{"author_name":"LionelJitro","cat":"LD #27","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 12, 2013 2:44 am","epoch":1376293440,"text":"Neat!<br \/>\n I&#8217;ve downloaded Loom but not tried yet. What is your experience with it?","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1376260620,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"42091","p_author":"LionelJitro","p_authorkey":"18018","p_urlkey":"77714","p_title":"Ludum Dare 27: I\u2019m in!","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1376260620","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"18018","us_name":"LionelJitro","us_username":"lioneljitro","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"<p>Alright, I&#8217;ve decided to start getting hyped, I&#8217;m in!<\/p>\n <p>Last Ludum Dare was my first and it was a lot of fun. My only goal was to finish a game and get it out there, success.<\/p>\n <p>That being said there were some major flaws with the mechanics and it was an incredibly dull game-play experience. So I&#8217;ve written myself a list of goals to try and guide me.<\/p>\n <p><strong>Goal List<\/strong>:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Take the theme literally.<\/li>\n <li>Plan thoroughly.<\/li>\n <li>Don&#8217;t make it too hard.<\/li>\n <li>Make controls nice when they are first implemented.<\/li>\n <li>If a mechanic is 100% going to be in the game, implement it correctly the first time you put it in.<\/li>\n <li>Max three coffees a day, maybe four or five, no more than six.<\/li>\n <li>Write blog posts through the comp to reflect on your course.<\/li>\n <li>Find people to play test within the 48 hours.<\/li>\n <li>If following this list is ruining the fun, ignore this list.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>Tools<\/strong> (same as last time):<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a title=\"Loom\" href=\"https:\/\/theengine.co\/\">Loom Game Engine<\/a>: It&#8217;s easy to use, has live reload and is simple to deploy.<\/li>\n <li><a title=\"Sublime Text Editor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sublimetext.com\/\">Sublime Text Editor<\/a>: I&#8217;ve never loved a text editor so much before.<\/li>\n <li><a title=\"Photoshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshop.com\/\">Photoshop<\/a>: I&#8217;m too lazy to learn anything else at the moment.<\/li>\n <li><a title=\"Texture Packer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codeandweb.com\/texturepacker\">Texture Packer<\/a>: This is great for automatically making sprite sheets from image files.<\/li>\n <li><a title=\"Audacity\" href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\">Audacity<\/a>: I&#8217;ll probably just be recording sounds again.<\/li>\n <li><a title=\"Bit Bucket\" href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\">Bitbucket<\/a>: My git source control provider of choice.<\/li>\n <li><a title=\"Mural.ly\" href=\"https:\/\/mural.ly\">Mural.ly<\/a>: A cool web app that I&#8217;ll use for planning my game.<\/li>\n <li><a title=\"OBS\" href=\"http:\/\/obsproject.com\/\">Open Broadcaster Software<\/a>: If I stream I&#8217;ll be using this, it is amazing.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Good luck everyone, 23rd can&#8217;t come soon enough.<\/p>","time":"August 11th, 2013 5:37 pm","title":"Ludum Dare 27: I\u2019m in!"}