{"author_link":"\/users\/maxialstar","author_name":"Maxialstar","author_uid":1099453,"comments":[{"author_name":"antonsem","author_uid":"1033071","time":"2018-08-20T20:16:51Z","epoch":1534796211,"modified":1534796211,"text":"Congratulations on completing your first game! As you've said, there is a lot what you could do better but considering this is a game jam and the first game I would say good job! Liked the music though and it was kind of trippy overall :)","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld42\/105157-8a71845d0a6c49c13001fdecf61ad920.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/maxialstar.itch.io\/ludum-dare-42-by-maxialstar-data-escape","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"49164","g_author":"1099453","g_event":"LD42","g_eventkey":"73","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"247374","g_title":"Data Escape by Maxialstar (first ever LD and first ever solo game!)","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"1","g_site2_node_id":"105157","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"105157","n_urlkey":"247374","n_parent":"97793","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/data-escape-by-maxialstar-first-ever-ld-and-first-ever-solo-game","n_slug":"data-escape-by-maxialstar-firs","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"99453","n_created":"1533835452","n_modified":"1534191747","n_version":"330337","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":105157,"parent":97793,"superparent":9,"author":99453,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2018-08-13T20:22:27Z","created":"2018-08-09T17:24:12Z","modified":"2018-08-13T20:22:27Z","version":330337,"slug":"data-escape-by-maxialstar-first-ever-ld-and-first-ever-solo-game","name":"Data Escape by Maxialstar (first ever LD and first ever solo game!)","body":"![Promo_2.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/d74\/81\/z\/17fa6.jpg)\n\nHiya! This is my first ever Ludum Dare and this is also my first solo game I've done (both art and programming).  The result has been a bit rushed in order to meet the deadline and thankfully I have finished +-2 hours ahead of the deadline. \n\nGotta be honest: The game is *crap*. This was mostly done for fun and give myself a challenge over the weekend. I got an idea from the theme and I did it (to some degree, stuff was cut, including a narrative to explain the context of the game), so I can rest assured that I did it and I did on time. \n\nThings I would change: - The visuals, I wish I could've worked on the visuals more, I feel it's a part that also needs polish, but I wanted to get the working product, the gameplay because that was my weakest point since I pretty much I don't have a background doing programming, so that was my N\u00ba1 priority.\n\nThe gameplay - Thing is, when you die in the game, the object gets fully destroyed and I was trying to figure out (even asked a friend, who lended me a hand to figure out stuff in the later part of the jam) how to stop it from moving + displaying a death screen UI, and since I couldn't, I just ended up doing a restart level button you can see in the top right corner, which I do not like, but it has it's purpose. And I almost didn't also get that to work on time, but I did!\n\nBut in the end, I loved doing this, I knew this would be fun. I just wish I had prepared more code beforehand to implement  and work with and have a better understanding of C#.\n\n\nSo yeah, nothing much else to say. The game is available from itch.io in the link below!\n\nGreetings!\n\n","meta":{"author":[99453],"grade-05-out":"1","grade-06-out":"1","grade-07-out":"1","grade-08-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/d74\/81\/z\/17f0a.jpg","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/maxialstar.itch.io\/ludum-dare-42-by-maxialstar-data-escape","link-01-tag":"42337","link-01-name":"Windows itch.io"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/data-escape-by-maxialstar-first-ever-ld-and-first-ever-solo-game","parents":[1,5,9,97793],"love":0,"notes":1,"notes-timestamp":"2018-08-20T20:16:51Z","grade":{"grade-01":2,"grade-02":2,"grade-03":2,"grade-04":2},"magic":{"grade":2,"given":0,"feedback":0,"smart":-29.289321881345,"cool":0}},"text":"![Promo_2.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/d74\/81\/z\/17fa6.jpg)\n\nHiya! This is my first ever Ludum Dare and this is also my first solo game I've done (both art and programming).  The result has been a bit rushed in order to meet the deadline and thankfully I have finished +-2 hours ahead of the deadline. \n\nGotta be honest: The game is *crap*. This was mostly done for fun and give myself a challenge over the weekend. I got an idea from the theme and I did it (to some degree, stuff was cut, including a narrative to explain the context of the game), so I can rest assured that I did it and I did on time. \n\nThings I would change: - The visuals, I wish I could've worked on the visuals more, I feel it's a part that also needs polish, but I wanted to get the working product, the gameplay because that was my weakest point since I pretty much I don't have a background doing programming, so that was my N\u00ba1 priority.\n\nThe gameplay - Thing is, when you die in the game, the object gets fully destroyed and I was trying to figure out (even asked a friend, who lended me a hand to figure out stuff in the later part of the jam) how to stop it from moving + displaying a death screen UI, and since I couldn't, I just ended up doing a restart level button you can see in the top right corner, which I do not like, but it has it's purpose. And I almost didn't also get that to work on time, but I did!\n\nBut in the end, I loved doing this, I knew this would be fun. I just wish I had prepared more code beforehand to implement  and work with and have a better understanding of C#.\n\n\nSo yeah, nothing much else to say. The game is available from itch.io in the link below!\n\nGreetings!\n\n","title":"Data Escape by Maxialstar (first ever LD and first ever solo game!)"}