{"author_name":"Jonathan Whiting","cat":"LD #13 - Roads - 2008","comments":[],"epoch":1228570140,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74372","p_author":"Jonathan Whiting","p_authorkey":"527","p_urlkey":"110204","p_title":"Coding in the Dark","p_cat":"LD #13 - Roads - 2008","p_event":"LD13","p_time":"1228570140","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"527","us_name":"Jonathan Whiting","us_username":"mrpiglet","event_start":"1228435200","event_key":"92","event_name":"LD13"},"text":"

Well I’m definitely getting back on track, the past few hours have been rather productive. I just love the feeling rolling out lines and lines of reasonable code, I’m really enjoying myself at the moment.<\/p>\n

I’ve mostly been doing stuff behind the scenes stuff. I’ve put in an entity spawning system so that player+enemy positions are all stored in my level data. Rather happy with how it’s worked out (I’m wondering why I haven’t done something like it in the non-compo game I’ve been working on recently).<\/p>\n

Then I’ve put the groundwork in for some rescuable stickmen things, I’ll come clean and say the *idea* of rescuable things that follow you I’m pretty well ‘borrowing’ straight from my other game. Having said that, time is (obviously) at a premium, it’s a concept I’m particularly fond of, it looks pretty cute, and it’s going to work a bit differently here, so, *shrug* I don’t really feel bad about it.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it looks at the moment (the stickmen things bob up and down a little, it’s kinda cute).<\/p>\n

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Oh yes, and finally, why the title? The suns going down now here, and I started working before it started coming out. The bulb in my rooms light has blown, and the bulbs I bought to replace it don’t work for whatever reason. So, coding in the dark it is!<\/p>\n \n

Tags: screenshot<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 6th, 2008 8:29 am","title":"Coding in the Dark"}