{"author_name":"Lusmu","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324536480,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"60074","p_author":"Lusmu","p_authorkey":"8347","p_urlkey":"95826","p_title":"Solitaire of Solitude \u2013 Post Mortem","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324536480","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"8347","us_name":"Lusmu","us_username":"lusmu","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-22\/?action=rate&amp;uid=8347\">http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-22\/?action=rate&amp;uid=8347<\/a><\/p>\n <p>Here are some thought on my first Ludum Dare:<\/p>\n <h2><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>The Good<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>Timing &#8211; never really felt that I was running out of time, or that I&#8217;m going to finish too soon. I felt I was about ready when there was 2 hours or so left.<\/li>\n <li>Learning &#8211; I was familiar with the tools already, but I have never made a card game before, and I tried out a couple of new techniques, which taught me a few valuable lessons<\/li>\n <li>I was really inspired by the community &#8211; the progress reports, IRC and live feeds (Notch seems to have some mad programming skillz\/routine)<\/li>\n <li>File size\u00a0&#8211; Web versions .unity3d file ended up just over 1MB, which is nice (Windows standalone is over 7MB zipped)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>The Bad<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>Sounds. Not very good with them, and spend very little time on them, but at least I have them<\/li>\n <li>Screen resolution isn&#8217;t very ideal (though shouldn&#8217;t be a problem on Windows standalone version)<\/li>\n <li>The game rules are a bit obscure, I&#8217;m afraid too many players will lose intrest before &#8216;getting&#8217; the game<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2><span style=\"color: #cc99ff\"><strong>The Ugly<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>Code &#8211; not enough routine or planning so ended up doing many things poorly or inconsistently<\/li>\n <li>Poorly optimized, realized at the last minute that I have a ridiculous amount of draw calls and did some hasty optimizations to bring them down from ~250 to around 35, which is kind of ok, but I know I can do better<\/li>\n <li>Graphics &#8211; I&#8217;m really not an artist, and as a result most of the graphics suck, though I am pleased with couple of the characters<\/li>\n <li>The info screen is a bit messy, I have no idea if it&#8217;s of any help to anyone<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2>Conclusions<\/h2>\n <div>\n <ul>\n <li>A little bit of planning goes a long way<\/li>\n <li>I was pretty close to the sweet spot between trying to do too much\/difficult\/new things and doing too easy\/familiar. Maybe I should&#8217;ve tried something a bit more ambitious, but just slightly so<\/li>\n <li>Maybe next time I pay a little more attention to accessibility and try to stay away from obscure\/unfamiliar\/abstract game mechanics<\/li>\n <li>I liked the end result, and will make another iteration of the game soon with better graphics and improved gameplay<\/li>\n <li>That was fun!\u00a0Will definitely participate again!<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <div>\n <div id=\"attachment_103588\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/12\/22\/solitaire-of-solitude-post-mortem\/screen-shot-2011-12-22-at-9-56-01-am\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103588\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-103588\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-22-at-9.56.01-AM-550x338.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-22-at-9.56.01-AM-300x184.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-22-at-9.56.01-AM-550x338.png 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solitaire of Solitude development screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n <p>I&#8217;d appreciate it a lot if you could give\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-22\/?action=rate&amp;uid=8347\">my game<\/a>\u00a0a try and give me some feedback about it.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>","time":"December 22nd, 2011 1:48 am","title":"Solitaire of Solitude \u2013 Post Mortem"}