{"author_name":"johnfn","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1334522340,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"59504","p_author":"johnfn","p_authorkey":"3187","p_urlkey":"95255","p_title":"I\u2019m in!!!!!!!","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1334522340","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3187","us_name":"johnfn","us_username":"johnfn","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"<p>Ludum Dare is awesome. I look forward to it possibly more than anything else. You guys are all awesome, and you make awesome games. Keep it up.<\/p>\n <p>So. This LD is right in the middle of college. But that&#8217;s not going to stop me. I&#8217;ll just fail all my classes if it comes to that! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n <p>Choice utilities:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Scala! I traditionally favor Python, but I think I&#8217;ll switch it up this time. I recently developed a game in Scala and it was surprisingly fun. It felt like Python with type checking. Plus, Java is cross platform so I won&#8217;t have any more porting headaches. That was always one of the worst parts about Python (and having to do it after the game was done, when I just wanted to sleep &#8211; ugh!) <strong>update: I didn&#8217;t actually use scala. Probably a huge mistake <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/strong><\/li>\n <li>Graphics Gale &#8211; for busting out ze pixels in record time.<\/li>\n <li>FL Studio or Garage Band &#8211; I&#8217;ve been working on music recently, and it&#8217;s one of my goals to score well in the audio category.<\/li>\n <li>sfxr &#8211; This thing is invaluable.<\/li>\n <li>Coffee &#8211; sooo much coffee.<\/li>\n <li>Sleep &#8211; hah, who needs it in LD?<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>My goal continues to be humble: BEAT NOTCH. \ud83d\ude00 I also want to aim a little higher in the audio and graphics categories than before. I tend to be pretty lazy about graphics &#8211; aiming to change this <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>","time":"April 15th, 2012 3:39 pm","title":"I\u2019m in!!!!!!!"}