{"author_name":"Nebulaic Toaster","cat":"LD #33","comments":[],"epoch":1440611220,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"13369","p_author":"Nebulaic Toaster","p_authorkey":"49589","p_urlkey":"48624","p_title":"Impassioned Fowl- Post Mortem","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1440611220","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"49589","us_name":"Nebulaic Toaster","us_username":"chromebookbob","event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"text":"

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This year for ludum dare I branched into “real” games, or rather just not twine games. I stupidly looked at a predicted themes list and thought a world in the skies was going to be the theme, I had a great idea for a stealth game where you steal planets. Anyway, it was cool but that wasn’t the theme. You are the monster seemed to me at first glance a much better theme for an introspective twine story but I stuck to my guns and while listening to R Kelly I mocked up the Goose animation at 3am then slept on the idea. I had a solid idea for the game when I woke up (2 hours late) I set about getting the geese into the game. Day 1 consisted of getting the geese to honk and the sky looking cool, as well as setting up \u00a0buttons and some basic stuff. Day two, I made the start and ending screens and sorted out the code behind the game. It may not seem like much but it was surprisingly time consuming!<\/p>\n

Issues: Stencyl was very unstable, it crashed numerous times and gave memory errors often, but luckily it saved lots so it was more of an annoyance than anything.<\/p>\n

Stencyl had a few things like not being able to copy whole animations that led me to spending a lot of time reimporting frames etc.<\/p>\n

What went well: I think the game works well, there are no massive bugs and I think it looks polished.<\/p>\n

The music and sound effects which I made (especially the honking, which is very lifelike thanks to my throat)<\/p>\n

The goose animation, it is very satisfying:<\/p>\n

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And apparently the humour of the messages, I have had some good comments.<\/p>\n

What didn’t go so well: I would have liked to add some more messages, sounds and general content but mainly I would have liked to tier the level system more and add mroe challenges, as at the minute apart from the moving buttons after level five the speed just increases incrementally.<\/p>\n

Overall: a big success, I look forward to further comments and the final scores!<\/p>\n

PLAY THE GAME<\/a><\/p>\n

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