{"author_name":"Reevezy","cat":"LD #27","comments":[],"epoch":1377670800,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"38183","p_author":"Reevezy","p_authorkey":"26147","p_urlkey":"73800","p_title":"What I Learned During My First Ludum Dare.","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377670800","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"26147","us_name":"Reevezy","us_username":"reevezy","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"<p>So I&#8217;ve always had a bad run with personal projects, I get halfway through one and then decide I can do it better and restart it. I also have prototypes for games everywhere that never went anywhere.<\/p>\n <p>So to stop that, I did Ludum Dare 27! It was great fun.<\/p>\n <p>Here are some of the things I learned during:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>I&#8217;m rubbish at music and that is fine with me, I spent 2 hours trying to compose some music and completely failed. I ended up using Autotracker.py which I would highly recommend to anyone that is tone deaf like me.<\/li>\n <li>I&#8217;m rubbish at art, I found something that works, minimalism(i know) but it feels a lot more like a polished game than it would have if I put ugly pixel art everywhere. I&#8217;m not saying everyone should use minimalism, if you want to be good at art you can only get better by trying!<\/li>\n <li>I am not happy with my personal libraries, my number one priority until the next LD is to come up with a new 2D engine most likely in SFML.NET and a standalone editor!<\/li>\n <li>I created a level editor in game which just made everything hard to manage and it was hard to create a symmetrical levels, \u00a0another thing on the list to do is to create a generic level editor that I can port to any format I like.<\/li>\n <li>I can get a game working a LOT faster than I thought, Not just 48 hours but I only spent about 7 hours on all the major features of the game and then spent the rest polishing(except for the last minute random level generation).<\/li>\n <li>The Ludum Dare community is full of very nice and helpful people! I will definitely be doing it again in the future.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Here is my entry if you want to check it out.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-27\/?action=preview&amp;uid=26147\">http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-27\/?action=preview&amp;uid=26147<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 28th, 2013 1:20 am","title":"What I Learned During My First Ludum Dare."}