Pheewww, Ludum Dare is over.<\/p>\n
It has been a ride, for neither of us was the first jam, but sure it was the hardest. Now having recovered some sleep we would like to chat a bit about how this whole ordeal went.<\/p>\n
The good<\/p>\n
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From the beginning we decided to learn Godot for this Jam, and it was nice. It was a different paradigm to what we were used to (Unity), but after struggling for the first day and a half the rest was much quicker than what we expected.<\/p>\n
We made a game! Maybe not out best entry ever, but we covered pretty much all the mechanics we wanted to have.<\/p>\n
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The bad<\/p>\n
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Godot HTML5 export failed us at the last minute, we had in mind since the beginning embedding it on the web, but unfortunately Godot input fails a lot on HTML5, and seems like something that won’t be fixed soon.<\/p>\n
We lacked polish and failed on making the game intuitive, but having a team size so reduced (We used to be 5+ people and this time we were only 2), having participating\u00a0in a few game jams you tend to notice the pattern: The most polished and shiny games tend to get the most attention.<\/p>\n
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The ugly<\/p>\n
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We tried to have a complex dialog system, buut it turns out ou can export arrays\/Dictionaries to the editor, well sometimes you have to hardcode and write some hacky code, that’s the way things are.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, that’s enough for now, in balance it has been an amazing learning experience and we had so much fun doing it, we will be back on the next Ludum Dare (Please I hope the theme is One Giant Enemy, got so much ideas)<\/p>\n
Bye !<\/p>\n
PS: follow us @RedBricksStudio<\/p>","time":"April 19th, 2016 11:06 am","title":"Party Like it\u2019s 2078\u2026 or maybe catch some rest"}