{"author_link":"\/users\/nnnnneeeedddd","author_name":"Nnnnneeeedddd","author_uid":"nnnnneeeedddd","comments":[],"epoch":1776619597,"event":"LD59","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":429666,"likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"95798","p_author":"Nnnnneeeedddd","p_authorkey":"1000766","p_urlkey":"311091","p_title":"Giving Up","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD59","p_time":"1776619597","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1000766","us_name":"Nnnnneeeedddd","us_username":"nnnnneeeedddd","event_start":"1776470400","event_key":"113","event_name":"Ludum Dare 59"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD59","removed_author":false},"_superparent":424249,"_trust":2,"author":766,"body":"Okay, started beating myself up for being s*** at coding. Pretty sure it's time to stop now...\n\nI made a thing:\n - yesterday morning did some pretty cool animated water (more obvious if you zoom in, it has a cool zoomy camera).\n - Today I made a network of points that merchant ships were supposed to follow in trade routes, while pirates attacked them, then you'd be defending them.\n\nHere's the thing with the graph in debug view:\n\n![thing.png](\/\/\/raw\/ef2\/z\/701d8.png)\n\nAnyway, yeah, apparently I can't just wing pathfinding, which is a shame :sob: was looking forward to this LD for a long time, so genuinely quite frustrated.","comments":2,"comments-timestamp":"2026-04-19T17:35:33Z","created":"2026-04-19T17:22:44Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":429666,"love":7,"love-timestamp":"2026-04-19T20:50:14Z","meta":[],"modified":"2026-04-19T20:50:14Z","name":"Giving Up","node-timestamp":"2026-04-19T17:27:34Z","parent":429665,"parents":[1,5,9,424249,429665],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/$429665\/giving-up","published":"2026-04-19T17:26:37Z","scope":"public","slug":"giving-up","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1352632},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"429666","n_urlkey":"311091","n_parent":"429665","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/$429665\/giving-up","n_slug":"giving-up","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"766","n_created":"1776619364","n_modified":"1776631814","n_version":"1352632","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/$429665\/giving-up","text":"Okay, started beating myself up for being s*** at coding. Pretty sure it's time to stop now...\n\nI made a thing:\n - yesterday morning did some pretty cool animated water (more obvious if you zoom in, it has a cool zoomy camera).\n - Today I made a network of points that merchant ships were supposed to follow in trade routes, while pirates attacked them, then you'd be defending them.\n\nHere's the thing with the graph in debug view:\n\n![thing.png](\/\/\/raw\/ef2\/z\/701d8.png)\n\nAnyway, yeah, apparently I can't just wing pathfinding, which is a shame :sob: was looking forward to this LD for a long time, so genuinely quite frustrated.","title":"Giving Up","wayback_source":[]}