{"author_name":"eXpl0it3r","cat":"LD #37","comments":[],"epoch":1481588040,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"1281","p_author":"eXpl0it3r","p_authorkey":"19132","p_urlkey":"36124","p_title":"One Room is finished (for now)!","p_cat":"LD #37","p_event":"LD37","p_time":"1481588040","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"19132","us_name":"eXpl0it3r","us_username":"expl0it3r","event_start":"1481241600","event_key":"81","event_name":"Ludum Dare 37"},"text":"

I actually wanted to write more blog posts, but then I invested all the time into actually finishing the game, which I think was the better way to go. That being said, I brought the game to a finished stage and made a release for the Ludum Dare Jam submission.<\/p>\n

Ludum Dare Jam:<\/strong> Submission<\/a> \/ Windows Binary<\/a> \/ Source Code<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Desk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you have seen any parts of the livestream you might be a bit surprised, but as mentioned in the previous post<\/a>, I changed things around and went with a point-and-click puzzle game. One of the main issues I have when building a game is that I’m really bad at creating any kind of usable art. And when I get something somewhat nice looking, it will have taken me multiple hours.<\/p>\n

\"Lock\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By now I don’t even really remember how I got the idea, but I suddenly thought of taking pictures of my own room and “stylizing” them to look kind of pixel-art like. The additional advantage of moving around some furniture was that I could also clean up parts of my room. The end result has a wide range. Some screens look a lot like drawn pixel art, while others still contain a lot of detail. I find it amazing how a few pixels aligned properly already make things recognizable. One thing I probably should have tried, is to reduce the used color palette. That way I’d have managed to drop quite a bit of information detail, possibly making it seem more drawn rather than a photo.<\/p>\n

\"Screen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The game is now finished, but it’s very short and I still have some ideas in my head what puzzles I could add, but even more importantly how I could make it work better code-wise. A lot of the game is really just defined in one JSON file and I think, I could expand that one even more, allowing for really quick expanding of the game work and puzzles. We’ll see when I get the time.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ll enjoy playing my game<\/a> and don’t forget to rate my game!<\/p>\n \n

Tags: finished<\/a>, game<\/a>, one room<\/a>, pixel art<\/a>, point-and-click<\/a>, postmortem<\/a>, puzzle<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 12th, 2016 7:14 pm","title":"One Room is finished (for now)!"}