\n | #99<\/td>\n | Fun(Jam)<\/td>\n | 2,2<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n | #795<\/td>\n | Fun<\/td>\n | 2,02<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n | #716<\/td>\n | Fun<\/td>\n | 1,89 (-)<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n What are my results:<\/em><\/p>\n \n - Coolness:<\/em> I’m sorry I didn’t get a gold medal (how much games is it?).<\/li>\n
- Innovation:<\/em> A success! Yes! I got over 3! It means about 25% gave me 4! according to my criteria, it’s more that average! I’m so happy!<\/li>\n
- Audio:<\/em> It can mean 2 things: either I’m a great composer, or my other categories are fail. But I believe I could get a higher score. Let’s see… For the LD #23 I made a soundtrack for the game, each minigame, and finish screen, 4 total. This time I made only 1 piece and got a higher score. It means: quality over quantity! And I think if audio fits the mood, it’s an upside for audio as well.<\/li>\n
- Humor:<\/em> Doing nothing but receiving 1 more point is a success as well. Ridiculous.<\/li>\n
- Theme:<\/em> I dislike the theme. Other themes, like “Fortress”, “Chaos”, “Night and Day” allow very much possibilities. But when the theme is “You are the Villain” I can say a thing about almost every game: in it, you are the villain. I hoped to get a better score by making the protagonist not a villain yet, but it didn’t work. (In top games in “theme” category you are the villain. What a fail.)<\/li>\n
- Mood:<\/em> I don’t have many things to say about this one. But I can say one for sure: making a game with no mood and making a game with a little mood is equally difficult. Got it?<\/li>\n
- Overall:<\/em> A new high score here. It’s reassuring to see I get a higher score every LD.<\/li>\n
- Graphics:<\/em> Another example of quality over quantity. Instead of making a lot of images, like in LD #23, I made only the map and the goat.<\/li>\n
- Fun:<\/em> I knew that.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
What went right:<\/em><\/p>\n \n - Innovation.<\/em> I didn’t aim for it a lot, but I did it. *yeah*<\/li>\n
- Polishing.<\/em> I balanced the system, made some difficulties, a tutorial, level 2 feedback and other things.<\/li>\n
- Balance.<\/em> I spent about 1\/4 time balancing, and it’s worth it.<\/li>\n
- Time.<\/em> To the end of the first day the game was fully playable. I had more time for balancing\/polishing.<\/li>\n
- Graphics.<\/em> I used lighting for the pixelated map, and Inkscape for the goat.<\/li>\n
- Drawing a goat.<\/em> It’s an individual chapter for a post-mortem. I searched the web for a picture of a goat. I put it in MSPaint and drew a grid on top, then using grid copied it to paper, then to Inkscape. And it was my first image with Inkscape ever.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
What went wrong:<\/em><\/p>\n \n - Fun.<\/em> I knew I need to KISS (keep it simple and stupid), but I ignored this. But if I KISSed, I wouldn’t have got 3,22 innovation!<\/li>\n
- User-friendliness.<\/em> Most of my games are not user-friendly. They are more like user-fiendly. That’s my downside.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
What I learned:<\/em><\/p>\n \n - You can<\/em> abandon some things to get something well done.<\/li>\n
- Getting 2 in mood (and humor) is a piece of cake.<\/li>\n
- People like simple music with guitar chords.<\/li>\n
- I’m lucky with games like this. Some one said “This is quite a complex thing to try and perfect in 48 hours!”, but I think it’s pure luck. Erm, I guess I’m mistaken, because it’s my second game like this.<\/li>\n
- Consistency pwns. I’m sure it can be used to solve\u00a0most problems, whether it’s making games, doing business or communicating with people.<\/li>\n
- Quality is much better than quantity.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
What will I try:<\/em><\/p>\n \n - To KISS.<\/li>\n
- To make some other type of soundtrack. I know I can.<\/li>\n
- To spend more time thinking over the idea. I can generate good ones, but I never did it for LD.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
What do I suggest:
\n <\/em><\/p>\n \n - Make “Coolness” like all other categories, so there is 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals (by default). It’ll be super interesting.<\/li>\n
- Make a self-calculating category based on all the categories. You know, this way you are cool when you get a high score in some category. I have 3,22 in innovation because I ignored the KISS rule, does it make this rule useless?<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n I made an instruction of what should you try hard to achieve a good rating in a certain category. I found out that for each category it’s either “Plan it”<\/em> or “Come up with ideas”<\/em>, so that’s the only<\/em> thing you have to do. Do you know “Man in Gap”? A first game, yet a big success. So don’t be down if you are novice, you have a good chance to win.<\/p>","time":"January 11th, 2013 8:41 am","title":"Post-mortem (4rt one, I guess.)"} |