{"author_name":"useless","cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"Cooshinator","time":"December 17, 2010 3:17 pm","epoch":1292617020,"text":"Nice icon, I love that game","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 17, 2010 3:34 pm","epoch":1292618040,"text":"Hehe,..lI also learned about LD through notch. For me it was his masterpiece &#8220;Beaking the tower&#8221;!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"pixelomatic","time":"December 17, 2010 3:41 pm","epoch":1292618460,"text":"Slick 2D is a nice library, even handling thousands of sprites on screen without dramiatic fps drops. I&#8217;d use it too but Flash has easier deployment than java. I&#8217;d go with it though if I was going to make a bullet hell style game or something hardcore like that.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1292615520,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"68699","p_author":"useless","p_authorkey":"504605","p_urlkey":"104502","p_title":"Going for LD48 instead!","p_cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1292615520","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"504605","us_name":"useless","us_username":"useless","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"<p>I made a post a few days ago saying that some friends and I would be participating in the Jam. We&#8217;ve come to the consensus that we&#8217;re not quite prepared to delve in to a group endeavor yet and would like to have some practice outside of a competition before doing something like this.\u00a0As a result, I will be competing in LD48 instead! Here&#8217;s a list of the tools I may or may not use:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Sun Java SE 6<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/slick.cokeandcode.com\/\">Slick 2D Game Library<\/a><\/li>\n <li>sfxr (<em>who doesn&#8217;t use this?<\/em>)<\/li>\n <li>Paint.NET<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/famitracker.shoodot.net\/\">Famitracker<\/a><\/li>\n <li>foobar2000 to keep the creative juices flowing<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I have to say thanks to Notch for making Metagun, because I learned about Ludum Dare through it and a bit about Applets and AWT. I hope I can finish my game for my first try at this, and I&#8217;ll see y&#8217;all in a bit!<\/p>","time":"December 17th, 2010 2:52 pm","title":"Going for LD48 instead!"}