Very happy with it!  I aimed for fun, and expected to do fairly well on graphics and innovation. For me it’s good news to get ratings I more or less expected, as I sometimes get carried away with my own personal gamedev experiments, which can be a little too obnoxious at times.

#53 Fun 3.87 #110 Overall 3.77 #242 Innovation 3.53 #276 Graphics 3.62 #374 Mood 3.19 #376 Theme 3.46 #507 Audio 2.85 #849 Humor 2.00 #1547 Coolness 45%

I got #42 innovation, #109 overall on my previous entry Nom’s Evolvathlon, but there weren’t as many entries back then.

The concept of my game Tsunami Cruiser is based on what came to mind first when I heard the theme.  Actually it’s inspired by the somewhat obscure classic “Wavy Navy”.  It was created in a single day.  After I discovered people liked the animated gif of my unfinished game a lot, I spent the rest of the evening until the deadline (3 am) making the game as nice as possible.

The biggest complaint I got was that the game was too easy in the beginning.  I probably should have made level 1 a little more challenging. And I have to (re)learn how to make a soundtrack!

I soon started work on a WebGL postcompo, which I am still working on.  I chose WebGL, because it should be easy to port to OpenGL ES/Android later on. I’m new to WebGL, but I found it definitely easier to develop in than OpenGL ES Android. And it’s less fragmented than I thought.  I’m probably going to use WebGL for the next LD.

A week later I had this silly idea that I wanted to implement right away.  The result was Nyan Cat vs Flappy Bird clones, another WebGL game, and my second “cooldown game”. I came up with the theme because I was getting a bit peeved with the number of Flappy Bird clones appearing on the Ouya appstore.  LDers seem to like this game too, so I’ll keep working on it. And last but not least, I now got to #3 on the One Game a Month highscores list!

All in all a very satisfying LD this time. Thanks to everyone for your comments and support, for making great and inspiring games, and generally for making this event one of the most fun things to participate in!

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