{"author_name":"Katamori","cat":"LD #30","comments":[],"epoch":1409303100,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"26390","p_author":"Katamori","p_authorkey":"25228","p_urlkey":"61820","p_title":"Transit Gods Inc. \u2013 Post Mortem, a.k.a. LD is about learning!","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1409303100","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"25228","us_name":"Katamori","us_username":"katamori","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"

Try my entry here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Okay well, I have this stuff which is buggy, almost has no gameplay and was not even made within 48 hours but only in ~10 but somehow I stll can be proud of.<\/p>\n

What was bad?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’d start with it, cause it’s the more. Practically everything went wrong.<\/p>\n

– I didn’t even have Internet conection at home, so I couldn’t join the flow of the community with WIP shots and random tweets. It’s pretty important for me, as it’s a major “feature” of Ludum Dare for me.
\n – My first idea was good, but went bad: it was too far from what I imagined, an beyond a point, it overwhelmed several bugs as well. Finally, I couldn’t\u00a0even do “basic operations” like return the value of the tile Player is standing on. At this point, I gave up.
\n – On the second day, I had other things do to (girlfriend visit – so yeah, kinda important!) so\u00a0 had very little time. Maybe I simplified too much on the contribution itself.<\/p>\n

The what was good?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Suprisingly, the most important thing went well.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 I LEARNT. Both the abandoned and the fina game learnt me somethig bot facts and programming things.<\/p>\n

So I learnt:
\n – that procedural generation is extremely hard sometimes, and even though you wouldn’t think, writin a proper random map generator might take much more time than creating maps by hand.
\n – that proedural generation is STILL helluva funny!
\n – that addig features in hurry is like using bubble gum instead of duct tapes. The result is the same.
\n – that even if ugly, hanging trains are god damn awesome.
\n – that you can create decently looking people even from 4 pixels.
\n – that fun can cover the mistakes in gameplay.
\n – how to create randomly wandering people.
\n – how to use sound functions in L\u00d6VE properly. It’s the mos important since I was completely lost before.
\n – how to use color changing functions in L\u00d6VE properly.
\n – how to create realistic trains (in behavioural aspects)
\n – etc.<\/p>\n

So yeah, finally I learnt in LD#30 that the most important thing in Ludum Dare is LEARNING.<\/p>\n

Try my entry here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \n

Tags: LD30<\/a>, postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 29th, 2014 4:05 am","title":"Transit Gods Inc. \u2013 Post Mortem, a.k.a. LD is about learning!"}