{"author_name":"GFM","cat":"LD #29","comments":[],"epoch":1398675060,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"30562","p_author":"GFM","p_authorkey":"7375","p_urlkey":"66037","p_title":"Persona portmortem \u2013 part 1\/?","p_cat":"LD #29","p_event":"LD29","p_time":"1398675060","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7375","us_name":"GFM","us_username":"\/author\/gfm\/","event_start":"1398384000","event_key":"22","event_name":"LD29"},"text":"

I just woke up a while ago. Now I feel ready to write this! \":)\"<\/p>\n

Theme<\/h2>\n

\"gfm-ld29-ss1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t get prepared before hand for any theme. Sometimes a theme may give me an idea upon reading it during the voting, but I don’t intentionally try to know what I could do with any theme. So I was as prepared for this theme as I was for any other (except “It never ends”; I had a cool idea for it).<\/p>\n

But this theme was both easier and tougher than every other from previous entries to me. I usually have an idea early and keep working on it through all the weekend. This time, though, I had only a concept early on, and this was after a lot of thinking. I first decided that I wanted to make a story driven game (and therefore a visual novel thing), so I started getting the engine ready with Flixel. Then, I posted a concept here and started to think about a story for it… Which wasn’t coming out nicely. Then, I kept going forth and back between writing the story and drawing assets.<\/p>\n

Another thing I did was keep coming back to read the original concept. I was afraid I might get off track again (as I did with Hummy’s Hunger), so I was tried to think how I was going to fit the theme with the game.<\/p>\n

Time handling<\/h2>\n

\"Early<\/a><\/p>\n

Seems like each passing LD I get better able at handling my time. I didn’t feel as pressured as with previous LDs. Before, I’d keep working until the last second while panicking cause there were too many things still to do\/broken\/etc. Since I set on a story driven game, that didn’t depend too heavily on implementing stuff, I was able to take it easy and, after writing a basic VN engine over Flixel, concentrating on assets.<\/p>\n

I knew what I had to do and how… Also, since I had a setting in my mind, but not the story itself, I was able to think about the graphics for the world before writing anything. This really helped as I only did start writing the story at the ~23 hours left mark.<\/p>\n

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Seems like I’m out of time. If I left this as a draft, I’d probably never finish. So I’ll post this as is and, later, I’ll write the rest of the postmortem.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n \n

Tags: postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 28th, 2014 3:51 am","title":"Persona portmortem \u2013 part 1\/?"}