{"author_name":"egordorichev","cat":"LD #38","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"May 9, 2017 8:01 am","epoch":1494334860,"text":"Love2d is amazing! My first LD was also the first time I had used Love2d, and I still managed to make a fun game, it&#8217;s so easy to pick up. Great post mortem, good luck on the next LD! (P.S., there&#8217;s no link to your twitch bot, can you edit the link in? Thanks!)","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1494317220,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"157","p_author":"egordorichev","p_authorkey":"500173","p_urlkey":"34991","p_title":"MF100 \u2013 Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #38","p_event":"LD38","p_time":"1494317220","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"500173","us_name":"egordorichev","us_username":"egordorichev","event_start":"1492732800","event_key":"69","event_name":"LD 38"},"text":"<p>If you are bored with gamedev or programming, game jams is a thing you need to try. In october 2016 I found my self bored with c++ madness. Suddenly, I found a blog post about great game jam, that will help you to re-think your skills.<\/p>\n <blockquote><p>Ludum dare is one of the worlds largest and longest running Game Jam events. Every 4 months, people make a game from scratch in a weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <p><strong>Sounds neat right?<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>I though, I will have a try. My first LD (37), I wrote an RPG-kind of game:<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jam.vg\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41ca.jpg\" alt=\"687474703a2f2f6c7564756d646172652e636f6d2f636f6d706f2f77702d636f6e74656e742f636f6d706f322f2f3539333831342f3132353131352d73686f74302d313438313630383331312e706e672d65712d3930302d3530302e6a7067.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n <p>It was my first experience of java game development, I was completely to game jams. Any way, I did a great job, and I was proud of my self, because I did compo first try. Things I noticed:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Ascii art is great, but doen\u2019t fit game jams<\/li>\n <li>My java framework was buggy<\/li>\n <li>I did not have any clue, how to make music<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>But, what I enjoyed a lot, that I got new inspiration from the jam and the positive feedback from people. It was so lovely, to hear great words about your game!<\/p>\n <h3 id=\"streaming\">Streaming<\/h3>\n <p>Till the LD, there is always a few streamers, that stream their development. When I saw that on LD 37, I thought, that it would be nice to try this. I wrote a small plugin, witch can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/egordorichev\/TwitchSpaceShip\">here<\/a>. Not the best code ever, and the idea is taken from Drunk Devs on twitch.<\/p>\n <p>The plugin it self is a twitch chat bot, that displays all of the users, that had typed something in the chat, on the screen. And every 7-10 minutes happens a random event, that users can vote for.<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jam.vg\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41cb.png\" alt=\"77625614-2f2b-11e7-9fef-c97ba443fe53.png\" \/><\/p>\n <h3 id=\"the-truth\">The truth<\/h3>\n <p>My stream got 0 viewers <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> Strange, isn\u2019t it? Also, my PC was not powerful enough. When the chat bot was active, my PC was lagging so much\u2026<\/p>\n <h3 id=\"another-way-to-do-this\">Another way to do this<\/h3>\n <p>Next LD (it will be in summer 2017), I will record a time lapse, and post it on youtube. Hope, that it will go better.<\/p>\n <h3 id=\"wait-but-what-about-ld-38\">Wait, but what about LD 38?<\/h3>\n <p>Ah.. it was a complete fail.. First of all, in a few hours before jam, i found pico-8. I thought: \u201cWell, I write a game-emulator, this can fit almost every theme..\u201d. I created a prototype console, and got to bed.<\/p>\n <p>When the theme was announced (it was Small World), I though, that this theme is great for writing an emulator.<\/p>\n <p>The first day went alright. But on the second day, I just did not know, what to do.. I mean, I run out of ideas. My game was not playable enough. There was not enough time to start another game.<\/p>\n <p>I just failed.<\/p>\n <p>By the way, game is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/mf100-hack-the-jam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/mf100-hack-the-jam<\/a><\/p>\n <p><img class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jam.vg\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41cc.png\" alt=\"22d.png\" \/><\/p>\n <h3 id=\"end\">END<\/h3>\n <p>Never start a brain storming before LD. Otherwise, you will fail.. Trust me. Next time, I will use lua + love2d for my game. And no ascii art!!<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ascii\/\" rel=\"tag\">ASCII<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/fail\/\" rel=\"tag\">fail<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/gamedev\/\" rel=\"tag\">gamedev<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/java\/\" rel=\"tag\">java<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/libgdx\/\" rel=\"tag\">libgdx<\/a><\/p>","time":"May 9th, 2017 3:07 am","title":"MF100 \u2013 Post-Mortem"}