{"author_name":"philcsf","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1335018120,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"57754","p_author":"philcsf","p_authorkey":"10935","p_urlkey":"93503","p_title":"Looking Brighter","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1335018120","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10935","us_name":"philcsf","us_username":"philcsf","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"<p>Seeing as I actually have a level loaded in my game, I thought it might be a nice to update the blog with a screenshot. Finished tiles in Pickle, created a quick test level using <a title=\"Tiled - Map Editor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapeditor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiled<\/a>, and then spent several hours swearing at Visual Studio whilst integrating <a title=\"TiledLib - CodePlex\" href=\"http:\/\/tiledlib.codeplex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TiledLib<\/a>. There was nothing wrong with the library, but I decided to rearrange all of my code to access parts of code from other places. I went from GameComponents to a traditional singleton pattern, and now a interface \/ services system. Got there in the end (hopefully), and after all that fuss, it only took 4 lines of code to import and render my test map &lt;3<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/04\/21\/looking-brighter\/hour05\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-124559\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-124559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hour05-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>I guess I should get working on some gameplay now&#8230; there needs to be some kind of character in here. Unless you just want to stare at a crap background?<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/pickle\/\" rel=\"tag\">pickle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/screenshot\/\" rel=\"tag\">screenshot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/tiled\/\" rel=\"tag\">Tiled<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/tiledlib\/\" rel=\"tag\">tiledlib<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/xna\/\" rel=\"tag\">xna<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 21st, 2012 9:22 am","title":"Looking Brighter"}