{"author_name":"Denifia","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"Tyler","time":"April 27, 2011 3:50 am","epoch":1303894200,"text":"You might want to look into XNA. Unity is a well built engine, and is a great start for C# developers, but its certainly worth looking at your options.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","time":"April 27, 2011 3:50 am","epoch":1303894200,"text":"Game Maker is a viable alternative, plus it’s drag+drop and very fast to pick up. Although Unity already is a good choice.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Denifia","time":"April 27, 2011 4:10 am","epoch":1303895400,"text":"Hrmm.. I have played with XNA and found it to be usable but the amount of work saved by a program like Unity is hard to go past. I will check out Game Maker – cheers for the suggestions. Keep ’em coming \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Denifia","time":"April 27, 2011 5:00 am","epoch":1303898400,"text":"WOW – Game Maker is fantastic!!!!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Sanguine","time":"April 27, 2011 12:46 pm","epoch":1303926360,"text":"Yes it is. I’m gonna use that aswell","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1303894140,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67183","p_author":"Denifia","p_authorkey":"3986","p_urlkey":"102984","p_title":"Me too","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1303894140","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"5","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3986","us_name":"Denifia","us_username":"Denifia","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

I have never done a Ludum Dare before and, really, have not made a game before. I’ll be trying to use Unity (which I haven’t used before). Unless someone has a better idea of what would be a quick to learn choice to making a 2D scroller for a person with C# experience. Cheers.<\/p>","time":"April 27th, 2011 3:49 am","title":"Me too"}