{"author_name": "tinyworlds", "cat": "LD #31", "comments": [{"author_name": "regisRquoi", "time": "December 16, 2014 11:48 am", "epoch": 1418748480, "text": "RAAAAH, stop sayin it was technical limitation, people!", "spam": "N"}, {"author_name": "", "time": "December 16, 2014 11:55 am", "epoch": 1418748900, "text": "Yes, that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s a &#8220;bad&#8221; theme. People literally submitted any game without really a property that&#8217;s equal(example: &#8220;You only get one&#8221;, in one game you get one stone, in another you get one life).", "spam": "N"}], "epoch": 1418748060, "likes": 2, "metadata": {"p_key": "21933", "p_author": "tinyworlds", "p_authorkey": "504334", "p_urlkey": "57296", "p_title": "Fantastic Post Mortem", "p_cat": "LD #31", "p_event": "LD31", "p_time": "1418748060", "p_likes": "2", "p_comments": "2", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "504334", "us_name": "tinyworlds", "us_username": "tinyworlds", "event_start": "1417737600", "event_key": "26", "event_name": "LD31"}, "text": "<p><strong><a href=\"http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/10000-shot01.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-427983\" src=\"http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/10000-shot01.png\" alt=\"10000-shot0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/10000-shot01-300x225.png 300w, http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/10000-shot01.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" /></a></strong></p>\n <p><strong>I admit it.</strong> I was one of the theme ragers this time.<br />\n Actually I didn&#8217;t even wanted to participate, but when I saw the theme being a technical limitation rather than a theme, I intuitively made this &#8211;</p>\n <p>The <a href=\"http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&amp;uid=10000\">&#8220;Fantastic&#8221; Ludum Dare theme generator</a></p>\n <p>It&#8217;s not even a generator as it says &#8211; it just throws some random items out of the list at you when you press a button.<br />\n Probably the largest effort went into providing strong user feedback for this single action.</p>\n <p><strong>What went wrong</strong></p>\n <ul>\n <li>I participated although I had other stuff to do 😛</li>\n <li>It&#8217;s not much polished, nor an actual game</li>\n </ul>\n <p><strong>What went right <img src=\"http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" /></strong></p>\n <ul>\n <li>Challenging my fear of using humor in games</li>\n <li>extremely rapid development &#8211; about 80min (new record for me)</li>\n <li>the humor may not be at the top, but the inside jokes are good enough for some giggles among other participants</li>\n <li>getting people to play &amp; rate my game (see the vid by <a class=\"twitter-atreply pretty-link\" href=\"https://twitter.com/DietrichEpp\"><b>DietrichEpp</b></a> below)</li>\n </ul>\n <p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/fForL2VEPpk?start=287&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n <p>So all in all, this was a fun, little Ludum Dare for me, taking away my fear of using humor in games.</p>\n <p>&nbsp;</p>\n <p>I also did a special of GameARTMonday with beautiful Ludum Dare games, you might be interested in:</p>\n <p><a href=\"http://www.tinyworlds.org/blog/gameartmonday-12-ludum-dare-special\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B47MqnMIQAAVp2c.png:large\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"279\" /><br />\n GameARTMonday Episode 12 &#8211; Ludum Dare SPECIAL!</a></p>", "time": "December 16th, 2014 11:41 am", "title": "Fantastic Post Mortem"}