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Results are out for my compo game Two Must Become One<\/a>. This game is my first LD ever, and I have to say, didn’t expect this AT ALL:<\/p>\n
| #113<\/td>\n | Audio<\/td>\n | 3.58<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n |
| #130<\/td>\n | Overall<\/td>\n | 3.71<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n |
| #184<\/td>\n | Mood<\/td>\n | 3.47<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n |
| #307<\/td>\n | Fun<\/td>\n | 3.35<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n |
| #394<\/td>\n | Innovation<\/td>\n | 3.37<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n |
| #409<\/td>\n | Graphics<\/td>\n | 3.32<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n |
| #724<\/td>\n | Theme<\/td>\n | 3.00<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n |
| #1626<\/td>\n | Coolness<\/td>\n | 37%<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n Holy bananas! 130th place on the first try!? Yay! Thanks a lot to everyone who voted and commented! I got a lot of very helpful feedback too, and I’ll try to better myself and future LD entries.<\/p>\n What’s interesting is that people’s impression of my game was apparently good enough to make them rate it +3 stars (in other words, most could have felt bad if they gave me 1-2 stars for it).\u00a0 Audio got the highest rating, despite the fact I added some music literally in the last minute. The song itself I composed ages ago too, but it fit this game perfectly. I am pretty sure my game has gotten much better ratings than it would otherwise have because of the audio.<\/p>\n What also fascinates me is that most ratings are between 3 and 4 stars, and additionally are pretty close together (3.32 Graphics, 3.35 Fun and so on). I guess it made a solid first impression.<\/p>\n The fact that theme only got a 3 star rating is not surprising at all. I was not able to add all features I wanted to add, which could have made a connection to the theme more obvious. This also means I need to tune down on game scale next time, because this game here as is, is pretty in-depth for being made in only 48 hours. Looking back, I’m wondering how the fridge I got it done in time in the first place. But well, I did it! Weee!<\/p>\n The coolness rating came out pretty bad. I admit I didn’t play too many other games this time because I was happy just to be done with it and to have my first LD entry finished. “Winning” or “getting ratings” wasn’t exactly my aim here. This will change next LD competition, though!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Overall, taking part in this competition was a very positive experience, and the only thing I would improve next time was decreasing the scale of the LD entries. And maybe stop recreating things that already exist! I need better ideaass!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Tags: gamedev<\/a>, GameJam<\/a>, LD30<\/a>, ld48<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 16th, 2014 4:35 am","title":"Woah there!"} |