{"author_name":"xgeovanni","cat":"LD #27","comments":[],"epoch":1377766680,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"38107","p_author":"xgeovanni","p_authorkey":"11296","p_urlkey":"73723","p_title":"10 Parsecs Post-Mortem.","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377766680","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11296","us_name":"xgeovanni","us_username":"xgeovanni","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

Last weekend, I made a game. This game was called 10 Parsecs<\/a><\/em>. (Because a parsec is the parallax of one arcsecond<\/span>).<\/p>\n

This was my third time entering the compo. The first two times I did “kinda okay”. This time, I’ve decided, was a rousing success. At the time of writing, \u00a0I’ve had three requests for a post-compo version and one piece of fanart<\/a>\u00a0from this guy<\/a>\u00a0(which would imply that I also have a fan). This is quite clearly awesome.<\/p>\n

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Musings:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This was the first time using Unity for the Ludum Dare. I already knew it quite well thanks to a super secret<\/em> ongoing project I’ve been working on, and because of Quill18’s tutorials<\/a>. I didn’t write any of my scripts in Boo even though I’m one of like seven people who even know what that is. I would like to see Io added as a scripting language in Unity, just to see how it would work.<\/p>\n

I used blended for what little 3D modelling I did. I’ve never been good at Blender. I don’t think I’ll ever be any good at blender. It just intimidates me so. Yet, I managed to produce a somewhat acceptable spaceship model<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I used paint.NET for my images, because photoshop is a rediculous price and I’m vemhently against piracy. I used a method I invented for creating cool looking images, in which I create some pixel art and then scale it up bicubically. This doesn’t work for many things, but it does make really cool looking fire.<\/p>\n

Finally, and I think this is kind of cool, one of the fonts I used in my game was made by Tom7<\/a>, who has also entered the compo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Regrets:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Due to time constraints, there was no sound whatsoever in my game. Clearly, something to rectify in the Post-Compo release.<\/p>\n

You start to lose control over your ship after going through a black hole or collecting an orb. This gets progressively worse as you continue. I know exactly what causes this and will fix it post-compo.<\/p>\n

The code is full of hacks (Due to a problem with the rotation of my models after importing them from Blender, I had to use “transform.right * -1” in place of “transform.forward”).<\/p>\n

Even though this was my first “full” game with polygonal graphics, I did not manage to include the phrase “Strong Bad is on point”.<\/p>\n

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