{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/airdeck\/","author_name":"airdeck","cat":"LD #24","categories":["LD #24"],"comments":[],"epoch":1346661780,"event":"LD24","likes":10,"metadata":{"p_key":"78419","p_author":"airdeck","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"287429","p_title":"Future Rabbit Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1346661780","p_likes":"10","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"source_url":"2012\/09\/03\/future-rabbit-post-mortem\/","text":"

This was our first Ludum Dare entry<\/a>. I think for the most part things went really well. We hadn\u2019t tried anything with using the cross stitch art for graphics beforehand so we pretty much had to wing it. We first started with planning all the assets we would need. Then, we made the cross stitch patterns as pencil on aida (aida is the fabric). We used some of those sketches as placeholders while waiting for final assets.<\/p>\n

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

Each \u201cstitch\u201d nicely worked out to be a 5 x 5 image, so we basically figured that each \u201ccross stitch pixel\u201d is actually 5 \u201creal\u201d pixels. After each asset was ready, we\u2019d scan them in, remove the background in Photoshop, and prepare the sprite sheet. Since the fabric isn\u2019t really stiff, there usually ended up being some distortion which we needed to fix using distort in Photoshop. Removing the fabric background was also time consuming and difficult to get perfect. After all the sprite sheets were created, all the image assets were managed in Flash and exported as an asset swc \u2013 all development was done in FDT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What went right<\/strong><\/p>\n