{"author_name":"Endeg","cat":"LD #37","comments":[],"epoch":1481482080,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"1660","p_author":"Endeg","p_authorkey":"500450","p_urlkey":"36527","p_title":"Well this is fun","p_cat":"LD #37","p_event":"LD37","p_time":"1481482080","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"500450","us_name":"endeg","us_username":"endeg","event_start":"1481241600","event_key":"81","event_name":"Ludum Dare 37"},"text":"<p>It&#8217;s already night here, and on the morning I&#8217;ll need to go\u00a0to work. That means that I will have some tomorow&#8217;s evening time to finish game for the Jam. But, I hardy believe so, since a lot of gameplay stuff is missing. Still, I think that was a good experience and I definetely will go for the next one.<\/p>\n <p>So, problems in my game:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>It&#8217;s story game. In my head it looked easy to implement. But now I see that story was not very clear and most of the time I was just thinking how awesome and meta my story is, instead of making content.<\/li>\n <li>It&#8217;s RPG with random encounters and leveling, and this is where I stuck gameplay-wise. I&#8217;ve never programmed any random encounters and that quickly become a challenge. And my code was not\u00a0designed to adapt leveling system easily.<\/li>\n <li>Even more time wasted on battle system. Looks like Zelda 2 approach could&#8217;ve been easier to implement, especially with platforming stuff provided in Godot.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Positive discoveries:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Strict time limit is like magic. I managed to make so much stuff (the world with character, start menu, game over conditions, some weird graphics) that I never made in months of hobby gamedev.<\/li>\n <li>Oh wow, It looks like that&#8217;s all for the positives. But that single point is pretty huge, I should say :).<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>So that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;ll post build with latest changes and hope to finish game later. But you could\u00a0already check it with Godot installed:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Endeg\/ld37\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/Endeg\/ld37<\/a>.<\/p>\n <p>Good luck to everyone!<\/p>","time":"December 11th, 2016 1:48 pm","title":"Well this is fun"}