{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/william_edwards\/","author_name":"Will Edwards","cat":"LD #34","categories":["LD #34"],"comments":[],"epoch":1449764280,"event":"LD34","likes":14,"metadata":{"p_key":"83164","p_author":"Will Edwards","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"293895","p_title":"The subliminal theme theme","p_cat":"LD #34","p_event":"LD34","p_time":"1449764280","p_likes":"14","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1449792000","event_key":"31","event_name":"LD34"},"source_url":"2015\/12\/10\/the-subliminal-theme-theme\/","text":"<p>A long time ago I used to play with spheres, and I came across http:\/\/kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu\/BUGS\/geodesic\/text.html which is a description of how to tile a sphere \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com\/post\/36660467688\/rendering-spheres-with-triangles\">blogged about building icospheres<\/a> before, so I had some code to borrow to adapt to see how spheres might look for a maze or dungeon design:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-22.11.23.png\"><img alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 22.11.23\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-508483\" height=\"335\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-22.11.23-550x335.png\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-22.11.23-300x183.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-22.11.23-550x335.png 550w\" width=\"550\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I get a chance to do LD34, I might try and make a 2D wrap-around dungeon on a sphere or something\u2026 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Repost: I put screenshots of every LD33 game into a statistics program and discovered a disturbing ghostly pattern pervading the choice for themes this LD34:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/limitations1.all_.kuhn-munkres.jpg\"><img alt=\"limitations1.all.kuhn-munkres\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-506953\" height=\"467\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/limitations1.all_.kuhn-munkres-550x467.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/limitations1.all_.kuhn-munkres-300x255.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/limitations1.all_.kuhn-munkres-550x467.jpg 550w\" width=\"550\"\/><\/a><\/p>","time":"December 10th, 2015 4:18 pm","title":"The subliminal theme theme","title_was_empty":false}