{"author_name":"Ezzam","cat":"LD #24","comments":[],"epoch":1347283140,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"51476","p_author":"Ezzam","p_authorkey":"11033","p_urlkey":"87169","p_title":"Fend off waves of zombies with your evolving gun DELUXE \u2013 Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1347283140","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11033","us_name":"Ezzam","us_username":"ezzam","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s not too late for writing a postmortem of my game with seriously too long title.<\/p>\n <h3>What went right:<\/h3>\n <p><strong>Finishing a<\/strong> <strong>game<\/strong>.\u00a0It speaks for itself. It was a lot of fun, too!<\/p>\n <p><strong>Shooting mechanics. <\/strong>It&#8217;s an entirely complete, ray-based weapon system. Weapons shoot with random deviation (0.1\u00b0 step), and there&#8217;s support for multiple bullets shot at once.<\/p>\n <p><strong>&#8220;Art&#8221; style.<\/strong> I guess calling this stuff &#8220;art&#8221; is an exaggeration, but i really like how it turned out. Two-color menus look really nice in my opinion.<\/p>\n <h3>What went wrong:<\/h3>\n <p><strong>Idea. <\/strong>My game doesn&#8217;t really follow the theme closely, people left some ideas in the comments. Why i haven&#8217;t thought of them earlier? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n <p><strong>Sounds. <\/strong>Not really wrong, but there&#8217;s exactly one gunshot sound for all of weapons in game.<\/p>\n <p><strong><\/strong><strong>Laziness.<\/strong> I should&#8217;ve added more species of zombies. This would make the game really more diverse.<\/p>\n <p><strong>Lack of polish. <\/strong>People complained about too long delay between waves and crappy controls.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>Check out my game here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-24\/?action=preview&amp;uid=11033\">http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-24\/?action=preview&amp;uid=11033<\/a><\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 10th, 2012 8:19 am","title":"Fend off waves of zombies with your evolving gun DELUXE \u2013 Postmortem"}