{"author_name":"cobhc6","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324306560,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"60318","p_author":"cobhc6","p_authorkey":"6638","p_urlkey":"96071","p_title":"Va Unan \u2013 Post Mortem","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324306560","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"6638","us_name":"cobhc6","us_username":"cobhc6","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-22\/?action=preview&uid=6638<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tools:\u00a0<\/strong>Photoshop \/ Construct 2 \/\u00a0kuler.adobe.com \/\u00a0cfxr \/\u00a0GarageBand<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Va Unan is a 3rd person from top view game, where you arrive to a strange place and must activate glyphs to open doors and escape from this place.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>What went Right:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

>>\u00a0 Timing<\/strong>. I never felt any lack of time and my progress was constant.<\/p>\n

>>\u00a0 Workflow<\/strong>. I started with designs on paper (filling 4 categories: MECHANICS, AESTHETICS, TECHNOLOGY and STORY). Then I made some art and put it into Construct 2 to make the base mechanics and the gameplay. I went back to Photoshop and made all the artwork and sounds with cfxr. I made a playable version back to C2 and voila!<\/p>\n

>>\u00a0 Early prototyping<\/strong>. Even if I was unsure of the final game idea I had main mechanics playable in a few hours.<\/p>\n

>>\u00a0 Work on two computer<\/strong>. It was a comfort to be able to use Photoshop and other creation tools on my Mac and assemble\/compile on my PC (laptop). The key is a Ethernet cable!<\/p>\n

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

>> My laptop broke<\/strong>. The 2nd day, my laptop did not turn on anymore. I decided to remove the hard drive and continue on my Windows partition on my mac, but one of the 4 screws holding my HD was broken so I drilled the broken screw and continued as projected, switching from windows to mac by restarting my computer. About 3h were spent in that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0>>\u00a0 Unknown tools<\/strong>. I learnt Construct 2 during the comp.<\/p>\n

\u00a0>>\u00a0 Unprepared<\/strong>. I decided to participate a few hours before the theme announcement, so I wasn’t prepared at all.<\/p>\n

\u00a0>>\u00a0 Strange theme<\/strong>. The theme was a bit too large. I would have preferred a theme that forces me to think about game mechanics more. “Alone” made me do an atmospheric game.<\/p>\n

Time log: http:\/\/corentin.derbre.free.fr\/log.txt<\/a><\/p>\n

Youtube video:\u00a0Video!<\/a>\u00a0(no sound and image compression errors, it’s just so see the gameplay)<\/p>\n

Soundtrack<\/a><\/p>\n \n

Tags: LD #22<\/a>, postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 19th, 2011 9:56 am","title":"Va Unan \u2013 Post Mortem"}