{"author_name":"ippa","cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"zazery","time":"August 20, 2010 11:27 pm","epoch":1282364820,"text":"I think I’ll give this a try, was about to do it the other way.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 21, 2010 7:31 am","epoch":1282393860,"text":"Actually, it is “goto #1” often enough \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"deps","time":"August 21, 2010 8:17 am","epoch":1282396620,"text":"I’m all over the place all the time! \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1282362240,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"70006","p_author":"ippa","p_authorkey":"1087","p_urlkey":"105826","p_title":"First screenshot and effectivity tip!","p_cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1282362240","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1087","us_name":"ippa","us_username":"ippa","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

So, I’ve noticed you can bump up your devspeed if you do one thing at the time. For example.<\/p>\n

1) Figure out your general idea
\n 2) Try to make most of your sprites
\n 3) Start on your gamelogic<\/p>\n

Instead of:<\/p>\n

1) Figure out your general idea
\n 2) Make one sprite
\n 3) Code the gamelogic for that sprite
\n 4) Goto #2<\/p>\n

This is also true with sounds, try to do\/generate them all at one point instead of constantly switching between your code, your sprite editor and your sound software.<\/p>\n

And here’s my first screenshot:<\/p>\n

\"gnorf\"<\/p>","time":"August 20th, 2010 10:44 pm","title":"First screenshot and effectivity tip!"}