{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/ithildin\/","author_name":"Ithildin","cat":"LD #29","categories":["LD #29"],"comments":[],"epoch":1399197960,"event":"LD29","likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"82164","p_author":"Ithildin","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"292896","p_title":"Playbuck \u2013 The postmortem nobody was expecting","p_cat":"LD #29","p_event":"LD29","p_time":"1399197960","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1398384000","event_key":"22","event_name":"LD29"},"source_url":"2014\/05\/04\/playbuck-the-postmortem-nobody-was-expecting\/","text":"

A week has passed, I\u2019m more or less rested and it\u2019s time for the customary wall of text some people call it postmortem.<\/p>\n

During the week before the theme announcement I like to prepare for it by making a little brainstorming. Most of the time the final idea has absolutely nothing to do with any of the concepts, and this was no exception, but it\u2019s still fun and you never know if THE BIG IDEA is just around the corner waiting to be found. This edition the concept of the game itself changed from the initial design to the final implementation as I was running out of time to implement the mechanic.<\/p>\n

While discarding roots, submarines and caves as I feared everyone would use variations of this, I took a look at Trompin, my pet rabbit. Half joking with a friend it hit me that I could do a game dealing with rabbits, burrows and the likes. And mating.<\/p>\n

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You can play and rate Playbuck here<\/a>\n<\/a><\/p>\n

I then thought of a Metroidvania game borrowing the concept of generations from Rogue Legacy: you would get to an available partner (buck or doe, you wouldn\u2019t be tied to a gender), mate and then pick one of your children as the new main character. It would carry around the parent\u2019s skills plus one more, and replace it as the main character. To make this work well, I would have needed a lot longer to focus on level design, rabbit skills and craft a balanced experience.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, at some point during Sunday the mating mechanic became a goal in itself. Since gameplay was pretty bland at the moment and the clock was ticking I thought it would add a somewhat original silly touch. It\u2019s a bit too silly for my taste, but everybody enjoys\u00a0a fart joke here and there, so hey\u2026<\/p>\n

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What went well<\/h2>\n