http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/50224195\/Alone_v3\/alone.html<\/a><\/p>\n I thought it would be fun to make a dating sim, because I haven’t really seen a lot of those, and I thought it was a cool interpretation of the “alone” theme.\u00a0 The original idea was that there would be several girls you could try to woo, but they would all just shoot you down no matter what you tried.\u00a0 The “twist” would be that to get a successful date, you would have to stop trying to appease those women and just explore the world.\u00a0 It’s sort of a statement about dating I guess, and I also just thought it would be funny.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to make enough content to make something like that work.\u00a0 As it is, the game is sort of pointless.\u00a0 Just a silly little linear plot.<\/p>\n
I spent a lot of time writing a system to help me script the character interactions.\u00a0 I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, but it took so long to write that I didn’t have time for very much else.\u00a0 I also really underestimated how time-consuming it can be to write dialog and synchronize the timing.\u00a0 I spent probably 10-12 hours on getting 5-10 minutes of dialog in the game.<\/p>\n
I ended up not having time for sound at all, and the art is pretty rushed.\u00a0 C’est la vie.<\/p>\n
Overall I’m reasonably happy with how I did, even though the game isn’t very good.\u00a0 At least I got something finished, and I like the little scripting system I wrote.\u00a0 My art also exceeded my expectations (which isn’t saying much).\u00a0 Not too bad for my first Ludum Dare ever!<\/p>","time":"December 18th, 2011 8:33 pm","title":"My first Ludum Dare Complete!"}
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