{"author_name":"Qbopper","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"July 9, 2012 7:04 am","epoch":1341835440,"text":"Good luck!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"TehSkull","time":"July 9, 2012 11:14 am","epoch":1341850440,"text":"There are games similar to what you’ve described. It may be a good idea to add some confusion\/challenge to the mix by making the player shoot a contrasting bullet at the enemies.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1341826020,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"55629","p_author":"Qbopper","p_authorkey":"2665","p_urlkey":"91347","p_title":"Mini LD \u2013 Contrasts","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1341826020","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2665","us_name":"Qbopper","us_username":"kid2255","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"

Hello. First, off, thanks for reading my post \ud83d\ude00 Today, I’m adding to the My First Ludum Dare\u2122: Mini Edition pile.<\/p>\n

I was always intrigued my Ludum Dare. make a game as fast as you can? Sounds awesome, and has led to some of my favorite games! I’ve never gotten in, though, for two reasons.<\/p>\n

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  1. I have the attention span of-ooh, a Killing Floor update? brb<\/li>\n
  2. Lack of experience developing – the most independent thing I finished<\/em> was a modification of the Game Maker Catch the Clown tutorial.<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    This time, however, I have a week, a theme I can use, and not much else to do (go away, Steam list with over 100 games), so here I am.<\/p>\n

    Yesterday, I was thinking of taking the concept of contrasts loosely – maybe you start out as a soldier for a Nazi like army, and slowly realize the world isn’t as black and white as your superiors put it. Unfortunately, I’ve had to reign in my thought for now – I was figuring out how to get characters in top down games to not get stuck on single pixels, so developing a platform engine on my own would be difficult (and using a tutorial or framework like the Grandma engine didn’t feel right). So, once I got home from a looong car ride, I figured I could make a basic top down shooter, where different weapons of colour destroy their respective ships. How I’ll figure that out? Weeeell, we can worry about that later…<\/p>\n

    TL:DR gonna do a top down shooter w\/ coloured enemies and weapons.<\/p>","time":"July 9th, 2012 4:27 am","title":"Mini LD \u2013 Contrasts"}