{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/hamumu\/","author_name":"Hamumu","cat":"LD #10.5 - Unexpected\/Surprise - 2008","categories":["LD #10.5 - Unexpected\/Surprise - 2008"],"comments":[],"epoch":1203772320,"event":"LD10","likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"75967","p_author":"Hamumu","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"283635","p_title":"Progress, Mid-Day 2","p_cat":"LD #10.5 - Unexpected\/Surprise - 2008","p_event":"LD10","p_time":"1203772320","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1197590400","event_key":"88","event_name":"LD10"},"source_url":"2008\/02\/23\/progress-mid-day-2\/","text":"<p>Well, I spent day 1 playing WoW, watching TV, and trying to come up with an idea with no success.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s day 2, and things are coming along really smoothly:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/maze.gif\" title=\"maze\"><img alt=\"maze\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/maze.thumbnail.gif\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more functionality done than you can see in the shot.\u00a0 You can move around the (two-room at the moment) maze.\u00a0 If there were items, you could use them, drop them, and combine them, but not pick them up yet.\u00a0 So as you can see, there are doors leading off into space.\u00a0 If you go that way, you actually stay in the room you\u2019re in, but an edit section will pop up on the screen for the room you tried to enter.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t done that yet, but you\u2019ll be able to make your own description and layout there.\u00a0 Then that place is marked \u201cpending\u201d as it\u2019s emailed to me for verification (to check for language and such).\u00a0 Pending areas can\u2019t be built in or entered, and there\u2019s a \u201cnifty\u201d graphic indicating them.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be a sight to see!\u00a0 I can see great potential for impassable situations, but that\u2019s all theoretical right now.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t include items and just had riddles, we\u2019d be good, except for one thing \u2013 I just know shortly after startup, we\u2019ll end up in a state where all possible paths are blocked off.\u00a0 But I can always manually throw in doors if that happens.\u00a0 I could just verify that there is always at least one door leading into the void, but that\u2019d be a very heavy database churn to do.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/maze\/\" rel=\"tag\">maze<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/progress\/\" rel=\"tag\">progress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/screenshot\/\" rel=\"tag\">screenshot<\/a><\/p>","time":"February 23rd, 2008 1:12 pm","title":"Progress, Mid-Day 2"}