{"author_name":"radmars","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"January 5, 2013 7:30 am","epoch":1357389000,"text":"I know I already said this in my review, but I just wanted to say again that I am really impressed with this game. This was one of the few team games that had the unity of vision that I associate with solo design.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1357267140,"likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"47326","p_author":"radmars","p_authorkey":"18627","p_urlkey":"82989","p_title":"The Brink: Po-Mo","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1357267140","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"18627","us_name":"radmars","us_username":"radmars","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

Another team radmars<\/em> game finished! \u00a0(whew, this one was a biggun *_*)<\/p>\n

This time we went with a top-down ‘brawler-esque’ exploratory thing? Not sure.\u00a0I’ll refrain from talking too much about what we were ‘going for’ with this game, other than to say we pushed ourselves pretty hard this time. (one might say…\u00a0to the brink? HA!)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Emarcotte and Adhesion<\/strong> coded it up~<\/p>\n

\"title\"<\/p>\n

spacemars<\/strong> got to get his weird on for our\u00a0lovely\u00a0character sprites.<\/p>\n

\"weirdart\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Brendo<\/strong> designed the levels, spacemars<\/strong> and tokken<\/strong> made the word-tile sprites~<\/p>\n

\"world\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and Adhesion<\/strong> proved what a boss he is (yet again) with the SFX and music,<\/p>\n

more detailed postmortems and goodies inside!<\/p>\n

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Goodies:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Art Timelapse \u00a0*this is kinda NSFW*\u00a0<\/strong>(spacemars can be rather crude):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CC0wfGqsWH4<\/a><\/p>\n

Music & Code Timelapse (adhesion) :<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1vLE3C0EcbY<\/a><\/p>\n

soundtrack:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/adhesion.mu\/sic\/Adhesion-theBRINK-OST.zip<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now time for the rants.<\/p>\n

Emarcotte:<\/strong> (who broke his previous postmortem word count of 19)<\/p>\n

” ”<\/p>\n

Adhesion<\/strong>: ( who actually wrote quite a bit this time~)<\/p>\n

Whew! This Ludum Dare was pretty brutal – probably the most
\n collectively difficult one we’ve done so far, though Minimars was way
\n more personally stressful due to a last-minute insane memory leak. Our
\n idea gelled at least gameplay-wise relatively early on which was nice,
\n though lots of little details remained vague for a while which was a
\n bit frustrating. Scoping was a bit painful – this was probably the
\n most ambitious game we’ve attempted purely in terms of the amount of
\n little details, though that didn’t really become clear until we
\n realized we were really running out of time. Thankfully spacemars came
\n up with the key thematic aspect to tie the whole thing together on
\n Sunday. (It’s pretty subtle, but if you figure it out… hoo boy…)
\n As far as my coding productivity, I wasn’t able to get as much as I
\n would’ve liked on Saturday, partially because I lost some time to a
\n silly velocity-related math issue – plus I didn’t have all of Monday
\n to work like I did last time, so the game suffered a bit for polish,
\n particularly in the sound department. Audio otherwise went really
\n well, particularly since I felt like I could be a bit more adventurous
\n beyond basic chiptune stuff thanks to our theme. The rest of the
\n coding was pretty much fine too (though I’m not happy with the quality
\n in some parts – this always happens…) though multiple collision
\n issues reared their ugly head again thanks to some changes in melonJS
\n that we didn’t notice. Even though we didn’t do another platformer,
\n I’d like to do something more adventurous next time – some of the
\n coding felt pretty paint-by-numbers, aside from standard bugfixing and
\n whatnot. Also, having a new team member for more art & ideas was great
\n too of course.<\/p>\n

in SUM:<\/p>\n