Well that concluded my first LD48 competition with the game Ant General.

So how did it go?

The positive:

• I picked a good scope on the project, i got pulled away to real life a few times and still managed to finish a playable game. I guess i can thank my years in the demoscene for this
• The game looks pretty good and plays pretty well
• Game mechanics based on the theme
• Learned how to use HTML5/Canvas
• Figured out how to make InkScape work as my level editor

The negative:

• Had a little inspiration lapse and didn’t figure out more game mechanics on time, once i figured out some fun stuff i didn’t have time to implement it or make levels for most of the ideas.
• Only 2 levels.. it’s mostly a tutorial game right now. Could’ve been really great with a few levels.
• No sound (But for webgames it can be a good thing)

Gonna write a bigger post-mortem later and upload a timelapse video tomorrow after sleeping and catching up on real-life.

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