{"author_link":"\/author\/poohshoes\/","author_name":"poohshoes","author_uid":"5776","comments":[{"author_name":"Marach","author_uid":"1555","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 5:19pm","epoch":1314033240,"text":"The game crashes when I try to play it. I do have XNA 4 installed and other XNA games work for me... It may be caused by hiDef profile."},{"author_name":"Zed","author_uid":"4687","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 12:11am","epoch":1314057960,"text":"Couldn't get it to run, I'm afraid. Just sticks on the initial screen, with the giant picture of a boat."},{"author_name":"Felipe Budinich","author_uid":"2502","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1314300060,"text":"The thing about the resolution you chose is that it's really nonstandard, you could have gone with 720p, because basically you made a game that only people with 1080p can play, and yet they don't get the benefit of their monitor resolution."},{"author_name":"poohshoes","author_uid":"5776","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 10:58pm","epoch":1314312780,"text":"I agree Felipe, next time I will use 1280×720 as my size, though it may reduce the quality of my beautiful art ;)"},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 4:33pm","epoch":1314548880,"text":"Unskippable intro cutscene makes Jack put it in another window and play Minecraft until it's finished.\r\rThis game was brutally punishing. I liked the sailing controls but man. It seemed like the goal was to kill me as hard and as often as possible."},{"author_name":"Rudy","author_uid":"4807","time":"Sep 1, 2011 @ 7:08am","epoch":1314860580,"text":"Good take on the theme. The game is quite hard. I learned to "avoid" cannoballs, but rocks seem to have a very big collision box. Took me a while to figure out which route I was supposed to take. At least I made it.. bare-ass naked on tiny boat :) Like the graphics and voiceover is cool. Though perhaps that effort could have been spent on more gameplay\/polish."}],"images":["ld21\/5776-729ac34ab5c83d8f1321f64756a0eb9f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hernblog.com\/HMSLance\/HMSLance.html","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32844","g_author":"5776","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32874","g_title":"HMS Lance","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"336","g_commentcount":"6","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/5776-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"XNA 4.0\r\nSound is quiet, please crank it up.\r\nI built this game at 1440 by 900 and I think its crashing when run on a smaller resolution (any larger resolution should be fine). I might try compressing all the game textures and source code to work at a much smaller resolution. If anybody has any problems or has any suggestions please post in the comments!\r\n\r\nPost Mortem:\r\nI had something like 9 story screens and 1 game screen planed and after building the game and 4 screens I got so bored of drawing. \r\nNext time less art and more game. \r\nI was only able to commit 14 hours and I was still able to make an alright game, supper happy with my scoping not getting out of hand as I am usually really bad with that. \r\nI know the musket shot stuff doesn't really make sense, I should have taken it out and used more rocks and cannon balls. \r\nI was planning on doing a couple more but different little games and could have fit 1 more in if i had not done as much art.\r\nThe sound and the images don't sync up in the intro movie, I should have cut the audio into parts to match the images and then synked them individually.\r\n1440 x 900 was a good resolution to work in, except people with smaller resolutions cant play the game. Next time I'm going to look at how to build a game that can expand to full screen.\r\n\r\nNextTime:\r\nLess art.\r\nGet a phsics engine before hand! (I rolled my own which took up about 2 hours of my time and leaves something to be desired with collision.)\r\nBe smarter with the resolution.<\/p>","title":"HMS Lance"}