{"assets": [], "author_link": "author/heychinaski/", "author_name": "HeyChinaski", "cat": "LD #29", "categories": ["LD #29"], "comments": [], "epoch": 1398545520, "event": "LD29", "likes": 9, "metadata": {"p_key": "80198", "p_author": "HeyChinaski", "p_authorkey": "0", "p_urlkey": "289208", "p_title": "I’m in", "p_cat": "LD #29", "p_event": "LD29", "p_time": "1398545520", "p_likes": "9", "p_comments": "0", "p_status": "WAYBACK", "us_key": null, "us_name": null, "us_username": null, "event_start": "1398384000", "event_key": "22", "event_name": "LD29"}, "source_url": "2014/04/26/im-in-2317/", "text": "<p>Started a bit late (about 10 hours ago) but I’m in.  I’m going for a minecart game where the aim is to traverse the bumpy mine rail road without spilling all the gems you’ve worked hard to mine.</p>\n<p><img alt=\"sixOpt\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-349215\" height=\"384\" src=\"http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/sixOpt1.gif\" width=\"512\"/></p>\n<p>I’m using Java with Java2d and JBox2d.  I’m also using <a href=\"https://github.com/tom-martin/engie\" title=\"Engie\">engie</a>, a small 2D engine I wrote in Java for doing LD entries.</p>\n<p>I’ve spent most of the time so far (literally hours) optimising and tuning the physics.  If I’d imagined it would have been so time consuming I perhaps would have hacked together my own sketchy physics code, although perhaps that would have taken even longer.</p>\n<p>Building the terrain from splines and then converting it into discrete concave polygons for JBox2D was a fun challenge.</p>\n<p><img alt=\"crashOpt\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-349189\" height=\"384\" src=\"http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/crashOpt.gif\" width=\"512\"/></p>\n<p>I guess I’m pretty behind schedule.  There’s still no art whatsoever so I’ll have to slap something together pretty quickly tomorrow.  Then there’s actually building in a win condition and tuning the level difficulties.  First – sleep!</p>", "time": "April 26th, 2014 8:52 pm", "title": "I’m in", "title_was_empty": false}