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I waited to get some feedback on my game before doing a post-mortem, and now that I got some, here it is.<\/p>\n

This Ludum Dare, I entered UnderTheLibrary<\/strong>, a little platformer in which you play as a robot trying to navigate the basement of a library to get back to the surface. You can play\/vote for the game here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Making title screens out of the ingame tileset is becoming a habit…<\/p><\/div>\n

The genesis<\/h2>\n

Last time, I struggled a lot with the collision code for my platformer, so this time, I decided to try and use a game engine so as to be able to focus more on the content and actual gameplay. I ended up going with Phaser<\/a>, a HTML5\/JavaScript game framework, because it meant that I would be able to play the result on my Surface RT (I will NOT justify myself for that one…); plus, I learned JavaScript last summer for fun and I wanted to do at least one significant project with it.<\/p>\n

Where I live, the theme was revealed at 3 A.M. … which obviously means I went straight up to bed after seeing it. I would have prefered ‘Break the Rules’, but I thought I could manage to do something with it.<\/p>\n

Fastforward to 9 A.M., I have been at it for an hour, and could not think of an original intrepretation of the theme. I supposed the most common ones were going to be underground\/underwater\/under the looks of something (it seems I was right, at least), and I wanted to do something else. Problem was, I could not think of anything I felt like coding; so I chose the most obvious one, the underground setting, and went with it. Same with the platformer: I realized that this is the only kind of game I am sure of being able to code (almost) ‘right’, and since my goal was to learn\/use the Phaser game engine, it went right with it.<\/p>\n

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The whole library thing started as a basement with books. And where do you find books, lots and lots of books? BAM.<\/p><\/div>\n

What went right<\/h2>\n