{"author_name":"mattdev","cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","comments":[],"epoch":1251592020,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72772","p_author":"mattdev","p_authorkey":"1136","p_urlkey":"108594","p_title":"End of day 1","p_cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1251592020","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1136","us_name":"mattdev","us_username":"mattdev","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"<p>This is my progress at the end of the first day &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattdev.com\/cavernbat.zip\">http:\/\/mattdev.com\/cavernbat.zip<\/a>.<\/p>\n <p>Controls:<\/p>\n <p>In the menu, up\/down and enter.<\/p>\n <p>In the game, press and hold &#8216;s&#8217; to drop the bat down, and release it to make him hang from the ceiling again. &#8216;a&#8217; and &#8216;d&#8217; will alter his current angle. Escape to quit.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;ve been working on this almost the entire day, and I&#8217;m reasonably pleased with where I&#8217;m up to. So far I&#8217;ve spent the majority of my time on the &#8220;art&#8221; &#8211; doing animations is tricky! The music took some time, too.<\/p>\n <p>Screenshot:<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8744\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/flying-300x225.png\" alt=\"flying\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/flying-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/flying-550x412.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/flying.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n <p>Here&#8217;s my current to-do list, which is probably missing a load of things:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Try out distance fields \/ metaballs for cave drawing<\/li>\n <li>Support for multiple levels<\/li>\n <li>Level selection screen?<\/li>\n <li>Level end points<\/li>\n <li>End game screen<\/li>\n <li>Things that shoot stuff at you<\/li>\n <li>Add more decoration to caverns<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I haven&#8217;t quite figured out what the bat is going to be doing while moving from start to end points of caverns &#8211; picking up items (keys to unlock doors), maybe, or getting points for doing spins in the air, or something.<\/p>\n <p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll deal with that tomorrow!<\/p>","time":"August 29th, 2009 7:27 pm","title":"End of day 1"}