{"author_name":"davidB","cat":"LD #26","comments":[],"epoch":1368080100,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"42667","p_author":"davidB","p_authorkey":"20693","p_urlkey":"78302","p_title":"Postmorten : AbbrevsMaster","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1368080100","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"20693","us_name":"davidB","us_username":"davidb","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"<p>\n <iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJL8gkDrfUI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n <\/p>\n <p>This was my first participation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/\">Ludum Dare<\/a> and to a Game Jam.<br \/>\n I played games from previous jam, but this time &#8220;I&#8217;was in&#8221;. <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n <p><strong>About the theme<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m a fan of clean manga and &#8220;bandes dessin\u00e9es&#8221; (ligne claire), of &#8220;minimalist&#8221; web design &#8220;minimalist&#8221;.<br \/>\n Daily I work on a game <a href=\"http:\/\/vdrones.appspot.com\">vdrones<\/a> with minimal gfx (triangle, cube, plan), sound, &#8230; <\/p>\n <p>So I should do something different.<\/p>\n <blockquote>\n <pre>\"Google Search\" page is a famous example of \"minimalism\" web design. So start on a game with a visual like it.\n + An other place where we use minimum keystroke : chat, forum, coding,... via abbreviations and acronyms\n + gamefication (try to include fun and juicy)\n ----------------------------------------\n = AbbrevsMaster\n <\/pre>\n <\/blockquote>\n <p><strong>What wrong ?<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>about game:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>I prepared some stuff (atmosphere, color palette, libs of code, &#8230;), I nearly use nothing<\/li>\n <li>poor abbrevs&#8217;database\n <ul>\n <li>not tune, simple copy \/ paste from some web page<\/li>\n <li>the random selection in list should need to integrate a popularity weight of term<\/li>\n <li>I failed to read data from a wiki page (github) due to security issue, spend too many time to try<\/li>\n <li>I didn&#8217;t find an online service that allow to request by category<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li>No introduction (instruction, credits screen)<\/li>\n <li>Not enough funny juicy animations when traduction are crunched (quantity, quality)<br \/>\n I could not fix a bug in css 3d transformation.<\/li>\n <li>The fun is hidden, the game is hard<\/li>\n <li>no time to provide an Assistant<\/li>\n <li>not enough gameplay tuning<\/li>\n <li>It&#8217;s not the kind of game I enjoy to play<\/li>\n <li>Not enough time to provide a way to share score<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>misc :<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>not enough reuse\n <ul>\n <li>I didn&#8217;t reuse all the code (lib, framework) I prepared during previous week<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li>very short night \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n <li>I didn&#8217;t post progression, I was not aware of others participants.<\/li>\n <li>I failed my timelapse recording (glapse has no pause).<\/li>\n <li>Not enough preparation, I didn&#8217;t follow my pre-roadmap<\/li>\n <li>Last hour on a stupid bug in audio<\/li>\n <li>Stack email, news, &#8230; during 2 days<\/li>\n <li>I found the name (title) when I filled the submit form.<\/li>\n <li>Crappy code (and image) lot of places for improvements<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>What Right ?<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><em>I submit a playable version (80% finished)<\/em> (last deployement at H &#8211; 30 min)<\/li>\n <li>I was able to reuse audio code (, build code from other project<\/li>\n <li>I toke time for my friends and familly (saturday afternoon)<\/li>\n <li>Using a kanban (<a href=\"https:\/\/trello.com\/board\/ld26\/517afacee4a0282247000a89\">Trello<\/a>) vs todo file.<\/li>\n <li>I successfully try freemarker as css preprocessor (day 2, I should use it day 1)<\/li>\n <li>Very stimulating<\/li>\n <li>Good wife&#8217;support (Thank you Darling)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>Next time<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Prepare better (real project skeleton, timelapse recorder, video capture)<\/li>\n <li>Try to improve and to enjoy<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-26\/?action=preview&amp;uid=20693\">AbbrevsMaster<\/a><\/p>\n <p>An now it&#8217;s time to explore LD games (to play &#8230; to rate)<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/google-dart\/\" rel=\"tag\">Google Dart<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/post-mortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">post-mortem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"May 9th, 2013 1:15 am","title":"Postmorten : AbbrevsMaster"}