{"author_name":"coolo","cat":"LD #30","comments":[],"epoch":1408907340,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"27123","p_author":"coolo","p_authorkey":"11847","p_urlkey":"62561","p_title":"Ludum Dare #30 \u2013 Success!","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1408907340","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11847","us_name":"coolo","us_username":"coolo","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"

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Hey there!<\/p>\n

I just finished my LD entry “Willy The Triangle”, my second time participating in a Ludum Dare. Willy The Triangle is a 2,5D multi dimensional platformer with evil rectangles – what could someone want more?<\/p>\n

Development was straight forward: Yesterday, in the morning I’ve started development and finished just now (of course with some breaks, including 8hours sleep and one stop at the fitness centre – you have to be fit when developing :P) – so development was quite chill. I spent around 1 hour fiddling with some ideas and thinking about some concepts, but I have to admit I am not the planning type of guy – I really had just a rough concept, which was at the beginning time travelling in a RPG style game. But I quickly adapted this into parallel dimensions, because time travelling was too complex and time was spare. Then I realized that RPGs are much more time consuming, which again, is not something you have a lot during a LD. So I chose my favorite genre instead, which I knew is possible in 48 hours: Plattformer (as my first LD entry was also a platformer).<\/p>\n

Then development kinda rushed through. On day 1 I basically developed the engine and maps and on day 2 I made all the assets and finetuning. I personally like this approach a lot, because you reduce the amount of unnecessary assets you have to create and you are in different mindsets when developing and when making graphics – switching too often is not healthy for a game in my opinion. I think I spent around 30 hours on this game in total. No serious bug hunting or other unexpected time issues were encountered during the development.<\/p>\n

My toolchain<\/strong>?<\/p>\n