{"author_link":"\/users\/drazil100","author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"drazil100","comments":[],"epoch":1684645056,"event":"LD53","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":371348,"likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"201514","p_author":"drazil100","p_authorkey":"1012323","p_urlkey":"434208","p_title":"Loading Zone: Our best jam game so far!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD53","p_time":"1684645056","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1012323","us_name":"drazil100","us_username":"drazil100","event_start":"1682726400","event_key":"118","event_name":"Ludum Dare 53"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD53","removed_author":false},"_superparent":332127,"_trust":2,"author":12323,"body":"![Loading Zone.png](\/\/\/raw\/320\/3\/z\/5bede.png)\nI just spent the day going through every jam I and my friend @coda-highland have ever participated in (both as a team and independently) and throwing everything into a spreadsheet. Turns out we crushed it this time around. [Loading Zone](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/loading-zone) ended up topping the charts on Overall, Fun, Innovation, and Theme.\n\n## Here is how we did: \n![Screenshot from 2023-05-20 22-48-33.png](\/\/\/raw\/320\/3\/z\/5bedf.png)\n\n![Screenshot from 2023-05-20 23-04-38.png](\/\/\/raw\/320\/3\/z\/5bee0.png)\n(Entries in orange are games we did not get 20 ratings on. It is also worth noting that both [Running Out of Space](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/running-out-of-space-3) and [Game Over](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/game-over) were done by Coda's son.)\n\nThis jam was admittedly a bit of a weird one for us. I started jamming with Ludum Dare 35 and started jamming with Coda in LD36. By the time we got to LD41 I had burned out while Coda kept jamming without me. After years of not participating I finally convinced myself to participate again and we were ready to go, only to find out the week before that we missed the notification that the event date had changed and that Coda had scheduled the wrong date off work.\n\nI almost didn't participate in this jam. It wasn't until Dawn (8pm) of the final day that I actually came up with an idea I actually liked and I ended up pulling a complete all-nighter to actually make the thing in time. On top of that I did it in [html52d](https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/ahigerd\/html52d), Coda's own custom HTML5 game engine, which I had no prior experience with. While Coda was able to help towards the end, I am used to him carrying the majority of the work load. This time however I programmed almost all of it while he, funnily enough, was the artist!\n\nOverall I am extremely happy with how this turned out. Not only did I manage to pull through with 1\/3 the time everyone else had in an engine I was completely unfamiliar with that has no documentation, but I managed to beat every other game the 2 of us have ever worked on in the process!\n\nThank you to everyone who played and rated this game. I look forward to participating in the next jam!\n\n|Links||\n|-|-|\n| **Loading Zone:** | https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/loading-zone |\n| **My Games:**     | https:\/\/ldjam.com\/users\/drazil100\/games             |\n| **Coda's Games:** | https:\/\/ldjam.com\/users\/coda-highland\/games         |","comments":1,"comments-timestamp":"2023-05-21T07:10:07Z","created":"2023-05-21T03:49:53Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":371348,"love":4,"love-timestamp":"2023-05-21T09:28:57Z","meta":[],"modified":"2023-05-21T09:28:57Z","name":"Loading Zone: Our best jam game so far!","node-timestamp":"2023-05-21T05:12:26Z","parent":357678,"parents":[1,5,9,332127,357678],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/loading-zone\/loading-zone-our-best-jam-game-so-far","published":"2023-05-21T04:57:36Z","scope":"public","slug":"loading-zone-our-best-jam-game-so-far","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1148113},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"371348","n_urlkey":"434208","n_parent":"357678","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/loading-zone\/loading-zone-our-best-jam-game-so-far","n_slug":"loading-zone-our-best-jam-game-s","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"12323","n_created":"1684640993","n_modified":"1684661337","n_version":"1148113","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/loading-zone\/loading-zone-our-best-jam-game-so-far","text":"![Loading Zone.png](\/\/\/raw\/320\/3\/z\/5bede.png)\nI just spent the day going through every jam I and my friend @coda-highland have ever participated in (both as a team and independently) and throwing everything into a spreadsheet. Turns out we crushed it this time around. [Loading Zone](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/loading-zone) ended up topping the charts on Overall, Fun, Innovation, and Theme.\n\n## Here is how we did: \n![Screenshot from 2023-05-20 22-48-33.png](\/\/\/raw\/320\/3\/z\/5bedf.png)\n\n![Screenshot from 2023-05-20 23-04-38.png](\/\/\/raw\/320\/3\/z\/5bee0.png)\n(Entries in orange are games we did not get 20 ratings on. It is also worth noting that both [Running Out of Space](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/running-out-of-space-3) and [Game Over](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/game-over) were done by Coda's son.)\n\nThis jam was admittedly a bit of a weird one for us. I started jamming with Ludum Dare 35 and started jamming with Coda in LD36. By the time we got to LD41 I had burned out while Coda kept jamming without me. After years of not participating I finally convinced myself to participate again and we were ready to go, only to find out the week before that we missed the notification that the event date had changed and that Coda had scheduled the wrong date off work.\n\nI almost didn't participate in this jam. It wasn't until Dawn (8pm) of the final day that I actually came up with an idea I actually liked and I ended up pulling a complete all-nighter to actually make the thing in time. On top of that I did it in [html52d](https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/ahigerd\/html52d), Coda's own custom HTML5 game engine, which I had no prior experience with. While Coda was able to help towards the end, I am used to him carrying the majority of the work load. This time however I programmed almost all of it while he, funnily enough, was the artist!\n\nOverall I am extremely happy with how this turned out. Not only did I manage to pull through with 1\/3 the time everyone else had in an engine I was completely unfamiliar with that has no documentation, but I managed to beat every other game the 2 of us have ever worked on in the process!\n\nThank you to everyone who played and rated this game. I look forward to participating in the next jam!\n\n|Links||\n|-|-|\n| **Loading Zone:** | https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/loading-zone |\n| **My Games:**     | https:\/\/ldjam.com\/users\/drazil100\/games             |\n| **Coda's Games:** | https:\/\/ldjam.com\/users\/coda-highland\/games         |","title":"Loading Zone: Our best jam game so far!","wayback_source":[]}