{"author_name":"keddelzz","cat":"LD #33","comments":[],"epoch":1440454500,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"13777","p_author":"keddelzz","p_authorkey":"42397","p_urlkey":"49038","p_title":"\u201cVendetta!\u201d Post-mortem.","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1440454500","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"42397","us_name":"keddelzz","us_username":"keddelzz","event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"text":"

The game “Vendetta!” was developed by kuchenkruste and me during Ludum Dare 33 (which was the third ludum dare we participated).<\/p>\n

Find it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The idea:
\n Actually we didn’t want to participate in this ludum dare, because we didn’t “feel the theme”, but than I had a (as we think) brilliant idea:
\n A pacman clone, where you can play as the ghosts and take revenge for your fallen brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n

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Tools we used:
\n – eclipse
\n – GIMP
\n – jsfml (java binding for sfml)
\n – our own game library that handles basic stuff<\/p>\n

What went good:
\n – All planned features were implemented!
\n – We made a level-designer to do more than one level (which turned out to be super handy, even if the render-code of the level-designer isn’t that performant).
\n – The game feels more complete and finished than the last two ones!
\n – There is sound! (the first game were we have sound)
\n – Scala (programming language) turned out to be our friend, because it allowed us to program on a more semantic level as java would.
\n – AI. The first game where we implemented a simple artificial intelligence. It works great, even if it could path-find faster.
\n – The game is hard, but somewhat fun<\/p>\n

What went badly:
\n – Even though there is sound, the sounds and songs are not made by us. (You can find them here<\/a>)
\n – We didn’t make a own font (Find it here<\/a>)
\n – There are still one or two bugs in the game, which were not reproducible (sometimes pacman cheats and walks diagonal)
\n – I wasn’t at home the whole weekend and forgot to bring my timelapse-program, because of this, there is no timelapse this time!
\n – Although I promised that the game was playable on all platforms, it didn’t run on OSX and Linux. Note to myself: Don’t forget to test it on multiple platforms.<\/p>\n

Overall:
\n We had a nice weekend, because Ludum Dare is always fun!<\/p>\n

cheers ~ kuchenkruste & keddelzz<\/p>\n \n

Tags: LD33<\/a>, ld33 postmortem<\/a>, post-mortem<\/a>, postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 24th, 2015 5:15 pm","title":"\u201cVendetta!\u201d Post-mortem."}