{"author_name":"Uhfgood","cat":"LD  #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 21, 2010 1:15 pm","epoch":1282414500,"text":"Go, go, Uhfgood! You can do it!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1282413600,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69758","p_author":"Uhfgood","p_authorkey":"53","p_urlkey":"105563","p_title":"So color me not-giving-up","p_cat":"LD  #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1282413600","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"53","us_name":"Uhfgood","us_username":"uhfgood","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"<p>A couple of comments on my post last night, and a few guys in the actual #ludumdare irc channel convinced me that maybe I should try again.\u00a0 Only I have to go through some tutorials to learn some stuff.\u00a0 Not that I was giving up on flash or as3, but just the compo.\u00a0 But now I&#8217;m going to go through some tutorials and see if I can&#8217;t submit a modest entry.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve decided to start with Flashpunk instead of Flixel for a couple of reasons.\u00a0 1) The tutorials are linked right from Flashpunk&#8217;s front page, I don&#8217;t see that with flixel, so I have to dig a bit, 2) I&#8217;ve talked to ChevyRay and he seems like a nice enough dude, whereas I&#8217;ve not talked to the Flixel creator, but he&#8217;s probably a nice guy too.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably eventually make games in both to see what I like best, but for purposes of this competition i&#8217;m going with Flashpunk, and we&#8217;ll see if I can do anything, I have pretty limited time.<\/p>","time":"August 21st, 2010 1:00 pm","title":"So color me not-giving-up"}