{"author_name":"JaydenB","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1333537860,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"59709","p_author":"JaydenB","p_authorkey":"2893","p_urlkey":"95461","p_title":"Personal LD Warmup \u2013 Complete!","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1333537860","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2893","us_name":"JaydenB","us_username":"jaydenb","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"

So an hour and a half ago I challenged myself to create the best thing I could in that time. After browsing for a theme, my friend suggested “Zombie Space 2D Side-Scroller.” So I was off.<\/p>\n

I use Love2D as the tool of my trade, mainly because I have had the most experience with it.<\/p>\n

Using Notepad++ as my editor I was off and within a couple of minutes had a crude space man (that I later ditched) drawn. I made him move around on the screen then added a basic tile-map drawing thingy and I was off to a good start.<\/p>\n

After messing around with alternate menu-screens for 10 minutes I had wasted some time (which I could have put into the enemies).<\/p>\n

I then added a camera, which followed the player and gave it some boundaries. And then my time was up.<\/p>\n

I feel like I accomplished a lot in this one and\u00a0 a half (and learnt a fare bit too) but did learn a few things.<\/p>\n

-Only add what you need, don’t mess around with anything that isn’t a necessity<\/p>\n

-Good~ish art is a must, because you would hate yourself later on and hate you game.<\/p>\n

-Make you game with the smallest amount of features possible, then add random stuff until the time limit.<\/p>\n

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Inside my time limit, I didn’t have time to make any enemies, or any AI for them so I will leave that for tomorrow (and work on this game more!).<\/p>\n

So I did kind of fail \":(\" because I didn’t get what i wanted in time, but I say 30 more minutes and it would have had everything I wanted.<\/p>\n

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This had been my first ‘real’ game-jam of sorts that I have done something for, and just thought I should tell people how I went!<\/p>\n

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Timelapse and Source Code will be uploaded tomorrow after I get some rest<\/em><\/p>","time":"April 4th, 2012 6:11 am","title":"Personal LD Warmup \u2013 Complete!"}