{"author_name": "Jon Reid", "cat": "LD #23", "comments": [], "epoch": 1335013800, "likes": 2, "metadata": {"p_key": "57828", "p_author": "Jon Reid", "p_authorkey": "505068", "p_urlkey": "93577", "p_title": "update #1 tiny hungry planet", "p_cat": "LD #23", "p_event": "LD23", "p_time": "1335013800", "p_likes": "2", "p_comments": "0", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "505068", "us_name": "Jon Reid", "us_username": "Jon Reid", "event_start": "1334880000", "event_key": "10", "event_name": "LD23"}, "text": "<p>So, after having forgotten about LD until about mid day today, and actually deciding that I was going to participate and make a game, I&#8217;ve been working on a little idea for about 4 hours now. It&#8217;s coming together nicely I think.</p>\n <p>My game is all about a single lonely person on a small, hungry planet, and he has to use his laser to grab nearby floating planets into his own to make it grow.</p>\n <p>I&#8217;m not going for concept originality here, just something that is fun and will hopefully look cool by the end of it.</p>\n <p>So far, I have the grabbing planets and feeding mechanism working and nearby planets float around nicely.</p>\n <p><a href=\"http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/21/update-1-tiny-hungry-planet/screen-shot-2012-04-21-at-16-00-41/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-124034\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124034\" src=\"http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Screen-shot-2012-04-21-at-16.00.41-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Screen-shot-2012-04-21-at-16.00.41-300x239.png 300w, http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Screen-shot-2012-04-21-at-16.00.41-550x438.png 550w, http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Screen-shot-2012-04-21-at-16.00.41.png 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" /></a></p>\n <p>Need to add bad guys, levels, scoring and make it look great. Shouldn&#8217;t be too hard&#8230;</p>", "time": "April 21st, 2012 8:10 am", "title": "update #1 tiny hungry planet"}