{"author_name":"Ludipe","cat":"LD #36","comments":[],"epoch":1472746020,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"3266","p_author":"Ludipe","p_authorkey":"20471","p_urlkey":"38734","p_title":"\u201cEmily Morrison\u2019s Garden\u201d (post-mortem)","p_cat":"LD #36","p_event":"LD36","p_time":"1472746020","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"20471","us_name":"Ludipe","us_username":"ludipe","event_start":"1472169600","event_key":"35","event_name":"LD36"},"text":"

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I’m almost recovered from Ludum Dare, which means it’s about time I write a post-mortem<\/strong>, but before that I’ll add here the progress reports we published over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Day #1: A game about plants and sundials<\/a><\/p>\n

Day #2: Everything is ready-ish<\/a><\/p>\n

The game was made by Rub\u00e9n<\/a>, Celer<\/a> and myself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So let’s do a quick recap of the overall experience. We got to a local LD gathering to enjoy jamming along some friends of ours<\/strong>, which also means you goof around with everybody until the theme is announced, something I don’t usually do since I prefer to sleep and start the jam fresh.<\/p>\n

We discussed a few concepts and decided to go for a gardening\/harvesting game<\/strong>, which I liked, in most jams I tend to make games more focused around content creation (level design, narrative, etc) and this time I got to spend more time working on systems<\/strong>, which is nice for a change.<\/p>\n

I believe we worked for about 3 hours before deciding it was time to sleep. At that point the project looked like this:<\/p>\n

\"celer\"<\/p>\n

Day 1<\/strong> was mostly about creating the system and testing it. On day 2<\/strong> we focused on implementing all the art and eyecandy while trying to find some time to balance the game. Day 3<\/strong> felt really short (nothing new) and we spent our time fixing bugs, adding the last details, implementing audio, adding a score system, a title screen, etc.<\/p>\n

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What went wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n