Hi everybody,

first, for all who tested and rated my entry, thank you! If you haven´t until now, please do me the favor and do it

Now, to the real post-mortem:

That was the first ludumdare i ever joined. I did know only little bit of it thanks to a working collague, but was already so fascinated that i wanted to join. Well, i made the decision only hours before the LD33 startet with no real plan or anything else.

When the theme was announced i was a bit disappointet. It sounded so much like a monster-rpg or jump and run, which i wasn´t really eager to program. But after quite some time i had an different idea: What about a…monster creator tool? You know, like Spore back than, you have a basic body and can form it as you want. Until you have your dream monster. I pictured it really cool in my head. 3D- graphic, free movement of the body, different body part you can change as you want, background-images… Sound great, doesn´t it? Well, who ever already tried out my creator-tool know already the difference beetween the idea and the finished product…

So, how did my weekend run?

On saturday i lost much time to find the “right” idea for me. After that i needed even more time to figure out how to do it. I tried severals things with 3D-Canvas cause i am an junior-web developer (so other languages were out of questions for me), but realized soon that a real 3d tool is way to much which my low experience. So i changed back to 2d.  Then i tried to add a basic body and different body part. But i sucked at drawing so nothing really useable came out. So i reduced my idea even further: let the other create the part, just give them the right tool for it. Finally i did the basics, namely the drawing options.

Sunday was a short day, you could say. For one, there was the formula one race i had to watch. And i absoluty can´t watch and do something else at the same time. Secondly, i lost again much time, this time because i had to find the error which prevented succesful uploads of the images. Ah, yes, i didn´t mention it until now, but the users should have the options to upload there monster to compare them with the one from others. Eventually it was only a permission-error…. There was nothing really more on this day, i lost focus way to easy several times…

Originally i wanted to take part in the compo, because i had to work on monday. But my tool was still too imperfect and unfinished, so i changed it to the jam to have a bit more time on monday evening. Well…should i tell you, that i absoluty had to take the wrong subway on my way back home this day? And i left on the wrong station after that too….dont ask, i dont know myself what was wrong with me… Finally, i arrived around 10pm at home and immedietly start working on it. There were still a few bugs. And colors were missing too. Around 2:30am, the next morning basically, i submittet my work. Somehow disappointed of the leftover of my originally idea, somehow glad i joined the LD and finished something. And tired as hell. Of course i had work the next day too, argh…

From then to now i had only little time to rate other games, so i have not that much rates myself too. But i am glad that my idea seemed to be liked. Even if almost everyone say that controls are a bit difficult. It´s true and i asked myself afterwards to why i made it that way. But oh well, i´ve done it and it´s not really a bug, so no changing it. But i am really glad that people seem to like my idea There also some (really) cool monster in the gallery. I do wonder, who did “angry snail blob thing”, “E monster” or “Nisco”. I fucking love these 3. Should have added an input field for the name of the monster creator…

That how my first LD went. And i surely will join the next one again! Hopefully with a better entry than this one.

See you again!

PS: please rate my game^^ i will rate your´s too 😉