{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/csanyk\/","author_name":"csanyk","cat":"LD #26","categories":["LD #26"],"comments":[],"epoch":1367012580,"event":"LD26","likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"78951","p_author":"csanyk","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"287961","p_title":"LD26 Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1367012580","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"source_url":"2013\/04\/26\/ld26-postmortem\/","text":"

I\u2019m not sure Minimalism should have escaped the Slaughter.<\/p>\n

LD48 encourages minimalism anyway due to the time constraint.<\/p>\n

I love minimalism as an aesthetic<\/em>. \u00a0I have no idea what to do with it\u00a0as a theme to base a game design on. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Is it even a theme? \u00a0I am not sure that it is. \u00a0I\u2019m happy to be proven wrong by the 1000+ entries that end up getting submitted. \u00a0I just hope there are more than a few really good ones \";)\"<\/p>\n

So I made my game the minimal viable game possible. \u00a0It\u2019s not really interactive in the usual sense. \u00a0You only interact with it to start it. \u00a0If you start, you\u2019ve already lost. \u00a0\u201cThe only winning move is not to play.\u201d \u00a0So it recalls 80\u2019s hacker film nostalgia. \u00a0It\u2019s ironically self-negating. \u00a0It\u2019s meta. \u00a0It\u2019s an art game. It\u2019s a slap in the face of the player, frankly. \u00a0And a flipping of the bird to the theme voters and the selection process. \u00a0Wooo, csanyk is rebellious!<\/p>\n

What went well:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. I came up with an idea very quickly.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. I didn\u2019t waste a lot of time.<\/li>\n
  3. Second submission of the compo!<\/li>\n
  4. It\u2019s really, really minimal!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What didn\u2019t:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. A sarcastic un-game isn\u2019t really all that fun.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. As a joke, it\u2019s witty, but perhaps too dry to be humorous.<\/li>\n
    3. A bit of a one-trick pony. \u00a00 replayability.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Tags: minimalism<\/a>, The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 26th, 2013 9:43 pm","title":"LD26 Postmortem","title_was_empty":false}