{"author_name":"nin","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324395000,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"60173","p_author":"nin","p_authorkey":"7596","p_urlkey":"95926","p_title":"Lighthouse Keeper postmortem","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324395000","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7596","us_name":"nin","us_username":"nin","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"<p>Here goes a postmortem for my first LD game, Lighthouse Keeper. I started working on the game on Saturday afternoon and finished almost on the deadline.<\/p>\n <p>This was a great experience even if my game didn&#8217;t turn out great <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>What went right:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Managed to submit a game, even if it&#8217;s horrible, buggy and way too hard.<\/li>\n <li>The art is ok in general terms (for programmer art!), atleast better than stuff I&#8217;ve done before.<\/li>\n <li>Using stuff I&#8217;ve worked with previously: C++, SDL, OpenGL.<\/li>\n <li>Simplifying my original idea so I could finish in time.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>What went wrong:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>The game ended up being too hard. Should probably tune the wolves and player attack damage and\/or add more lives to the player. Actually you started with 5 hearts but decided to drop to 3 just before submitting the game.<\/li>\n <li>You can walk on water! Didn&#8217;t have enough time and decided to work on other stuff instead of adding collision detection for staying on the island.<\/li>\n <li>I spent too much time trying to figure out isometric tiles when I could have just render a rotated quad for the island (pretty much did this to save time).<\/li>\n <li>The code is horrible, there&#8217;s repeated stuff and it&#8217;s messy. This is because I just started coding right away with no planning or thinking before.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 20th, 2011 10:30 am","title":"Lighthouse Keeper postmortem"}