A quick postmortem of my LD20 experience…<\/p>\n
Woke up read winning entry and then turned over to dream a game, got up a bit later with a fully formed game design buzzing in my head!<\/p>\n
First play with Unitys Terrain tools had an island rising from the sea, but made the first mistake of using Unity textures to paint the island and skybox!<\/p>\n
But a static view of an island with nice water and skybox does not make a game. Dropped in the FPS controller and he presto running around on the island. <\/p>\n
(2 hours)<\/p>\n
Oops the player can’t climb steep slopes, spend time trying to make the slopes shallower and test\/repeat…<\/p>\n
Some time later.. ! Change settings for max slope in controller!<\/p>\n
(1 hour)<\/p>\n
Towers: using default cubes and physics build a tower! Find a cool diamond material (oops!) and prefab it.<\/p>\n
Position towers…<\/p>\n
(3 hours)<\/p>\n
Build weapon and plinth in blender…. drop into Unity.<\/p>\n
(1.5 hours)<\/p>\n
Picking up and Throwing the weapon to destroy the towers…<\/p>\n
(4.5 hours)<\/p>\n
Boomerang weapon return after throw.<\/p>\n
(1.5 hours)<\/p>\n
Day one over…<\/p>\n
Day Two…<\/p>\n
Played around with the graphic effects to give the impression of fatigue and near collapse for player.<\/p>\n
Getting the towers to fight back fireballs were needed.<\/p>\n
Spent a good deal of time tweaking the basic gameplay and had a lull, this seams to be a recurring problem in LD’s by day two I’m tired and tend to make less progress.<\/p>\n
Got back too it and pulled together an intro scene and then released it as a Jam…<\/p>\n
I should have avoided using Unity textures and prefabs (palm trees) to make a true LD entry!<\/p>\n
Definitly should have done a warm up game\/project to get the feel of starting from scratch again!<\/p>\n
No Music\/Sfx – Need to work on music\/sfx creation from scratch!
\n No Player death\/health
\n No Win State
\n No Levels
\n No Variety<\/p>\n
Had great fun and I think ‘From the wreck of HMS Lightning’ <\/a>is very atmospheric but lacking in depth!<\/p>","time":"May 3rd, 2011 2:37 am","title":"A Postmortem \u2013 Jammed\u2026"}