{"author_name":"cobrajs","cat":"LD #30","comments":[],"epoch":1408923780,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"26919","p_author":"cobrajs","p_authorkey":"11192","p_urlkey":"62355","p_title":"Finished, and post-mortem","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1408923780","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11192","us_name":"cobrajs","us_username":"cobrajs","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"

Check it out: Light and Dark<\/a><\/p>\n

So once again I had to submit my game with a limited number of levels, no music, and no sound. On the plus side, I’m pretty happy with the graphics, even if they are relatively simplistic.<\/p>\n

This time around I did all my coding at my treadmill desk, either walking or just standing up. I had the treadmill mostly set at an incline, since I made my desk too high to type comfortably, so I need to be higher to use it. It’s a better workout, anyway, so no loss there. Here’s my stats from the treadmill (I kept a spreadsheet):<\/p>\n

Time<\/strong>: 9:15:05 hours\/minutes\/seconds
\n Distance<\/strong>: 16.88 miles
\n Calories<\/strong>: 3436 (almost made it to a pound of fat)
\n Vertical gain<\/strong>: 7329 feet<\/p>\n

Not too bad I guess, but as you can see… there’s a lot of slacking off in there (only about 19.27% of the time spent programming (assuming I only programmed and didn’t surf Bandcamp, cause I totally surfed Bandcamp for new tunes)). I had my graphics station elsewhere, and I spent a lot of time there too, but that’s also my gaming laptop… which accounts for more slacking off. Still, I got up to around 1100ish lines of code (really basic code count, like “find src\/ -iname ‘*.hx’ | xargs wc -l” type stuff here). That does pale in comparison to my previous LD entries (I think my first Love2d entry was around 2500, but I had to add a lot of boilerplate stuff that HaxePunk handled for me).<\/p>\n

Though considering I’d only done a few tutorials with HaxePunk prior to this, I’m happy with my progress. That’s a good mark for HaxePunk in my book… I only really had to search for help a few times. And I didn’t really have to pull my hair out getting collision detection to work properly, so there’s that.<\/p>\n

I did the graphics in Inkscape, and had some semi-rigging going with the little avatar, which was nice. I think the graphic style fits good, but that’s probably because I made it, so of course it looks good to me. Better than some of my other Inkscape ventures at least.<\/p>\n

I’m also really glad I decided to just go with Flash exporting. Really easy to get that packaged up and going, and then you can just play it in the browser. Kinda sucks though cause I couldn’t get it to not fill the screen (supposed to be 640×480), but it doesn’t affect gameplay much. It would work better if I had a place to host the files, but I’m too lazy for that.<\/p>\n

Well now, off to play some Dishonored for the rest of the night (five bucks on Steam, can’t beat that). As long as WINE cooperates, that is.<\/p>","time":"August 24th, 2014 6:43 pm","title":"Finished, and post-mortem"}