{"author_name":"Andrew","cat":"October Challenge 2011","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"October 28, 2011 9:54 am","epoch":1319813640,"text":"your planets look lovely. would love to see them in motion \":)\"","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1319784840,"likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"63359","p_author":"Andrew","p_authorkey":"5432","p_urlkey":"99137","p_title":"A bucket of new stuff in Urth","p_cat":"October Challenge 2011","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1319784840","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"5432","us_name":"Andrew","us_username":"andrew-2","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"

In spite of a lack of updates things were done. Great things,\u00a0wondrous marvelous things! Such wondrous and marvelous things that the human mind can not comprehend! Unfortunately we’ll have to talk about those some other time, since this post is about Urth.<\/p>\n

As you may or may not remember Urth<\/a>\u00a0scored less than\u00a0desirably( in LD21) in graphics with an overall 2.65. Needless to say that was given priority. Next up was audio, as that wasn’t great either. After I’ve narrowed down the priorities I’ve naturally decided to start working on something entirely different: the level editor. And what a glorious level editor it is! is it? it may be, it’s like asking a chef how good the food he spent all day cooking is. And by chef I mean\u00a0amateur\u00a0cook. And by\u00a0amateur\u00a0cook I mean someone who poured himself a bowl of cereal. Now I feel like eating cereal, but I must finish this post first.<\/p>\n

The music… well I’ve taken the liberty of outsourcing the music to this chap right here<\/a>\u00a0so go and listen to his stuff (and like it!). I’m not posting the music here, you’ll have to wait till I submit the game tomorrow, or the day after. If it’s not done in the last few hours it’s not a proper jam at all.<\/p>\n

So what have I got to show other than talk of cereal and a link to a music man? Well what’s left? The graphics! Good answer, shows you were paying attention. And what better way to show off graphics than by showing them! No, not a video, but close enough… screenshots!<\/p>\n

Let’s begin:<\/p>\n

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The updated main menu<\/p><\/div>\n

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The pretty-fied level selection menu<\/p><\/div>\n

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The awesome-ized escape mode settings menu<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gameplay screenshot with 100% more magnets<\/p><\/div>\n

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More gameplay<\/p><\/div>\n

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This may not seem it, but it's from escape mode<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are numerous fixes\u00a0optimizations and tweaks, but nobody can see them so nobody really cares. Next I’ll finish up the win-linux-osx ports and off to markets they go.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now, until next time!<\/p>\n \n

Tags: music<\/a>, progress<\/a>, screenshot<\/a>, update<\/a>, urth<\/a><\/p>","time":"October 28th, 2011 1:54 am","title":"A bucket of new stuff in Urth"}