Postmortem / Timelapse: Lost in Exploration
Ok, more than a week after the compo finally ended, here my short summary what went fine and what was a fail (again?)
Good:
– After about one year experience with jMonkeyEngine and blender the comparison between ld13 and ld16 is really a progress.
– clear gameplay (platformer game – 3 buttons to use)
– added music. actually I’m quite happy about that smooth music. Wasn’t that difficult to create 😀
– added soundfx (thx drpetter :D)
– webstartable java game. (most of the people was able to start it)
– timelapse
– created quite extendable platformer-framework for jME and blender
Cons:
– created quite extendable platformer-framework for jME and blender (although this might be good for the future it was not good for the compo! I hadn’t enough time to really show its capabilities)
– christmas-party the day before + 2h earlier starttime
– webstartable-game: not everyone was able to start it 
– too less gameplay (4h more time and…….
)
Ok, even I’m not happy about the low-level gameplay I’m quite satisfied with the overall-experience. Next time I will for sure not start with jME from scratch again. It’s time to concentrate on gameplay! 😀
Ok,…here my timelapse (3:30min)
http://thomas.trocha.com/misc/timelapse_ld16/ld16.htm
One last think: To the people that are not able to start my game: Plz post me your configuration (OS, Browser and if possible installed Java-Version) THX…