{"author_name": "Robert Swan", "cat": "LD #23", "comments": [{"author_name": "Suese", "time": "April 20, 2012 8:57 am", "epoch": 1334930220, "text": "Yep,  I think it seems like a bit more than &#8216;base code&#8217; to me.   It would please me if Ludum Dare wasn&#8217;t so lax.", "spam": "N"}, {"author_name": "", "time": "April 20, 2012 9:22 am", "epoch": 1334931720, "text": "C&#8217;mon, mate! Let the guy use his base code!", "spam": "N"}, {"author_name": "", "time": "April 20, 2012 9:32 am", "epoch": 1334932320, "text": "Making complete game &gt; making everything from scratch. Serious business.", "spam": "N"}, {"author_name": "Moth", "time": "April 22, 2012 3:37 am", "epoch": 1335083820, "text": "I think this looks gorgeous. I am a big fan of games with giant cubes and&#8230; stuff. Really chunky and colorful, I especially dig the wind waker style smoke. I can&#8217;t wait to see what you&#8217;re concocting!", "spam": "N"}], "epoch": 1334928840, "likes": 1, "metadata": {"p_key": "58871", "p_author": "Robert Swan", "p_authorkey": "1845", "p_urlkey": "94620", "p_title": "Here’s my base game code…", "p_cat": "LD #23", "p_event": "LD23", "p_time": "1334928840", "p_likes": "1", "p_comments": "4", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "1845", "us_name": "Robert Swan", "us_username": "robert-swan", "event_start": "1334880000", "event_key": "10", "event_name": "LD23"}, "text": "<p>&#8230;if I decide to use it!</p>\n <p>Last time I wrote everything from scratch but it was hard and I might only get 24 hours this year &#8211; so I decided to take apart my indie game Diorama to create a bare bones environment. This was a far bigger deal than expected as removing the licensed network component hurt! The base code contains land generation and saving, player collision, raycasting, boolean modification of the scenery (left + right mouse buttons) and particles.</p>\n <p>While this seems quite a bit for base code, I know its the equivalent of a few clicks in GameMaker or Unity so philosophically I feel happy <img src=\"http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /></p>\n <p><a href=\"http://www.aahgames.com/downloads/ludumdare23/\">http://www.aahgames.com/downloads/ludumdare23/</a>  the windows Visual Studio 2008 projects and files and also a working Windows executable for you to test (output/latest/exe_client.exe)</p>\n <p><img style=\"cursor: -webkit-zoom-in\" src=\"http://www.aahgames.com/downloads/ludumdare23/ludumdare23_base_screen_00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" /></p>\n <p>&nbsp;</p>\n <p>&nbsp;</p>", "time": "April 20th, 2012 8:34 am", "title": "Here’s my base game code…"}