*Cough cough* Ahem, is this thing on? *tap tap* Ok? good<\/p>\n
Ok. Im late as hell, but this is my first entry to LD and I didn’t really know weather I needed to write one of these or not, but apparently I should, So hear goes.<\/p>\n
DEFEND THE PLANET:\u00a0http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-23\/?action=preview&uid=4613<\/a><\/p>\n Development<\/strong><\/p>\n So I stayed up ’till 2Am on friday night to see the theme. Tiny World. Panic. This completely threw me. I’m quite an\u00a0obsessive\u00a0game maker, I like puzzles and any game I make MUST be unique, otherise I just lose all motivation, but by the midday on Saturday, with the help of a certain IRC channel, I managed to conjure up the theory of this\u00a0circular\u00a0planet platformer.<\/p>\n What went well<\/strong><\/p>\n Ill be honest, I have Never programmed an engine like this before, so have the engine in place by the first night, was a massive boost in confidence. Flashs graphics editor was perfect for coming up with the asteroids, bullets, powerups and spaceships. The ground was conveniently made by colour transforms and noise functions.<\/p>\n The sound effects were also a completely new subject for me, having never worked with any kind of sound before, great thanks to Brfx for the great sound effect editing tool. It was really quite a nice touch.<\/p>\n What could have gone better?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ok. This game was far from perfect. Many people informed me that it was possible to stand on 1 line of blocks and just shoot any asteroids that came near to survive. Which certainly could have been fixed. Also the game felt quite\u00a0content-less\u00a0by the end, with only 3 types of item. I felt much more should have been in it by the end, but by that time my code was such a mess I couldn’t bring myself re-write a whole new object for the sake of a new feature. It was horrible.<\/p>\n By the end however, the game was solid, and was really a great boost of self confidence in making games, not to mention great fun taking part.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading! Every rate is appreciated greatly!<\/p>\n \n Tags: as3<\/a>, flash<\/a>, ld48<\/a>, post-mortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"May 3rd, 2012 11:45 am","title":"Defend the Planet \u2013 Post Mortem"}