{"author_link":"\/users\/cmlsc","author_name":"CMLSC","author_uid":"cmlsc","comments":[],"epoch":1536431354,"event":"LD42","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":119498,"likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"122056","p_author":"CMLSC","p_authorkey":"1000126","p_urlkey":"338091","p_title":"I did okay I guess.","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1536431354","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1000126","us_name":"CMLSC","us_username":"cmlsc","event_start":"1533859200","event_key":"73","event_name":"LD 42"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD42","removed_author":false},"_superparent":97793,"_trust":5,"author":126,"body":"![ld_42.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab7f.png)\n\nMy placements are okay considering that I feel like putting much effort into this LD because I absolutely hated the theme.\n\nWhen effort is accounted for, there's still an upward trend in my gamejam scores. (The AKJ is another game jam I enter with the same rules.)\n\n![09-08-2018-14-12-24.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab80.png)\n\n![09-08-2018-14-12-40.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab81.png)\n\nMy goal this year was to work on my audio, which is clearly going well. In the charts, this LD looks like a failure when you look at the averages, but the scores pulling everything down are my theme and humor scores, which say almost nothing about the quality of the game itself.\n\nHopefully the next theme won't be terrible (almost never happens, but this is my least favorite theme out of every LD I've entered). I really liked the last LD's theme, but I underscoped the game which resulted in a weak entry. I haven't gone \"all out\" on an LD since LD 40 (my second least favorite LD theme). If I think I can do it with the theme, next time I'll put way more effort into my next entry. My pixel art skills also improved almost immediately after the game jam, which is a bit frustrating, but it's better than not improving at all. xD\n\nI mostly improved in the areas of trees and terrain.\n\nHere's some of my work from after the improvement:\n![pic_5.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab82.png)\n\nHere's a pic from my LD entry (before the improvement):\n![pic_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab83.png)\n","comments":0,"created":"2018-09-08T18:13:16Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":119498,"love":7,"love-timestamp":"2018-09-10T14:01:45Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-09-10T14:01:45Z","name":"I did okay I guess.","node-timestamp":"2018-09-08T18:31:30Z","parent":98521,"parents":[1,5,9,97793,98521],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/bullet-farmer\/i-did-okay-i-guess","published":"2018-09-08T18:29:14Z","scope":"public","slug":"i-did-okay-i-guess","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":358170},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"119498","n_urlkey":"338091","n_parent":"98521","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/bullet-farmer\/i-did-okay-i-guess","n_slug":"i-did-okay-i-guess","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"126","n_created":"1536430396","n_modified":"1536588105","n_version":"358170","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/bullet-farmer\/i-did-okay-i-guess","text":"![ld_42.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab7f.png)\n\nMy placements are okay considering that I feel like putting much effort into this LD because I absolutely hated the theme.\n\nWhen effort is accounted for, there's still an upward trend in my gamejam scores. (The AKJ is another game jam I enter with the same rules.)\n\n![09-08-2018-14-12-24.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab80.png)\n\n![09-08-2018-14-12-40.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab81.png)\n\nMy goal this year was to work on my audio, which is clearly going well. In the charts, this LD looks like a failure when you look at the averages, but the scores pulling everything down are my theme and humor scores, which say almost nothing about the quality of the game itself.\n\nHopefully the next theme won't be terrible (almost never happens, but this is my least favorite theme out of every LD I've entered). I really liked the last LD's theme, but I underscoped the game which resulted in a weak entry. I haven't gone \"all out\" on an LD since LD 40 (my second least favorite LD theme). If I think I can do it with the theme, next time I'll put way more effort into my next entry. My pixel art skills also improved almost immediately after the game jam, which is a bit frustrating, but it's better than not improving at all. xD\n\nI mostly improved in the areas of trees and terrain.\n\nHere's some of my work from after the improvement:\n![pic_5.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab82.png)\n\nHere's a pic from my LD entry (before the improvement):\n![pic_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/e7\/z\/1ab83.png)\n","title":"I did okay I guess.","wayback_source":[]}