{"author_name":"The Tomster","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1295827020,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67512","p_author":"The Tomster","p_authorkey":"1332","p_urlkey":"103315","p_title":"1773","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1295827020","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1332","us_name":"The Tomster","us_username":"the-tomster","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"

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Wow, what a weekend! 1773 is pretty much finished. Naturally I didn’t get to include quite everything that I wanted. I also learned that I can’t animate. At all. Not even programmer art. Something to work on before the next LD.<\/p>\n

Anyways the game! You play as an angry colonial in the Boston Tea Party! You decided you could really launch some tea if you bring a springboard out there on a boat. What a showy form of protest! Unlike the real Boston Tea Party, there’s shooting going on here. Oh no! You can slide to dodge the bullets and drop crates of tea on your enemies. POW!<\/p>\n

Check it out right here!<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I wish it was a bit more polished. (A menu would be nice.) I also wanted to do a bit more with the slides but it wasn’t going to be finished in time. Instead I spent my last hour making the scoring popups! Unfortunately there’s a small bug where you can score twice on the same enemy. Other than that it looks good!<\/p>\n

The rundown of what I ended up using is: LOVE for the graphics, input, all that good stuff. TEsound for the sound playback. LMMS to make the background music. SFXR for sounds. Paint.NET for painting. Notepad++ for coding.<\/p>","time":"January 23rd, 2011 6:57 pm","title":"1773"}