{"author_name":"Spiridios","cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[],"epoch":1282521240,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69377","p_author":"Spiridios","p_authorkey":"506801","p_urlkey":"105180","p_title":"Foiled","p_cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1282521240","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"506801","us_name":"Spiridios","us_username":"Spiridios","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"
\"Conga

Conga Line<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s hard to give up after working so hard, but there’s no way to get a working game in 5 minutes from what I have. The Javascript A* I nabbed off the web performs way too slowly (it does a linear search through the arrays storing open and closed nodes). If I just put a moderate blockade in place so the enemies have to path about 5 extra steps out of their way, the A* implementation takes somewhere from 1-2 seconds in firefox. Chrome is better at about .5 seconds, but still not playable. With that big a delay, the enemies overshoot their target tiles and have to backup, creating a nice conga line. Even if I managed to have a decent A*, I still didn’t get zombie infection implemented, so there still isn’t any gameplay.<\/p>\n

I may try to get in on the jam, but with work tomorrow that only gives me a couple extra hours.<\/p>","time":"August 22nd, 2010 6:54 pm","title":"Foiled"}