{"author_link":"\/users\/trev-devs","author_name":"Trev Devs","author_uid":"trev-devs","comments":[],"epoch":1533177539,"event":"LD42","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":101083,"likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"115854","p_author":"Trev Devs","p_authorkey":"1033440","p_urlkey":"331831","p_title":"Whew! First Slaughter Round Thoughts","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1533177539","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1033440","us_name":"Trev Devs","us_username":"trev-devs","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":1,"author":33440,"body":"With this being my first Ludum dare naturally, this was my first slaughter round too. I'm a pretty open-minded person but some of the stuff people put on there is outright stupid.\n\nSomethings I learned that maybe some others will take away is...\n\n1. We only have 2 days\nI say this for the themes like \"Battle Royale or AAA title guys legend of Zelda, pub or Minecraft were not made in 2 days...\n\n2. So restricting \nThe ones like \"1 color\" or \"no controls\" A. How is anyone gonna see anything on the screen if its all 1 color and how is it a game if there are no controls to make it function.\n\nSome of the themes I liked\n1. (My own) \"Don't break the egg\"\nI like this theme because it creates an objective and an object to build the game around while leaving it open to a variety of art styles.\n\n2. \"Escape The Room\" \nAgain I like this theme because its an objective not restricting the art, and leaving it open to anything this could be 3d, 2d pixel art, or heck even a text adventure.\n\n3. \"30-second game\" \nI like this one because it keeps in mind that we only have 2 days to make this game. I can think of many small minigames to make from this theme.\n\n\n![Screenshot_20180801-192811.png](\/\/\/raw\/0a2\/8\/z\/15128.png)","comments":0,"created":"2018-08-02T02:28:19Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":101083,"love":7,"love-timestamp":"2018-08-03T08:29:08Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-08-03T08:29:08Z","name":"Whew! First Slaughter Round Thoughts","node-timestamp":"2018-08-02T02:38:59Z","parent":98343,"parents":[1,5,9,97793,98343],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/$98343\/whew-first-slaughter-round-thoughts","published":"2018-08-02T02:38:59Z","scope":"public","slug":"whew-first-slaughter-round-thoughts","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":293599},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"101083","n_urlkey":"331831","n_parent":"98343","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/$98343\/whew-first-slaughter-round-thoughts","n_slug":"whew-first-slaughter-round-thoug","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"33440","n_created":"1533176899","n_modified":"1533284948","n_version":"293599","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/$98343\/whew-first-slaughter-round-thoughts","text":"With this being my first Ludum dare naturally, this was my first slaughter round too. I'm a pretty open-minded person but some of the stuff people put on there is outright stupid.\n\nSomethings I learned that maybe some others will take away is...\n\n1. We only have 2 days\nI say this for the themes like \"Battle Royale or AAA title guys legend of Zelda, pub or Minecraft were not made in 2 days...\n\n2. So restricting \nThe ones like \"1 color\" or \"no controls\" A. How is anyone gonna see anything on the screen if its all 1 color and how is it a game if there are no controls to make it function.\n\nSome of the themes I liked\n1. (My own) \"Don't break the egg\"\nI like this theme because it creates an objective and an object to build the game around while leaving it open to a variety of art styles.\n\n2. \"Escape The Room\" \nAgain I like this theme because its an objective not restricting the art, and leaving it open to anything this could be 3d, 2d pixel art, or heck even a text adventure.\n\n3. \"30-second game\" \nI like this one because it keeps in mind that we only have 2 days to make this game. I can think of many small minigames to make from this theme.\n\n\n![Screenshot_20180801-192811.png](\/\/\/raw\/0a2\/8\/z\/15128.png)","title":"Whew! First Slaughter Round Thoughts","wayback_source":[]}