{"author_name":"Kennethm","cat":"LD #25","comments":[],"epoch":1355555100,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"49609","p_author":"Kennethm","p_authorkey":"506973","p_urlkey":"85295","p_title":"Ludum Dare Jammin\u2019 Day 1","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355555100","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"506973","us_name":"Kennethm","us_username":"Kennethm","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

So me and my brother are taking a go at the jam, and it’s been going rather well. I’m using L\u00f6ve+lua <\/strong>to do the programming and he’s doing the artwork in photoshop I believe.\u00a0This is a day summary of all of our activities. \":)\"<\/p>\n

First off we brainstormed ideas for around an hour and 20 minutes. We thought of a rather unique idea about a thief who doesn’t murder but finds clever ways to\u00a0incapacitate enemies and meet the objective mission. All of the missions are randomly generated, as it’s intended to be in arcade-game style.<\/p>\n

Second I ate dinner and took a photo for all of you guys to see. Oh yeah, and I set up an awesome tea tray:<\/p>\n

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All of it was damn awesome.<\/p><\/div>\n

And then began the creation of the “engine” for the game. It’s more of the deep internals than anything, as you can see in the screenshot below. The graphics are really nice, and as you can see I haven’t split the character’s image slices yet. Animation should be simple with a side-library called anim8 however. Since this is the jam I’m confident I’ll be able to get all the features in by the deadline (which is Monday 6pm of course.) The main game elements I hope to have together by the end of tomorrow, and then I hope we piece them together on Sunday and really polish and finish the game on Monday.<\/p>\n