{"author_link":"\/author\/kimau\/","author_name":"Kimau","author_uid":"15","images":["ld15\/15-e0c7fa3fe0d2ba511fa5247914bc3a19.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/filesmelt.com\/downloader\/Caverns_Win32.zip","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"34144","g_author":"15","g_event":"LD15","g_eventkey":"1","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"34174","g_title":"Steampunk Cavern Crawl Into the Darkness","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"96","g_commentcount":"0","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/6952\/15-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Okay this was meant to be a Wizardy style dungeon crawl into the depths of a dinosaur kingdom....\r\n\r\nKinda a fail on my part but I got something together in the end.\r\n\r\nSo what went wrong...\r\n\r\nDay 1: \r\nSpent 80% on it making a random cavern generator which made fully connected natural caverns. Other 20% on basic tech.\r\n\r\nDay 2:\r\n* Wasted 4 hours pixeling (should have gone basic)\r\n* Wasted about 5 hours on Marching Squares smoothing algorithm\r\n* Wasted another 5 hours trying to get shadow projection working.\r\n* Wasted more time on inane SDL glitches\r\n\r\n-------\r\nTotal time spent on actual game code: 3hrs tops.\r\n\r\nAh well lesson learned :P<\/p>","title":"Steampunk Cavern Crawl Into the Darkness"}