So this was our first LD, and I must say, it was an awesome experience!

On day 1, after declaration of the theme, the first problem was, of course, coming up with a game idea that could stand out. Add to that 6 people from 6 different parts of the country, without Skype (’cause of slow net), this took a pretty good part of day 1. 10 second levels, shooter with stuff changing after 10 secs (everyone loves shooters!), 10 second powerups – a lot of stuff popped up, but we finally decided on controlling different characters for 10 seconds to coordinate a prison break idea.  Granted, this was way too ambitious, but it seemed like a good idea, even if we managed a small prototype. Most of the day was spent on coding the basic engine, and coming up with level designs, and then discarding them due to complexity.

Day 2 and day 3 were huge! Specially day 3, with all of us having college and all. Stuff didn’t go according to plan, cut off many of the ideas, decided on 5 short levels, showing the core mechanic pretty well nevertheless. We wanted it to be real time at first, but later decided against that. So the game as it is now, is more like setting up the pieces before letting it all play out.
Our artists did an excellent job with the art, even if I say so myself. We got a friend to do the soundtrack on late notice, which he surprisingly produced really fast.
We didn’t get enough time to do proper cutscenes or tutorials in the end, and pretty much everyone else was against having a serious story to this, so we skipped that.
Finally, with 2 hours to spare (that’s 4.30 am here), I barely managed to complete it. Didn’t have much time to playtest for all the scenarios that may pop up however. (Updated the game with crash fixes later.)

The final result is pretty much a prototype rather than a full game, but I think we pulled it off quite well. And of course, it’d be awesome if you guys check it out. We may develop this further based on the feedback we get: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=25325

And now, time to start rating all these awesome games I see up here!