{"author_name":"Jonny D","cat":"LD  #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 21, 2010 6:33 pm","epoch":1282433580,"text":"A NE LD meetup? Baah. Too bad I&#8217;m a noob and didn&#8217;t hear about this.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 21, 2010 7:37 pm","epoch":1282437420,"text":"yeah sorry we missed yah. We&#8217;re slowly building a contact email list for LDers who wanna meetup near the Greater Boston area (also including Maine,New Hampshire etc)","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1282431360,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69677","p_author":"Jonny D","p_authorkey":"654","p_urlkey":"105482","p_title":"New England Meetup and Some updates","p_cat":"LD  #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1282431360","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"654","us_name":"Jonny D","us_username":"grimfang4","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"<p>I have a video of the New England LD Meetup, but I&#8217;m having uploading problems. \u00a0For now, I&#8217;ll just post a couple of images of my game&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n <p>While hanging out waiting for HybridMind to arrive for the meetup, I was chillin&#8217; with billknye. \u00a0He was working and I was trying to think of a concept. \u00a0I joked about finding inspiration in the local newspaper, so I picked it up and mentioned the front page headline. \u00a0It was about a fair-sized fire nearby and billknye made some remark about the gamability of it. \u00a0It stuck, I guess. \u00a0It turns out to be a creative take on the theme. \u00a0Enemy? \u00a0Fire. \u00a0Weapon? \u00a0Fire. \u00a0There you have it, a game about fighting forest fires.<\/p>\n <p>I first got the player moving around and then some fires drawing onto a grass buffer:<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ld18-moving-fire.png\" alt=\"ld18 - moving fire\" width=\"635\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ld18-moving-fire-300x224.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ld18-moving-fire-550x411.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ld18-moving-fire.png 794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/p>\n <p>Then I worked the rest of the meetup time on getting the fire to spread in a good way:<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ld18-burning-holes.png\" alt=\"ld18 - burning holes\" width=\"637\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ld18-burning-holes-300x226.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ld18-burning-holes-550x414.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ld18-burning-holes.png 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/p>\n <p>The implementation is surprisingly simple, so I&#8217;ll be able to polish this baby up&#8230; \u00a0Like all babies should be?<\/p>","time":"August 21st, 2010 5:56 pm","title":"New England Meetup and Some updates"}