{"author_name":"Doches","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1332527580,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"59782","p_author":"Doches","p_authorkey":"562","p_urlkey":"95534","p_title":"Conveniently, a mini-LD!","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1332527580","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"562","us_name":"Doches","us_username":"doches","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"

Hey, there’s a Mini-LD on! I’d planned on spending this weekend at Hack on the Record<\/a> down in London, but the friend I was going to stay with called and canceled, leaving me with a booked-out weekend and no plans. <\/p>\n

And since I’d planned to spend the weekend jamming anyway, I thought I’d see if there was a MiniLD on instead. Lo and behold…<\/p>\n

\"Sketched<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve been mulling over adding the concept of ‘influence’ to one of my existing games<\/a>, but I’m not convinced that it’s a particularly cool mechanic. So I’m going to spend the weekend prototyping a bare-bones strategy game based around the idea of spreading influence — we’ll see how things go.<\/p>\n

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I’m starting at 8:30pm on 23 March, so my compo-imposed deadline is 8:30pm on Sunday night. Let’s do this thing.<\/p>","time":"March 23rd, 2012 1:33 pm","title":"Conveniently, a mini-LD!"}