{"author_link":"\/users\/cheesepencil","author_name":"cheesepencil","author_uid":"cheesepencil","comments":[],"epoch":1558492883,"event":"LD44","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":158179,"likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"133060","p_author":"cheesepencil","p_authorkey":"1143012","p_urlkey":"349254","p_title":"Thank you for playing! #3 in humor category! Glad you got a chuckle!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD44","p_time":"1558492883","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1143012","us_name":"cheesepencil","us_username":"cheesepencil","event_start":"1556236800","event_key":"75","event_name":"LD 44"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD44","removed_author":false},"_superparent":139254,"_trust":3,"author":143012,"body":"![246f4.png](\/\/\/raw\/4ae\/22\/z\/2500e.png)\n\n[Collecting Really Nice Cats!](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/your-life-is-collecting-really-nice-cats) placed third in humor, and for all the players and raters and streamers and devs and haters, you have my deepest gratitude. Thank you. This was the best game jam I've ever participated in *because of the community*.\n\nI regret that I could not play every game, I'm still finding some gems that I wish I had seen before judging closed. Very, very impressed with the quality of the games in LD this time despite the terrible theme!\n\n**Lessons learned:**\n\n* **If you don't have time for audio, then go full YOLO** and generate your audio by face. It worked for me (#60 in audio category LOLOLOLOL), I'm sure it can work for you.\n\n* **If your theme integration is a pun** or something of a reach, a not-insignificant quantity of people will not \"get\" it unless you **spell it out clearly**. It sucks to have to explain a joke, but sometimes you have to. The comments about my game not fitting the theme stopped as soon as I updated my game description to explain the theme tie-in in the first sentence.\n\n* **Know your tools.** I noticed several nasty bugs when I watched other people play that I couldn't replicate on my own machine, and this was because my interpretation of [Phaser](https:\/\/phaser.io\/)'s physics API was just *wrong*. If I had read the docs a little more closely I could have avoided a buggy (or outright broken) experience for a handful of players, including more than one streamer.\n\n* **Keep your scope small!** A big reason my game is ugly as sin and incomplete-looking is because I had dozens of features planned that had to be abandoned when I ran out of time on sunday. On sunday afternoon I realized that I had to stop everything and immediately implement win and loss conditions, game over screens, ui, and sound effects if I were to have any hope of getting the game uploaded before the deadline. I finished implementing the sound effect just minutes before the deadline.\n\nKnowing that my game could make you laugh and smile is extremely fulfilling. Thank you again.\n\n![Screenshot_20190521-210743_2.png](\/\/\/raw\/4ae\/22\/z\/2500d.png)","comments":3,"comments-timestamp":"2019-05-22T09:58:37Z","created":"2019-05-22T02:11:33Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":158179,"love":7,"love-timestamp":"2019-05-22T11:42:56Z","meta":[],"modified":"2019-05-22T11:42:56Z","name":"Thank you for playing! #3 in humor category! 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Thank you. This was the best game jam I've ever participated in *because of the community*.\n\nI regret that I could not play every game, I'm still finding some gems that I wish I had seen before judging closed. Very, very impressed with the quality of the games in LD this time despite the terrible theme!\n\n**Lessons learned:**\n\n* **If you don't have time for audio, then go full YOLO** and generate your audio by face. It worked for me (#60 in audio category LOLOLOLOL), I'm sure it can work for you.\n\n* **If your theme integration is a pun** or something of a reach, a not-insignificant quantity of people will not \"get\" it unless you **spell it out clearly**. It sucks to have to explain a joke, but sometimes you have to. The comments about my game not fitting the theme stopped as soon as I updated my game description to explain the theme tie-in in the first sentence.\n\n* **Know your tools.** I noticed several nasty bugs when I watched other people play that I couldn't replicate on my own machine, and this was because my interpretation of [Phaser](https:\/\/phaser.io\/)'s physics API was just *wrong*. If I had read the docs a little more closely I could have avoided a buggy (or outright broken) experience for a handful of players, including more than one streamer.\n\n* **Keep your scope small!** A big reason my game is ugly as sin and incomplete-looking is because I had dozens of features planned that had to be abandoned when I ran out of time on sunday. On sunday afternoon I realized that I had to stop everything and immediately implement win and loss conditions, game over screens, ui, and sound effects if I were to have any hope of getting the game uploaded before the deadline. I finished implementing the sound effect just minutes before the deadline.\n\nKnowing that my game could make you laugh and smile is extremely fulfilling. Thank you again.\n\n![Screenshot_20190521-210743_2.png](\/\/\/raw\/4ae\/22\/z\/2500d.png)","title":"Thank you for playing! #3 in humor category! Glad you got a chuckle!","wayback_source":[]}