{"author_name":"Erlend Aakre","cat":"LD #33","comments":[],"epoch":1440807600,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"13219","p_author":"Erlend Aakre","p_authorkey":"54973","p_urlkey":"48476","p_title":"first ludum dare thoughts","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1440807600","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"54973","us_name":"Erlend Aakre","us_username":"frostvoid","event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"text":"<p>So, I survived last weekend (my first jam) and ended up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-33\/?action=preview&amp;uid=54973\" target=\"_blank\">playable game<\/a>\u00a0(shameless plug) which seems to have been generally liked (although the feedback on most games seems to be very good and supportive. It&#8217;s definitely nice to have supportive feedback, but\u00a0I slightly worry about people just being nice might make the feedback less useful. I&#8217;ll definitely try and turn on <strong>anonymous feedback next time<\/strong>, anyone have good\/bad experiences with this?)<\/p>\n <p>I managed to play and rate 42 games so far, hopefully I can get this up to at least 80 in the coming week.<\/p>\n <p>I did learn some neat things though:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>When you spend a day in Tiled making a map, you will know it so well that when you get to actually using it in your game engine, that you don&#8217;t really consider adding a minimap, arrow pointing to POI, or extra details to guide player to an important\u00a0part of the map.<\/li>\n <li>Spending 4-5 hours drawing pixels will actually make me crazy.<\/li>\n <li>And don&#8217;t spawn sharks on top of players, sharks bad!<\/li>\n <li>There is a lot of people out there also making games for fun, and some of the entries for this LD was really fun to play!<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Definitely looking forward to LD34, but until then I&#8217;ll keep up with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegameamonth.com\">www.onegameamonth.com<\/a> which I&#8217;m sure most people here already know about, and if not, check it out!<\/p>\n <p>Just started my new prototype, voxel turn based game with angry farmers! #screenshotSaturday<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/voxel_demo.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-497371\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/voxel_demo-550x324.png\" alt=\"voxel_demo\" width=\"550\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/voxel_demo-300x177.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/voxel_demo-550x324.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/voxel_demo.png 1011w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>Stay classy and make more games!<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>","time":"August 28th, 2015 7:20 pm","title":"first ludum dare thoughts"}