{"author_name":"arhpositive","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1335296880,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"56042","p_author":"arhpositive","p_authorkey":"11575","p_urlkey":"91762","p_title":"World Gone Wrong \u2013 Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1335296880","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11575","us_name":"arhpositive","us_username":"arhpositive","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/04\/24\/world-gone-wrong-postmortem\/title-scr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-139312\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-139312 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/title-scr-300x127.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/title-scr-300x127.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/title-scr.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>Hello there. My name is Arhan Bakan. I&#8217;m a senior CS student at Hacettepe University, Turkey. This is the postmortem of my first entry in Ludum Dare competition. I had a lot of fun in the competition, so it definitely won&#8217;t be the last one for me.<\/p>\n <p><strong>The Good Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Before I started working on my entry, I was confident that it was impossible for me to finish a game in 48 hours. &#8220;Just gonna try the Jam if I fail the Competition.&#8221;, I kept saying to myself. In the end, however, I finished the game with one hour left on the clock. Sure, there are some places where I can say &#8220;I wish&#8230;&#8221;, but I feel like it&#8217;s a fun game overall and I managed to learn a lot from the process.<\/li>\n <li>Base game concept (a shrinking maze) came to my mind within the first few hours, and it turned out to be a simple and effective idea. Also, I set my goals for 48 hours pretty accurately.<\/li>\n <li>Sleeping. Lots of sleeping. 13 hours out of 48 were basically spent sleeping. I don&#8217;t understand how people manage to stay up all day and night to work on a game, but I just can&#8217;t do it. It&#8217;s way better to sleep well and think with a clear mind. Eating habits based on fruits and vegetables also work like a miracle when all you do is sit on your butt and code all day long.<\/li>\n <li>Learning from other people&#8217;s mistakes. I read some tips on how to survive a game jam before the weekend. And it all helped a lot. Reading good advice is always helpful.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/04\/24\/world-gone-wrong-postmortem\/capture6-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-139339\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Capture6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Capture6-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Capture6-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Capture6.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p><strong>The Bad Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Should&#8217;ve known the engine better. I worked on Unity3D. It&#8217;s the only game engine I&#8217;m familiar with, however, I&#8217;m not familiar with it enough. I spent nearly 3 hours on the character controller and after the dust settled, it was only a few lines of code. This competition made me a lot more experienced with the engine, but I still have a lot to work on.<\/li>\n <li>Lack of music. I couldn&#8217;t find a fitting content generator for music, and I was not prepared to compose music on my own. Next time, I hope this won&#8217;t be an issue as I&#8217;ll come back having finished my homework. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n <li>Lack of interesting gameplay. For most of the users (and friends) who played it , the game has a good concept, decent graphics but not enough gameplay to keep the user interested enough to finish it. It&#8217;s also a bit tough for most of them, and this takes away from the fun, too. Most of this problem was due to time constraints, so I&#8217;ll try to do better next time.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Thanks for reading through my postmortem. I&#8217;ll definitely be back for the next Ludum Dare if I have time for it. It was a great experience. <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 style=\"text-align: left\">If you&#8217;re interested, be my guest, play and rate my game if you can. <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 style=\"text-align: center\">PLAY &#8212;&#8211;&gt; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-23\/?action=preview&amp;uid=11575\">WORLD GONE WRONG<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &lt;&#8212;&#8211; PLAY<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/04\/24\/world-gone-wrong-postmortem\/capture8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-139361\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Capture8-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Capture8-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Capture8-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Capture8.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 24th, 2012 2:48 pm","title":"World Gone Wrong \u2013 Postmortem"}