The concept came from the fact I once wanted to do a platform game for LD 21 but then I chose NDS as the platform which I wasn’t familiar at all at the time so it didn’t made it in time. But a plain platformer seemd too plain so I wanted a mechanic that can enhance the idea and goes well with the theme. That turned out to be a Tetris + Bejeweled freak and it was quite fitting to the theme and the platformer part.<\/p>\n
I’ve made a little video of the game for you but I encourage you to play it as it runs on most platforms and even in a browser.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M5J6SPu2tgs<\/a><\/p>\n You can tell from the video that the game isn’t quite finished. Let’s see in short what led me to this faliure.<\/p>\n What went wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n Normally the structure came naturally to me while programming and everithing fits just fine and builds on each other. This time I had to rewrite parts of the mechanics several times to support other functionalities better. That taken away a lot of time and momentum. I don’t know what happend to me… I recently changed my daily routine – or should I say I’ve tried to create one – and it’s not the real problem but it did take away more time from programming as opposed to the 48h is 48h tactic I used to do.<\/p>\n A little depression came from my real life and from the fact that I’m not doing as well as I used to. This ultimately lead to give up on the finishing of the collision checking as it would required to rewrite the whole falling block mechanic.<\/p>\n Advise<\/strong><\/p>\n Get yourself together and push through no matter what!<\/p>\n Thank you for reading! Please give my game a try and leave a comment! I’ll rate back of course.<\/p>\n \n Tags: post-mortem<\/a>, video<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 30th, 2013 10:02 am","title":"Work It Up \u2013 post mortem"}![\":(\"](\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/frownie.png\")
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