{"author_name": "yangamedev", "cat": "MiniLD", "comments": [{"author_name": "", "time": "July 28, 2013 10:48 am", "epoch": 1375026480, "text": "A hood-throwing-arrow guy ? Need it :p
\n Good luck, the game look nice, I’m looking forward playing it \":)\"", "spam": "N"}], "epoch": 1375024440, "likes": 3, "metadata": {"p_key": "42231", "p_author": "yangamedev", "p_authorkey": "20928", "p_urlkey": "77854", "p_title": "Home Stretch", "p_cat": "MiniLD", "p_event": "LD27", "p_time": "1375024440", "p_likes": "3", "p_comments": "1", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "20928", "us_name": "yangamedev", "us_username": "yangamedev", "event_start": "1377216000", "event_key": "18", "event_name": "LD27"}, "text": "

I started 148 hours ago — it went by in a blur but also it feels like I’ve been doing it for a month.

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I finally tried my hand at level design, and instead of dreading it it’s actually a lot of fun seeing it pop up in game. I credit all the work I did getting the world structure setup so I can listen to tunes and make a ton of levels.

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I’ve got 1000 ideas floating around in my head but I don’t want to miss the basics. I decided to tackle lighting this morning, and it took five minutes:

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It’s not the best but it looks better! Plus I can try having each of the bulbs emit light (I’ll just disable pathfinding is that cool?).

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Sanojian mentioned: “Could it be that after 30-odd failed games it starts to get easier?” Yes! A ghostyard of abandoned projects on my hard drive has finally shown some value.

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Little touches like, oh, the frontend are things I pass off while I’m fighting with flocking and hierarchical pathfinding. I just refuse to make another tech-heavy fun-light game. We’ll see how it goes.

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