{"author_name":"venzon","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"Schwiggy","time":"April 29, 2011 8:32 pm","epoch":1304127120,"text":"I&#8217;m taking note of your name so I don&#8217;t miss playing this 2 days from now <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/>","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1304126760,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"66863","p_author":"venzon","p_authorkey":"3863","p_urlkey":"102664","p_title":"It\u2019s dangerous to go alone. Here, take this peasant!","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304126760","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3863","us_name":"venzon","us_username":"venzon","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going to run with this idea. Some random ideas in no order:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Opening sequence where a bored king on a throne gets awarded a peasant by an old man hoisting him over his head.<\/li>\n <li>Bored king sits on his throne and is not controllable. You control the peasant.<\/li>\n <li>You lose if the king dies.<\/li>\n <li>At first your main concern is getting food for the king. You have to hunt an animal, kill it, and use it with the fire to create food.<\/li>\n <li>Note sure how the food should be consumed or tracked&#8230; in a store room?<\/li>\n <li>You can chop down some trees to get seeds that you can plant. The planted seeds will grow into plants that you can chop down and feed the king with.<\/li>\n <li>Sometimes a bear will wander into camp and steal food. If you get near it&#8217;ll swipe at you. If you get hit it stuns you for a bit. Not sure if you should be able to die.<\/li>\n <li>You can use wood to create walls that a bear can&#8217;t get through without hacking at them for a bit, but neither can you.<\/li>\n <li>Every once and a while, a new peasant will come by to help out. They have specific talents (hunter, farmer, miner, warrior, carpenter\/lumberjack, stonemason, blacksmith, etc). At first you just get farmers &amp; hunters. If you accept their help they use your food but do farming or hunting for you.<\/li>\n <li>Eventually the king demands gold (or steel? metal? i dunno). You can mine for this and stockpile it similar to food.<\/li>\n <li>Maybe you also have to get metal and wood and stone?<\/li>\n <li>Once you have some gold\/metal, you will get attacked \u00a0by human raiders. More dangerous than bears!<\/li>\n <li>If you enclose the king, he says something like &#8220;Yes, finally a manor fit for a king!&#8221;<\/li>\n <li>Perhaps the king gives you a bunch of achievements\/quests to drive gameplay forward. Once you complete them all you winz.<\/li>\n <li>The carpenter\/lumberjack will chop down trees and create wood that you can use to make walls.<\/li>\n <li>The stonemason crushes rocks into stone that you can use to create much more effective walls.<\/li>\n <li>Gold sometimes drops when you kill a rock; most of the time you just get stone or metal.<\/li>\n <li>The blacksmith will turn metal into weapons. More effective weapons make the warriors fight better.<\/li>\n <\/ul>","time":"April 29th, 2011 8:26 pm","title":"It\u2019s dangerous to go alone. Here, take this peasant!"}