{"author_name":"Kennethm","cat":"LD #24","comments":[{"author_name":"MadGnomeGamer","time":"August 20, 2012 4:06 pm","epoch":1345496760,"text":"The mythological hero, setting forth from his common-day hut or
\n castle, is lured, carried away, or else voluntarily proceeds, to the
\n threshold of adventure. There he encounters a shadow presence that
\n guards the passage. The hero may defeat or conciliate this power
\n and go alive into the kingdom of the dark (brother-battle, dragonbattle;
\n offering, charm), or be slain by the opponent and descend in
\n death (dismemberment, crucifixion). Beyond the threshold, then,
\n the hero journeys through a world of unfamiliar yet strangely intimate
\n forces, some of which severely threaten him (tests), some of
\n which give magical aid (helpers). When he arrives at the nadir of
\n the mythological round, he undergoes a supreme ordeal and gains
\n his reward. The triumph may be represented as the hero’s sexual
\n union with the goddess-mother of the world (sacred marriage), his
\n recognition by the father-creator (father atonement), his own divinization
\n (apotheosis), or again\u2014if the powers have remained
\n unfriendly to him\u2014his theft of the boon he came to gain (bride-theft,
\n fire-theft); intrinsically it is an expansion of consciousness and
\n therewith of being (illumination, transfiguration, freedom). The
\n final work is that of the return. If the powers have blessed the hero,
\n he now sets forth under their protection (emissary); if not, he flees
\n and is pursued (transformation flight, obstacle flight). At the return
\n threshold the transcendental powers must remain behind; the
\n hero re-emerges from the kingdom of dread (return, resurrection).
\n The boon that he brings restores the world (elixir).","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1345491360,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"55211","p_author":"Kennethm","p_authorkey":"506973","p_urlkey":"90929","p_title":"I\u2019m in, and am warming up as well.","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1345491360","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"506973","us_name":"Kennethm","us_username":"Kennethm","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

So here I am with a framework I know little of, but enough to probably make a decent game in: Love2D.\u00a0I had a gripe with pygame, as it really was to basic, and did not do things that well for me for some reason. It just kind of sucked for some reason, and it is really, really, slow. However, I have found a (small) appreciation for lua. It has a\u00a0lot\u00a0<\/em>of quirks, like no continue statement, globals by default, etc. but I can manage.<\/p>\n

So that’s not very important. But what is important is that I’ll be doing a warmup game until Thursday (which is the day I start my sophmore year in high school, what fun.) Problem is is that I still have a summer AP assignment to finish. Bummer.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I did a random dice roll (not really) and the theme from the list I got was\u00a0Journey<\/strong>. This will be fun.<\/p>\n

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And if you’re wondering, yes I upvoted both Kittens and Evolution.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: warmup<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 20th, 2012 2:36 pm","title":"I\u2019m in, and am warming up as well."}