{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/theme.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2014\/12\/419e6273c4bef128d3e7c7946c999623.png"},{"original":"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/theme.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2014\/12\/419e6273c4bef128d3e7c7946c999623.png"}],"author_link":"author\/blue-thumbs-gaming\/","author_name":"Blue Thumbs Gaming","cat":"LD #31","categories":["LD #31"],"comments":[],"epoch":1417755660,"event":"LD31","likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"82142","p_author":"Blue Thumbs Gaming","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"292874","p_title":"That Ludum Dare Lure\u2026","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1417755660","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"source_url":"2014\/12\/05\/that-ludum-dare-lure\/","text":"<p>I was going to avoid Ludum Dare 31 altogether, but then the hype of it kicked in a bit and I thought I\u2019d see if I could get into a team as a Designer \/ Blogger only (i.e. I\u2019d come up with a game and do the promo stuff for it while other team members developed the actual game). Nothing came of that but then I got to Tweeting back and forth with @SteffenWittig who I\u2019ve been dev mates with for a while and I got an immediate game idea after the following theme showed up in the theme voting list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/data\/posts\/2014\/12\/419e6273c4bef128d3e7c7946c999623.png\"><img alt=\"theme\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-404355 size-full\" height=\"121\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2014\/12\/419e6273c4bef128d3e7c7946c999623.png\" width=\"222\"\/><\/a>\u00a0I guess the vast majority of people saw this as a \u201cSnowman\u201d but my warped brain immediately went in a completely other direction.<\/p>\n<p>I bounced the idea off Steffen and he loved it and after a series of back and forth tweets, we decided to team up to potentially do a game. There\u2019s about 6 themes in the last round of voting that the game could match in with really well, so hopefully one of those is what eventually gets chosen and if so we\u2019ll be taking this weekend off from our other game development\u00a0stuff to do LD31.<\/p>\n<p>Steffen will be doing all of the art, UI, soundtrack and sound effects and I\u2019ll be doing the design and development. I was a bit reluctant to lose a weekend of my own development time for Blue Thumbs Gaming but the chance to work with such an awesome artist like Wittig, was an opportunity I couldn\u2019t look past. He\u2019s also a developer in his own right and has published two really awesome games \u201cDepri-Horst\u201d and \u201cExplodey BAM!\u201d. He\u2019s also the mastermind \/ artist behind a very cool comic series, this is one of his most recent works which is highly appropriate:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wittig.png\"><img alt=\"Wittig\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-404354\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wittig-212x300.png\" width=\"212\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ll be in with the chaos\u00a0over the weekend trying to get my crazy game idea built and all of SW\u2019s awesome art and sounds patched in, in time to be entered in the 72hr Jam competition for LD31.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to follow along with the development of our game, we\u2019ll be Tweeting about it under the hastag #PooDeePie That\u2019s assuming we get lucky with an appropriate chosen theme of course.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Really looking forward to playing another huge batch of awesome games.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Ben.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","time":"December 5th, 2014 5:01 am","title":"That Ludum Dare Lure\u2026","title_was_empty":false}