{"author_name":"Weeping Rupee","cat":"LD #34","comments":[],"epoch":1450824480,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"9430","p_author":"Weeping Rupee","p_authorkey":"60016","p_urlkey":"44648","p_title":"Nanobit: The Hardest Game You Won\u2019t Play in LD34","p_cat":"LD #34","p_event":"LD34","p_time":"1450824480","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"60016","us_name":"Weeping Rupee","us_username":"weeping-rupee","event_start":"1449792000","event_key":"31","event_name":"LD34"},"text":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-34\/?action=preview&amp;uid=60016\"><img class=\"wp-image-529464 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/NB-logo-111-300x196.png\" alt=\"NB logo 11\" width=\"403\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/NB-logo-111-300x196.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/NB-logo-111-550x359.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/NB-logo-111.png 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>Greetings from Heart Lamp&#8211; This was our very first LD entry and we&#8217;re &#8230; mildly proud of it.<\/p>\n <p><strong>The Idea:<\/strong> Create a metroidvania-style platforming game where manipulating your size determines which of many branching paths will be open to you&#8211; A mindblowing journey into your circuit board.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><strong>The Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\">-Friday Night-<\/p>\n <p>1 member\u00a0of our development team recovers from a hang over while re-watching Venture Brothers, 1 member prepares to hog tie professional Santa Clauses (or whatever the hell they do at &#8216;Running of the Santas&#8217;), and 1 team member bowls a 156 (a personal best). However, texts about the theme are shared. We go with &#8220;Grow&#8221;.<\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\">-Saturday-<\/p>\n <p>\u00a0Main Character Design and base code for a platformer are completed. Sprites for blocks and trees completed.<\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\">-Sunday-<\/p>\n <p>Pools and pipes are tested and implemented. Some old music we did for other projects is shoved in there too.<\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\">-Monday-<\/p>\n <p>Furious level building (because we have basically nothing playable) along with enemies, bullets, keys, obstacles, and doors.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><strong>The &#8220;Final Product&#8221;:<\/strong> A level. Like, one very difficult level&#8230; that <strong><em>we <\/em><\/strong>think is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Here&#8217;s everything we mostly succeeded to cram in&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_529470\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img class=\"wp-image-529470\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pools-and-pipes-300x281.png\" alt=\"pools and pipes\" width=\"206\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pools-and-pipes-300x281.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pools-and-pipes.png 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple goo makes you big, yellow goo shrinks you. The pipes were supposed to refill the pools but now they&#8217;re just decoration.<\/p><\/div>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_529473\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/obstacles.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-529473\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/obstacles-295x300.png\" alt=\"obstacles\" width=\"254\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/obstacles-295x300.png 295w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/obstacles-550x559.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/obstacles.png 565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">One falls, one breaks.<\/p><\/div>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_529475\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/keys.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-529475\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/keys.png\" alt=\"keys\" width=\"120\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get &#8217;em.<\/p><\/div>\n <div id=\"attachment_529471\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baddies.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-529471\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baddies-300x213.png\" alt=\"baddies\" width=\"332\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baddies-300x213.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baddies-550x390.png 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">They all do the same thing: make you big when they hit you. The difference is: one crawls, one flies, and one gives your the business with bullets. Or just freaks out. One or the other.<\/p><\/div>\n <p>.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>While we may not have accomplished all we set out to do, we had alot of fun. In it&#8217;s current form NanoBit is a game about <em>staying small.\u00a0<\/em>Originally we wanted there to be some advantage to being big (stepping on enemes, breaking blocks when hitting them from below) but these were lofty aspirations. If you give it a play please stick with it. If you don&#8217;t want to stick with it (because the verdict so far has been that it is VERY hard) then check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/fpf9wv8cc6ihwgy\/Nanobit%20Post%20Ludum.exe?dl=0\">Post-Ludum Update<\/a> for a version with checkpoints; It will be much more fun for cowards like you.<\/p>\n <p>Thanks for all the feedback and constructive criticism and we hope to have you playing with us again in the future. If you are at all interested in seeing a bug-free full version of NanoBit released, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeartLampGames\">let us know<\/a>! We would love to develop something closer\u00a0to the original idea and even add a two-player mode if enough people are interested.<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heartlamp_logo_31.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-529460 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heartlamp_logo_31-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"heartlamp_logo_3\" width=\"197\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heartlamp_logo_31-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heartlamp_logo_31-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heartlamp_logo_31-550x550.jpg 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heartlamp_logo_31.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","time":"December 22nd, 2015 5:48 pm","title":"Nanobit: The Hardest Game You Won\u2019t Play in LD34"}