{"author_name":"purplelilgirl","cat":"LD #31","comments":[{"author_name":"Sayuri Tagata","time":"December 9, 2014 8:58 pm","epoch":1418176680,"text":"BEST AUDIO EVER!! Love the way you did it, so funny xD
\n You should continue the project, it’s lovely","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 12, 2014 7:47 am","epoch":1418388420,"text":"@Sayuri thanks \":)\"","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1418168880,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"22257","p_author":"purplelilgirl","p_authorkey":"18262","p_urlkey":"57624","p_title":"Dev Diary : Knock \u2018Em Trees","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1418168880","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"18262","us_name":"purplelilgirl","us_username":"purplelilgirl","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"

The theme is “Entire Game on One Screen”, which is great, because all my games have been in one screen. So basically, I can make anything! (And I don’t even have to worry about Menus and Title Scenes)<\/p>\n

But I’m still stuck-ish with an idea. I mean, there were a lot of ideas going through my head, but I just keep on browsing and looking at other people’s WIPs and I just get intimidated, and shoot down everything.<\/p>\n

I ended up not doing anything on Saturday, and only started Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

I attempted to use Blender to create some low poly trees, snowball and terrain. But all I manage to create are primitive shapes! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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And then I assembled the trees in Unity! AHAHA<\/p>\n

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I started using Unity terrain but realized it’s not low poly enough for the look that I’m going for.<\/p>\n

So I went back to Blender, looked up a tutorial and came up with this:<\/p>\n

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And then I started planting trees…<\/p>\n

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And then I recorded some pretty annoying Christmas song (no lyrics, because it\u2019s lyrics is copyrighted, but not the tune) and edited it in Audacity.<\/p>\n

And at the end of the day (actually I took a very long break, and was sleepy, so instead of compo, I finished it as a jam), I have this:<\/p>\n

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Knock ‘Em Trees<\/strong><\/p>\n

You play as a snowball, trying to Knock \u2018Em down some Trees. And you get bigger as you knock down more trees, allowing you to knock down some even bigger trees.<\/p>\n

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Ludum Dare page: http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-31\/?action=preview&uid=18262<\/a><\/p>\n

Game Jolt page: http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/arcade\/knock-em-trees\/41188\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I didn’t qualify for compo, but might as well share my code, GitHub:\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/purplelilgirl\/LudumDare31<\/a><\/p>\n

Check it out? It’s my first Ludum Dare, so please be kind \":)\"<\/p>\n

Based on the comments I received on the game so far, is that people seem to like the trippy background music, so I uploaded the video of how I made the background music (hear me sing ahaha).<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/TbL31aDHaWA]<\/p>","time":"December 9th, 2014 6:48 pm","title":"Dev Diary : Knock \u2018Em Trees"}