It’s been a good set of days with Ludum Dare, and aside from one incredibly annoying and potentially ruining issue it has been a great learning experience. It’s been a lot of fun and I hope to compete again in the future.

The Good:

Entire game got completed, without too many hits (except for the one mentioned above), it’s been a blast and in general I wouldn’t have anything bad to say with it. Programming was difficult at times, but it helped me push out more and further my little experience in that field a lot more.

The Bad:

 Work on the Music took a lot longer than previously desired, but more-so than that it seems the game is working out to be a bit hard for players. I wish I had placed the controls information inside the game, as this generally would clear up that holding X makes the character run a lot faster and in general makes for easier platforming. It -is- playable, but this is where the ugly comes in.

The Ugly:

This is where it gets really nasty. The original upload I made for the contest had everything working, everything, except -one- item, which is crucial to completion. The reason why this wasn’t in the original upload? On zipping the file I must have done something horribly wrong which wrote those rooms as completely blank. In my source outside of the zip everything was fine, but with the zip bundled and such, I didn’t notice this error till later. I reuploaded another zip with the correction made, but if this invalidates the entry then I’m willing to roll with that blow; I’d much rather a game that was complete and made in the spirit of the contest rather than try to rush something out just for the whole idea of “winning” something. Hopefully though, this shouldn’t cause any problems.

Summary:

Incredible learning experience through and through. I had originally intended to make an RPG with a basis engine beforehand but the time frame for that does not fit very well for a 48 Hour contest. I’d like to attempt it someday, but maybe for the Jam as opposed to the Compo. I really look forward to the next Ludum Dare and as usual check out the other entries submitted. There’s some amazing content up!

Till next time~