{"author_name":"chaotikZA","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"recursor","time":"April 27, 2011 6:10 pm","epoch":1303945800,"text":"Your little warmup game is actually pretty cool!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2011 2:30 am","epoch":1303975800,"text":"I&#8217;m in LD20 too \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n Good luck \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1303939860,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67163","p_author":"chaotikZA","p_authorkey":"505014","p_urlkey":"102964","p_title":"Warm-up Game (and I\u2019m in)!","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1303939860","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"505014","us_name":"chaotikZA","us_username":"chaotikZA","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a little warm-up game to re-familiarize myself with my tools and to make sure everything is working after a few months hiatus from game development due to real-life issues (read work). It&#8217;s basically in unfinished, unpolished prototype state, but it&#8217;s playable: <a title=\"S.A.D.S. Satellite Automated Defense System\" href=\"http:\/\/games.chaoticengine.com\/sads.jnlp\" target=\"_blank\">Java Webstart<\/a>! Took approximately 12 hours of work and the theme was the first idea that popped into my head that was simple enough to execute in less than 24 hours&#8230;<\/p>\n <p>Given how well this little project went I&#8217;m definitely in &#8211; whether for vanilla or jam will be determined by how much time I have over the weekend or how bad the theme is&#8230;<\/p>\n <p>My tools are:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Language: Java<\/li>\n <li>Libraries: Slick2D<\/li>\n <li>Existing codebase: <a title=\"Chaotic Game Logic Library\" href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/cgll\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chaotic Game Logic Library<\/a>, <a title=\"Jumpers\" href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/jumpers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jumpers<\/a> (for both ignore releases and just use SVN trunk)<\/li>\n <li>Graphics: GIMP, Inkscape<\/li>\n <li>Sound: sfxr &amp; musagi (in the unlikely event that I have time to add sound)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Good luck to all and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing some great games (and hopefully making a decent one for once)!<\/p>","time":"April 27th, 2011 4:31 pm","title":"Warm-up Game (and I\u2019m in)!"}