{"author_name":"Tulrath","cat":"LD #22","comments":[{"author_name":"CaptainIcy","time":"December 18, 2011 1:50 pm","epoch":1324234200,"text":"I’m sorry you can’t make it. I think I am in the same situation myself. I was just too in-experienced with Javascript and I didn’t have time to learn it. I didn’t do any warm-ups either so that couldn’t have helped. I think I will release a simple demo of “what could’ve been” and wait 4 months and be much more prepared.
\n I think next LD I will be able to really make something and finish it.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1324231860,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"60756","p_author":"Tulrath","p_authorkey":"4703","p_urlkey":"96509","p_title":"Not going to make it","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324231860","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"4703","us_name":"Tulrath","us_username":"tulrath","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

With just 6 hours left, I’m way behind schedule and I’m not going to make the LD48 deadline. \u00a0Here’s what went wrong – hopefully for others (and myself) to learn from:<\/p>\n

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  1. I did the warm-up, but didn’t go far enough. \u00a0I really should have gone further and tested every system possible.<\/li>\n
  2. For this LD48 I wanted to use more robust, and more flexible data management than my previous LD48 entry. \u00a0A few of my systems I thought I could build quickly with JS instead of C#… How wrong I was. \u00a0Unity’s slight differences to canonical JS became a major pain when I started using more advanced techniques. \u00a0When it was time to build on those simple JS frameworks, it just turned out that they just couldn’t do the job. \u00a0Ultimately I had to use System.Collection.Generic lists for everything, but I lost about 4 hours overall figuring that out.<\/li>\n
  3. I opted to use a 3rd party library for sprite management in Unity. \u00a0The library worked perfectly, but I just wasn’t familiar enough with it to use it correctly the first time out. \u00a0I kept running into what I thought were “issues” — but they weren’t issues at all, it was just my own lack of experience with the library. \u00a0LD48 is probably a bad time to be learning how to use a new tool.<\/li>\n
  4. And finally, (IMHO) the artwork that you need to do a 2D game can actually take significantly more time than a 3D game — it’s more difficult to represent 3D objects in two-dimensional space. \u00a0Gradients and shadowing can help, but those are extremely manually-intensive processes. \u00a0I’m pretty good with Blender, so in the future I may actually build simple 3D objects and just take snapshots of them from different angles to create my sprites.<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n
    This LD48 has been great fun, especially all the Kitten-Enriched content \":)\" \u00a0I’ll be more prepared for the next one.<\/div>\n

     <\/p>","time":"December 18th, 2011 1:11 pm","title":"Not going to make it"}