{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gamepics1-550x309.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2013\/09\/72fa6ccc21267b955484c9fcddf4de75.png"}],"author_link":"author\/donan\/","author_name":"donan","cat":"LD #27","categories":["LD #27"],"comments":[],"epoch":1378009740,"event":"LD27","likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"80199","p_author":"donan","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"289209","p_title":"Choice Matters Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1378009740","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"source_url":"2013\/09\/01\/choice-matters-postmortem\/","text":"<p>Once again, decided to enter Ludum Dare just few days before the competition started.<br\/>\nTo get ready, wrote one basic idea for each of the selected themes.<br\/>\nUnlike the previous LD26, this time i couldn\u2019t spend all of my time working on the game due to some family meetings, so i had to change my initial plans slightly to make the game like a point &amp; click, instead of a classic adventure game. My LD26 game was really longer, but im more happy with this LD game <img alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-27\/?action=preview&amp;uid=22213\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play Choice Matters\"><img alt=\"gamepics1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-294121\" height=\"309\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2013\/09\/72fa6ccc21267b955484c9fcddf4de75.png\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gamepics1-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gamepics1-550x309.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gamepics1.png 1138w\" width=\"550\"\/><\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-27\/?action=preview&amp;uid=22213\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Play and rate Choice Matters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuff that went Right:<\/strong><br\/>\nPoint&amp;click change (Did the game interesting)<br\/>\nCode organization (Could add new rooms and objects easily)<br\/>\nMusic and sound speed (Got music and sounds done in less than 2 hours)<br\/>\nGraphics style (At first wanted to do it realistic, but due to the tight timeframe and the social breaks, decided to do a shadowed boxy and colorful style)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuff to improve on the next LD:<\/strong><br\/>\nGraphics took too long to do (After the shadow matted renders, had too much shadows info around and had to manually clean each rendered object)<br\/>\nHad to think all the possible interactions before (Half of the code about objects is really dirty because i didn\u2019t think about many interactions before)<br\/>\nTimelapse sucks (Gotta take more pics of the process)<br\/>\nIt\u2019s Simple, We Kill The Batman (Gotta try to write full story before to add more references during the game)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-27\/?action=preview&amp;uid=22213\" title=\"Play Choice Matters\"><img alt=\"timelapse\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-294117\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/timelapse.gif\" width=\"550\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoyed my game <img alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ld27\/\" rel=\"tag\">LD27<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 1st, 2013 4:29 am","title":"Choice Matters Postmortem","title_was_empty":false}