{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/startgame.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/e0610f8e1313b9c86b1858dd85961017.png"},{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/throneroomdead.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/4e2064db647a5cbce5a3bd6c2734106b.png"},{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sleeping.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/26d38bcfa5200c17587ec8e3c105e55b.png"},{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sleeping.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/26d38bcfa5200c17587ec8e3c105e55b.png"}],"author_link":"author\/porglezomp\/","author_name":"porglezomp","cat":"LD #27","categories":["LD #27"],"comments":[],"epoch":1377705000,"event":"LD27","likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"80233","p_author":"porglezomp","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"289243","p_title":"The Aliens Came Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377705000","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\/08\/28\/the-aliens-came-postmortem\/","text":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">If you want to play the game, you can play it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-27\/?action=preview&amp;uid=21051\">HERE<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">If you want me to play your game, leave me a comment with a link to it.<\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"Title Screen\" class=\"size-full wp-image-292308 aligncenter\" height=\"64\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/e0610f8e1313b9c86b1858dd85961017.png\" width=\"128\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">The Aliens Came \u2014 Postmortem<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game about a citizen in a city that\u2019s been invaded by aliens, and having everything conspire to make you revolt.<\/p>\n<h3>What went wrong:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img alt=\"What went wrong: I got shot by aliens and died moments before destroying their base\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-292314\" height=\"64\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/4e2064db647a5cbce5a3bd6c2734106b.png\" style=\"font-size: 13px\" width=\"128\"\/><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The timer for choices was the source of my original idea, but didn\u2019t fit in the final product as well as I\u2019d like.<\/li>\n<li>The timer shouldn\u2019t have been on all of the choices, but I didn\u2019t have time to make a system to disable it for some multiple-choice scenes.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The default font was broken on one of my test computers, so I made my own. I\u2019m not really qualified to design fonts however, so it\u2019s a bit harder to read than it should be for large blocks of text.<\/li>\n<li>I didn\u2019t automate the resource handling quite well enough, so that slowed down some of my work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What went right:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/26d38bcfa5200c17587ec8e3c105e55b.png\"><img alt=\"What went right: I did get plenty of sleep this Ludum Dare\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-292316\" height=\"64\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2013\/08\/26d38bcfa5200c17587ec8e3c105e55b.png\" width=\"128\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I came up with a very achievable idea that was still interesting.<\/li>\n<li>I built an extensible system straight off, so making the content for the game was easy.<\/li>\n<li>I wasn\u2019t overconfident, and used Unity again. I got all my cross platform compatibility for free, even though I didn\u2019t make much use of the Unity editor and only \u00a0used one GameObject for my game.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I had a great time this Ludum Dare, and I\u2019ve played lots of fun games. I\u2019m excited to see the results, and eagerly awaiting next time. I\u2019ll be ready.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/i-will-play-your-game\/\" rel=\"tag\">I will play your game<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/play-my-game\/\" rel=\"tag\">play my game<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/post-mortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">post-mortem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 28th, 2013 3:50 pm","title":"The Aliens Came Postmortem","title_was_empty":false}