{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/iandioch\/","author_name":"iandioch","cat":"LD #24","categories":["LD #24","MiniLD"],"comments":[],"epoch":1344601740,"event":"LD24","likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"77026","p_author":"iandioch","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"285362","p_title":"I\u2019m in. I hope.","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1344601740","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"source_url":"2012\/08\/10\/im-in-i-hope\/","text":"<p>So, I \u2018competed\u2019 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staticvoidgames.com\/play\/?game=Cruithne\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cruithne on StaticVoidGames.com\">the last miniLD<\/a>.\u00a0That was my first experience of a gamejam, and it was fantastic. I\u2019ve been looking at the big-boy\u2019s proper full-on Ludum Dare for a long time, with dreams of entering. I think this is the one. 24 Here I come.<\/p>\n<p>So, here we go:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n<p>I hope.<\/p>\n<p>I could code all day long, but nobody else in the house understands. They don\u2019t even know what a jam is, and what it means to me. \u00a0So, knowing my luck, the jam weekend will be the one where my mother decides to kick me off the computer or my brother decides he wants to spend all day playing his god-awful golf sim.<\/p>\n<p>If it were up to me, I\u2019d be coding for every one of the 48 hours. \u00a0But, life tends to jump in the way every time I try.<\/p>\n<p>So, fingers crossed, hopes up, star firmly wished upon.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in.<\/p>","time":"August 10th, 2012 12:29 pm","title":"I\u2019m in. I hope."}