{"author_name":"Cosr","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"stqn","time":"May 17, 2011 1:59 pm","epoch":1305658740,"text":"The buzzing noise during the conversation was fun (the first time), and I liked the game, but you are right: I got tired of it before seeing any ending.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"May 17, 2011 2:21 pm","epoch":1305660060,"text":"I don’t understand… it should let me skip the conversations between the girls. It’s frustrating and doesn’t really keep the player’s interest (not mine anyways).","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1305632460,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"65679","p_author":"Cosr","p_authorkey":"1454","p_urlkey":"101475","p_title":"New Version: how to be a girl","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1305632460","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1454","us_name":"Cosr","us_username":"cosr","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

how to be a girl, my LD20 jam entry, has been updated. I suppose I could call it ‘how to be a better girl’ now, or something. I dunno.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The game’s jam page is here<\/a>. Or you can go straight to the updated version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After recovering from LD20 I decided to spend this past week adding to how to be a girl in an attempt to make it feel more complete.\u00a0 So what did I do?<\/p>\n

I added endings. Plural. Not that I expect anyone to put up with the game long enough to see them all (there’s three). I think the main thing I took away from the feedback I got, was the game lacked a sense of closure (it really did). I’m not sure if the endings I’ve added quite do the trick. I could probably do better. One of the endings in the game works pretty well for me, the others possibly less so. Who knows, I may come back to the game in a while and fix them up. Maybe not; they’ll quite possibly stay as they are.<\/p>\n

I also added a couple more interruptions for a tiny bit more variety. This is a very minor addition since the interruptions are all functionally the same.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the biggest addition, at least in terms of the amount of time it took me, is music. I spent most of the past week recording and editing. I’m quite happy with how the soundtrack turned out, so you download it here<\/a>, or from the game’s website, if you want (you probably won’t like it). The download includes a couple tracks which did not find a place in the game. I would maybe have used them for a couple of the endings, except their length would have caused a fairly large increase to the game’s (file)size.<\/p>\n

If anyone’s wondering, the only program I used in creating the music was Audacity, with a few plug-ins. The music is all thumb piano (played by me) and noise. For the most part all of the noises are recorded sounds that I applied various effects to (the only non-recorded noise is the buzzing crescendo shared by the two tracks that are not in the game).<\/p>\n

Give it a play<\/a>, if you wish, and leave some feedback, if you so desire.<\/p>","time":"May 17th, 2011 6:41 am","title":"New Version: how to be a girl"}