{"author_name":"pythong","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324405560,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"60159","p_author":"pythong","p_authorkey":"717","p_urlkey":"95912","p_title":"Post-mortem: LUDUM DARODIUS","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324405560","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"717","us_name":"pythong","us_username":"pythong","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

play it here<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Another LD48 over, and I got some sleep in a warm cozy bed. Which is nice, especially because at the location where I was programming the game, the heating didn’t work o.O<\/p>\n

So let’s do a final post for this LD: I was watching many Parodius videos on youtube a few weeks ago, simply because I like the music. Also:<\/p>\n

Gradius (original)<\/p>\n

Parody + Gradius = Parodius (awesome game)<\/p>\n

Ludum Dare + Parodius = Ludum Darodius \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

What went well:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Graphics: I managed to make lots of animations in GraphicsGale (awesome program), and even though I was like laughing all the time because they looked so funny very close, I don’t regret spending so much time on them \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Gameplay: I wanted to make a helicopter game for a long time, and I did!<\/p>\n

Alternative challenge: Haha, did I really have a cat in there :)?<\/p>\n

What didn’t went well:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theme: When the theme was announced, I made a draft. And didn’t like it. At all. Made me want to give up, because I like funny games. Kept drafting, but no. And that part alone took\u00a0 4-5 hours already :\/. So I scrapped it all, and scrolled through the posts on this site to get an idea. Until someone had a post with that skunk and the cat of the looney tunes, and then it made *ping* (thanks for that!). ‘Leave me alone’ rather than ‘alone’ alone. Plus, the kitten challenge kept me going<\/p>\n

Sleep: Unbelievable, I felt like cr*p after the first night. Getting old :D? At that time I was staring at the code, unable to do anything. So I kept animating and drawing more and more sprites + making concepts for new ones.<\/p>\n

And that’s the ranting for this time. Always a nice experience to code and code and code and code \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Screenshot for those who don’t make it to the boss (would be sad if you didn’t see the animation ^^). Side scrolling penises!??!? :D:D. They were supposed to look like the mountains from Super Mario<\/p>\n

Happy voting!<\/p>","time":"December 20th, 2011 1:26 pm","title":"Post-mortem: LUDUM DARODIUS"}