Guess a post-mortem is in order.<\/p>\n
So I didn’t finish. This was my first LD, and in general I don’t have a good track record of finishing things. I was using tools that I’m not very familiar with, but that wasn’t the main problem. My idea wasn’t, perhaps, as self-contained and unambitious as it should have been, but I should have been able to get something playable out of it given where things were when I gave up.<\/p>\n
I’m going to drop most of the blame for this one on a lack of sleep. There’s really no good reason to stay up all night on the first day, but I worked from 11am-4:45am. It was pretty productive work – even towards the end, while things had slowed considerably, progress was still plodding along.<\/p>\n
I got to bed at 5:30 and woke up around 11:30. Made a todo list and then failed to get through a quarter of it. The way the code fit together was fine in my head when I went to sleep, but the next day getting a grip on how the various things related and communicated to each other was far too much to cope with after not enough sleep on a disrupted sleep schedule.<\/p>\n
And, of course, my game architecture deserves some of the blame for that. Lots of the blame actually, but it’s not so bad. I tried something I hadn’t done much before (components) – it was a good learning experience, certainly. The main idea was pretty good, but the glue holding it all together wasn’t. I’m planning to start a new game and scavenge this game for code – it should hopefully amount to something more stable and useful.<\/p>\n
Anyway, that’s that. No grand reason for failure, just far too much enthusiasm for being hardcore on the first day. Being hardcore is for the day it’s due and not before – anything before that is wasted effort.<\/p>\n \n
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