{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/PreviewLD.jpg","local":"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/069f88f7f0fce5374fc3120b4c45b1c2.jpg"}],"author_link":"author\/dom2d\/","author_name":"dom2d","cat":"LD #27","categories":["LD #27"],"comments":[],"epoch":1377378120,"event":"LD27","likes":23,"metadata":{"p_key":"79095","p_author":"dom2d","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"288105","p_title":"Every 10 Seconds a Window Washer falls to his Death","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377378120","p_likes":"23","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"source_url":"2013\/08\/24\/every-10-seconds-a-window-washer-falls-to-his-death\/","text":"<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_280877\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2013\/08\/24\/every-10-seconds-a-window-washer-falls-to-his-death\/previewld\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-280877\"><img alt=\"Work in Progress\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280877\" height=\"500\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/069f88f7f0fce5374fc3120b4c45b1c2.jpg\" width=\"500\"\/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work in Progress<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hi jammers!<\/p>\n<p>This is Dom2D, teamed up with Fernando Serboncini, and this week-end we\u2019re working on a little game we like to call\u00a0<em>Every 10 Seconds a Window Washer falls to his Death<\/em>!\u00a0The idea spawned from this silly article on The Onion:<br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/study-every-10-seconds-a-skyscraper-window-washer,19734\/\">http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/study-every-10-seconds-a-skyscraper-window-washer,19734\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK\u2014A study released Monday by the Department of Labor found that every 10 seconds, on average, a window washer somewhere in the United States accidentally plummets to his or her death. \u201cOne would expect an occasional fatality in this occupation, but our research indicates that whether a rope snaps or a slip-and-trip situation occurs, more than 8,500 window washers are killed each day,\u201d said statistician Carl Eberling [\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This gave us the really dumb idea to make a game in which this is actually true \u2013 a world where window washing is the most dangerous job ever. We thought it\u2019d be cool to have the hero try to save these poor little dudes who are just trying to clean windows\u2026\u00a0And of course, our hero has a jetpack!<\/p>\n<p>Fernando wrote something about coding magic, I don\u2019t really know what that means?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>On the technical side, it was written in Haxe3 with OpenFL\/HaxePunk.\u00a0We plan to release a Flash version (and maybe HTML5) for LD, with a later release on Native platforms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Have a good Sunday, guys and gals! <img alt=\":D\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif\"\/><\/div>","time":"August 24th, 2013 9:02 pm","title":"Every 10 Seconds a Window Washer falls to his Death","title_was_empty":false}