{"author_name":"vincepascoe","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1375138380,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"42188","p_author":"vincepascoe","p_authorkey":"507273","p_urlkey":"77811","p_title":"Pirate AaaaRTS!","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1375138380","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"507273","us_name":"vincepascoe","us_username":"vincepascoe","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/title-only.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-264503\" alt=\"title only\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/title-only-300x125.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/title-only-300x125.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/title-only-550x230.png 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>So after 7 days I have a game of sorts. Win Condition and 8 levels! of madness.<\/p>\n <p>Things that went well:<\/p>\n <p>Happy about the music I wrote for the main theme last night.<br \/>\n happy with my title screen<br \/>\n glad I made some more levels then one.<br \/>\n Play testing! I had two friends play it and that was a great learning experience.<br \/>\n Recording my own sword fighting folly(ok my gf helped luckily she didn&#8217;t hurt me)<br \/>\n Learning to analyze creative thoughts quicker, still have lots of room to grow.<\/p>\n <p>Things that didn&#8217;t work out:<br \/>\n Enemy pathing AI etc (much harder then I thought)<br \/>\n Ballance? (I can beat the game but it&#8217;s pretty ridiculous for other people)<\/p>\n <p>Graphics, really really wish I had more time or was just more efficient. I&#8217;m use to taking a day per frame of art&#8230; there was so much more I wanted to do.<br \/>\n Basic time management, I learned a lot but working solo on a project like this it was really eye opening.<br \/>\n waiting till the last day to make levels.<br \/>\n spending too much time on music\/graphics all the things I really like.<br \/>\n animations that I can make quickly and not look like seizures.<br \/>\n Not sure if Game Maker is best for RTS<\/p>\n <p>My biggest take away for me was the point after day one, when I had to drop all my cool Ideas and just try to make something that barley resembles a game.<\/p>\n <p>Thank you to all the people that streamed and posted really was nice not to be alone doing this and I learned lots from you guys.<\/p>\n <p>Windows: sorry about the exe file<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/minild-44\/?action=preview&amp;uid=24829\">http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/minild-44\/?action=preview&amp;uid=24829<\/a><\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45595_10152065468813942_900152455_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-264513\" alt=\"45595_10152065468813942_900152455_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45595_10152065468813942_900152455_n-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45595_10152065468813942_900152455_n-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45595_10152065468813942_900152455_n-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45595_10152065468813942_900152455_n.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","time":"July 29th, 2013 5:53 pm","title":"Pirate AaaaRTS!"}