{"author_name":"davidllanos22","cat":"LD #23","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 24, 2012 4:54 pm","epoch":1335304440,"text":"Hah, I thought the extra house was deliberate, like a red herring? “Haha players will end up killing themselves trying to lure the pigs away from this house without realising they don’t need to! MWAHAHAHA”","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1335298320,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"56039","p_author":"davidllanos22","p_authorkey":"10692","p_urlkey":"91759","p_title":"Save the tiny world! Post-mortem.","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1335298320","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10692","us_name":"davidllanos22","us_username":"davidllanos22","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"

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First of all I’ve got to say that I’ve just been programming since December, so…almost 5 months! That’s nothing compared with the time most of you have been programming, so I’m still a noob!:D That was obviously my first LD. \u00a0My Language of choice is Java with the Slick2D library, I love it! \":)\"<\/p>\n

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When the final round of themes started, I wrote some ideas for every theme, just for have something to start with.
\n Before the theme was announced I was so excited and started coding something, just a test for maybe upload it as a warmup, but I forgot to upload it, so…finally nothing. I just want the Ld to start, I was so excited!
\n Then, the theme was announced at 3:00 am and I have to choose between stay coding all night long or go to sleep and wake up early. I gave myself 1 hour to think about it. I check the ideas I wrote for the game: City simulator. NO WAY! Why I wrote thaat!? And started thinking something new. I just knew that I won’t do a platformer, just because I don’t know to do it..yet.
\n Some ideas came to my mind…I started coding and came up with this:<\/p>\n

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A little rectangle moving in a screen. I thought what could I do with that and random maps and resources gathering was the first I thought. I surrendered on resources gathering..so complicated for me. Started doing random maps but can’t find any objective for the game yet. Then I started adding graphics:<\/p>\n

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Later I made an enemy that follows you when you get closer and it harm you ! That’s Nice! Then I add npcs that follow you too, but don’t harm you. Then, some ideas were floating in my head and decided to do it simple: Save the npcs from being killed by the enemies! I placed some trees on the map, a few enemies, and a few npcs…but it didn’t feel complete…it have to be some way to let the npcs be safe. I thought about it and I draw and program a house, the objective was simple: take all the npcs to the house without dying:<\/p>\n

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\n From that point, having an objective, everything went so fluid. I started drawing sprites and I amazed myself, I came up with that lovely sprites:<\/p>\n

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\n Then I decided to make just one map but make it hardcore! Just because the way I wrote the code was a mess and I should rewrote a lot again…and no time for doing that. I kept working on it until last minute, It still have bugs, like collisions and animations..but I’m so so so so happy with the work done.<\/p>\n

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WHAT WENT RIGHT:<\/strong><\/p>\n