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<\/a>Difficulty!<\/p><\/div>\n
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Good things:<\/strong> – Even if it was only for a few minutes, I actually got to the point where I was creating stages of attacking enemies.\u00a0 I quickly typed in a couple of arrays and didn’t get to tweak them, but it was somehow thrilling to at least get to that point.\u00a0 My miniLD 28 entry had no ending nor obvious objectives, so this was an improvement.<\/p>\n – From reading about everyone else’s LDs, I’m learning that if I can be ready for tweaking and level editing after the first day, I should be in pretty good shape to finish well next time.<\/p>\n Things that could have been better:<\/strong> – Control bugs – Controls were not clear – Difficulty – Graphics and sound – Timelapse Wrap-up<\/strong><\/p>\n After submitting, I wished I had gotten more done and felt a little burnt out.\u00a0 My expectations were a little too high at the beginning.<\/p>\n The feedback is very helpful.\u00a0 Also, it’s helpful for me to play the other games and read about their development.\u00a0 I didn’t get to rate as many games as I did in the miniLD, but I’ve learned quite a bit from playing the other games.\u00a0 While trying to finish up my miniLD 28 entry this weekend (hopefully I’ll post about it later), I’m realizing that it’s a lot easier for me to see which things need to be improved.<\/p>\n I haven’t decided if I’ll finish my LD21 entry yet.\u00a0 It’s third on my list of mini games to finish, so if I think of a good story + graphics (that can be made by this programmer) I will spend some more time to finish it up.\u00a0 Here is the compo entry: Escape Run<\/a>, but no pressure to review, I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback already.<\/p>\n Hmm, this post mortem feels a little long-winded.\u00a0 Like my ld21 entry, my next one will also get better.
\n – I finished something that was playable.<\/p>\n
\n – I spent the first couple hours with framework\/learning box2d problems — lining up and scaling graphics to match the physics.\u00a0 Before the compo I didn’t realize my simple framework needed more work, but at least it should be better for the next miniLD.<\/p>\n
\n It turns out that having working controls is really important!
\n I didn’t test the game in native Windows with the mouse, just with the keyboard.\u00a0 This made it unplayable for many people until I fixed the bug.\u00a0 Personally, I like using the keyboard for both aiming and moving, but that’s a problem for some keyboards where simultaneous key presses interfere with each other.<\/p>\n
\n On-screen directions would have helped.\u00a0 I’ll try to add this next time if I have non-standard controls.\u00a0 Actually, maybe I’ll just use more obvious controls for one game ![\":)\"](\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\")
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\n After a few minutes, the game eventually becomes unbeatable.\u00a0 There are just too many enemies appearing for the firing rate.\u00a0 There other things that could have been added, but fixing this would have been an quick big improvement.<\/p>\n
\n I need to make the characters more complex next time, but for this LD, I was just happy gameplay worked at all.\u00a0 I’m going to try some sprites for the next miniLD.\u00a0 I’d also like to get sounds and music in, but let’s not get too crazy.<\/p>\n
\n Since I was conserving laptop battery for a part of the compo, I started a timelapse for a couple hours, but I didn’t get to continue it.\u00a0 Even for that short time, watching your own timelapse is pretty fun! — and it was mostly just lines of code appearing on the screen :).<\/p>\n <\/p>","time":"September 11th, 2011 11:32 pm","title":""}