{"author_name":"irl","cat":"LD #24","comments":[],"epoch":1345948320,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"52892","p_author":"irl","p_authorkey":"8784","p_urlkey":"88594","p_title":"Aberdeen Meetup: Another Update (Just Me Now)","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1345948320","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"8784","us_name":"irl","us_username":"irl","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

Originally published at: http:\/\/irl.unixcab.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/ludum-dare-24-update-2.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I seem to be the only one still going in Room 205 at the moment. Everyone else has gone home for some sleep before continuing. I may have made an error in marching on, but only time will tell. There\u2019s now about 18 hours to go and I have a playable game.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve mentioned in my previous posts during this Ludum Dare \u201ccompo\u201d, my game is written in pure C using ncurses. You play the role of a pizza chef that has to make pizzas. I intended to have a steep learning curve to the game and I believe I have achieved that. This forces the player to evolve, a twist on the theme where I imaging most games will have either the character in the game or game elements doing the evolving.<\/p>\n

When I dropped into the IRC channel, the question was raised of how I would make this available to Windows users once submitted. All the development has been done on a Linux workstation, but I\u2019m sure Windows libraries exist for ncurses and I know for a fact that gcc exists there. Still, as a bit of an experiment, I tried out compiling and running it in JS\/Linux<\/a> and it worked.<\/p>\n

Over the next hour, I\u2019ll be writing up some quick READMEs and getting my code into github. I already feel like I\u2019ve achieved something I would normally not have done and when I got it working in JS\/Linux I had to go for a walk to calm down due to being so excited.<\/p>\n

This is what Ludum Dare is all about.<\/p>\n

Here are some screenshots for now:<\/p>\n

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