{"author_name":"Puffi","cat":"LD #21","comments":[],"epoch":1313823600,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"64618","p_author":"Puffi","p_authorkey":"5300","p_urlkey":"100414","p_title":"Progress so far ( roughly 7 hours in )","p_cat":"LD #21","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1313823600","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"5300","us_name":"puffi","us_username":"puffee","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"<p>Woke up at around 06:00 brainstormed for around one hour and got the game plan written down. Being my first Ludum Dare ever, I decided to go with extremely simple game concept as my only goal is to actually create something playable.<\/p>\n <p>Escape as theme gave kazillions of ideas, but most of them were just simply out of reach in such a short time span. In the end I decided to go with simple puzzler as it seemed like concept I can actually finish and could be enjoyable.<\/p>\n <p>On actual progress I&#8217;ve coded some of the basic logic and the &#8220;engine&#8221; can load maps from external files. In hindsight I probably should&#8217;ve slept few hours more as the first hours of coding was just pain and I made more typos than actual code =).<\/p>\n <p>Here&#8217;s a screenie what I actually have on the screen so far&#8230; nothing much, but the underlying code is flexible enough so adding new kinds of objects is quick and painless:<br \/>\n <div id=\"attachment_63842\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/08\/20\/progress-so-far-roughly-7-hours-in\/screenie1-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63842\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/screenie1-300x235.png\" alt=\"screenie1\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63842\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/screenie1-300x235.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/screenie1-550x431.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/screenie1.png 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">screenie1<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n And yes I do intend to replace the graphics later on =P<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/c\/\" rel=\"tag\">C++<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/escape\/\" rel=\"tag\">escape<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/progress\/\" rel=\"tag\">progress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/screenshot\/\" rel=\"tag\">screenshot<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 20th, 2011 2:00 am","title":"Progress so far ( roughly 7 hours in )"}