{"author_name":"bmcgames","cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","comments":[],"epoch":1292719320,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"68115","p_author":"bmcgames","p_authorkey":"3141","p_urlkey":"103918","p_title":"What a time to discover \u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny In Philadelphia\u201d","p_cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1292719320","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3141","us_name":"bmcgames","us_username":"bmcgames","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"

Well I sat on the theme for a total of 22 hours, not 18 as I’d originally tweeted (I hope my math improves as I go along), but mostly my problem stemmed from not wanting to do the obvious exploration\/dungeon crawling that I typically flock towards. I’ve written random dungeon generators for other projects and love RPG’s to death, but I figured for my first outing I’d have to do something a little more unique.<\/p>\n

Well nuts to that. I’m not creative or experienced enough to do something unique and meaningful. I wanted to go the whole self-discovery approach but I have no idea how to stick as complex a concept as that into a video game, let alone something fun. For my first LD I better bite off something I can actually chew, and it took 22 hours of beating myself up to get there. It seems that the theme of “discovery” is having a whole meta-meaning as I come to grips with the fact that I’m an incubator and not an overtly creative “build it out of thin air” type.<\/p>\n

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I amaze myself sometimes. No I am not cheating.<\/p><\/div>\n

So I took an hour from my marathon session of “Sunny In Philadelphia” (who knew a recommended show would actually be good?) to take a classic and code it from scratch. And now that I have a base of a working game maybe I can incubate up a storm to make it a bit more challenging\/interesting. Because I’m already getting good at it (read: fluking out) and I’m running out of episodes!<\/p>\n

Have a play for yourself before I ramp up the difficulty or god help me try adding more graphics: http:\/\/bmcgames.com\/discovery<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 18th, 2010 7:42 pm","title":"What a time to discover \u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny In Philadelphia\u201d"}