{"id":330,"date":"2023-09-17T03:33:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T03:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/federicojacobi.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2023-11-17T01:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T01:34:00","slug":"how-to-write-a-game-in-under-13-kb-while-taking-care-of-a-baby-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/federicojacobi.com\/2023\/09\/17\/how-to-write-a-game-in-under-13-kb-while-taking-care-of-a-baby-remix\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write a Game in Under 13 Kb While Taking Care of a Baby – REMIX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you don’t want to read the “intro” and go directly to the nuts and bolts<\/a>, that’s ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, yes, this title is 100% stolen from this awesome<\/a> post by Jaime Gonzalez<\/a>. I read his post a couple of times in total awe of his 13 kbyte creation, and it inspired me to join the JS13K<\/a> game jam. My intention isn’t to suck the SEO juice from his post but, even though I don’t know Jaime, I could feel his pain … I am also a dad to a 8-month old little guy that means the world to me. Taking care of a baby is fascinating, challenging, and above all, it is exhausting! The one bit of energy left after he goes to sleep must used for work … and then I had to squeeze a last tiny bit for the jam!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say, it was tough, but I made it! So, thank you for inspiring me, dear stranger of the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had already participated in another JS gamejam (here’s my entry<\/a>), but I thought the “open ended” nature (any engine, any size, any team size, any anything) of a traditional jam wasn’t really my thing. As a lone ranger, it is rather difficult to produce quality and polish in JS compared to teams using Unity for example. Don’t get me wrong here though, there are some awesome games produced by a single developer, but I much rather do the heavy restriction of the 13Kb game (that’s what js13k is about by the way).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On to my game: Angry Temujin<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Genghis Khan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

See it live here: https:\/\/js13kgames.com\/entries\/angry-temujin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme for this year’s jam was the thirteenth century, which immediately brought me to Genghis Khan. I’ve always been in awe of this man. The mongol empire was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, empire the world has ever seen. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, his tactics were brutal but effective. In the siege of Nishapur the whole city was destroyed, its citizens murdered, even cats and dogs were killed so there would be no trace of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a nice guy. Another interesting tactic was to just marry (it is more complicated than that). And there was a whole lot of that: https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/fact-check-are-one-in-200-people-descended-from-genghis-khan-65357<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, yeah, this human was special. But he started alone. He was born Temujin (Genghis Khan, is a title, not a name) and, in fact, when his father died from poisoning, his clan left him, and his family, out for the wolves. Needless to say, he made a comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to capture that idea … start as one and build an army as you go. At the same time, I was totally and utterly captured by awesome simplicity of Vampire Survivors. What if I could create a weapon system like VS but instead of killing enemies would transform them into troops?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went along with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rules of engagement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n