{"author_name":"Henry McLaughlin","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[],"epoch":1304134860,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"66785","p_author":"Henry McLaughlin","p_authorkey":"979","p_urlkey":"102586","p_title":"My Concept \u2013 \u201cBroadsword\u201d","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304134860","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"979","us_name":"Henry Mclaughlin","us_username":"pycron","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;ve got an idea for my game. It <em>is<\/em> a top-down, multi-directional smhup, as I had planned.<\/p>\n <p>The title of the game is &#8220;Broadsword&#8221; and it is about a civilian who gets pulled into a conflict between an evil dictator and a resistance force in their homeland, which is on the brink of becoming a crapsack country. (As opposed to a crapsack <em>world<\/em>, which is not necessarily the case)<\/p>\n <p>The theme is in the story. For the early parts of the game, (And those are the parts I&#8217;ll be making) the player will be alone, only interacting with the mech&#8217;s internal computer and using abandoned garages in various places to do maintenance and change weapons.<\/p>\n <p>Later on, in parts that I will make after the jam, I will probably finish it over time, and the story will be much more complete.<\/p>\n <p>The theme is used, by the way, in the sense that:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>It&#8217;s dangerous to go alone: There are bad guys everywhere<\/li>\n <li>Take this: The mech&#8217;s computer urges the protagonist to do what they wind up doing<\/li>\n <li>With this plot, it&#8217;s more &#8220;It&#8217;s dangerous to go alone! Take me!&#8221;<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I&#8217;ve got high hopes. Currently, I have an untextured, unskinned mech model, an application with a fair amount of boilerplate done, and it registers input events.<\/p>\n <p>Hopefully, this will all work out.<\/p>\n <p>Here&#8217;s hoping,<\/p>\n <p>&#8212; Mr. Dude<\/p>","time":"April 29th, 2011 10:41 pm","title":"My Concept \u2013 \u201cBroadsword\u201d"}