{"author_name":"dinos","cat":"LD #28","comments":[],"epoch":1387291380,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"34329","p_author":"dinos","p_authorkey":"22762","p_urlkey":"69876","p_title":"You Only Get One Planet \u2013 Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #28","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1387291380","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"22762","us_name":"dinos","us_username":"dinos","event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"text":"<p>In this Ludum Dare, a lot of things went terribly wrong for us :\\<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-28\/?action=preview&amp;uid=22762\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/308734\/22762-shot0.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" alt=\"You Only Get One Planet (Screenshot)\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>We&#8217;re a team of two, so we were going for the 72 hour jam. Before we even started thinking about a game idea, one of our computers stopped booting Windows (it&#8217;s a MacBook and we tried to make a third partition with no success), so we were left with one computer.<\/p>\n <p>We started making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-28\/?action=preview&amp;uid=22762\" title=\"You Only Get One Planet\">the game<\/a> (it also took us ages to come up with an idea) on the working computer and about 40 hours in, we were stuck on some geometry\/math problems that we couldn&#8217;t solve. So we deleted almost everything we had and implemented the Nape physics engine (it was the first time we ever used a physics engine in general :O)<\/p>\n <p>Because we were running out of time we focused on the <em>very<\/em> core features of our game (You Only Get One Planet is about aliens and it doesn&#8217;t have UFOs). We managed to have a somewhat polished version of our game with about a couple of hours left. We started taking screenshots for the submission only to realize that one <a href=\"http:\/\/gamua.com\/starling\/\" title=\"Starling framework\" target=\"_blank\">Starling<\/a> extension we use was causing the game to not work at all in the browser. We <del datetime=\"2013-12-17T16:06:01+00:00\">almost<\/del> cried.<\/p>\n <p>Finally, we submitted the <em>very broken version<\/em> of our game, posted about our problem in the Starling forum and went to bed.<\/p>\n <p>Today, one of the extension&#8217;s developers provided a workaround to our problem. We finally have a working version up! It was without a doubt a very disappointing (and exhausting) Ludum Dare experience for us. We didn&#8217;t enjoy it at all <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/frownie.png\" alt=\":(\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n <p>At least our problems are solved now <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/problems\/\" rel=\"tag\">problems<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/yogo\/\" rel=\"tag\">yogo<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 17th, 2013 9:43 am","title":"You Only Get One Planet \u2013 Postmortem"}