{"author_name":"jonbro","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324290720,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"60360","p_author":"jonbro","p_authorkey":"1187","p_urlkey":"96113","p_title":"Engine from LD used in an actual game","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324290720","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1187","us_name":"jonbro","us_username":"jonbro","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

Way back when before LD#19 I decided to build a game engine for doing LDs quicker and better. I had not actually done an LD to that point, but I knew that my speed in C++ coding wasn’t going to get me working quick enough. I started building an engine in Lua so that I could code super quick. The reason that I didn’t just use Love2d<\/a> is because I wanted to be able to easily port my games to iOS, and at that point love2d didn’t support iOS. I called it blud<\/a> as a tribute to love. Seemed opposite and the same in some ways.<\/p>\n

So the first game was soundman stepper<\/a>, and it was super fun to build! Lua is awesome to work in, super fast, the entire reference for it fits on three pages.<\/p>\n

After that compo, I realized that you really need to enter flash games to have a small chance of your games being played, so I switched over to AS3, and learned enough of flixel to get by. In the meantime I kept developing blud, and started borrowing more and more features from flixel into the framework. For mini28 I did a game for iphone called pyoing, and released it on the app store the next day.<\/p>\n

\"Pyoing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I kept developing blud, and for LD21 I did a game called martin vs monty<\/a>. That one is yet to be released on the app store, but hopefully I will get back to it and polish it up and such.<\/p>\n

In between these things, I actually started getting paid for being a game developer. The first fruit of these labors has finally popped out. I am still using the code that I developed during and for LD to some extent, and the lessons that I learned during LD to a large extent.<\/p>\n

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Pugs luv beats is a music composition game, and it is available for the iphone and the ipad<\/a>. If you want to read some superlatives, you are going to have to go elsewhere, because I am not too good at writing them myself. Luckily create digital music did a nice writeup of the audio side of things<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: post-compo<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 19th, 2011 5:32 am","title":"Engine from LD used in an actual game"}