{"author_link":"\/users\/call-me-nutty","author_name":"Call_me_Nutty","author_uid":"call-me-nutty","comments":[],"epoch":1522839832,"event":"LD41","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":75241,"likes":6,"metadata":{"p_key":"108186","p_author":"Call_me_Nutty","p_authorkey":"1051717","p_urlkey":"324022","p_title":"Ready for another LD Jam","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD41","p_time":"1522839832","p_likes":"6","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1051717","us_name":"Call_me_Nutty","us_username":"call-me-nutty","event_start":"1524182400","event_key":"72","event_name":"LD 41"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD41","removed_author":false},"_superparent":73256,"_trust":5,"author":51717,"body":"Sorry for the long post.\n\nHello!\n\nThis is my second go at an LD JAM. First time I made quite a few mistakes which ended up costing me quite a few spots (My game ended up being one of the lowest-rated games in the compo), however! I've learnt quite a lot since then, I've actually been working on a side project for a while since the Jam (which should be done in a month or two). \n\nI might as well give some tips to people who are new to the LD Jam (This is Compo orientated btw)\n- Don't waste your first day doing loads of prototypes and brainstorming, an idea is important but getting a playable version of it as soon as possible should ALWAYS be your top priority (I ended up having to hack together an ending in my last few hours)\n- Come up with an idea, then scope down, scope down, scope down and scope down. A good example of this is the game Plug Me for LD39 (https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/plug-me-1). The actual premise of the game is extremely simple, yet through some smart design choices, the game is very enjoyable.\n- Get some organization tools such as Trello or Github (but don't delete your repo like I did).\n- Make a tutorial... please.\n\nHope those help out :).\n\nHere are some of the tools I'll be using:\n\n- Unity 2017.3.1\n- Aseprite and Photoshop\n- Rytmik (or Bosca Ceoil if I'm feeling suicidal)\n- My old snowball mic\n- Pencil and Paper\n- Pizza\n- Pizza\n- Pizza\n\nEnjoy the Jam everyone!","comments":5,"comments-timestamp":"2018-04-07T15:55:00Z","created":"2018-04-04T10:41:03Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":75241,"love":6,"love-timestamp":"2018-04-05T10:13:57Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-04-07T15:55:00Z","name":"Ready for another LD Jam","node-timestamp":"2018-04-04T11:03:52Z","parent":73367,"parents":[1,5,9,73256,73367],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/jump-and-draw\/ready-for-another-ld-jam","published":"2018-04-04T11:03:52Z","scope":"public","slug":"ready-for-another-ld-jam","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":217032},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"75241","n_urlkey":"324022","n_parent":"73367","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/jump-and-draw\/ready-for-another-ld-jam","n_slug":"ready-for-another-ld-jam","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"51717","n_created":"1522838463","n_modified":"1523116500","n_version":"217032","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/jump-and-draw\/ready-for-another-ld-jam","text":"Sorry for the long post.\n\nHello!\n\nThis is my second go at an LD JAM. First time I made quite a few mistakes which ended up costing me quite a few spots (My game ended up being one of the lowest-rated games in the compo), however! I've learnt quite a lot since then, I've actually been working on a side project for a while since the Jam (which should be done in a month or two). \n\nI might as well give some tips to people who are new to the LD Jam (This is Compo orientated btw)\n- Don't waste your first day doing loads of prototypes and brainstorming, an idea is important but getting a playable version of it as soon as possible should ALWAYS be your top priority (I ended up having to hack together an ending in my last few hours)\n- Come up with an idea, then scope down, scope down, scope down and scope down. A good example of this is the game Plug Me for LD39 (https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/plug-me-1). The actual premise of the game is extremely simple, yet through some smart design choices, the game is very enjoyable.\n- Get some organization tools such as Trello or Github (but don't delete your repo like I did).\n- Make a tutorial... please.\n\nHope those help out :).\n\nHere are some of the tools I'll be using:\n\n- Unity 2017.3.1\n- Aseprite and Photoshop\n- Rytmik (or Bosca Ceoil if I'm feeling suicidal)\n- My old snowball mic\n- Pencil and Paper\n- Pizza\n- Pizza\n- Pizza\n\nEnjoy the Jam everyone!","title":"Ready for another LD Jam","wayback_source":[]}