{"author_name":"sauronz","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 10, 2012 4:53 am","epoch":1355133180,"text":"Great tips. Through years of honing my skill I have been able to turn the Ballmer Peak into a kind of plateau. I&#8217;m there right now, actually.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1355132280,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"50825","p_author":"sauronz","p_authorkey":"7549","p_urlkey":"86518","p_title":"I\u2019m so in!","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355132280","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7549","us_name":"sauronz","us_username":"sauronz","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<p>This will be my 3rd ludum dare I have entered in, and as always it will be a lot of fun \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n <p>Here are my weapons of choice:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><strong>Language<\/strong>: ActionScript 3 or C++<\/li>\n <li><strong>Libraries<\/strong>: FlashPunk or SFML<\/li>\n <li><strong>Graphics<\/strong>: Paint.NET<\/li>\n <li><strong>Audio<\/strong>: SFXR<\/li>\n <li><strong>Food<\/strong>: Healthy this time around, but some junk food and coffee is present.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Timelapse<\/strong>: Chronolapse<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Even though this is only my 3rd ludum dare I have a couple tips for people:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <ul>\n <li>Eat mostly healthy food, if you only eat junk food chances are that you will start to feel sick later in the jam (happened to me)<\/li>\n <li>Drink loads of water or juice, keep coffee and soda to a minimum (really hard to keep myself from drinking coffee though)<\/li>\n <li>Sleep, don&#8217;t stay awake until 4a.m like I did. If the theme is announced really late (2-3am for me) I would recommend to sleep and look at the theme in the morning.<\/li>\n <li>Breakfast, don&#8217;t skip it.<\/li>\n <li>Loads of alcohol\u00a0is bad for thinking. Unless you reach the Ballmer Peak:<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/ul>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/ballmer_peak.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>I wish luck to everyone, and above all have fun!<\/strong><\/p>","time":"December 10th, 2012 4:38 am","title":"I\u2019m so in!"}