{"author_name":"ThatSnail","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[],"epoch":1304464320,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"65741","p_author":"ThatSnail","p_authorkey":"3051","p_urlkey":"101537","p_title":"Diagnosis: Postmortem + Timelapse","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304464320","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3051","us_name":"ThatSnail","us_username":"thatsnail","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-20\/?action=rate&amp;uid=3051\">Ludum Dare Link<\/a><\/p>\n <p><strong>The Good:<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Using Game Maker instead of Flash was a very good decision on my part.\u00a0 Faster development time, faster framerate, and the increased versatility really helped out in the long run.<\/li>\n <li>Adopting a really fugly, easy-to-draw graphic style made it possible to develop a large variety of different enemies quickly.<\/li>\n <li>Copying Touhou&#8217;s style of a smaller screen width really increased the action.\u00a0 Less bullets\/enemies needed to fill the screen, decreasing the lag while keeping everything interesting.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>The Bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Still procrastinating a ton, it&#8217;s scary.\u00a0 Spent enough time as it is on the GMC IRC channel.\u00a0 Plus I overslept on two occasions.<\/li>\n <li>Beta-testing!\u00a0 I left that to the last minute which revealed a shitload of glitches.\u00a0 Most of them got fixed but there&#8217;s one really dumb one: Easy Mode is actually the hardest, and hardest is the easiest.\u00a0 Man.<\/li>\n <li>Not enough time set aside for music, as usual.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Generally though, I&#8217;m pretty happy with how it all boiled down.\u00a0 Better than the last one by far.\u00a0 And the theme was better.<\/p>\n <p>Time to play some of these games.\u00a0 Another record-breaker.\u00a0 Wooo.<\/p>\n <p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HC6eWjKMf_8?fs=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","time":"May 3rd, 2011 6:12 pm","title":"Diagnosis: Postmortem + Timelapse"}