{"author_name":"Orni","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"dr_soda","time":"December 8, 2012 4:58 pm","epoch":1355003880,"text":"I liked Asylum a lot when I played it last year, so I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what you pull out in such a slim window of time.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 8, 2012 9:59 pm","epoch":1355021940,"text":"It is possible to do it in 6 hours. I&#8217;ve made a full game in 150 minutes. It&#8217;s not exactly mind blowing, but many people found it a fun game, even more considering it was developed so quickly.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1354995300,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"50938","p_author":"Orni","p_authorkey":"10771","p_urlkey":"86631","p_title":"I\u2019m in, sort of","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1354995300","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10771","us_name":"Orni","us_username":"orni","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going to try out a super hardcore mode of the ludum dare 48h compo &#8230; by only using about 6 hours of it to make my whole entry.<\/p>\n <p>this is due to the fact that my girlfriend is coming home from her semester abroad and seeing her again after 4 months outranks ludum dare (double checked it to be sure \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n <p>so 6 hours are about everything I have until I have to leave for the airport &#8211; but I won&#8217;t back out of ludum dare because of it, no, I&#8217;ll work even more efficiently!<\/p>\n <p>because of this:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>2D game, since the graphics take much less time to make<\/li>\n <li>low resolution (same reason)<\/li>\n <li>possibly only a 1-bit game (trimming down the graphics work even more)<\/li>\n <li>all sound and music will be generated by sfxr and some music generator (like autotracker-c)<\/li>\n <li>I&#8217;ll use a framework I&#8217;m very comfortable and experienced with -&gt; flashpunk<\/li>\n <li>I&#8217;ll concentrate on core game play features and make something fun instead of a game depending on lots of content<\/li>\n <li>no time for anything but furious game development<\/li>\n <li>possibly no time to eat during the 6 hours &#8211; every minute must be spent developing!<\/li>\n <li>I&#8217;ll try to upload the game before I leave &#8211; most possibly making my game the very first to be submitted \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I hope I&#8217;ll be able to come up with an idea\u00a0immediately so I can complete the core game features within the first 3 hours. after that I&#8217;m going to make\/polish the graphics for about an hour and finish the game in an epic 2 hour showdown &#8211; I expect high amounts of\u00a0caffeine in my blood stream to help me with this.<\/p>\n <p>maybe it&#8217;s impossible to make something like a game within 6 hours (completely from scratch and alone) but maybe it&#8217;s not &#8211; I&#8217;ll find out \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n <p><strong>\/edit:<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>it seem&#8217;s I won&#8217;t be able to take part after all &#8230;<\/p>\n <p>well, there&#8217;s always a next time &#8211; I&#8217;m just hoping the theme isn&#8217;t going to be &#8216;time loop&#8217; since I&#8217;d hate myself for not being able to take part with that theme<\/p>","time":"December 8th, 2012 2:35 pm","title":"I\u2019m in, sort of"}