http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-30\/?action=preview&uid=40951<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I decided I’ll jump into this compo\u00a0few hours before the start (I even upvoted this theme – yay – so concept was there from beginning). \u00a0It would be my first ludum dare compo that I join, \u00a0wanted to do this for some time now!<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 My plan\u00a0was clear from the beginning: use my tiny, ancient and rusty gameplay prototyping experience to get something up and running right away and spend rest of the time to actually getting a “complete” package in this short time span, hopefully without killing myself in the process.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 Arguably, I managed to delivered in terms of wrapping up but funny thing is, I spent so much time tweaking things here and there, that I managed to lose completely focus on gameplay. This turned out too shallow, even for a procedural infinite runner. I also had to\u00a0stick\u00a0to another, simpler\u00a0graphics style (draw things, say what ?). No time to implement grappling hook, more baddies, variation into gameplay.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 Things I learned (hope these stick for a while):<\/strong><\/p>\n – aggressive plan reshuffle\/cut of features\u00a0is maybe not the best approach to handle sinking ships (have yet to learn the other options)<\/p>\n
– 48 hours is enough to make a simple but complete game (albeit more effort\/skills are required)<\/p>\n
– 80\/20 rule is more like 20%(core)+80%(finish)+35.72%(shit, this sucks, let me fix this right now, it’ll take\u00a0a couple of minutes)<\/p>\n
– monday after a ludum dare compo, is something to be removed from calendars, work today was painful<\/p>\n
lights out, hope to get to do a bit of scoring in the next days!<\/p>","time":"August 25th, 2014 3:20 pm","title":""}
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