{"author_name":"TajamSoft","cat":"LD #33","comments":[{"author_name":"AlgorithmicsAnonymous","time":"August 27, 2015 8:57 am","epoch":1440683820,"text":"Interestingly we also used phaser.js, but kept with it. Also we had never touched it, and although we had some js experience, it was extremely limited.
\n i can’t imagine doing that without internet though :0","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1440682020,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"13311","p_author":"TajamSoft","p_authorkey":"49546","p_urlkey":"48566","p_title":"Ozzyla: (Short) Post Mortem","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1440682020","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"49546","us_name":"TajamSoft","us_username":"\/author\/tajamsoft\/","event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"text":"

(Play Ozzyla)<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ozyllaLD\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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This time i forgot to make a timelapse, so no timelapse will be placed here!<\/p>\n

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This was my second LD, 4th game, and first JavaScript experience.<\/p>\n

This time i decided to use Phaser.js, using JavaScript as the language, something I should have not done, especially because i had no idea of JavaScript before making this game!<\/p>\n

Another problem i had was the lack of internet connection, which i would have really used to get some info about Object Oriented JS, and other stuff. (I expent 4 hours fixing a bug about phaser tilemaps not colliding, apparently, phaser only allows collisions on the last layer of the tilemap!)<\/p>\n

I got the idea from my cat (‘Ozzy’, from ‘Ozelot’) after seeing him catch a bird, the idea is that cats are real monsters for birds and mice! I quickly started making the cat sprites (Instead of prototyping, bad idea!), and other graphics.<\/p>\n

Then, i made some folders, and a ‘index.html’ file, containing Phaser boilerplate code.<\/p>\n

My\u00a0 personal challenge for this LD was to make the game in Object Oriented JS, without any kind of internet connection. All the learning material I had was a web page i downloaded once, that for some reason contained object oriented JS.<\/p>\n

Overall, found JS a simple language, with a really weird approach to objects! (From a ‘C++’ \/ ‘C#’ background)<\/p>\n

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I developed the game in Atom, hosted it using Python integrated webserver, and displayed it using Firefox (Only Firefox, that caused problems with Chrome)<\/p>\n

As i displayed the game using Firefox, Chrome had some issues (Firefox JS engine allows some stuff Chrome’s does not, for example, default variables ‘function a(x = 0, y = 0)’)<\/p>\n

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I also had some problems with 404 errors on filenames with spaces.<\/p>\n

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Also, it seems a lot of people sees the dog sprite as a cat. That’s my fault, as i basically copy-pasted the cat sprite, and modified it to look like a dog…<\/p>\n

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Thanks for reading! Cheers! \":)\"<\/p>","time":"August 27th, 2015 8:27 am","title":"Ozzyla: (Short) Post Mortem"}