{"author_name":"Darkcoder","cat":"LD #21","comments":[],"epoch":1314068940,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"63722","p_author":"Darkcoder","p_authorkey":"5470","p_urlkey":"99507","p_title":"Beak Free \u2013 Timelapse + Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #21","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1314068940","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"5470","us_name":"Darkcoder","us_username":"darkcoder","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"
\"Beak<\/a>

Beak Free Birdie<\/p><\/div>\n

Entry:\u00a0http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-21\/?action=rate&uid=5470
\n <\/a>Timelapse:\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HQfTh-Z26wU<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is my first entry to Ludum Dare, and one of my first Unity games, as I’ve only recently started using it. Development went fairly well and I was on time for most of my goals, I only had about 8 hours sleep during the 48 period though, but not all of it was spent at the PC.<\/p>\n

What went right:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– The competition began at 11AM local time(JST), meaning I basically woke up normally and was right into dev
\n – My game idea was really simple to pull off, in fact, the core gameplay was done in about 30 mins, the rest was spent polishing everything
\n – The artwork turned out better than I expected<\/p>\n

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What went wrong:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

– It took me over 5 hours to come up with a game idea based on the theme
\n – My library had some bugs in that I spent some valuable time fixing
\n – My library lacked some features like the ability to swap out textures for UI elements, this meant I couldn’t implement a mute button in time without using major hacks
\n – I didn’t have any plan about how to make music, so I didn’t
\n – I didn’t have \u00a0any generic code to handle 2D animations, so I had to settle for very basic texture swapping which took a while to write and didn’t allow me to implement anything complex
\n – Apparently the sound effects caused people to want to vomit, even though I thought I set the volume quite low :'(
\n – I had no code ready to make creation of collision meshes easier<\/p>\n

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Summary:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a great first attempt, next time I’ll be far more prepared and way more code ready to save me time during development. The IRC is cool, it’s full of helpful people and the structure of the competition is very nice. Next time there’ll probably be even more entries, so that should be fun!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>","time":"August 22nd, 2011 10:09 pm","title":"Beak Free \u2013 Timelapse + Postmortem"}