{"author_name":"Uhfgood","cat":"LD #00 - Indirect Interaction - 2002","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"March 20, 2011 5:26 pm","epoch":1300659960,"text":"Okay I guess I left out some things, like “Why are you doing this?”, “How long are you going to be doing this?”, “What is a Macguffin?”","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"March 21, 2011 1:59 pm","epoch":1300733940,"text":"Godspeed, man! \":)\"
\n Where are you hosting the games? A link would be nice, preferably with RSS so we can get updates automatically \ud83d\ude1b","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Mikhail Rudoy","time":"March 21, 2011 3:21 pm","epoch":1300738860,"text":"I think this is a great idea. I think I might do it myself \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Mikhail Rudoy","time":"March 22, 2011 4:05 pm","epoch":1300827900,"text":"I would like to try this myself (with more lenient times, etc…). Do you mind that I’m joining you?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"March 22, 2011 8:22 pm","epoch":1300843320,"text":"I don’t mind at all. Who knows maybe we’ll start a new thing and have others join us as well.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1300658640,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67365","p_author":"Uhfgood","p_authorkey":"53","p_urlkey":"103168","p_title":"Uhfgood\u2019s LD Catch-Up","p_cat":"LD #00 - Indirect Interaction - 2002","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1300658640","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"6","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"53","us_name":"Uhfgood","us_username":"uhfgood","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"

Most of the time I don’t participate in LD’s because I’m usually busy on the weekend.\u00a0 So I thought why don’t I have my own LD compo.\u00a0 So I asked some of you how much time you spend on average… so it’s pretty common to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-35 hours of actual dev time.\u00a0 (Dev time can include planning time).\u00a0 So I thought how much time can I spare per day, and the answer comes back to me, 2 hours.\u00a0 Okay so then I ask myself how long, and then answer comes right back to me, 3 weeks.\u00a0 Actually this was through careful deliberation.\u00a0 I figure about 30 hours is a good roundabout figure and something I could actually manage if I were to participate in an actual LD.\u00a0 Of course this presumes using up most of my available time, and 2 good 8 hour sleeps.\u00a0 I was thinking about also trying on weekends (but this was when I was going to do 2 weeks).\u00a0 So here’s the plan:<\/p>\n

I will go through each LD theme and build one game in about the same time as it takes to do an actual LD compo by spending 3 weeks per game, and 2 hours per night starting around 9:30 pm – 11:30 pm pacific time.\u00a0 I will not be doing mini-ld’s at this time.\u00a0 I will more or less follow the rules of LD.\u00a0 By essentially making everything from scratch, except I will probably use a premade helper library.\u00a0 I’ve decided I would do these games in flash so I can immediately put them onto IndieFlux in the games section.\u00a0 Originally I wanted to use the lua-based LOVE engine but instead realized that flash may make it more readily accessible to people.\u00a0 I’m thinking of actually porting it to LOVE later but we’ll see how this goes first.<\/p>\n

And… that’s… it…<\/p>\n

Thanks for your advice thus-far (those who I’ve talked to in #ludumdare).\u00a0 I’m going to start tomorrow (Monday, March 21st, 2011) with the beta ld which was 24 hours, and thus I will do one week (about 10 hours, hope I can make something by then).\u00a0 (Indirect interaction).\u00a0 So see you then!<\/p>\n

Keith<\/p>\n \n

Tags: indirect interaction<\/a>, LD00<\/a><\/p>","time":"March 20th, 2011 5:04 pm","title":"Uhfgood\u2019s LD Catch-Up"}