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First Day – The Idea:<\/strong><\/p>\n

At first I was going to do a game where you were a dad monster feeding your baby monster humans. \u00a0Kinda morbid, but the artwork I would create would have lent a funny, somewhat non-disturbing visual of the concept. \u00a0I was not able to get much done during this day other than visually thinking about how the game would play, look and feel. \u00a0Why was I not able to do much the first day other than that? \u00a0I am in the process of buying my first home and the brunt of the work for that happen to land that Thursday and Friday, so yay for that timing.<\/p>\n

Second Day – A change of plans:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yup, the second I started drawing the artwork a different character emerged from the pencil and paper: Poppy. \u00a0A dapper, middle aged monster who got the chance to be on Bob & Bob A’s Dining Room Arena game show: Eat Humans.<\/p>\n

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The idea of the game was something akin to a cash shower grab booth, only this was for monsters catching and eating their fill of humans within a certain time frame. \u00a0There are different types of humans depending on their diet: Red Shirts = Red Meat Eaters, Green Shirts = Vegetarians, Blue Shirts = Seafood Eaters, Orange Shirts = Dessert Eaters, and\u00a0piece de resistance (PDR) = Fancy Food Humans. \u00a0Then there would be the humans who would fight back, so Gray Shirts who would explode when close to you. \u00a0Each would have a different point value and the point value would increase if your monster “prepared” each human respectively by either Sawing, Chilling, or Cooking. \u00a0To defend yourself from the gray humans you would shoot a fireball at them to defeat them.<\/p>\n

I ended up spending Saturday developing the artwork, most of the animations and getting controls working in Unity.<\/p>\n

Third Day – Coding:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I spent the entire third day coding, dealing with physics and learning a lot of new things in Unity.<\/p>\n

Final day – More Coding and Stress:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started the day freaking out about the fact that I probably was not going to finish the game with a results screen that would give the game some kinda meaning at the end of play….well, my worries came true, so I guess I feel good that my worrying was not for nothing? \u00a0I don’t know. \u00a0Anyway, during the last 20 minutes was painful. \u00a0The console in Unity was going crazy with red flags and I was not sure what was going wrong. \u00a0Long story short, I just failed to delete a certain gameobject from hierarchy I was using for temporary purposes. \u00a0All was good after, so I built the game and submitted.<\/p>\n

What I Failed To Do:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Produce a game with a clear objective. \u00a0Sure, it says Eat Humans, so I guess that is the objective? \u00a0Nope. \u00a0Maybe something more like eat X amount of humans withing X amount of time. \u00a0There was several different ways to go, but in the end I ran out of time to provide such an important aspect of a game.<\/p>\n

What I Plan To Do In The Future:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Design a game with a clear and fun objective. \u00a0Although, I am pleased with what I managed to turn out during the jam. \u00a0Being this is the third game I have ever made, I still learning so much and I am pretty excited to dive back into very soon. \u00a0I also plan on doing more game jams or just challenging myself to finish something within a weeks time. \u00a0I have not done One Game a Month, though. \u00a0So, I might start there.<\/p>\n

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Here is the part where I ask the reader to go and play\/rate my game…the link is below:<\/p>\n

EAT HUMANS!<\/a><\/p>\n

Leave me a comment and I will click on your avatar and rate your game within a day or two. \u00a0Thanks!<\/p>","time":"August 27th, 2015 1:33 am","title":"Eat Humans \u2013 A Short, Kinda Not Post-Mortem Post-Mortem"}