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<\/a><\/p>\n Last time I focused almost all my time on gameplay and\u00a0spent nearly no time on graphics. This time I worked on the graphics first once I had an idea. After the overall look started coming together I began work on the gameplay. As a result, I wasn’t able to get all the gameplay elements finished.<\/p>\n
Picking an idea for the theme was hard for me. I decided to go with a platformer because I really like them, and my last game (a puzzle platformer) had awful controls which I wanted to redeem myself from. The controls turned out bad still because of glitches, but I was later able to fix them luckily. When I added the idea for tears, I just went off with it to see where it would go. None of the gameplay mechanics besides jumping were preplanned.<\/p>\n
I’ve been told by nearly everyone who has played my game that it is very hard. I guess I failed on that end, because my last game was also very hard and I had wanted to make this more approachable as a result. Oh well, I enjoy\u00a0the current difficulty at least =]<\/p>\n
Things that went right:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Graphics and animations I am very proud of for my first time doing pixel art.<\/p>\n
– Theme interpretation<\/p>\n
– I was able to put together a simple menu system in the last hour that worked well.<\/p>\n
– Almost a fully working game<\/p>\n
– Turned out better than I thought.<\/p>\n
– Second LD completed!<\/p>\n
Things that went wrong:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Players let me know of a game breaking glitch. It took me a while to find a solution, but gladly it was extremely simple when I got it fixed.<\/p>\n
– The ending of the game was bugged and no one could complete it. It turned\u00a0out this was simply a typo I easily fixed later.<\/p>\n
– The crying mechanic is buggy, sometimes the girl cries when when she shouldn’t and doesn’t cry when she should.<\/p>\n
– I wanted to add a few more ways of interaction with the robots but ran out of time<\/p>\n
– Forgot to add a reset to the game. Added the player reset at the last second but forgot about reseting the robots.<\/p>\n
– No time for sound =[<\/p>","time":"April 28th, 2014 8:57 pm","title":"Cry Baby Postmortem"}