I think this is one of my better Ludum Dare entries!  I’ve been learning a lot from doing these, and I hope it shows.

Beast Of The Woods

GOOD THINGS:

1. Music:  As always, I think I did well capturing the tense atmosphere here, with the music that escalates as you get closer to your prey.
2. Sound:  I made all of my own sound effects for this, and had to get creative.  For the footstep sounds, I crinkled together some brown packing paper with a plastic bag.  For the gunshot, I recorded a hand clap and modified it slightly.  Everything else was modified vocal recordings.  I’m beginning to think I’m getting good at making monster sounds, based on this and my Dreamshift entry a few LDs back.
3. AI:  The humans have the most advanced AI I’ve programmed to date.  Granted, I’m not much of a programmer, and I’m sure others could make better AI, but given the timeframe I was working with, I was extremely pleased with the results.  I got the humans’ movement and decisions to feel somewhat natural.  I also decided within the last 6 hours to modify it to allow more than one human out at a time, and was relieved that I managed to implement it without having to change much.  This is also the first time I’ve gotten pathfinding to work reasonably well (Downbeat had some issues).

BAD THINGS:

1. Graphics:  Always an issue for me.  I got the lighting and stuff to come out okay, but I’m still not good at making textures.  Hence, all of the pixelated ones in the game.  One of these days I’ll get better at that, I hope.
2. AI:  There were still a few more things in the AI that I would have liked to tweak to make certain parts more unpredictable, but with the deadline looming I just decided there wouldn’t be time to mess with it anymore.

Overall though, I’m quite pleased with the results, and I hope others are as well.  If anyone can kill all 18 humans in the game (I did it once myself, so I know it’s possible), let me know!