{"author_name":"Wompus","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324294440,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"60344","p_author":"Wompus","p_authorkey":"8394","p_urlkey":"96097","p_title":"Erasum Post-mortem","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324294440","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"8394","us_name":"Wompus","us_username":"wompus","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"
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Bye bye :)<\/p><\/div>\n

Man-o-man my first entry in LD and it was one hell of a ride.
\n I did the most I could do in between the interruptions and think it came out pretty good.
\n Talking with friends gave me really cool idea’s for the game (exploding kittens).
\n I had a lot of fun creating the music, the graphics and recording the sound effects,
\n which I’ve never done all that much for a game before.<\/p>\n

Check my platformer out over at My Entry<\/a><\/p>\n

What went right
\n <\/strong>Creating the content, which I didn’t expect at all!
\n I didn’t know about music\/SFX content generators but now I do thanks to a friend (Frib<\/a>)
\n who has competed in LD before. I also expected a lot more stress
\n from LD, but it was more fun than stressful!
\n Also implementing a lot of ideas like bouncy balls and spikes went better than expected.<\/p>\n

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What went wrong<\/strong>
\n Physics and collision, it just works so borky (omg, I googled it, it’s a real word).
\n It has something to do with rounding integers from rectangles and I just made a really
\n dirty fix around it. I also wanted to make more levels but I had other things to do this
\n weekend and that really limited me from creating more content.<\/p>\n

Lessons learned<\/strong>
\n Maybe use a physics engine, or some sort of small physics engine for tiled games
\n I could create before entering? Also, I learned that I’m half decent, well better than expected anyway,\u00a0at creating music and sound effects!
\n It was really fun to do and I can see myself doing\u00a0that again for other games.
\n I think the next game I’ll make for LD is gonna be a bit more basic though,
\n I don’t wanna waste so much time on physics anymore.<\/p>\n

Conclusion
\n <\/strong>Ludum Dare is a real lot of fun and I should get my other
\n game developing friends involved into this fun competition.
\n Which I will, next Ludum Dare. We’ll probably enter a Jam
\n (and maybe a little game for the Compo? \":)\" ).<\/p>\n

Btw 3 a.m. as a deadline is the best.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: erasum<\/a>, post-mortem<\/a>, postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 19th, 2011 6:34 am","title":"Erasum Post-mortem"}