{"author_name":"Serilyn","cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"September 1, 2009 1:20 am","epoch":1251786000,"text":"I was impressed with your 3D models for LD! Working on can often be a big timesink, so I was mostly trying to avoid it for characters this time. Using 3D texture painting methods is a big time saving for projects like this though, I found that before when doing 3D. Congratulations!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1251769620,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72506","p_author":"Serilyn","p_authorkey":"1128","p_urlkey":"108328","p_title":"Postmortem and crash fix release for GoblinHome","p_cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1251769620","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1128","us_name":"Serilyn","us_username":"serilyn","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"

First the bugfix release:
\n GoblinHome 1.0.1 bugfix release<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GoblinHome4\"<\/p>\n

This was my first Ludum Dare and I’mhooked. Last weekend was really fun trying to get a game completed on time. I didn’t get the game I originally envisioned done but I got a good start for it and it does have a winning and losing condition so it is a game.<\/p>\n

The good:<\/p>\n

Time – I was able to schedule the core game first to result in something playable, even if I didn’t get all that I wanted done.<\/p>\n

Blender – It was my first time using blender’s texture painting mode. I was able to make the troll’s texture in blender much faster than I was able to make the goblin’s texture in photoshop. It works very well.<\/p>\n

The bad and what I will do better next time:<\/p>\n

Blender – It’s been a few months since I modeled something and I forgot a bunch of the myraid of hotkeys and functions and spent time looking them up.<\/p>\n

Art – It took 6 hours to make the goblin and 2 hours for the troll based on the goblin. I probably could have used my time better for features by making worse models. Part of this is probably also because I forgot my blender commands.<\/p>\n

Photoshop – Photoshop stopped responding to my tablet’s pressure sensitivity right before I created the title and conclusion screens, which was a pain to figure out.<\/p>\n

Group selection and health bars – I’ve been getting a lot of comments on these. When it came down to the end I had the choice of group selection, health bars, or a selection indicator for the currently selected goblin. The selection indicator won out as the most needed. The others were next on the list!<\/p>\n

Framework – I didn’t have one so I spent a good chunk of saturday writing code to glue ogre, cegui and ois together and make a basic blank screen app. Next time I should make a framework to use to skip some of that.<\/p>\n

The crash – There was a crash that took a while to track down that I did not see while developing. If you were to click on the goblin’s selection circle it would crash with a null pointer error. This has been fixed in the bugfix release. The bugfix release also fixed a rather nasty memory leak in the pathfinding which I originally thought was the crash bug but wasn’t.<\/p>","time":"August 31st, 2009 8:47 pm","title":"Postmortem and crash fix release for GoblinHome"}