{"author_name":"djosef","cat":"LD #32","comments":[],"epoch":1429578000,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"18083","p_author":"djosef","p_authorkey":"51393","p_urlkey":"53395","p_title":"Food War! \u2013 Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #32","p_event":"LD32","p_time":"1429578000","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"51393","us_name":"djosef","us_username":"djosef","event_start":"1429228800","event_key":"27","event_name":"LD32"},"text":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Food War!<\/strong><\/p>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Food War! - Game\" href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-32\/?action=preview&amp;uid=51393\">http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-32\/?action=preview&amp;uid=51393<\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>This was our first experience in this type of competition(create a full game in a short time period), We\u2019re Game Development students and we\u2019re in the first period of it, that\u2019s why all the experience was a bit tricky, but we managed to control the time of content creation and proper development. The teamwork was a really incredible and marvelous experience, we had luck to know exactly what we wanted to put in the game, and all the members did a really great job considering ours student\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n <p>In this game you control a Gourmet Chef called\u00a0<em>Monsieur Foodon Wellison<\/em>, the objective is to defeat the Food-Trowing Ninjas before they steal your secret recipe, you do this by countering all their attacks, sending the food back to them.<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_457827\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1900143_753479401389959_8516829728161337743_n-horz1.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-457827 \" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1900143_753479401389959_8516829728161337743_n-horz1-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"1900143_753479401389959_8516829728161337743_n-horz\" width=\"405\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1900143_753479401389959_8516829728161337743_n-horz1-300x129.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1900143_753479401389959_8516829728161337743_n-horz1-550x237.jpg 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1900143_753479401389959_8516829728161337743_n-horz1.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wytemalhos (Design,Art) \\ Dantas (Animation) \\ Mendes (Programmer)<\/p><\/div>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><strong>FoodWar Developers:<\/strong>\u00a0Djosef Wytemalhos (Game Design\/Art Creator). Eric Dantas (Animation\/ Audio). \u00a0Saulo Mendes (Programming).<\/p>\n <p><strong>History:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Monsieur Foodon Wellison<\/em>\u00a0is the main chef of the restaurant\u00a0<em>La Nourriture D\u00e9licieuse<\/em>, the best of the entire world. His rival,\u00a0<em>Cuisinier Furieux<\/em>, hired Food-Trowing Ninjas to steal the secret recipe of Foodon\u2019s delicious recipes.<\/p>\n <p>Now, Monsieur Foodon Wellison must face the Ninjas to restore the peace of his restaurant, although Monsieur Cuisinier Furieux won\u2019t give up too easily.<\/p>\n <p><strong>Aesthetics:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The game\u2019s art was made in Adobe Illustrator, the final results of the images are a bit comic. The Monsieur Foodon Wellison is inspired in Mario and Zeff, and the\u00a0<em>Cuisinier Furieux<\/em>\u00a0is inspired in The Ginosaji(aka The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon).<\/p>\n <p><strong>Mechanics:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This was the trickiest part of all the game\u2019s development, because was in this moment that the bugs started to pop out of nowhere (animations that don\u2019t play, enemies behaving strangely, etc.).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Food War!<\/em>\u00a0Is a game where the player only needs to walk up and down and counter the foods that are throw at him.<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_457831\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_11.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-457831 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_11-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_11-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_11-550x329.jpg 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_11.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food War! &#8211; Prototype<\/p><\/div>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>We learned a lot about game developing and improved the teamwork a lot too, we\u2019re a lot happy with the results although we\u2019ve been nervous during all the process. During the production of the game, one of our members that lives in a different city had problems with his internet and that delayed the work, but we still managed to finish all in time.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>The good side:\u00a0 We got a lot happy in developing this game, this was our first jam and surely we\u2019ll improve ours skills and develop a lot more games, the game\u2019s art got beautiful and the animations got fun.<\/p>\n <p>The bad side:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our lack in experience and the short time made it difficult to develop, but we achieved to overcome it to some extent, a lot of things is missing because of bugs, this game was to be much more rich in mechanics, different enemies and Power-Ups, we\u2019ll work to achieve that in this same game in a near future.<\/p>\n <div id=\"attachment_458069\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_3.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-458069 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_3-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_3-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_3-550x311.jpg 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screenshot_3.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final Version!<\/p><\/div>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\">","time":"April 20th, 2015 8:00 pm","title":"Food War! \u2013 Post-Mortem"}