{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/missn\/","author_name":"missn","cat":"MiniLD","categories":["MiniLD"],"comments":[],"epoch":1427191200,"event":"","likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"82628","p_author":"missn","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"293360","p_title":"Ping: A Game About Inputs and Outputs","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1427191200","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"source_url":"2015\/03\/24\/ping-2\/","text":"

I was originally going to call this as\u00a0Whispers<\/em> but then I thought of\u00a0Ping<\/em> and well\u2026 how can I not name it that for this MiniLD?<\/p>\n

\"ping_ss2\"<\/p>\n

The game is not a straight-up Pong<\/em> game,\u00a0just using the mechanics of Pong (mainly\u00a0the ball hitting a paddle mechanic). As I mentioned in my previous post<\/a>\u00a0(though I\u2019ve veered away from the relationship\/friendship aspect of it), I\u2019m making a social simulator.<\/p>\n

A Game about Inputs and Outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n

I freelance remotely.\u00a0I spend\u00a0a lot<\/em> of time at home just because my work is computer-based (I\u2019m here but not really here!).\u00a0I\u2019ve also had a lot of roommate experiences. Sometimes, I\u2019ve overheard snippets of their conversations. My socially anxious self though often goes into overdrive and I start thinking those conversations were about me.\u00a0I\u2019m not the confrontational type so to this day I have never found out if those conversations were\u00a0really\u00a0about me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve decided to implement this anxiety in game-form (what else can you do? hah).<\/p>\n

Inspired partly by The Novelist<\/a>, you\u2019re a writer trying to finish a book in 30 days. The line on the bottom of the screen is your \u201ctimer\u201d \u2013 once you reach the end, the book is submitted to your publisher and depending on your progress\/effort\/quality of the book, you either will succeed massively, averagely or fail miserably.<\/p>\n

During the span of those 30 days though, you\u2019ll randomly get these \u201cpings\u201d \u2013 a little circle that bubble up. It will float to the line above of the screen (you control the circle at the top of the screen). If you manage to \u201ccatch\u201d it, the ping will bounce off your circle and go back below \u2013 which helps you write more and\/or increase the quality of your writing. But, if you miss the ping, you\u2019re going to get these distracting messages (seen below) from your roommate that may (or may not) be about you. These are harmful though because for X amount of time, your progress will be stalled while the timer is still going.<\/p>\n

\"ping_ss\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the end,\u00a0if you\u2019re able to channel your \u201cpings\u201d towards your own work (instead of using them to hear about the latest gossip\/conversation your roommate is saying), you\u2019ll succeed! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tags: #miniLD58<\/a><\/p>","time":"March 24th, 2015 10:00 am","title":"Ping: A Game About Inputs and Outputs","title_was_empty":false}