{"author_name":"micahcowan","cat":"LD #30","comments":[],"epoch":1408922340,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"26940","p_author":"micahcowan","p_authorkey":"38013","p_urlkey":"62376","p_title":"Friendly Baubles Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1408922340","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"38013","us_name":"micahcowan","us_username":"\/author\/micahcowan\/","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"<p>Whew! Well, done. Just by a nose.<\/p>\n <p>Things I wanted to do but didn&#8217;t have time for:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>More sprite graphics for the various characters (had to slap ugly coloring on repeated ones, to make them distinguishable)<\/li>\n <li>Snazzy title screen and\/or win graphic<\/li>\n <li>More variety of paths in the worlds &#8211; currently there&#8217;s just world 0, world 1, and the other three worlds&#8217; &#8220;friends&#8221; all travel the same paths from world 1.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Things I&#8217;m proud of accomplishing:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Learned a facility with CreateJS<\/li>\n <li>A little background music (even if it&#8217;s just something I threw together in a few minutes&#8217; recording time)<\/li>\n <li>Somewhat sophisticated path-traveling (that I didn&#8217;t get to take much advantage of)<\/li>\n <li>The few graphics I managed to get finished.<\/li>\n <li>Fixed some broken understandings of how prototyping works in JavaScript.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Hopefully I can be much faster next time, now that I&#8217;m more comfortable with the tools.<\/p>\n <p>I need to get more familiar with Inkscape&#8217;s oddities and quirks, or start using a better replacement. Using it on a Mac instead of Linux also cost me the ability to make some slightly nicer-looking fudged graphics for the end there (using Color Filters instead of wholesale replacing all fill colors on various objects would&#8217;ve been nice).<\/p>\n <p>There are some minor quirks with how my version of CreateJS is working. Hopefully I&#8217;ll remember and adjust my design accordingly for next time.<\/p>\n <p>Anyway, I did what I set out to, and I had fun doing it. It was a good way to force me to learn the tech better, so hopefully I&#8217;ll leverage that to make more games just for fun. <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>","time":"August 24th, 2014 6:19 pm","title":"Friendly Baubles Post-Mortem"}