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Last night I attempted to start the jam with some friends. Unfortunately it didn’t live up to my expectations I guess, and I ended up feeling quite discouraged because we didn’t get much done. I slept in, and when I finally got online, I broke the news to them that I wanted to go it alone. Fortunately we’re still on good terms I think, and I’ve now refocused, restarted with a new idea (that seems very realistic given the remaining time), and made progress.<\/p>\n

So now I’m joining the actual competition. I’m sticking with the framework I wrote this past week – using canvas and JavaScript. I have my simple idea: a missile defense game similar to the one in the awesome keynote. I have some scribbles as to how it’s going to end up being somewhat fun\/challenging. And I now have a working prototype of adding turrets to the tiny world (so that you can defend it, of course!).<\/p>\n

Try out the prototype here.<\/a> It is updated each time I push to Github, so you might see something different from the screenshot below. Works on all browsers that support canvas, and possibly IE as well (haven’t tested it yet, but I added Chrome Frame to it, in theory).<\/p>\n

\"2012-04-21<\/a>

2012-04-21 4.58.49 PM EST<\/p><\/div>","time":"April 21st, 2012 2:01 pm","title":"A Fresh Start"}