{"author_link":"\/users\/jeremy-ryan","author_name":"Jeremy Ryan","author_uid":"jeremy-ryan","comments":[],"epoch":1531801372,"event":"LD42","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":98616,"likes":6,"metadata":{"p_key":"115640","p_author":"Jeremy Ryan","p_authorkey":"1015034","p_urlkey":"331602","p_title":"I'm back for Compo #3!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1531801372","p_likes":"6","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1015034","us_name":"Jeremy Ryan","us_username":"jeremy-ryan","event_start":"1533859200","event_key":"73","event_name":"LD 42"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD42","removed_author":false},"_superparent":97793,"_trust":14,"author":15034,"body":"## A brief hiatus\n\nIt's been a year since I've participated in the Compo, but I'm back! \n\nFor the last two LD's I worked on team projects, and while fun, they doesn't quite have the same cathartic feeling as the one-man 48-hour sleep deprivation marathon.\n\n![alttext.png](\/\/\/raw\/aba\/3\/z\/14fe6.png)\n\n## The kit\n\nI'll have the following up my sleeve:\n\n- **Pygame** for making stuff do\n- **Sibelius** because I'm a composer, not a sound designer, dammit\n- **Paint.NET** to rasterize text and other visual atrocities\n- **sfxr**... is this sound design yet?\n- **Kellogg's Fruity Snacks** because nostalgia has never tasted so much like corn syrup\n\n## The plan\n\n- **Sleep** little, if at all, but offer advice that contradicts my own shortcomings\n- **Plan** before I start the haul, because nobody wants to dedicate 48 hours to a rushed idea and realize halfway through they could have thought of something else\n- **Aim for overall experience** and don't overlook small things like usability, subtle visual cues, and overall contiguity\n- **Recruit** a friend, hopefully, to struggle with me and provide mutual playtesting\/critique\/sanity\n- **Improve**. Last compo (LD39), I got 10th in Audio, and 346th in Fun. My priorities may be a bit wonky, but I'd be happy if I got three categories in the top 100.\n\n## As a wise man once said:\n\nShoot for the moon. If you miss, your frozen corpse will forever serve as a monument to your failure. *(ExtraFabulousComics)*","comments":0,"created":"2018-07-17T03:54:42Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":98616,"love":6,"love-timestamp":"2018-07-19T22:27:13Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-07-19T22:27:13Z","name":"I'm back for Compo #3!","node-timestamp":"2018-07-17T04:26:03Z","parent":98615,"parents":[1,5,9,97793,98615],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/rampart\/im-back-for-compo-3","published":"2018-07-17T04:22:52Z","scope":"public","slug":"im-back-for-compo-3","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":290190},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"98616","n_urlkey":"331602","n_parent":"98615","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/rampart\/im-back-for-compo-3","n_slug":"im-back-for-compo-3","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"15034","n_created":"1531799682","n_modified":"1532039233","n_version":"290190","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/rampart\/im-back-for-compo-3","text":"## A brief hiatus\n\nIt's been a year since I've participated in the Compo, but I'm back! \n\nFor the last two LD's I worked on team projects, and while fun, they doesn't quite have the same cathartic feeling as the one-man 48-hour sleep deprivation marathon.\n\n![alttext.png](\/\/\/raw\/aba\/3\/z\/14fe6.png)\n\n## The kit\n\nI'll have the following up my sleeve:\n\n- **Pygame** for making stuff do\n- **Sibelius** because I'm a composer, not a sound designer, dammit\n- **Paint.NET** to rasterize text and other visual atrocities\n- **sfxr**... is this sound design yet?\n- **Kellogg's Fruity Snacks** because nostalgia has never tasted so much like corn syrup\n\n## The plan\n\n- **Sleep** little, if at all, but offer advice that contradicts my own shortcomings\n- **Plan** before I start the haul, because nobody wants to dedicate 48 hours to a rushed idea and realize halfway through they could have thought of something else\n- **Aim for overall experience** and don't overlook small things like usability, subtle visual cues, and overall contiguity\n- **Recruit** a friend, hopefully, to struggle with me and provide mutual playtesting\/critique\/sanity\n- **Improve**. Last compo (LD39), I got 10th in Audio, and 346th in Fun. My priorities may be a bit wonky, but I'd be happy if I got three categories in the top 100.\n\n## As a wise man once said:\n\nShoot for the moon. If you miss, your frozen corpse will forever serve as a monument to your failure. *(ExtraFabulousComics)*","title":"I'm back for Compo #3!","wayback_source":[]}