{"author_name":"DJ_Link","cat":"October Challenge 2012","comments":[],"epoch":1348852020,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"51361","p_author":"DJ_Link","p_authorkey":"507632","p_urlkey":"87054","p_title":"Puwang \u2013 a 5 day work","p_cat":"October Challenge 2012","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1348852020","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"507632","us_name":"DJ_Link","us_username":"DJ_Link","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

Hi, how’s everyone doing?<\/p>\n

I don’t know it this could be considered to the October Challenge since I started work on this some days before but here’s the post any way.<\/p>\n

This was a different week for me. It’s been a long time that I had the chance to work on a small prototype or a 48H competition because of my other work so I decided to stop for a couple of days and do something else.<\/p>\n

Also my cat’s been quite sick, and between the Vet and taking care of him, working on a fun project gave me more time do everything.<\/p>\n

Since I love shump games I decided to do one. The idea is simple, you are in a arena with your ship and you just blast enemies away.<\/p>\n

Initially I worked around 6-8hours on this back in August but had to drop it because of some much other work I had, so it wasn’t until this monday I grabbed it again.<\/p>\n

I decided to make the game for iOS because it’s easier to make prototypes there and I can carry them around everywhere, playing them, to see if they are any good.<\/p>\n

Actually the first 8 hours where quite productive and this is what I had after that time:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sfxpNnfoZQI<\/a><\/p>\n

So during these past 5 days I polished it a little, grabbed myself a notepad and hand-drawn everything. It’s not much artistic, but I’m not a designer.
\n Had a few problems with iOS 6 due to some deprecated stuff but in the end it all fall into place.
\n Also some tweaks performance-wise on the Engine where made since with a lot of stuff on screen things can get out of control pretty easily specially on these portable devices.<\/p>\n

iPhone 5 just came out and I even took the time to add support for those extra pixels, actually I just increased the viewport, no scaling.<\/p>\n

I probably named it poorly but it’s Puwang<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Also added some Leaderboards via Gamecenter and as I write this I’m starting to receive some feedback of the early beta builds I sent to a couple of testers. So ff people like it I intend to release it on the App Store.<\/p>\n

If you want to participate in the beta test use this link: http:\/\/tflig.ht\/SRB5aP<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 28th, 2012 12:07 pm","title":"Puwang \u2013 a 5 day work"}