What went right:<\/p>\n
1. I got a complete, working game. As someone who started many projects, but finished very few, this is the best thing about LD for me – I actually FORCE my self to finish this, and it rocks! It happened in LD17 as well, but this time was as good!<\/p>\n
2. I think the style and general feel of the game is quite good, and as I intended. Everything runs fast and smooth, and has this vectorized look, which I like. Although I implemented this using sprites, it look quite crisp IMHO.<\/p>\n
3. Music turned out to be atmospheric as I wanted it, maybe a bit boring, but it’s background anyway…<\/p>\n
4. The code (available, of course) is surprisingly neat – it only started getting messy towards the end. ![\":-)\"](\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\")
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What went wrong:<\/p>\n
1. Gameplay – I think the whole tractor beam mechanism is not fun enough, and not really\u00a0necessary\u00a0for finishing the game (although it helps) – this is both due to the physics code which should have been tweaked more, and possibly the general game idea.<\/p>\n
2. The game is WAY too short, it’s not that easy (sometimes it is, depends on random values) but you can finish it in under 30 seconds if you’re lucky. not good. <\/p>\n
3. No sounds effects! This is actually a technical issue, something weird with how clanlib handles sounds – I got the music to work after a LONG time, but sound effects were very problematic. ANYWAY – you can’t hear anything in space. <\/p>\n
4. I wasted a lot of time of getting rigid body collisions (spheres, actually) which I didn’t use – it’s a shame really..<\/p>\n
That’s it, I think.<\/p>\n
You are welcome to play my game and of course, VOTE!<\/p>\n
Can’t wait for the next LD!<\/p>\n
Daniel<\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2010 5:00 am","title":"HOME \u2013 Postmortem"}