{"author_link":"\/users\/alex-hart","author_name":"Alex Hart","author_uid":"alex-hart","comments":[],"epoch":1493679452,"event":"LD38","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":29617,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"92384","p_author":"Alex Hart","p_authorkey":"1015138","p_urlkey":"305302","p_title":"First Ludum Dare (continued)","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD38","p_time":"1493679452","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1015138","us_name":"Alex Hart","us_username":"alex-hart","event_start":"1492732800","event_key":"69","event_name":"LD 38"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD38","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9405,"_trust":1,"author":15138,"body":"Getting down to business.\n\nIt was about 4 o' clock on Friday when I decided to go for it and do the Ludum Dare.  The themes wouldn't be announced for a few hours.  I went out and found the theme voting, after voting for my favorites, I decided to start thinking about what games I would make for each theme.  I came up with a couple of ideas for each theme.  They are listed here if you want to take a look.  [Ideas](https:\/\/github.com\/hartalex\/ldjam-38\/blob\/master\/ideas.md)\n\nI had some ideas and all I had to do was wait for the theme to be announced.  I went out to dinner with my family.  After dinner, and after getting the kids put to bed, I sat down and got down to work.  \n\nI knew I wanted to make a 3D game, so I started out with the bug idea.  The idea was that you would a small bug on a dog\/ or other animal and you'd be fighting other bugs.  I pictured a small map with large tree like fur, and that as a bug you'd be able to jump really high.  So I spent the first few hours that night headed in that direction, but things kept getting in my way.  I was playing with the terrain object in Unity3d and that was giving me some trouble.  Also I couldn't figure out how to get my player to launch a rigidbody object like a projectile.  The projectile was a long pencil like object.  I was having issues with rotation and direction and trajectory.  I spent way more time on this then I should have.  I went to bed after about 3 hours of work. \n\nI tossed and turned in bed thinking about the game, and the theme, and then the snow globe idea hit me.  \nI'd create a small world inside a snow globe, and the snow man is the perfect protagonist in a snow globe environment.\nI had a fresh new idea upon awaking and was ready to take my jam in a new direction.\n\nTo be continued ..\n\nCheckout my game [My Game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/so-you-want-to-be-a-snowman)","comments":0,"created":"2017-05-01T21:07:14Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":29617,"love":0,"meta":[],"modified":"2017-05-01T22:57:32Z","name":"First Ludum Dare (continued)","node-timestamp":"2017-05-01T22:57:32Z","parent":15236,"parents":[1,5,9,9405,15236],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/so-you-want-to-be-a-snowman\/first-ludum-dare-continued","published":"2017-05-01T22:57:32Z","scope":"public","slug":"first-ludum-dare-continued","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":75591},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"29617","n_urlkey":"305302","n_parent":"15236","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/so-you-want-to-be-a-snowman\/first-ludum-dare-continued","n_slug":"first-ludum-dare-continued","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"15138","n_created":"1493672834","n_modified":"1493679452","n_version":"75591","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/so-you-want-to-be-a-snowman\/first-ludum-dare-continued","text":"Getting down to business.\n\nIt was about 4 o' clock on Friday when I decided to go for it and do the Ludum Dare.  The themes wouldn't be announced for a few hours.  I went out and found the theme voting, after voting for my favorites, I decided to start thinking about what games I would make for each theme.  I came up with a couple of ideas for each theme.  They are listed here if you want to take a look.  [Ideas](https:\/\/github.com\/hartalex\/ldjam-38\/blob\/master\/ideas.md)\n\nI had some ideas and all I had to do was wait for the theme to be announced.  I went out to dinner with my family.  After dinner, and after getting the kids put to bed, I sat down and got down to work.  \n\nI knew I wanted to make a 3D game, so I started out with the bug idea.  The idea was that you would a small bug on a dog\/ or other animal and you'd be fighting other bugs.  I pictured a small map with large tree like fur, and that as a bug you'd be able to jump really high.  So I spent the first few hours that night headed in that direction, but things kept getting in my way.  I was playing with the terrain object in Unity3d and that was giving me some trouble.  Also I couldn't figure out how to get my player to launch a rigidbody object like a projectile.  The projectile was a long pencil like object.  I was having issues with rotation and direction and trajectory.  I spent way more time on this then I should have.  I went to bed after about 3 hours of work. \n\nI tossed and turned in bed thinking about the game, and the theme, and then the snow globe idea hit me.  \nI'd create a small world inside a snow globe, and the snow man is the perfect protagonist in a snow globe environment.\nI had a fresh new idea upon awaking and was ready to take my jam in a new direction.\n\nTo be continued ..\n\nCheckout my game [My Game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/so-you-want-to-be-a-snowman)","title":"First Ludum Dare (continued)","wayback_source":[]}