{"assets": [], "author_link": "author/johnfn/", "author_name": "johnfn", "cat": "LD #21", "categories": ["LD #21"], "comments": [], "epoch": 1314540240, "event": "LD21", "likes": 10, "metadata": {"p_key": "76623", "p_author": "johnfn", "p_authorkey": "0", "p_urlkey": "284459", "p_title": "What makes a Ludum Dare game best overall?", "p_cat": "LD #21", "p_event": "LD21", "p_time": "1314540240", "p_likes": "10", "p_comments": "0", "p_status": "WAYBACK", "us_key": null, "us_name": null, "us_username": null, "event_start": "1313712000", "event_key": "7", "event_name": "LD21"}, "source_url": "2011/08/28/what-makes-a-ludum-dare-game-best-overall/", "text": "

I was talking with my friend earlier today and I was wondering what is the most important thing to focus on a game (after functionality): is it graphics? Innovation? Audio? Something else entirely?

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So I wrote a quick script to show the correlations between all of our statistics and overall. The script is here.

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The correlations are (lower is more correlated):

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{'Humor': 179, 'Innovation': 66, 'Community': 158, 'Theme': 107, 'Graphics': 73, 'Fun': 23, 'Audio': 251}
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Fun is obvious. If a game isn’t fun, then it’s not going to be good overall. But fun is also pretty vague and hard to define – it doesn’t give much more information than ‘overall’.

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Innovation and graphics come after – these are things that are more understandable. So, conclusions: work really hard to come up with clever ideas, and spend a lot of time on the graphics.

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Pretty sad to see audio come in dead last, since that’s something I worked hard on \":)\"

", "time": "August 28th, 2011 2:04 pm", "title": "What makes a Ludum Dare game best overall?"}