My game does an HTTP-POST every time someone finishes a level, so I can analyze how people behave. It’s quite useful, as I can have live statistics of which level people quit on – I also gather some information about how many times people die on that level.<\/p>\n
About half an hour ago, someone finished the game after having it open in their browser for more than two days. I have no idea who this person is, but that kind of behavior warms my heart. <3<\/p>\n
So, I've decided that I will create a full-fledged game out of this entry; I've started a rewrite in C++. I'm going to give it all the polish and wrapping that you associate with "proper" games. And I'm going to sell it to everyone who wants to buy it.<\/p>\n
Small post mortem:<\/strong><\/p>\n What went right<\/em>; Almost everything. Things just ‘clicked’ for me this time. ImpactJS is really easy to work with, HTML5 is nice – and I’ve been working a lot with javascript over the past year, so I’ve grown fond of the language. I’m not a wizard in the art department, but this is acceptable.<\/p>\n What went wrong<\/em>; There are a few things I don’t like about my game. Those are:<\/p>\n * I should pause the game for 0.5 seconds when the player pushes the button – so the player is able to orient him\/herself after rotation.<\/p>\n * I should introduce players to the gun more properly – several players miss the fact that you can shoot in this game.<\/p>\n * I should have made more levels – even though 15 levels is a quite proper amount for Ludum Dare, I feel I should have a few medium difficulty levels before the final few. I should also rearrange some of them. I’m afraid that the difficulty may cost me some points in the end, but that’s OK – I think there should be more challenging (but reasonable challenging) games out there; and that’s what I want to make.<\/p>\n * I should have juiced the game more. I’m happy with the particles, though!<\/p>\n Other than that, I’m pleased.<\/p>\n I made a time-lapse:
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