{"author_name":"eCustic","cat":"LD #26","comments":[{"author_name":"pirate-rob","time":"April 27, 2013 4:00 am","epoch":1367053200,"text":"Doesn&#8217;t escort fall under guard? Sounds pretty awesome!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1367052480,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"45391","p_author":"eCustic","p_authorkey":"21848","p_urlkey":"81051","p_title":"So I\u2019m over 8 hours behind.","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1367052480","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"21848","us_name":"eCustic","us_username":"ecustic","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"<p>Since LD starts at around 4 AM here in Denmark and I didn&#8217;t want to stay awake for 24 hours I went to sleep right after the theme was announced.<\/p>\n <p>I was initially quite frustrated with the theme but inspiration hit me after about half an hour, and I wrote down my ideas on my tablet while lying in bed.<\/p>\n <p>This is what I wrote down verbatim:<\/p>\n <p><strong>World&#8217;s Most Simple RPG<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>No real story or dialog.<\/li>\n <li>All objectives presented as &#8220;requirements&#8221; and &#8220;reward&#8221;.<\/li>\n <li>Play on RPG stereotypes.<\/li>\n <li>Simple graphics (8 x 8 pixels)<\/li>\n <li>Quest types: Fetch, Slay, Escort, Guard<\/li>\n <li>Attributes: Strength(physical damage &amp; health), Speed(movement &amp; attack speed), Intelligence (magic damage &amp; mana)<\/li>\n <li>NPCs: Quest Giver, Blacksmith, Alchemist, Wizard, General Goods Vendor, Generic (Says &#8216;Hi!&#8217;)<\/li>\n <li>Skill Trees: One for each attribute.<\/li>\n <li>Weapons: Swords, Daggers, Staffs<\/li>\n <li>Armor: Heavy, Light, Cloth<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Basically the idea is to take the classic MMORPG elements and completely strip them down to their essentials.<br \/>\n For example, instead of a Quest NPC delivering some generic reason for giving you a quest such as: &#8220;Please help me, bandits have stolen my jewelry. Please bring it back to me and you can have my father&#8217;s old sword!&#8221; , you&#8217;ll just be presented with &#8220;Fetch &lt;Jewelry&gt; x5, Get &lt;Sword&gt; x1&#8221;.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m going to start working on some art now. I hope that I won&#8217;t spend more than 2 hours on that before I start programming. Once I&#8217;m finished with drawing some basic spritesheets and tilesets I&#8217;ll post them here and then move on to programming, drawing more art as I go along.<\/p>\n <p>Also, I may at any point decide to cut out some of the features of that list as I was quite sleepy when I wrote it and I realize now that it might be a bit much for 40 hours of work.<\/p>","time":"April 27th, 2013 3:48 am","title":"So I\u2019m over 8 hours behind."}