The Aliens Came Postmortem by porglezomp

The Aliens Came Postmortem

[raw] LD27LD #27 28. Aug 2013 · 15:50 UTC · 5 days after compo start by porglezomp · 4

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I had lots of fun this Ludum Dare! It was my second LD, my first in the compo, and I was quite happy with my results this time.

I wrote a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game about a citizen in a city that’s been invaded by aliens, and having everything conspire to make you revolt.

The timer for choices was the source of my original idea, but didn’t fit in the final product as well as I’d like.
The timer shouldn’t have been on all of the choices, but I didn’t have time to make a system to disable it for some multiple-choice scenes.
I created too large of a story to make art for in the time limit. With drawing as fast as I could for almost the entire second day, I still had to reuse art for about 1/3 of the game.
The default font was broken on one of my test computers, so I made my own. I’m not really qualified to design fonts however, so it’s a bit harder to read than it should be for large blocks of text.
I didn’t automate the resource handling quite well enough, so that slowed down some of my work.

I came up with a very achievable idea that was still interesting.
I built an extensible system straight off, so making the content for the game was easy.
I wasn’t overconfident, and used Unity again. I got all my cross platform compatibility for free, even though I didn’t make much use of the Unity editor and only used one GameObject for my game.
I built a flexible level format, and was smart enough to leave the linking to the user, instead of trying to make a really complex automatic link maker.
I came up with an art style that I could successfully produce 80-something pictures in in only 16 hours, and it looks quite nice too.

I had a great time this Ludum Dare, and I’ve played lots of fun games. I’m excited to see the results, and eagerly awaiting next time. I’ll be ready.