{"author_name":"pentaphobe","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"recursive frog","time":"December 10, 2012 1:46 am","epoch":1355121960,"text":"Caffiene, the cause of and solution to all of life&#8217;s problems.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1355114520,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"50838","p_author":"pentaphobe","p_authorkey":"13327","p_urlkey":"86531","p_title":"Throwing my ragged hat in the ring","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355114520","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"13327","us_name":"pentaphobe","us_username":"pentaphobe","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<p>I can&#8217;t quantify how rewarding participation in the last Ludum Dare was, so I&#8217;ll keep it short:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>This compo is awesome<\/li>\n <li>I&#8217;ve been counting the days until LD#25<\/li>\n <li>Good luck everyone!<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Quick summary of things I&#8217;ll be using:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Sounds\n <ul>\n <li>Audacity, Renoise (tracker), Ableton<\/li>\n <li>Last time I quite enjoyed making my sound effects with a <strong>crappy microphone<\/strong>, my <strong>mouth<\/strong> and a tendency to <strong>hit things in the office<\/strong> &#8211; so I&#8217;ll likely go with that again (though I&#8217;ll put a little more effort into audio this year)<\/li>\n <li>Didn&#8217;t end up adding <strong>music<\/strong> last compo after wrestling with a crippling bug for 6 of the 23 hours I had.\u00a0 This time I&#8217;m flagging it as a necessity.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li>Language\n <ul>\n <li>This depends on the theme, but likely either Java\/LibGDX or AS3\/FlashPunk<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li>Art\n <ul>\n <li>Aseprite, Blender, Sculptris, GIMP\/Inkskape<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li>Caffeine\n <ul>\n <li>LOTS<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I&#8217;ve successfully gotten my shifts rearranged so I&#8217;ll actually be participating in the full 48 hours this time, hopefully with more to show by the end.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>(I&#8217;m in)<\/p>","time":"December 9th, 2012 11:42 pm","title":"Throwing my ragged hat in the ring"}