{"author_name":"pbdiode","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1335120180,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"56698","p_author":"pbdiode","p_authorkey":"7263","p_urlkey":"92447","p_title":"Another Dare Under My Belt","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1335120180","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7263","us_name":"pbdiode","us_username":"pbdiode","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"<p>This is going to be a post mortem for my most recent entry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-23\/?action=preview&amp;uid=7263\">The Tiny World<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-23\/?action=vote&amp;uid=7263\">vote, when active<\/a>). I hope to be short and sweet:<\/p>\n <p><strong>Things done right<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>slept well<\/li>\n <li>ate well<\/li>\n <li>drank plenty<\/li>\n <li>took breaks<\/li>\n <li>knew tools well<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>Things done wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>to little CONTENT planning &#8212; I was way overly ambitious, and had to axe half of the planned content.<\/li>\n <li>spent time working on a question\/answer feature that is only used in one or two places, and doesn&#8217;t really need to be. That ate up time I could have worked on other features or more content.<\/li>\n <li>little direct experience with the intricacies of the well-established genre\/game type I was working with &#8212; more foreknowledge of how text adventures stored and manipulated data would have been useful<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>I think that hits all the main points. Over all I&#8217;m pleased with how <em>The Tiny World<\/em>\u00a0turned out, but I think there&#8217;s a lot of space for improvement on almost all fronts.<\/p>","time":"April 22nd, 2012 1:43 pm","title":"Another Dare Under My Belt"}