{"author_name":"Spunkmeyer","cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"Toeofdoom","time":"August 23, 2010 4:51 am","epoch":1282557060,"text":"That title screen instantly makes me want to play the game. Very detailed worklog too, wow.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 23, 2010 5:07 am","epoch":1282558020,"text":"Thanks. As I play it now, I find more and more bugs and things to improve \":-)\"
\n I hope I can deliver a better version soon as this game has more unused potential.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1282556400,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69319","p_author":"Spunkmeyer","p_authorkey":"2345","p_urlkey":"105122","p_title":"Summary: My first LD","p_cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1282556400","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2345","us_name":"Spunkmeyer","us_username":"spunkmeyer","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

Trust your Enemy<\/strong><\/p>\n

…train them and then use them! \":-)\"<\/p>\n

\"Title<\/a><\/p>\n

Lets get into some details…<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

First: another Screenshot:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot\"<\/a><\/p>\n

download:
\n http:\/\/games.spunkmeyer.de\/downloads\/Trust_Your_Enemy.zip<\/a>
\n source:
\n http:\/\/games.spunkmeyer.de\/downloads\/Trust_Your_Enemy_Sources.zip<\/a><\/p>\n

I started saturday morning with no idea in my mind. After my breakfast I had my idea of a game with team-switching units.<\/p>\n

You should be able to upgrade units to make them stronger and faster. But what if your units change the team? You need to keep a balance between strong units and defending your homebase.<\/p>\n

That was my idea.<\/p>\n

I am working with my own little 2D framework. And I wanted to write code in a way that I could use it afterwards. Mainly GUI-Code. That was not a good idea since it took nine hours\u00a0 \":-)\"<\/p>\n

In the end I have some GUI code which I can extract, polish and complete later. Thats the good side. The bad side is that it took really long to get even buttons to work and therefore I started with some core game mechanics on the second day. Far too late.<\/p>\n

Next time: Just write down idea, write some cards to work on, and dont think about tomorrow \":-)\"<\/p>\n

The cards are really helping. First you get an overview of what needs to be done. Second you get motivated if you can go to the next card.<\/p>\n

I had a friend with me, who was coding for LD, too. Thats inspiring at one side and a bit distracting at the other side.\u00a0 Another friend joined on saturday and coded some hours with us. I would do that again, but be more strict with schedule.<\/p>\n

Dev-Log:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also watch the Timelapse-Video!<\/a><\/p>\n

saturday<\/em>
\n 4:00 Dreaming about theme… zzz…
\n 6:22 Shower
\n 6:44 Thinking… watching blog…
\n 6:56 go for a walk, buy food
\n 7:25 Brainstorm
\n 7:33 Think I got an idea…
\n 7:55 more detailed designwork
\n 8:26 Breakfast
\n 9:09 refining design
\n 9:17 starting implementing\/drawing
\n 10:41 implementing core mechanics
\n 11:00 need a more detailed plan…
\n 11:34 starting card 1\/16 (Core)
\n 12:06 starting card 2\/16 (bases)
\n 12:20 buying stuff to eat….
\n 13:44 continuing
\n 14:52 Writing a generic GUI class
\n 16:35 need to get GUI done…
\n 16:47 GUI Mockup
\n 18:00 gui class continue…
\n 18:51 food ordering
\n 19:08 gui…
\n 19:49 foodum dare
\n 20:04 gui…
\n 23:15 Card 3\/16 enemies…
\n sunday<\/em>
\n 0:28 sleeptime
\n 7:07 cant sleep… must code…
\n 8:09 Card no 4 (Energy sources)
\n 8:36 buying breakfast
\n 8:50 coding
\n 9:30 breakfast!
\n 9:54 coding again
\n 10:34 card 5\/16 yay, progress
\n 11:25 card nr 6\/16 bases
\n 17:22 Card 7\/16 Towers!
\n 17:33 need a POWERNAP!! \ud83d\ude09
\n 18:03 I need a showr!
\n 18:26 continue
\n 19:14 tower graphics
\n 21:40 tower logic
\n 22:13 Card 8\/16: AI!
\n monday<\/em>
\n 2:22 finishing the unfinished (random cards)
\n 4:00 submitted game, go..to..bed….<\/p>\n

I made recordings with several programs during the competition. Here are the useless details:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stats:<\/strong>
\n 80000 keystrokes (I think the tool missed some…)
\n 2.7 km mouse movement
\n 11,500,000\u00a0 pixels mouse movement
\n 23000 leftclick
\n 51000 wheel
\n 350 rightclicks<\/p>\n

programs used:<\/strong>
\n codeblocks\u00a0 17.6 h
\n irc\/icq\u00a0 3.5 h
\n firefox\u00a0 2.9 h
\n photopaint\u00a0 2.1 h
\n test\/debug\u00a0 1.2 h
\n windows\u00a0 1.1 h (moving files, searching files, open,…)
\n gimp\u00a0 0.9 h<\/p>\n

And a heatmap where I clicked (mostly in code window, taskbar, tabs, menus)<\/p>\n

\"clickheatmap\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thats my summary of the LD #18 competition.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed it and will participate in the future.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in the polished game, follow my blog dev.spunkmeyer.de<\/a> or visit games.spunkmeyer.de<\/a> in the future \":-)\"<\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2010 4:40 am","title":"Summary: My first LD"}