{"author_name":"NiallM","cat":"LD #21","comments":[],"epoch":1313820540,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"64640","p_author":"NiallM","p_authorkey":"785","p_urlkey":"100436","p_title":"Porridge for Victory!*","p_cat":"LD #21","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1313820540","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"785","us_name":"NiallM","us_username":"niallm","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Porridge.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Porridge-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Porridge-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Porridge-550x412.jpg 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Porridge.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>Weird. I&#8217;d got the impression Self-Replicating was a sure thing for the theme. Not to worry though, I reckon I&#8217;ve got a decent idea to be going on with.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m going to attempt a strategy roguelike idea I&#8217;ve been thinking about for a while now. It&#8217;s going to be called Safari Park Escape, and the idea is that you&#8217;re trying to get a group of animals (escaped from a safari park) to evade their keepers for long enough that they eventually give up the search, and your animals can live free and wild in the British countryside. It&#8217;s a bit ambitious, but if I keep things simple it should be do-able. It also sets itself up for a sequel: Safari Park Liberation, where the escaped animals come back to liberate all the animals they left behind&#8230;<\/p>\n <p>* &#8211; Little known fact: &#8216;Porridge for Victory&#8217; was an actual slogan used in the Second World War in Scotland. Winston Churchill, struggling to cope with the UK&#8217;s extremely limited supply of food, instituted a strict &#8216;Porridge-only&#8217; diet on the entirety of Scotland, uttering the infamous words, &#8220;Miserable buggers. They&#8217;ll probably be happy they&#8217;ve got something else to complain about.&#8221; This policy is the real reason behind the continued antipathy between Scotland and England, and is the reason many Scots still cannot look at (or even smell) a bowl of porridge without wanting to throw up.<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/foodphoto\/\" rel=\"tag\">foodphoto<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 20th, 2011 1:09 am","title":"Porridge for Victory!*"}