{"author_name":"devinmoore","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[],"epoch":1304333460,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"65825","p_author":"devinmoore","p_authorkey":"2506","p_urlkey":"101621","p_title":"Tornado, or the game that almost wasn\u2019t","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304333460","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2506","us_name":"devinmoore","us_username":"devinmoore","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

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\n So I had about 3 hours to make a game from scratch, because of my crazy schedule.\u00a0 After doing the keynote video with my old mac I thought I’d try an old mini D\/A style game, because for one thing those games were tiny sized and should be doable pretty fast.\u00a0 However, this still took a while and I was disappointed with the lack of cross-platform testing I got in (doesn’t work right on linux firefox, but works on windows firefox… wtf?\u00a0 Anyhow, thanks for that Oracle.\u00a0 Way to make java cross-platform compatible).\u00a0 I was really happy with how the applet actually came together architecturally and how closely it matches what I wanted it to be.\u00a0 Unfortunately there is one bug I found with the tornado, but I can fix that post-ld and I hope to make a suite of smallish survival games like this to help people play with the supposed “right thing to do” in various simplified survival scenarios.<\/p>","time":"May 2nd, 2011 5:51 am","title":"Tornado, or the game that almost wasn\u2019t"}