look at it all the time. There are some questions, a big ass title and<br \/>\n a list of things I would need in an adventure game. But the last few items in the<br \/>\n list are the most interesting.<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Particle\">PARTICLES<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Particle_system\">MORE PARTICLES<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>The page then dissolves into a world where the particle is king. The man with the<br \/>\n most particles will get all the girls. The particle with the most men with gets<br \/>\n all the grills.<\/p>\n <p>I think I will have to add particles somewhere in this adventure game.<\/p>\n <p>My language of choice is going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiepedia.org\/wiki\/JavaScript\">javascript<\/a>.<br \/>\n Working in the canvas on a hand rolled engine. It is something I started about<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/adventurist.me\">two months ago<\/a>, originally an<br \/>\n isometric engine. I will have to strip it down a bit for an adventure game,<br \/>\n hopefully not too much. The branch before the start of the game can be found on<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/adventureloop\/LD25-Engine\/branches\/ld25-origin\">github here<\/a>.<br \/>\n I will text edit in the text editor Vim<\/p>\n <p>Of course I will need some other tools as well. For audio I am going to use a<br \/>\n mixture of <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\/garageband\">Garage Band<\/a> loops and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfxr.net\">bfxr<\/a>.<br \/>\n That should be as much as I can handle. For<br \/>\n art I want to try using <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sketchbook-pro-for-ipad\/id364253478?mt=8\">SketchBook Pro<\/a><br \/>\n on my iPad and Pixen. I have used <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/philippec\/Pixen\">Pixen<\/a> a<br \/>\n lot in the past, it is a good old friend for touching up images.<\/p>\n <p>For raw creation I will be coding and drawing with my bare hands for as long as<br \/>\n possible. As that proves futile I will switch to my MacBook Pro augmented with<br \/>\n my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyborggaming.com\/prod\/rat3.htm\">Cyborg RAT3<\/a> mouse. To keep my thoughts in<br \/>\n order I will scrawl liberally in my<br \/>\n development pad with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamy.com\/eng\/b2c\/safari\">Lammy Safari<\/a> pen and on<br \/>\n any white board I can hold down.<br \/>\n I will draw on everything, but intend to create art on my ipad mini and fix it<br \/>\n with my Cyborg mouse. I will sing as much audio as possible.<\/p>\n <p>My Code is comfortable in git, let sleeping dogs lie.<\/p>\n <p>My final set of tools will produce my most approachable output. I am going to use<br \/>\n a combination of <a href=\"http:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2010\/06\/09\/screen-capture-in-mac-os-x\/\">screecapture<\/a><br \/>\n and <a href=\"http:\/\/iharder.sourceforge.net\/current\/macosx\/imagesnap\/\">imagesnap<\/a><br \/>\n on my mac to create a time lapse. My<br \/>\n final plan is to create a video that includes, both desktops, my face (wooooooooo)<br \/>\n and text annotations for my latest tweet\/ADN post, commit message and blog post.<\/p>\n <p>The result of that can come after Ludum Dare though.<\/p>\n <p>Third time lucky, my particle friends will fend off the goats.<\/p>","time":"December 13th, 2012 1:55 pm","title":"I am in"}