{"author_name":"ExciteMike","cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","comments":[],"epoch":1251608460,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72748","p_author":"ExciteMike","p_authorkey":"935","p_urlkey":"108570","p_title":"No time for thinking of a good title!","p_cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1251608460","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"935","us_name":"ExciteMike","us_username":"\/author\/excitemike\/","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"<p>Oh my goodness there&#8217;s no way I can keep up with the amount of posts and comments this site is getting! It&#8217;s awesome that so much awesome is awesoming here so awesomely.<\/p>\n <p>Awesome.<\/p>\n <p>So my update.<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_8837\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/meyermike.com\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-8837  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/TitleScreen.png\" alt=\"TitleScreen\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/TitleScreen-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/TitleScreen-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/TitleScreen.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looks way better in motion.  Click it!<\/p><\/div>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\">\n <p>Turns out that Flash doesn&#8217;t really likethe way I am doing 2.5D, but eventually I got the framerate to be a consistent 30.<\/p>\n <p><strong>Postmortem of Saturday:<\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>I&#8217;m doing it wrong<\/strong>:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Too much Mtn Dew.<\/li>\n <li>Not sleeping when my body is telling me I need it.<\/li>\n <li>Maybe concentrating too much on the visuals.  I always spend a lot of time tweaking things like colors and animation speeds.<\/li>\n <li>Normally I&#8217;d say AS3\/Flex is great for LD, but I think that for <em>this <\/em>game concept I&#8217;d have been better off dusting off Code::Blocks and using some SDL\/OpenGL.\u00a0 A lot of time was lost to getting Flash to cooperate and the quality of the game is definitely suffering.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>I&#8217;m doing it right<\/strong>:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Never seen a Flash game that looks anything like this!<\/li>\n <li>Nap!\u00a0 I seem to be like 10x more productive now.<\/li>\n <li>Excited about the game concept!<\/li>\n <li>It&#8217;s kind of fun!<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Basically I am ripping off the Wario Ware Inc.  microgame Ninja Pipe Cleaner.  Which you can see a video of <a href=\"http:\/\/guidesmedia.ign.com\/guides\/497893\/movies\/ww_ninjapipe.mov\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <p>You can see my last upload <a href=\"http:\/\/meyermike.com\/mediawiki\/index.php?title=LD15Preview\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0  I&#8217;ll be uploading updates there occasionally.<\/p>","time":"August 30th, 2009 12:01 am","title":"No time for thinking of a good title!"}