{"author_name":"logon13","cat":"LD #33","comments":[],"epoch":1440512700,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"13509","p_author":"logon13","p_authorkey":"49258","p_urlkey":"48767","p_title":"Fire Fight: Ludum dare 33 post mortem","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1440512700","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"49258","us_name":"logon13","us_username":"logon13","event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"text":"

For our ludum dare we had a team of 4
\n -2 Programmers (one of them being me)
\n -1 Artist
\n -1 Music\/sound guy<\/p>\n

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This was a very interesting ludum dare for me to pull off.<\/p>\n

What went well:
\n In terms of computer programs everything went pretty smoothly. Visual studio and unity worked almost all of the time and I had almost no trouble merging code which has been a problem in the past<\/p>\n

What went badly:<\/p>\n

The physics engine: I had no idea where to begin with how to code the physics engine for this game. A 2.5D game is nothing I have ever really pictured making. About halfway through the ludum dare I had to recode the entire physics engine which took quite a lot of time and I am relatively happy with the end result.<\/p>\n

Making storyline scenes is hard: This is something which I wish we had a little more time to perfect rather than just having some comic strips and then going straight into the action. I like the player to have choice and to be able to make decisions. Sadly doing this requires writing very specific scripts which don’t take up too much time in a normal sense but during a ludum dare take quite awhile.<\/p>\n

Staying awake: In the timezone I’m in the ludum dare finished at 1pm. On the last day I stayed up all night and by about 7am I was practically completely out of energy I managed to code for about another 3 hours and then just fell asleep. I feel sorry for our other program which had to finish off the extras but even if I stayed awake I don’t think I would have been much help.<\/p>\n

You can play our game here<\/a>:<\/p>","time":"August 25th, 2015 9:25 am","title":"Fire Fight: Ludum dare 33 post mortem"}