{"author_name":"Subi","cat":"LD #25","comments":[],"epoch":1355644140,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"48544","p_author":"Subi","p_authorkey":"18679","p_urlkey":"84219","p_title":"mov in, towel","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355644140","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"18679","us_name":"Subi","us_username":"subi","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

Time to admit defeat, I’m not going to make it.<\/p>\n

The major reason was I gave myself too much tech to write. In fact, if I’m going to be honest, I prefer tech writing to game writing (I’m not a fan of things like Unity, I think they hide too much away, so you end up learning the tool, not the method). The minor reason is that I wasn’t mad keen on the theme. I had two themes from the final round on my “Please don’t let these win” list, and one of them did. Ah well, better luck next time.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested, the concept for “Hell is Other People’s Bullets” was that you would control the enemies in a vertical shmup in a similar manner to an RTS game. Things would be pretty frantic as, of course, the AI-controlled player could one-hit-kill most of your units. The beauty of the idea was that level design was more-or-less not required (however, I can see that seriously affecting the longevity of the game). And naturally the end-of-level boss would be the Enormous Mutant Star Goat from H2G2. \":)\"<\/p>\n

I got as far as having the player dodge bullets in a reasonably convincing manner, but I wasted too much time finding a bug that turned out to be caused by passing by reference rather than value (showing my Javascript inexperience there). I flat-out won’t have time to finish any graphics or music to my satisfaction, so I think it’s best I leave it while I’ve still got some Sunday left. I shall remember to have less coding to do next time.<\/p>\n

However, that’s not to say I didn’t achieve the goal I set myself. I learnt Javascript, and I found a lot of the pitfalls inherent in web programming. I’m going to carry on with this framework for the next LD. I want to sort out proper pixel collision and look more into database access so I can have data files other than textures.<\/p>\n

I’m reasonably happy, and now I’m going to do some gardening.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: fail<\/a>, ld25<\/a>, postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 16th, 2012 2:49 am","title":"mov in, towel"}