{"author_name":"LenardG","cat":"LD #25","comments":[],"epoch":1355722860,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"47773","p_author":"LenardG","p_authorkey":"18720","p_urlkey":"83438","p_title":"About my first LD experience","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355722860","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"18720","us_name":"LenardG","us_username":"lenardg","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<p>Game done, submitted and slept the night. It was an intensive weekend, even though I only put in about 22 hours of work into the game. I really enjoyed creating a game in this timeframe. I also learnt a lot of things <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>I read the theme right when it was announced. It was 4 in the morning for me. I wanted to sleep a few hours after that, but the first hour I just could not get any sleep as my mind was working on ideas <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> Once I got up after a few hours of sleep, I did about 1.5 hours of idea \u00a0generation, the result of which was the rough idea of my puzzle game. There were no goats or gnomes in there at this point.<\/p>\n <p>I also wanted to interpret the theme in some way that would not be obvious right away. That is how I ended up in the farming world after reading the Wikipedia article on Villain <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>Here is the game page:<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-25\/?action=preview&amp;uid=18720\">http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-25\/?action=preview&amp;uid=18720<\/p>\n <p><\/a><\/p>\n <p>What I ended up using:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Visual Studio 2012 for editing the HTML, Javascript and CSS<\/span><\/li>\n <li>Paint.net for drawing all the visuals<\/li>\n <li>Audacity for editing the sound effects<\/li>\n <li>iPolysix to compose the music<\/li>\n <li>Lame and oggenc2 to encode the music and sounds<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>What I will have to improve:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Need to have a framework ready. One that would manage loading resources for example. Or manage my tiles better. The current framework I put together during the competition needs some rework.<\/li>\n <li>I did the tilemap composition by hand. I know there are tools to handle this, will need to look those up.<\/li>\n <li>Music. I created and added some music at the end, but I am not 100% satisfied. Will need to improve on that.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 17th, 2012 12:41 am","title":"About my first LD experience"}