{"author_name":"megashroom","cat":"LD #27","comments":[{"author_name":"megashroom","time":"August 25, 2013 7:13 pm","epoch":1377475980,"text":"Never mind, I figured out how to rate entries.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1377474540,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"38737","p_author":"megashroom","p_authorkey":"24770","p_urlkey":"74355","p_title":"10 seconds for Cactusman Post Mortem-and a question","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377474540","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"24770","us_name":"megashroom","us_username":"megashroom","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

\"screeny2\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hour<\/strong>s of sleep:<\/strong> Around 8.<\/p>\n

Lines of code:<\/strong> 2621.<\/p>\n

Curious bugs: <\/strong>Innumerable.<\/p>\n

Things I did wrong: <\/strong>Almost all of them.<\/p>\n

However, I suppose that I did the most important thing correctly, making and submitting “10 seconds for Cactusman” within the 48 hour period.<\/p>\n

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Looking back upon my development process, I realize that the most blaring mistake I made was made before I began the competition, I failed to write much of an engine, even a rudimentary engine, before the theme was released, and thus spent most of the first and second days writing collision code and various other theme unrelated tasks.<\/p>\n

The other mistakes that I made were less damaging. Ignoring the theme until the final ten seconds of development, writing a terrible level-saving format, and finally not correcting bad bugs, but spending hours fixing the most minor of issues, probably set me back a bit, but I honestly don’t know how fatally they’ve crippled “10 seconds for Cactusman” overall.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s it for my first postmortem, and my first LD.<\/p>\n

Hopefully I’ll be able to implement something cooler next time.<\/p>\n

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P.s. How do you rate games?<\/p>","time":"August 25th, 2013 6:49 pm","title":"10 seconds for Cactusman Post Mortem-and a question"}