{"author_link":"\/users\/teslov","author_name":"Teslov","author_uid":"teslov","comments":[],"epoch":1571383907,"event":"LD45","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":175992,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"137352","p_author":"Teslov","p_authorkey":"1014416","p_urlkey":"353628","p_title":"Gardenia - kinda Post Mortem but instead of dead it's just hibernating","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD45","p_time":"1571383907","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1014416","us_name":"Teslov","us_username":"teslov","event_start":"1570147200","event_key":"78","event_name":"Ludum Dare 45"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD45","removed_author":false},"_superparent":159347,"_trust":2,"author":14416,"body":"Hello everyone!\n\n![gardenia.png](\/\/\/raw\/058\/3\/z\/29b08.png)\n\nSome time ago I've published my game here, it was supposed to be a little gardening simulator that focused on breeding plants together to achieve better statistics and mutate them into different types of flora.\n\nBiggest issue during development was figuring out the main gameplay loop.\nLooking at numbers going up with no reason is cool but serotonin without dopamine is not worth much on the long run.\n\nSo I tried implementing crew management and food requirement.\nI can achieve enough food production in the first three turns.\nSadly, I'm the one who planned all of this.\nThat's probably even bigger issue. \nHow to balance the game properly when you're the only tester?\n\nWhat else was planned?\n\nStory. Three crew members that descended into the surface alongside you, the captain were supposed to have their personalities shown in dialogues and actions. The help book inside the game? It's written by Botanist ( the red-haired girl standing next to the soldier ). She's not a real botanist, she's a writer. That book is fiction. Nothing was supposed to work but it did, so she's a specialist now.\n\nTheir civilization is on similar level to ours with their spaceships working only because of their racial ability to hibernate. You can see that on both Botanist with her phone and Engineer with his laptop.\n\nSo, overall it didn't really turned out as I wanted. Crew management wasn't \"big\" enough to make it as a loop.\nThing is, time was over. With only four hours to finish line, I've decided to just surrender.\nI wrote the \"help book\" and published, kinda wishing it'll all work on itself.\nWell, it didn't.\nGardenia is buried deep underground like the roots of Greenweed.\n\n11 days left. I need votes my dudes.\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/gardenia-1\n\nWhole project was made from scratch, using pure JavaScript, untainted by any frameworks.\nFresh, fully organic, from my own space garden.\n\nSource code is freely available on my GitHub if you're interested in how things work.","comments":0,"created":"2019-10-18T07:12:17Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":175992,"love":0,"meta":[],"modified":"2019-10-18T07:31:47Z","name":"Gardenia - kinda Post Mortem but instead of dead it's just hibernating","node-timestamp":"2019-10-18T07:31:47Z","parent":164503,"parents":[1,5,9,159347,164503],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/gardenia-1\/gardenia-kinda-post-mortem-but-instead-of-dead-its-just-hibernating","published":"2019-10-18T07:31:47Z","scope":"public","slug":"gardenia-kinda-post-mortem-but-instead-of-dead-its-just-hibernating","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":530902},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"175992","n_urlkey":"353628","n_parent":"164503","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/gardenia-1\/gardenia-kinda-post-mortem-but-instead-of-dead-its-just-hibernating","n_slug":"gardenia-kinda-post-mortem-but-i","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"14416","n_created":"1571382737","n_modified":"1571383907","n_version":"530902","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/gardenia-1\/gardenia-kinda-post-mortem-but-instead-of-dead-its-just-hibernating","text":"Hello everyone!\n\n![gardenia.png](\/\/\/raw\/058\/3\/z\/29b08.png)\n\nSome time ago I've published my game here, it was supposed to be a little gardening simulator that focused on breeding plants together to achieve better statistics and mutate them into different types of flora.\n\nBiggest issue during development was figuring out the main gameplay loop.\nLooking at numbers going up with no reason is cool but serotonin without dopamine is not worth much on the long run.\n\nSo I tried implementing crew management and food requirement.\nI can achieve enough food production in the first three turns.\nSadly, I'm the one who planned all of this.\nThat's probably even bigger issue. \nHow to balance the game properly when you're the only tester?\n\nWhat else was planned?\n\nStory. Three crew members that descended into the surface alongside you, the captain were supposed to have their personalities shown in dialogues and actions. The help book inside the game? It's written by Botanist ( the red-haired girl standing next to the soldier ). She's not a real botanist, she's a writer. That book is fiction. Nothing was supposed to work but it did, so she's a specialist now.\n\nTheir civilization is on similar level to ours with their spaceships working only because of their racial ability to hibernate. You can see that on both Botanist with her phone and Engineer with his laptop.\n\nSo, overall it didn't really turned out as I wanted. Crew management wasn't \"big\" enough to make it as a loop.\nThing is, time was over. With only four hours to finish line, I've decided to just surrender.\nI wrote the \"help book\" and published, kinda wishing it'll all work on itself.\nWell, it didn't.\nGardenia is buried deep underground like the roots of Greenweed.\n\n11 days left. I need votes my dudes.\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/gardenia-1\n\nWhole project was made from scratch, using pure JavaScript, untainted by any frameworks.\nFresh, fully organic, from my own space garden.\n\nSource code is freely available on my GitHub if you're interested in how things work.","title":"Gardenia - kinda Post Mortem but instead of dead it's just hibernating","wayback_source":[]}