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\"Sophie<\/p>\n

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Sophie\u2019s World<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

So, it was my first time joining the Ludum Dare game jam at all. You can\u2019t imagine how many times my husband has told me about it (or probably you can, given the fact that you yourself might as well do this all the time \ud83d\ude09 ). For him, it was the 3rd LD \u2013 not to mention all the other game jams he has joined so far. So you can imagine that I was quite excited that I was about to join him this time!<\/p>\n

Having never done any serious digital drawing at all, I have wanted to try the Inkpad app on the iPad for a long time now. The LD seemed like a great opportunity to check it out and learn a view things about vector graphics. So that\u2019s how the adventure started.<\/p>\n

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The idea<\/b>\nWe decided to make a game for children without any violence. At first, our idea was to create a couple of fast touch mini-games with cute graphics.<\/p>\n

Along the way<\/b>\nAt the beginning, I just started doodling until I came up with a cloud \u2013 Sophie was born! We then thought about what game we wanted to create around Sophie.\nWhile I went on drawing, my husband put together the game framework. He chose L\u00d6VE because his experience with L\u00d6VE did help him a lot in previous gamejams. Besides, he started to implement all needed L\u00d6VE functions in the Sony PSM SDK in C#, because originally we thought of this game as a touch game.<\/p>\n

\"Fred\"<\/a>What went great<\/b>\nThe best moment was when my husband made cloud Sophie rain for the first time! Now I know why he enjoys creating games so much \u2013 it\u2019s so great when your game and characters come to life! I\u2019ll definitely do this again.<\/p>\n

<\/b>What went wrong<\/b>\nSoon we realized there won\u2019t be enough time to create more than one mini-game, so we had to change the game concept a bit so that it would fit to the theme. We then decided that \u201cYou Get Only One RAINDROP\u201d from Sophie every day.\nIt also would have been great to have the game as a touch game, because for me it seems that it\u2019s much more intuitive for children.\nWe also could have worked more on the sound effects and the clickable items, but again, we ran out of time at the end.<\/p>\n

You can play our game here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tools<\/b>\nSounds \u2013 bxfr\nMusic \u2013 keyboard\nGraphics \u2013 Inkpad\nEngine \u2013 L\u00d6VE and Sony PSM SDK<\/p>\n

You can watch a video of the game played on the PS Vita:<\/p>\n