{"author_name":"Pusty","cat":"LD #33","comments":[],"epoch":1441832100,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"12997","p_author":"Pusty","p_authorkey":"55076","p_urlkey":"48251","p_title":"A Fox\u2019s Journey \u2013 Post Mortem","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1441832100","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"55076","us_name":"Pusty","us_username":"pusty","event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"text":"

Hello to everyone reading this!
\n This was a fun contest and my first time participating ( I heard of it 1 Month ago and instantly decided to take part in it!).
\n This also is one of my first finished games and the first one someone really played!<\/p>\n

Unnecessary Informations<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I decided to take part in it, but I didn’t want to try it alone because I wasn’t sure if I could finish something in time
\n so I asked a friend of mine if he wanted to participate with me in the jam
\n But he had a power cut so he wasn’t able to take part.
\n After being hyped so much I thought , why not take part in the contest but alone \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

The contest happened 3am saturday in the holidays for me so I waited till that time with someone else.
\n After seeing the theme and being confused I decided to play a Counter Strike match and brainstorm while doing so
\n I thought about one word: CHICKENS!<\/p>\n

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And while watching a stream I finished the last of it.
\n The only thing worth meaning was the fact that I almost forgot to add a boss and added it in the last 1h<\/p>\n

The Game itself<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea of the game was basic: You play a fox who is hunting chickens and later gets the ability to steal the enemy’s skills.
\n I already had a basic engine written so I decided to go with it which lead to a rather slow paced fighting.
\n I don’t think it was too bad but at least on some points plain boring. Adding dialogs was rather hard for me because I never did that before but I guess it went ok.
\n While making the art for the game I followed the design of another game assets I made so picking colors and so on wasn’t too hard and I was able to get quick results.
\n Music was the hardest part for me. I just copied another thing I made earlier and altered it and changing the speed of it in different levels.
\n Sounds were made with a generator so it didn’t take too much time. Programming was the easiest part on my side because I’m quite fast at writing such stuff but
\n because a game isn’t just some complicated features I had quite a hard time making something “fun”.
\n Porting was something new to me. I never had a need to be able to run my Programms\/Games on Linux\/MacOS so making it compatible was a complete new thing for me but having it work on
\n almost every system is something nice to say about a java application \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

What went right:<\/strong>
\n – Finishing a game
\n – Making Graphics for my game
\n – Having enough levels
\n – Having fun making it<\/p>\n

What went wrong:<\/strong>
\n – Too slow paced fighting
\n – Not enough instructions and explanations
\n – Linux and Mac OS compatible (fixed later)<\/p>\n

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Well I don’t think I did too good but I had a real good time making this!
\n Also I never had so much feedback for something I made!
\n And I had much fun playing games others made \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

I hope I’ll get time to participate next time as well! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

So thanks to everyone who read this post, played my games ( especially everyone who commented) and everyone who made a game I played \ud83d\ude00
\n Oh and I hope you don’t mind my bad english ^^<\/p>\n

If someone\u00a0wants to play it:<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 9th, 2015 3:55 pm","title":"A Fox\u2019s Journey \u2013 Post Mortem"}