{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/fydo\/","author_name":"fydo","cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","categories":["LD #15 - Caverns - 2009"],"comments":[],"epoch":1252178460,"event":"LD15","likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"77213","p_author":"fydo","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"285937","p_title":"Cave Dangerous Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1252178460","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"source_url":"2009\/09\/05\/cave-dangerous-post-mortem\/","text":"<p>I figured now that I\u2019m done rating everyone\u2019s game, I\u2019d sit down and write up a little post-mortem for my game, Cave Dangerous. Cave Dangerous is a fun little exploratory platformer with a minimalist inventory system. I had lots of fun creating it for the Ludum Dare 15 competition.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The good<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I actually finished this time! The last Ludum Dare I was in (Roads), I did not finish due to some unfamiliarity with AS3, among other issues and time constraints. So, yay for finishing!<\/li>\n<li>Even though I did suffer through a short internet outage, I managed to make good use of that offline time to work on some pixel sprites for the game, which really helped to set the artistic \u201cvision\u201d for Cave Dangerous.<\/li>\n<li>First time using Visual Studio in a compo, and it was quite enjoyable. Well, except for some major deployment issues (see below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>The Bad<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Originally planned to do something in 3D, but was feeling uninspired facing the modeller. Also, a quick test revealed my .obj loader was (again) not working correctly. So, scrapped that idea.<\/li>\n<li>As with every platformer I\u2019ve made for a compo, I spent too much time tweaking \/ fixing the jumping and collision code. I think in the future, I\u2019ll see about preparing some basic tile-based collision code ahead of time so I can focus more on the actual game.<\/li>\n<li>This was my first time trying Visual Studio with a compo entry, and it was very enjoyable up until I had to package it up to release it. I ended up almost pulling my hair out in frustration (why do I have to package a C++ redistributable? argh!). A website that I found (here: <a href=\"http:\/\/llbit.se\/?p=19\" title=\"http:\/\/llbit.se\/?p=19\">http:\/\/llbit.se\/?p=19<\/a>) explains pretty much exactly what happened to me. I ended up using mingw32 to compile the exe, which worked perfectly. Sheesh.<\/li>\n<li>Didn\u2019t have enough time to add an explosion sound effect for the bomb. Apparently this is what most people complained about (aside from the length of the game) judging by the comments I got from the ratings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As another \u201cbehind the scenes look\u201d, here are some pics of the miner before I settled on the final image:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/player-old.gif\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/old-minerguy.png\"><img alt=\"old-minerguy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10535\" height=\"256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/old-minerguy.png\" title=\"old-minerguy\" width=\"128\"\/><\/a><img alt=\"player-old\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10534 alignleft\" height=\"48\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/player-old.gif\" title=\"player-old\" width=\"32\"\/><\/p>","time":"September 5th, 2009 7:21 pm","title":"Cave Dangerous Post-Mortem","title_was_empty":false}