Even though i had a few set backs this ludum dare (power going out for a whole \u00a0day, being forced to go to a family gathering with no computer… ) i actually managed to make 3 games! Unfortunate im not really satisfied with any of them so i wont be submitting them.<\/p>\n
Its not that i don’t like the games or the ideas its just each game had its own problem:<\/p>\n
Do to lost time i had to constantly take out features and make various changes to game direction so in the end i basically ended up with 3 totally different games.<\/p>\n
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Game Idea one:<\/strong><\/p>\n thanks to the power going out for a day i spent the entire day\u00a0planning out a crazy epic story.<\/p>\n Game idea one was going to be a interactive puzzle strategy game where the players and characters world were connect(your time zone affected story\/environment, the player had to make various decisions, etc…)<\/p>\n The first game i bit off more than i could chew and the game required a detailed story and environments, complete 3d models and animations, logic coding, various choices… in the end the game was pretty and detailed but lacked interesting game play(it was mostly just a point and click mystery).<\/p>\n ———————–<\/p>\n Game Idea Two:<\/strong><\/p>\n For game idea two i decided to simplify characters models ,take out the story and make the game mission based around a single event, then i decided to take out ai and allow a second player to assist the main character with puzzles etc.<\/p>\n I would spend most of my time coding two player co-op logic puzzles, and various control logic.<\/p>\n while working on game idea two i actually had a pretty good pace and scheduled unfortunately i was forced to go to a family event which chomped 7 hours from my scheduled so i no longer had enough time to code all of the logic puzzles that i had to finish which made the second game a \u00a0bit to short.in the end i was only able to make about 4 levels.<\/p>\n ———————–<\/p>\n Game Idea\u00a0Three:<\/strong><\/p>\n For game three i decided to remove story completely from game idea to and make it a co-op versus strategy game , using some of the logic that i had already coded,\u00a0\u00a0and then i tweaked a few of the assets i had made to make them more appropriate for the new game play style.<\/p>\n And you know what the third game was awesome. replay value was really high , the graphics were pretty and overall it had solid game play…but it doesn’t \u00a0feel like it had anything to do with the theme.<\/p>\n ——————–<\/p>\n Overall<\/strong><\/p>\n im sure that if i hadn’t lost so much valuable time i would have actually been able to add those last little tweaks to make the game\/s good enough for submission.<\/p>\n After the power went out i should have followed my gut and made the game prototype using html and my ipad(the official game was going to be made using unity3d) that way i could get my ideas working and would have a more realistic idea of what was capable, instead of me just sitting around sketching out ides.<\/p>\n But in the end its not all that bad, now i \u00a0have three awesome new games that i can expand on , ive learned alot about the tools i used ,and i learned more about \u00a0my strengths and weaknesses this ludum dare.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","time":"August 25th, 2014 3:31 pm","title":"It looks like this is the end"}