{"id":21,"date":"2012-12-28T03:40:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-12-28T03:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T03:41:30","slug":"ludum-dare-the-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/2012\/12\/ludum-dare-the-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludum Dare + The Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took part in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ludum Dare<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; A 48 hour game competition. \u00a0The theme for this round was &#8220;You are the villain&#8221;. \u00a0Originally I spent my time working on a &#8216;Scooby Doo&#8217; themed game, where you dress up as ghosts and scare people away from real estate and castles and the like. \u00a0Eventually I decided to move away from that idea. \u00a0I was going to give LD a miss at this point, it wasn&#8217;t until a few hours later that my brain threw &#8216;The Twist&#8217; into view.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up coding a game about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-25\/?action=preview&amp;uid=1282\" target=\"_blank\">twirling moustaches<\/a> (because what good villain doesn&#8217;t twirl his moustache deviously?) called &#8220;The Twist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m4IAWbp30xE<\/p>\n<p>The finished LD version can be played <a href=\"http:\/\/tenfiftyfour.com\/ludumdare\/Twirl\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/tenfiftyfour.com\/ludumdare\/Twirl\/Moustache.apk\" target=\"_blank\">Android version here<\/a>) and the slightly modified post-competition version\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tenfiftyfour.com\/ludumdare\/TheTwist\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, however I have decided to move forward and go for a commercial release. \u00a0It will be a good trial run for later projects. \u00a0My\u00a0initial\u00a0plan is to release for Android ($1 ish), and maybe a feature-lite version for Kongregate. \u00a0I hope to have the game released before the end of voting (which I believe is January 9th?).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a lot to do before then. \u00a0I want to implement a scoring + &#8216;achievement&#8217; (notoriety is what I&#8217;m calling it) system, fix a variety of bugs, add some extra features, and I&#8217;ve also got a second game mode lined up (though that will probably be a second release, later down the track).<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I am working on the scoring system &#8211;\u00a0utilizing\u00a0CouchDB. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been working on security, and it should be close to secure for the time being. \u00a0The system will be designed in such a way that if it turns out not to be acceptable, then I can switch in another solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took part in Ludum Dare\u00a0&#8211; A 48 hour game competition. \u00a0The theme for this round was &#8220;You are the villain&#8221;. \u00a0Originally I spent my time working on a &#8216;Scooby Doo&#8217; themed game, where you dress up as ghosts and scare people away from real estate and castles and the like. \u00a0Eventually I decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,8],"tags":[10,13,14,11,12],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionscript","category-ludum-dare","category-the-twist","tag-actionscript-2","tag-android","tag-game-design","tag-ludum-dare-2","tag-programming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonymassingham.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}