{"author_name":"Laelien","cat":"LD #27","comments":[],"epoch":1377899520,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"38031","p_author":"Laelien","p_authorkey":"25981","p_urlkey":"73647","p_title":"I\u2019M TOTALLY POST-MORTING RIGHT NOW","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377899520","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"25981","us_name":"Laelien","us_username":"laelien","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

Please just don’t ask why I feel like all my titles should be in uppercase, there is absolutely no valid reason. Anyway.<\/p>\n

Last week was my first Ludum Dare, and, actually, my first game at all. I had been learning Lua for at least two weeks before doing this, so one might say I was an absolute expert. Expert of newbies, that is.<\/p>\n

But, hey, I’m actually really glad ! Here’s how things went :<\/p>\n

– Roughly five minutes after the theme was revealed, I had my idea and it didn’t change. One of my massive flaws is that I tend to want to do too much, and it’s not really something one can do during a jam. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

– Ten hours after that, the game was functional. Ugly, boring, just as fun as a Derrick episode. ( […] I just Googled Derrick… 90 minutes later I’m reading stuff about Mount Everest and Ice Age 4. Dang, back on topic. ) But it was still a game.<\/p>\n

– Actually the 38-or-so next hours were mainly me procrastinating, adding one or two features when I felt like it. One of the most memorable was the recording of the sounds… 5 AM on sunday with half of Bapteme du Jeu sleeping next door, and me, yelling in Hugo’s mic… Realized halfway through that I was being REALLY loud, hence the weird ” one “.<\/p>\n

– And finally, during the last hour, I added level 5. Just because of one or two people who beat the game like it wasn’t more complicated that toasting bread. Please, understand. My PRIDE was at stake here. And that’s why you’re all suffering on level 5 – for the few brave ones who endured my hellish voice until then, that is.<\/p>\n

Notice that I’m not mentioning sleep. That’s because I didn’t get any rest. For 65 hours. Except for a ten minutes nap, waiting for my computer to reboot. I think it’s a pretty good way to jam, if you manage to do it and not procrastinate too much… Well no okay it was dumb. But still, I’ve been pretty productive, and it’s great !<\/p>\n

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What went right :<\/p>\n