{"author_name":"xplicitone","cat":"LD #32","comments":[],"epoch":1429583460,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"18012","p_author":"xplicitone","p_authorkey":"26168","p_urlkey":"53323","p_title":"5th Ludum Dare Attempt = My 1st Submission!!!","p_cat":"LD #32","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1429583460","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"26168","us_name":"xplicitone","us_username":"xplicitone","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"<p>My very 1st submission!!!<\/p>\n <p>I failed 4 previous attempts using C++\/SDL , spending most of my time learning and building the Engine. I got fairly close once but nothing. I finally decided to start learning Unity as of last weekend so the past week has been my very first real games!<\/p>\n <p><strong>Pros:<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>First of all, I had a blast!<\/li>\n <li>Started out with the basics, Start Menu with Options (Didn&#8217;t get difficulty working), Game Screen, End Screen and repeat<\/li>\n <li>Focused on creating good Controllers\/Managers<\/li>\n <li>Once a workable game was complete, list features I&#8217;d like to add with priority.<\/li>\n <li>Completing the items from the list (within the last 2 hours), such as saving High Score, displaying Health, creating sounds for getting hit, and adding Health Pick Up from fallen enemies.<\/li>\n <li>Stop trying a certain feature from above when it was taking too much time to move onto the next one<\/li>\n <li>Test playing at crucial times!<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><b>Could have done better:<\/b><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>More sleep leading up to the Jam<\/li>\n <li>Learned Unity a lot sooner than starting a few days prior to the Jam<\/li>\n <li>Started the Main Game sooner<\/li>\n <li>Practice creating Assets<\/li>\n <li>Animations<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I got loot to work in the final hour but my Layers messed up so my loot weapon kept killing myself and when I offset it, it wouldn&#8217;t hurt the enemy so I scrapped that idea and just made it health pickups instead. \u00a0I wanted to get in more enemies and make them more random, along with bosses!! But I ran out of time so I&#8217;ll definitely continue this game to learn more and make it more complete. Overall, I spent pretty much all night Friday, all day Saturday and Sunday, and tonight for a total of ~35 hours.<\/p>\n <p>Controls: WASD to Move, Enter to Shoot.<\/p>\n <p>Hope everyone had a good time and enjoy playing other games! And I just hope at least 1 person can have some fun with mine \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-32\/?action=preview&amp;uid=26168\">http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-32\/?action=preview&amp;uid=26168<\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/26168-shot0-1429581603.png-eq-900-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>","time":"April 20th, 2015 9:31 pm","title":"5th Ludum Dare Attempt = My 1st Submission!!!"}