{"author_name":"Elemental Zeal Games Studios","cat":"LD #30","comments":[],"epoch":1409582880,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"26312","p_author":"Elemental Zeal Games Studios","p_authorkey":"12839","p_urlkey":"61739","p_title":"Postmortem and Timelapses: The Asteroids I Call Home","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1409582880","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"12839","us_name":"Elemental Zeal Games Studios","us_username":"zkenshin","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"

For our 8th straight entry in Ludum Dare, we created The Asteroids I Call Home.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Using your super powered cat spacesuit, bash through those that threaten your home.
\n Mining ships have invading your peaceful asteroid sanctuary. Defend your home the only way you know how: violently bashing through spaceships.
\n Fly at highspeeds with the help of your jet pack and the gravitational pull of nearby asteroids.
\n Stop the minors by breaking their chains, ships and defense droids. ”<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Asteroids I Call Home<\/p><\/div>\n

You can play our entry here: http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-30\/?action=preview&uid=12839<\/a><\/p>\n

What went wrong:<\/strong>
\n – Rigging problems<\/em>
\n Since this was the first time our artist was doing 3D work, we had a lot of trouble
\n at first trying to rig our 3D model, due to automatic weight painting.<\/p>\n

– Unity animation problems<\/em>
\n As we were unsure of our animation pipeline, we had some difficulties
\n with getting our animations into unity. Although we worked it all out,
\n it definitely took up more of our time than we would have liked.<\/p>\n

– Lost day for the artist<\/em>
\n Our artist still had work on the Monday of the jam, which lost
\n us a day of polish and touch ups we would have liked.<\/p>\n

 
\n What went right:<\/strong>
\n – Picked a game idea and finished planning out the details quickly<\/em>
\n After just a short brainstorming session, we had an idea we both liked,
\n and quickly made a few nice pages of planning, so we could focus later on
\n creating the game, and not having to stop constantly to work out details.<\/p>\n

– Doing 3D<\/em>
\n Although rigging was stupid, and we had trouble with animations in unity for a little while,
\n we are quite happy with our results of making a 3D game in just 72 hours.<\/p>\n

– Completed all the planned features<\/em>
\n Although it took a ton of work, we were really happy that we managed to get evertyhing
\n into the game that we wanted, including timed mode<\/p>\n

– Our best entry yet<\/em>
\n We really feel like this was our best entry yet. It had more polish than many of our
\n other entries, and definitely felt a lot smoother and controlled better than
\n most of our prior work.<\/p>\n

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Our 256x speed timelapse can be viewed here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-F0_s6mz3Bs<\/a><\/p>\n

64x speed here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iJrYeUrR9Yg<\/a><\/p>\n

We are having a blast playing the other entries for Ludum Dare 30, and as always can’t
\n wait for the next competition. Good luck in the voting everyone. \":)\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Asteroids I Call Home death<\/p><\/div>\n

http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-30\/?action=preview&uid=12839<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 1st, 2014 9:48 am","title":"Postmortem and Timelapses: The Asteroids I Call Home"}