{"author_name":"pretzelhands","cat":"LD #21","comments":[],"epoch":1313949060,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"64044","p_author":"pretzelhands","p_authorkey":"506154","p_urlkey":"99831","p_title":"Totally early post-mortem.","p_cat":"LD #21","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1313949060","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"506154","us_name":"pretzelhands","us_username":"pretzelhands","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"<p>[WARNING! INCOMING WALL OF TEXT!]<\/p>\n <p>Woo! I was done for ages.<\/p>\n <p>This was a fun LD, but also an too easy one for my taste..<\/p>\n <p>&#8220;Escape&#8221; didn&#8217;t challenge me. It didn&#8217;t challenge me eet all.<\/p>\n <p>Now, for the dev process of that is totally <del datetime=\"2011-08-21T18:45:30+00:00\">uninsteresting<\/del> exciting! <\/p>\n <p>DAY 1:<\/p>\n <p>So, the first day started with me sleeping 2 hours longer than I wanted to. I hate snooze buttons. After I woke up I started my computer, got some breakfast, looked at the LD-Site &#8211; BAM &#8211; Idea for escape! Okay, to be honest, my idea was based on a cheap 1 hour game I made the day before called Jumper. It had the same concept. Without parallax. And that, children is, why it sucked ^_.^ So I drew a block. And another one. Then I wrote my 0815 Platformer Engine out of my head, removed the possibility of moving and failed to set it up correctly 5 times! All because of not adding the variable &#8216;jump = 0;&#8217; to gravity code. I fail. Anyways. Later I added some graphics and started with the parallax base to give a feeling that you&#8217;re actually not just standing there, with a run animation sticked on your head. Now it was time for rocks &gt;:D<br \/>\n They were also just animated things, but they moved at a speed of 4 and got generated by the player every 3 seconds. Then I added more graphics and the different screens for menu, game over and all that.<\/p>\n <p>DAY 2:<\/p>\n <p>Today was.. kinda lame, to be honest. I refined graphics, raged about the server melt, added one pick up, submitted as 7th person, and that&#8217;s about it.. Lame. L A M E! Then I went swimming. Fun. Really.<\/p>\n <p>And yeah. Play here: http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-21\/?action=preview&amp;uid=2494 (Links don&#8217;t seem to work properly, atm.)<\/p>","time":"August 21st, 2011 12:51 pm","title":"Totally early post-mortem."}