{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","cat":"LD #23","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 20, 2012 12:07 pm","epoch":1334941620,"text":"Good luck!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1334941560,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"58777","p_author":"badlydrawnrod","p_authorkey":"745","p_urlkey":"94526","p_title":"Components are dumb","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1334941560","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"745","us_name":"badlydrawnrod","us_username":"badlydrawnrod","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;m in, thanks to my lovely wife of a gazillion years who suggested that I enter and make her proud.<\/p>\n <p>Tools and libraries are likely to consist of:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Eclipse:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/\">http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>libgdx:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/libgdx\/\">http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/libgdx\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Artemis:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gamadu.com\/artemis\/\">http:\/\/gamadu.com\/artemis\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Paint.NET:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getpaint.net\/\">http:\/\/www.getpaint.net\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Bfxr:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfxr.net\/\">http:\/\/www.bfxr.net\/<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>&#8230;and the most important tools of all, \u00a0an A5 notebook, pen and a large helping of obstinacy.<\/p>\n <p>As for the title of this post, I should explain that I&#8217;m almost certainly using an\u00a0<a title=\"Entity System\" href=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/16\/entity-systems-what-makes-good-components-good-entities\/\">Entity System<\/a> and I&#8217;m just reminding myself not to put any logic in the components. Heck, my first job was as a FORTRAN 77 programmer so if I could handle COMMON blocks then I&#8217;m sure that I can make my components dumb.<\/p>\n <p>Best of luck to everyone who enters. I&#8217;m looking \u00a0forward to playing your crazy, inventive, out-there interpretations of whatever theme is announced.<\/p>","time":"April 20th, 2012 12:06 pm","title":"Components are dumb"}