{"author_name":"fueelin","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[],"epoch":1304274420,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"66031","p_author":"fueelin","p_authorkey":"3827","p_urlkey":"101827","p_title":"Almost Done so Here\u2019s a Preview","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304274420","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3827","us_name":"fueelin","us_username":"\/author\/fueelin\/","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

Hey everybody,<\/p>\n

I’ve never done this before and I’ve been so focused on putting my time into the game that I haven’t posted anything about it here.\u00a0 Sure the competition is almost done, but I still have time for a little preview for you guys \":)\" First a screenshot of what the basic game screen looks like at the start of a level:<\/p>\n

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"It is Dangerous to go Alone in the Dark"<\/p><\/div>\n

Yup, that’s what it looks like.\u00a0 Nope, you don’t play as a sentient ball of light.\u00a0 I had a couple ideas to start with.\u00a0 For a while, I was thinking of doing a sort of story-based game about going away by yourself to college or moving to a new city or whatever, but then I realized I wanted something with a little more gameplay.\u00a0 The first thing that popped into my head was that exploring a dark cave by yourself was pretty dangerous.\u00a0 I wanted to do something interesting with that though, so I decided that I should emphasize sound instead of visuals.\u00a0 Therefore, the ‘this’ you take is a sonar monster detector.\u00a0 The closer you are to an enemy, the faster it beeps.\u00a0 Using this as well as a limited number of flares per level that you can place where you think enemies are, you must make your way through a series of caves with randomly placed, ever-increasing amounts of monsters.<\/p>\n

Basically, think of it as minesweeper where you control an actual character instead of a mouse cursor, and where sound is your primary form of information on where the ‘mines’ are.<\/p>\n

At this point, all the gameplay stuff is done.\u00a0 I suppose I should give it another test runthrough or two, but we’ll see if I have time.\u00a0 At this point, I’m just working on polish and adding assets.\u00a0 More animations, sound, music, and plot-type-stuff.<\/p>\n

This has certainly been an eye opening experience (I guess that’s kind of a pun, you’ll see what I mean when you play) and I’ve learned a lot from it.\u00a0 It will also be the first game I’ve actually fully finished and released to the public, so that’s awesome!\u00a0 Anyway, I hope you guys like it\/at least think the idea is interesting.\u00a0 Sorry for not posting more as I went about the process!<\/p>\n

-Tim ‘fueelin’ Beck<\/p>","time":"May 1st, 2011 1:27 pm","title":"Almost Done so Here\u2019s a Preview"}