{"author_name":"chr15m","cat":"LD #17 - Islands - 2010","comments":[],"epoch":1272082320,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"71298","p_author":"chr15m","p_authorkey":"1719","p_urlkey":"107119","p_title":"LD#17 tools update","p_cat":"LD #17 - Islands - 2010","p_event":"LD17","p_time":"1272082320","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1719","us_name":"chr15m","us_username":"chr15m","event_start":"1271980800","event_key":"3","event_name":"LD17"},"text":"

My initial idea for this competition met with tradgedy. Blender3d runs at an abysmal frame-rate on my new Ubuntu install. Oh well, next idea!<\/p>\n

I did a bit of browsing for inspiration and of course came across Dan Cook’s PlanetCute<\/a> sprites and SmallWorld sprites<\/a>. I think I will try to emulate that styl a bit when designing my own graphics (although not as good of course!). The great thing about those graphics is that they are extensible – you can layer them together in a way to make something larger from simple graphical elements.<\/p>\n

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I went for a walk and thought about what technology to use instead of Blender3d. You can make a 2d game with almost any technology. All you really need is something to display sprites, and HTML5 has this functionality.<\/p>\n

I’ve started hacking on something which runs in the browser, using basic graphics, procedurally generated worlds. My goal for today is to get a virtual world going that you can walk around in and then I will see where I go from there.<\/p>\n

update:<\/strong> i just remembered these old character graphics i made:<\/p>\n

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I think I’ll try to animate and use them for this project. They’re from this post<\/a> which also has some stuff about randomly generating maps that I will try to re-use.<\/p>","time":"April 23rd, 2010 11:12 pm","title":"LD#17 tools update"}