{"author_name": "Meedoc", "cat": "LD #21", "comments": [], "epoch": 1314205260, "likes": 0, "metadata": {"p_key": "63639", "p_author": "Meedoc", "p_authorkey": "5207", "p_urlkey": "99424", "p_title": "Post Mortem", "p_cat": "LD #21", "p_event": "LD21", "p_time": "1314205260", "p_likes": "0", "p_comments": "0", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "5207", "us_name": "Meedoc", "us_username": "meedoc", "event_start": "1313712000", "event_key": "7", "event_name": "LD21"}, "text": "

The following content is a copy / paste from my personal website so there are maybe some useless information…

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This game was made for the Ludum Dare 21 on the theme Escape.

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When I was student, we had to make a game in 5 days and it was in team. That was hard. But the ludum dare performance is different for the following reasons :

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What Went Right

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No big issue with the development

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I didn’t across any difficulty to develop the different features of the game. All the gameplay is simple, and unity offers lot’s of functionality easy to implements.

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The music

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Thanks to Otomata, I succeed to make a music in less than 5 minutes which is not too bad. It’s one of the thing I’m the most proud in this game. I think I’ll reuse this great tools!

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What Went Wrong

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The development choices I did

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In hindsight, I don’t think I did the best choices. I should have work more on the narration, the atmosphere of the game instead of producing a game in which the player can absorb. It’s maybe the point of a game : talk to the player. If you don’t succeed, your game is useless… I might have done an useless game…

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Lacks of skills

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I have knowledge to design and develop a game but I’m not skilled in graphic and sound design… And without that, it’s hard to construct a coherent game.

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What I’ll do for the Next Ludum Dare

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Less Content More Feedbacks

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Like I said earlier, my game is not really accessible… I should have develop less gameplay and add more feedback about what’s happening in game and add more clues.

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Next time, I think, I’ll try to do something simpler and more accessible in term of gameplay. Here I tried to do something maybe too strange. Building a meta riddle which is not explain to the player is maybe not the best way to entertain people..

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Upgrading my skill in the meantime

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I have to do more games until the next Ludum Dare in order to improve my graphic and audio skills as well as my design and development ones!

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For that, I’ll finish the development of a game I began three weeks ago, and then I’ll begin a new one I want to do for years. I think I’ll useFlashpunk or Flixel to develop it. But I have to try both before to choose between them or maybe do you have some advice?

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A time lapse

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I wrote a time lapse of my Ludum Dare on Monday. To avoid this boring and difficult exercise, I’ll directly record my performance next time! It’ll be more interesting and easier to share =)

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A flash game

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I’m currently working on a game made with flash. And it will be the same with the next one. That’s why I think to use Flash for the next Ludum Dare. I haven’t used Unity for few months before this week end so I lost precious time with stupid bugs… (like onTriggerEnter instead of OnTriggerEnter…)

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Tags: 8 ways, cccp, post-mortem

", "time": "August 24th, 2011 12:01 pm", "title": "Post Mortem"}