{"author_link":"\/users\/fran-hiroma","author_name":"fran_hiroma","author_uid":"fran-hiroma","comments":[],"epoch":1501537650,"event":"LD39","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":45811,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"99394","p_author":"fran_hiroma","p_authorkey":"1036067","p_urlkey":"315090","p_title":"I'm about to hit the \"Publish\" button...","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD39","p_time":"1501537650","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1036067","us_name":"fran_hiroma","us_username":"fran-hiroma","event_start":"1501200000","event_key":"74","event_name":"LD 39"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD39","removed_author":false},"_superparent":32802,"_trust":1,"author":36067,"body":"I'm having mixed feelings about this jam.\n\nI had a lot of problems communicating with my mate who does art for the game. We couldn't see eye to eye in a lot of things and he didn't wait to reach a consensus with me, the programmer, before doing the art.\nThe result was that most of the art he did went to the toilet (and it's a shame because he did a lot of cool things, he's very talented) because it didn't work at all with the type of game we were doing.\n\nAlso, my programming abilities were a bit rusty because it's been a while since I did a game (or a jam) and simple problems that would take a decent programmer 5 minutes, took me half an hour if not more.\n\nDespite all this, it's been a wonderful learning experience. Now I know A LOT more about Game Maker: Studio than I did before the jam and I've learned a couple of lessons about what not to do in early stages of the development of a game. When the burnout passes I'll enter another jam and I'll try to be better with all the things I've learned.\n\nCheers guys!\n\n\nPS: Here's the game! https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/$36080\n\n","comments":0,"created":"2017-07-31T21:36:47Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":45811,"love":2,"love-timestamp":"2017-07-31T23:03:50Z","meta":[],"modified":"2017-07-31T23:03:50Z","name":"I'm about to hit the \"Publish\" button...","node-timestamp":"2017-07-31T21:49:32Z","parent":36080,"parents":[1,5,9,32802,36080],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/fired-off\/im-about-to-hit-the-publish-button","published":"2017-07-31T21:47:30Z","scope":"public","slug":"im-about-to-hit-the-publish-button","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":120548},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"45811","n_urlkey":"315090","n_parent":"36080","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/fired-off\/im-about-to-hit-the-publish-button","n_slug":"im-about-to-hit-the-publish-butt","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"36067","n_created":"1501537007","n_modified":"1501542230","n_version":"120548","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/fired-off\/im-about-to-hit-the-publish-button","text":"I'm having mixed feelings about this jam.\n\nI had a lot of problems communicating with my mate who does art for the game. We couldn't see eye to eye in a lot of things and he didn't wait to reach a consensus with me, the programmer, before doing the art.\nThe result was that most of the art he did went to the toilet (and it's a shame because he did a lot of cool things, he's very talented) because it didn't work at all with the type of game we were doing.\n\nAlso, my programming abilities were a bit rusty because it's been a while since I did a game (or a jam) and simple problems that would take a decent programmer 5 minutes, took me half an hour if not more.\n\nDespite all this, it's been a wonderful learning experience. Now I know A LOT more about Game Maker: Studio than I did before the jam and I've learned a couple of lessons about what not to do in early stages of the development of a game. When the burnout passes I'll enter another jam and I'll try to be better with all the things I've learned.\n\nCheers guys!\n\n\nPS: Here's the game! https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/$36080\n\n","title":"I'm about to hit the \"Publish\" button...","wayback_source":[]}