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<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-33\/?action=preview&uid=39644<\/a><\/p>\n The biggest challenge for me was to make something funny, with catchy dialogs, and a good gameplay on top of that. Would we have time to do all that in only 3 days? Also, being the only programmer in the team, I was worried that I wouldn’t have the time to integrate all the assets from the artists, because that’s was happened during my last LD. (play “Effraction” here<\/a>).<\/p>\n Before the Jam<\/strong><\/p>\n We gathered at my place on Friday evening to discuss many things before the jam starts. What kind of tools we will be using, do we want to make a 2D game, or a 3D game? What would the game look like ? What do the music composers want to do? We also created a SVN repository and installed the communication tools (Skype, etc.). We’re located in Europe, so for us, the theme would be announced at 3am on Saturday morning. Time to go to sleep early! Needless to say, I couldn’t sleep well due to excitement (also… it was 10pm).<\/p>\n Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Got up at 7:30, made coffee and had a breakfast with the team. It was composed of 2 artists, 2 music composers and myself (coding). When we agreed on the theme, everyone has to install the tools, checkout the SVN repo, and so on. It tooks almost 3 hours before everyone could start working for real.<\/p>\n Here’s what we had after a full day of work (we went to sleep at 1am):<\/p>\n It was good, but the whole dialog\/mission system was not started at all. I panicked a little since I had only 2 days left to program it, for the 3 levels! Yeah we initially planned to make 3 levels.<\/p>\n Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n Got up at 7:30 and worked until 1am. This day was quite stressful for me, because I had to write a lot of code and dialogs while everyone asked me to integrate their assets into the game What was the game progress after this second day?<\/p>\n We decided to drop level 3 and focus on level 2 for the last day.<\/p>\n Day 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Got up at 8:00 and worked until the final submission at 3am. What can I say about this day ? To my surprise, it wasn’t hell Around 23pm-00pm we stopped adding things and just polished the game. I finished writing all the dialogs while the artists made a lot of enhancement on the graphics.<\/p>\n A lot of testing and balancing were done too. Some missions were too easy, some were too hard, and we really didn’t want players to quit the game before the end because a mission was too difficult. I think it went pretty right.<\/p>\n What went right<\/strong><\/p>\n This is my best jam so far, and I’m proud of it! Let me thanks everyone in the team for their incredible work: Pascal, Roxane, Louis and Victor! A few things went right:<\/p>\n What went wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n That was a long piece of text, hope it wasn’t boring :p To finish, here’s some statistics about our game.<\/p>\n Follow me on twitter! @bousquetm<\/p>\n \n Tags: postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 27th, 2015 12:01 pm","title":"Internship Adventure postmortem"}\n
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I mean less than my previous jam. We really focused on making things right instead of making a lot of stuff, so we had to cut a lot of features. I didn’t have time to write all the dialogs I wanted, and level 2 had only 2 missions (the first one has 3).<\/p>\n \n
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