{"author_name":"recursive frog","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"mantis","time":"December 9, 2012 12:40 pm","epoch":1355074800,"text":"1) 4 i think<br \/>\n 2) for some it&#8217;s the first time, for others I used them since forever<br \/>\n 3) I&#8217;m doing a lecture on Unity3D next week, and I haven&#8217;t used it in ages, so I wanted to refresh my knowledge of it. I combined that with warmup for upcoming Ludum Dare. Other tools &#8211; s\/bfxr, graphics gale, paint.NET, blender, well, they just work.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 9, 2012 12:43 pm","epoch":1355074980,"text":"1. I&#8217;ve done 6 Main-LDs, 1 Mini-LD and hosted a Mini-LD (July 2012)<br \/>\n 2. That exact toolchain: 0 times &#8211; I still use the same stuff for graphics, sound etc.<br \/>\n 3. Because JS is cross-platform, and because I like web stuff in general.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"xhunterko","time":"December 9, 2012 1:05 pm","epoch":1355076300,"text":"1:4<br \/>\n 2:3<br \/>\n 3: I knew multimedia fusion 2 a little bit but that didn&#8217;t feel like it had enough to offer. So I switched to Flixel 3 years ago cause it seemed the easiest to learn.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 9, 2012 4:22 pm","epoch":1355088120,"text":"1: 0<br \/>\n 2: 0.25<br \/>\n 3: It&#8217;s been my experience that even my good friends won&#8217;t go through the trouble of downloading and installing something I write. But if you can give them something that runs in a browser with no install people will actually play with it. I thought about Flash, but it&#8217;s kind of out of my price range and doesn&#8217;t work on my ipad. So I&#8217;m trying my hand at HTML5. I went with the Crafty engine because it seemed to have the most active community and the most extensive documentation. I&#8217;m running into a lot that&#8217;s not well documented though, so we&#8217;ll see how it goes <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/>","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1355073600,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"50882","p_author":"recursive frog","p_authorkey":"504529","p_urlkey":"86575","p_title":"ludumDare.recurse(int times, Object toolChain);","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355073600","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"4","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"504529","us_name":"recursive frog","us_username":"recursive frog","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<p><strong>Recursive Frog is curious.<\/strong><\/p>\n <ol>\n <li>How many times have you done Ludum Dare?<\/li>\n <li>How many times have you used your chosen toolchain to make a game?<\/li>\n <li>Why did you choose the tools that you have chosen?<\/li>\n <\/ol>","time":"December 9th, 2012 12:20 pm","title":"ludumDare.recurse(int times, Object toolChain);"}