{"author_name":"CaptainLepidus","cat":"LD #24","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 26, 2012 7:52 am","epoch":1345985520,"text":"I have been studying management games a whole bunch, what makes these games interesting, from what I understand, is meaningful PLAYER choices. If i build now, i wont be able to build until much later. Difficulty can come from the player decisions to build at all.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1345984560,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"52604","p_author":"CaptainLepidus","p_authorkey":"5621","p_urlkey":"88306","p_title":"Hard Decisions\u2026","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1345984560","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"5621","us_name":"CaptainLepidus","us_username":"captainlepidus","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

So, I have about 34 hours left in the jam. Some of you may have seen what my game looks like so far, this is it:<\/p>\n

\"Progress<\/p>\n

The game is a town building sim where you can buy buildings which produce more money for you, allowing for even more buildings.<\/p>\n

The thing is, there’s no difficulty. You can just build forever. And in some ways that can be a good thing (look at Minecraft Creative), but on the other hand, a bit of challenge makes everything more fun (look at, well, Minecraft Survival.) Adding difficulty, though, will be hard. I could try to make some form of enemy raid but it might not be the best plan; perhaps I should just continue to polish.<\/p>\n

So what do you think?<\/p>","time":"August 26th, 2012 7:36 am","title":"Hard Decisions\u2026"}