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\n As I said before, my first thought was to make game about Medusa(5), since an ‘instant-statue-stare’ is definitely unconventional, after all.
\n Then I found out someone else had the same basic idea a few years back.
\n But other than that, the design was quite different!
\n Mine would have been a top-down dealy with push-mechanics for mirrors and any now-permanently-petriefied Ancient Romans.
\n Still wonder what would have happened if I didn’t check the idea online or just pushed through.<\/li>\n
\n I was just so glad I had thought of another workable idea(6) that I started working on it almost immediately.
\n Even if I didn’t want to spend any longer on deciding the idea, I think I should have at least spend more time with the design<\/em> after the idea.
\n Also, the first idea was very simple to make, the second required physics (see another point below).
\n Furthermore, seeing the end result, the theme may not be immediately obvious to everyone.<\/li>\n
\n I did get it to work, and in a time I’d normally consider very acceptable,
\n but thinking about it now, it wasn’t nescesary<\/em>.
\n Also, I didn’t have time enough for the extra ‘load your own level text-file’, so the work isn’t even visible to the player!
\n More than that, it cost time I could have spent on polish, or level design, wich are the important things this game (still) needs.<\/li>\n
\n But to me it seems like it just barely passes ‘good enough to submit’.
\n I don’t think there is much you could cut from the game without losing at least another catagory (I already decided to loose ‘audio’ and ‘mood’).
\n (Well, the txt-based level load system maybe. But since that was already done on the first day, it doesn’t feel<\/em> as if I could have cut it.)<\/li>\n
\n It’s just a question of wheter you should try to implement it in a puzzler, since testing becomes a lot harder.
\n Although my language of choice (L\u00d6VE<\/a>) has box2d<\/a> (well known 2d-physics-lib.) built-in (used ‘underwater’ by L\u00d6VE),
\n I still wonder how much time I lost fiddling not only with a new language, but also it’s physics sub-system.
\n All-in-all, I’m not sure how much time I lost because of this.<\/li>\n
\n but not having anyone to play these ideas off on made me feel strangely lonely.
\n Oddly this wouldn’t have been the case for a larger project I think?
\n Though it had definite upsides; I could focus pretty well ![\":-)\"](\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\")
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\n Menu, three levels, sprites, sound, win-screen.
\n In theory, it might be possible to have fun figuring out the puzzles
\n (Well I wouldn’t have submitted it otherwise!)<\/li>\n
\n It didn’t turn out that way (I had only about 7 hours left for the actual art in the end),
\n but the constant pressure of ‘must hurry or can’t art’ kept some things nicely focussed.<\/li>\n
\n I know from experience that taking away sleep-time does not work for me.
\n I need my 8 (or in case of the last three nights, 6) hours of sleep!<\/li>\n \n
\n and then, dring the compo itself, not touching any of those and just using bog standard Windows Paint(2)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n
\n (Well, also the language and some other stuff.)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n