“And the theme is… You only get one”

“Seriously? We’ve chosen THIS?” When I opened Twitter last Saturday morning all I saw was tweets that complete resonated with my own thoughts: there was SO many awesome themes and we have chosen something… something… argh… “I can’t even!” But the panic attack didn’t last for long. After almost 30 minutes of brainstorming I came up with the idea I always wanted to implement — to play with parallel worlds. Last time playing with them led me to light depression (which led me to mini-Ludum Dare and opened Jam Yesvember).

What went wrong:

• I got sick. Seriously, I was waiting for LD for so long and I just got sick right on Friday! That’s why game maybe doesn’t look complete or something. I felt pretty bad, so I couldn’t work 24/7 (which is bad, so maybe sickness saved me…). But I played guitar, watched some movies and had a great time with my family. I don’t even know if it can be count as “wrong”.

What went right:

• Everything else. Seriously. I don’t have something epic that I can blame now for being an obstacle to the glorious ultra-indie-leet-game. IDE was ready, project setup took me only 5 minutes, code writing was fun, testing was fun. Maybe I was too slow when I made graphics (but, hey, it’s me, I always slow at GFX :D). Most important: I had fun. Because, this is why we are here, aren’t we?

Summary:

• The game looks exactly how I imagined it. It’s, maybe, the first jam project, where no features were cut before the deadline. Maybe it’s not ultra-fun, but it proves (to me, mostly) that this concept is very alive, promising and can be something greater.
• And most important: it was my first big Ludum Dare. I was afraid of a deadline-failure (especially when HTML5-version refused to build at first, and then had serious music issues and problems with Google Drive hosting), but after submission I felt very… very clean, very happy. I did it. I. Did. It.

Aftermath:

• Right now I don’t know what I’m going to do with parallelsync. Honestly, after all the comments I got under the entry, I’d really like to develop it to something bigger. Because, why not?

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