{"author_name":"davecheesefish","cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 17, 2010 5:15 pm","epoch":1292624100,"text":"Yay! Ambition!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 17, 2010 5:18 pm","epoch":1292624280,"text":"Game Jam Triple Threat for the win, baby! =D","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 17, 2010 5:31 pm","epoch":1292625060,"text":"ROCK!!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1292623860,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"68669","p_author":"davecheesefish","p_authorkey":"1316","p_urlkey":"104472","p_title":"3 Jams, 1 Weekend","p_cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1292623860","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1316","us_name":"davecheesefish","us_username":"davecheesefish","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">As we find ourselves in the unusual situation of having 3 development jams on at the same time, I&#8217;ve decided on an extra challenge for myself this time around &#8211; I&#8217;ll be making one game to fit all three jams in the Ludum Dare 48 hours. Considering the three events are the Experimental Gameplay Project, the Game Prototype Challenge and Ludum Dare, I&#8217;ve unimaginatively decided to name this project of inevitable futility&#8230;<\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dcfgames.com\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcfgames.com\/blog\/images\/posts\/2010\/12\/17\/header.png\" alt=\"The Experimental Prototype Dare\" width=\"620\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: left\">(hey, it sounds better than the &#8220;Ludum Gameplay Game&#8221;)<\/p>\n <h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Tools:<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>Code: C# with XNA Game Studio 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010<\/li>\n <li>Graphics: The GIMP<\/li>\n <li>Audio: sfxr<\/li>\n <li>Hardware: Whatever I can find lying around<\/li>\n <li>Food: Nutritional content questionable<\/li>\n <li>Sleep: Unlikely<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Given the nature of the project, I&#8217;ll be centralising my progress reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dcfgames.com\">my own blog<\/a> to avoid spending hours cross-posting everything, and posting links and updates to the usual #ld48 hashtag on Twitter.<\/p>\n <p>Is anyone else doing this? I know I&#8217;m not entirely alone, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfunkypants.com\/2010\/3-game-jams\/\">McFunkypants<\/a> was the one responsible for making me want to do it <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>","time":"December 17th, 2010 5:11 pm","title":"3 Jams, 1 Weekend"}