Hi everyone!

It’s post Ludum Dare Blog!

Here I will talk about went well and what went bad!

The Good:

• I finished a game!
• The Idea I thought of came into a game
• I was able to distribute the game for you to play!
• The graphics were okay but could have been better, but hey it’s simple right?
• I got to learn how to stream on Twitch and got some feedback when I was doing it!
• I was able to make ammo and health and enemies respawned into the map once you collected it!
• It was my first LD48 and I was able to finish a game I think in less than 10 hours haha

The Bad :

• I spent the first night on one idea but it turned out I wasted 2 hours on it and could have gotten more sleep as it was 12 am when I went to bed. I came up with a new idea the morning of the second day which worked well!
• I couldn’t get multiple waves to work for the Circles making it harder for the player
• The music could have been better
• I wish I could have spent more time on it but Other stuff got in the way so i had to finish it early
• I wish I thought of a better name for the game as it was pretty bad haha
• I think I could have thought of a cooler idea for a game after seeing what other people have made which some were awesome 😀 (Good job to everyone btw)

What I learned for next LD:

• I need to spend more time on the idea so it will be a better game before I start coding!
• I need to think of a better title and overall goal of the game.
• Make more of a story for the game and not make it so simple.
• Next game I will be doing it in html5 so it will be easier to distribute to people to play since not everyone just has a windows computer and it helps those who are lazy
• Don’t spend too much time worrying about people watching you on twitch, it can be a distraction so I may do the next one with just a longer time lapse.
• Eat and drink water while you program to help you stay up later haha
• Make sure that you have fun playing the game! Even though I had fun playing it I still got bored after a while!
• Make it harder for the player to beat for my next game

Conclusion

I’m really happy I participated in this LD it’s cool to be a part of something like this and finish a game! Which I rarely do because I don’t have a time limit or deadline and just get bored of making it and think of an idea that seems cooler! I want to do better for the next LD so I will definately learn HTML5 and try to get that to work!

Questions:

Is there a good place to host HTML 5 games on the web that everyone can access like a portal website for games? Or can you get a free website and host it there? I know you can use dropbox but sometimes it may be hard because everyone’s trying to access it.

You can play S.C. Space Hunter here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=20776

Rate it and please give me feedback in a comment so I can improve!

Have a great week of judging!

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I will probably do a few games per video! Will give links to the games in the descriptions!

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Peace out!

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