{"author_name":"chrisp","cat":"LD #11 - Minimalist - 2008","comments":[],"epoch":1208586300,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"75279","p_author":"chrisp","p_authorkey":"283","p_urlkey":"111111","p_title":"This-is-not-Sokoban: Screenshot!","p_cat":"LD #11 - Minimalist - 2008","p_event":"LD11","p_time":"1208586300","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"283","us_name":"chrisp","us_username":"chrisp","event_start":"1208476800","event_key":"87","event_name":"LD11"},"text":"<p>In just over an hour, including player movement. Not too bad. (Although I&#8217;ve spent like 10 minutes on this post. Gah!) I&#8217;m going to have a dinner break now, and then spend my remaining 2 hours on actual gameplay.<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/screenshot-pygame-window.png\" title=\"Work-in-progress screenshot of my game\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/screenshot-pygame-window.png\" alt=\"Work-in-progress screenshot of my game\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>I know, I know, it&#8217;s ugly as sin. My artistic skills are, uh, minimal<strike>ist<\/strike>. The character at least definitely needs work.<br \/>\n The gameplay currently consists of moving left and right until you get bored. A Sokoban-ish clone with gravity is the <em>planned<\/em> gameplay. E.T.&#8217;s Ugly Twin here will be able to lift blocks above his head and place them down, either to make his way to the exit (by building piles \/ filling in holes) or to crush monsters. Because, as everyone&#8217;s favourite anti-games <strike>lawyer<\/strike> idiot knows, no game is complete without at least a little bit of ultra-violence<\/p>\n <p>Minimalism is present in at least the following ways:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Colour palette (totally monochrome, baby!)<\/li>\n <li>My artistic skills<\/li>\n <li>Pixels (all sprites are 12&#215;12 pixel art)<\/li>\n <li>Squinting required (the sprites are resized up to 48&#215;48 pixels so that they&#8217;re visible to the human eye)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>There are others, but I&#8217;ll leave them up to you to guess!<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/dinner\/\" rel=\"tag\">dinner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/screenshot\/\" rel=\"tag\">screenshot<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 19th, 2008 1:25 am","title":"This-is-not-Sokoban: Screenshot!"}