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<\/a>Fuga: a game about space, chemical elements, and music.<\/p><\/div>\n
For this edition, it was like someone had asked me to make a selection\u00a0of the biggest mistakes a jammer can do.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u2193\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>READ THE REST\u00a0\u2193<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Never validate an idea before breakfast<\/strong><\/p>\n I woke up at 05:30(GMT+2)<\/em> and I started to think about the theme. I quickly came with an idea of exchanges between planets (a lot of us had the same kind of idea)<\/em>. It sounded cool, I drew some sketches for the GUI, I already had some melody in mind, and I had some ideas about some cool GFX I could have experimented.<\/p>\n I went back to sleep, and I started to work immediately after a short breakfast, without rethinking the project at a high scale for the whole day. I just realized that my game was barely one. I completely forgot to check if actions made by the players were fun, if the goal proposed was motivating. I freaked out a bit, and found some safety solutions, which implied to cut some of the mechanics I had already worked on\u00a0and to reform the code structure. And here comes the second point.<\/p>\n Time == code == bugs == loss of Time<\/strong><\/p>\n Those changes, which should have brought\u00a0some more life into the game, they also brought\u00a0some errors (modifying a weak code can be dangerous)<\/em>. In addition, due to distraction and exhaustion, I also create\u00a0some\u00a0stupid bugs. I had the feeling\u00a0I spent my whole day correcting stupid things.<\/p>\n This was not really cheering me up, furthermore I was loosing a lot of valuable time. As a direct consequence, I had to make some cuts \u2013 you usually make cuts during a LD \u2013 but here\u00a0I sacrificed important things, such as clarity, coherence and fun.<\/p>\n (Re)Doing everything from scratch<\/strong><\/p>\n To start from nothing is interesting in term of\u00a0creativity.\u00a0I don\u2019t feel\u00a0limited by the already existing\u00a0code, \u00a0I think I\u2019m more creative in those circumstances. So it\u2019s quite positive.<\/p>\n But redoing everything each time, this is really absurd, boring and time consuming, especially when talking about GUI elements. The problem is I don\u2019t know If I will ever find the courage to make those damn Buttons and DialoguesBoxes in a nice reusable way. In conclusion redoing everything is a serious loss of time when you have only 48\u00a0hours.<\/p>\n A nice LD afterall<\/strong><\/p>\n Even with all this dark forces playing against me, I still managed to have a fun and nice week end. My game, even if not what I had in mind, is unique and playable. I\u2019ve spent some nice moments staring at my code and solving some problems I never encountered before. And now, I\u2019m playing some fantastic games and meeting kind people.<\/p>\n For all of these reasons, it\u2019s ok for me to not make\u00a0a great Ludum Dare game.<\/p>\n tl;dr<\/strong><\/p>\n Thought of a game idea, but not of a complete gameplay. Tags: LD30<\/a>, post-mortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 29th, 2014 10:01 am","title":"What I should never do again \u2013 My LD30 post mortem","title_was_empty":false}