{"author_name":"Anshul Goyal","cat":"LD #28","comments":[],"epoch":1387338000,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"34281","p_author":"Anshul Goyal","p_authorkey":"504789","p_urlkey":"69828","p_title":"Aquila \u2013 postmortem","p_cat":"LD #28","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1387338000","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"504789","us_name":"Anshul Goyal","us_username":"Anshul Goyal","event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"text":"

Aquila<\/a>\u00a0is my second submission to ludum dare. I am pretty satisfied with what I have achieved in 48hours. There are few things that I could have done better but there is never enough time for everything, eh.<\/p>\n

My first impression about theme:<\/p>\n

The theme ‘You only get one’ didn’t excite me very much in the beginning. My first thought is to fill in the blank ‘you only get one ______’. Of course, the first word that came to my mind is ‘life’, ‘You only get one life’. Then ammo, chance, opportunity and so on. These words are taking me no where. I even thought what if I could make a game where you only get one chance to play the game. If you try to restart\/reload the game again the game will tell you “thats it, you had your one chance”. Glad I didn’t do it because someone actually did it :D. Then I started thinking about procedural generation, in procedural generation the game generates a “unique” level per play session and that could fit the theme (you only get one “unique” level). This and I also wanted to try something with procedural generation for a long time. So this felt like the right time. Without any further delay and without having any idea about the game mechanic I decided to start implementing the algorithm.<\/p>\n

What went right:<\/p>\n