{"author_name":"ben1066","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324293600,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"60346","p_author":"ben1066","p_authorkey":"5787","p_urlkey":"96099","p_title":"Freerunner Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324293600","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"5787","us_name":"ben1066","us_username":"ben1066","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"<p>This Ludum Dare went much better than the last. I finished this year with hours to spare, last year, I was very close to the deadline. I think it was because I was more experienced this time. Now about this Ludum Dare:<\/p>\n <p>The Good Bits:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>The idea worked well<\/li>\n <li>No major blocking bugs<\/li>\n <li>Random level generation saved me a lot of time<\/li>\n <li>The orange graphics for\u00a0obstacles. This was inspired by mirrors edge and I think the bright colour in my otherwise quite dark, grey game really worked.<\/li>\n <li>Visual Studio 11. Once I got it fixed, it was a dream to work with. The intellisense is so much better now. Besides that I&#8217;ve always liked how Visual Studio has worked, it&#8217;s clean and very usable.<\/li>\n <li>SFML. As before I used SFML for my game. This means, theoretically, it will also compile under Linux and OS X. Alongside that it made development easy and handled much of the boilerplate code for me.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <div>The Bad Bits:<\/div>\n <div>\n <ul>\n <li>No soundtrack, I&#8217;m not good with music<\/li>\n <li>Albeit random generation saved me time it makes it very hard to control the difficult. So much so that currently, I believe there are still certain times when a move is impossible.<\/li>\n <li>Mixed graphical style. About half way through day 1 I completely redid the graphics however some things from the old style remain. Things such as the scaled low\u00a0resolution\u00a0graphics and also the basic stick-figure player sprite.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/12\/19\/freerunner-post-mortem\/beforeaftergraphcis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-99826\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-99826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beforeaftergraphcis-550x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beforeaftergraphcis-300x112.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beforeaftergraphcis-550x206.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beforeaftergraphcis.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n <ul>\n <li>Chronolapse, or more specifically mencoder. Turns out mencoder doesn&#8217;t like 2560&#215;1024 graphics. I ended up spending about an hour on the first day finding this out just so I could post the timelapse.<\/li>\n <li>Getting addicted to your own game. I ended up playing my game more on the second day than developing it. Although I didn&#8217;t have anything major to have there were things I could have added.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>","time":"December 19th, 2011 6:20 am","title":"Freerunner Post-Mortem"}