{"author_name":"MatrixBai","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[],"epoch":1304577360,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"65725","p_author":"MatrixBai","p_authorkey":"4067","p_urlkey":"101521","p_title":"Before Evil Come Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304577360","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"4067","us_name":"MatrixBai","us_username":"matrixbai","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p><a title=\"Before Evil Come\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-20\/?action=rate&amp;uid=4067\" target=\"_blank\">Before Evil Come<\/a><\/p>\n <p>Well, I really made it. This is my first Ludum Dare, and actually my second playable game.<\/p>\n <p>Before this competition start, I\u2019m \u00a0so exciting and also doubt whether I can finish it. I made a strategy for myself, no collision detection, no physic and no animation. I know they\u2019re important for a game, but I can\u2019t count them in before I really conquer them.<\/p>\n <h2><strong>Game Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n <p>This is an evil game like the title said. You\u2019re a demon<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-53055\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/05\/05\/before-evil-come-postmortem\/player-4\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/player.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a>, came to our world, because good man<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-53058\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/05\/05\/before-evil-come-postmortem\/human\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/human.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a> protect us you have nothing to do without some buddies. So you go to the wild and hope get some buddies<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-53064\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/05\/05\/before-evil-come-postmortem\/zombie-2\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zombie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-53063\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/05\/05\/before-evil-come-postmortem\/skull\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skull.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a> join you. Although it\u2019s wild, still some enemy out there. You can have rest in house<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-53059\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/05\/05\/before-evil-come-postmortem\/house\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/house.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a> and graveyard<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-53062\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/05\/05\/before-evil-come-postmortem\/tomestone\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/tomestone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a>, but be careful your enemy also rest in some house. After defeat your enemy, you gain exp and may level up. The more buddies and hight level\u00a0you have, you can kill more people. If you don\u2019t have any buddies, you die.<\/p>\n <p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xTQy3oZNGtM?fs=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n <h2><strong>Developing Tools<\/strong><\/h2>\n <p>I used below great tools.<\/p>\n <p><a title=\"Libgdx Google Code Site\" href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/libgdx\/\">Libgdx<\/a>: an open source Java game engine, also supports Android. It\u2019s really good and best game engine on Android in my mind. The texture packer and bitmap font generator tools are very helpful for me in this competition.<\/p>\n <p>Gimp and Inkscape: all graphic assets are made by this two software. \u00a0I think Inkscape is a good tool to draw cartoon style graphic.<\/p>\n <p><a title=\"bfxr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bfxr.net\/\">Bfxr<\/a>, LMMS and Audacity: The BGM was made by LMMS and other sounds were from Bfxr. Audacity handle the polish work.<\/p>\n <h2><strong>Developing Process<\/strong><\/h2>\n <p>Ok, enough background, I want talk about how I made this game. When I knew the theme\u00a0<em>It\u2019s Dangerous to Go Alone, Take This., <\/em>the first idea was ant. Tiny ants group a great army to defeat strong army. Based this idea, I split gameplay to two steps, first summon army and second defeat big boss. The bigger army got in step 1, the easier in step 2.<\/p>\n <p>Because I like dead creatures so I replace ants with zombie and skeleton. I\u2019m not expert of complicated control game, so one click control is my choice. Top view, tile map and my cute dead creature, first stage is done.<\/p>\n <p>When I start made second stage, I hesitated. It\u2019s actually a totally different game, did I have enough time to finish it? I give it up at last, instead I made a slot machine mini game, whose digit number is lead by gain points in first stage. \u00a0(OK, actually I am just lazy\u00a0<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" alt=\";-)\" \/><\/p>\n <p>After add story board of game background, this game finally done. It\u2019s mini and some kind shabby, but I really love it. So do my girlfriend, though she just like click things and don\u2019t care game content.<\/p>\n <p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/45257\/4067-shot0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n <h2><strong>Conclution<\/strong><\/h2>\n <p>Cons:<\/p>\n <p>1.Not enough feedback when player made decision.<\/p>\n <p>2.Inside game mechanic is too simple. OK, maybe it\u2019s some kind pro\u00a0<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":-)\" \/> .<\/p>\n <p>3.Not enough introduction, player would be confused\u00a0<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_sad.gif\" alt=\":-(\" \/><\/p>\n <p>Pros :<\/p>\n <p>1.It\u2019s really very easy.<\/p>\n <p>2.My cartoon characters are cute, isn\u2019t it, especially when player lose. I love the skeleton on the cross.<\/p>\n <p>Hope you like this game and my poor English not disturb you.\u00a0<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":-)\" \/><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/design\/\" rel=\"tag\">design<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/game\/\" rel=\"tag\">game<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/libgdx\/\" rel=\"tag\">libgdx<\/a><\/p>","time":"May 5th, 2011 1:36 am","title":"Before Evil Come Postmortem"}