I was pleased with the idea, the visual and the music.<\/p>\n
I found the theme a bit hard: the theme\u00a0was just shouting at me: ‘planets and trade!’ and ‘two world\u00a0platformer where one \u00a0influences the other’.\u00a0I found these ideas a bit obvious and I thought I would drown in a sea of similar but better excecuted<\/em> ideas.<\/p>\n After some hard (and pretty long) thinking I decided to join the world of the smallest scale to the world of the biggest scale. I even had a (love) story.<\/p>\n I kept the graphics simple. Animations were bad, but overall it looked OK, especially considering the amount of work done.<\/p>\n ugly but functional<\/p><\/div>\n The music was simple, hardly any editing, but did seem to fit the theme pretty well. Also I used Aques Tone for some ambient singing, which I think worked well. Because\u00a0\u00a0Aques Tone is Japanese \u00a0you’re limited to Japanese syllables (I used Google translate for the words Earth and Love, but have no idea if it’s right).<\/p>\n Using\u00a0existing code. I have a habit of writing everything from scratch which takes much too much time. This time I used some frameworks, public code and some code I had made myself a year ago (and had posted online, so I could use it, lucky break!).<\/p>\n Preparation: I\u00a0did a warm up weekend!<\/p>\n The bad:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Framework: I used the Starting Framework. I tested it in the\u00a0warm up weekend but it still threw some unexpected curve balls, which made me doubt if I could finish the game on time. In the end I made it work but at first a bug made it so slow, nobody would be able to finish it, it would have taken hours, now it can be done in minutes.<\/p>\n RSI: it influenced a lot:<\/p>\n It was not finishable<\/em> for\u00a0\u00a0the first week. In the last few hours I made a desperate attempt to make the shape recognition work, but because testing takes a lot of time and keyboard use, I had to post the game not knowing for sure if it was finishable. I turned out not te be. I wanted the story to be about connecting the small and the large world, about making small changes with big consequences, but it meant players would have to zoom in and out a lot. \u00a0 As a playing experience it was not ideal.<\/p>\n It’s HARD. The ‘don’t know’:<\/strong><\/p>\n I made my own system for shape recognition. I looked at some publicly available code, but couldn’t figure out if it was legal to use and maybe I wouldn’t able to\u00a0figure it out. If that was a good choice? I have no idea!<\/p>\n If you want a zen game to slowly\u00a0create a winning state: play my game<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 7th, 2014 8:29 am","title":"A quantum post mortem"}![\"ATOM\"](\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ATOM.gif\")
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\n My apologies to people trying to finish my game.<\/p>\n
\n I made a hint page <\/a>at some point, but I haven’t heard of anyone winning the game. And I think people would want the world to know, because it is an achievement. I did it myself so I know it can be done.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n