{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HotBoxGames_LD33.gif","local":"\/data\/posts\/2015\/08\/3cccdcde17edc6bb483201872b8a2713.gif"}],"author_link":"author\/hotboxgames\/","author_name":"Hot Box Games","cat":"LD #33","categories":["LD #33"],"comments":[],"epoch":1440869460,"event":"LD33","likes":13,"metadata":{"p_key":"83055","p_author":"Hot Box Games","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"293787","p_title":"Player Rush Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1440869460","p_likes":"13","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"source_url":"2015\/08\/29\/player-rush-post-mortem\/","text":"<p>Hey everyone! We hope you\u2019ve been enjoying all these awesome games \u2013 we sure have! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re a three man team based in the UK, like most of you looking to create awesome games and level up whenever possible! We also had a friend of the group, Ollie, join in this LD to try his hand at doing 2D sprites &amp; animation \u2013 he did awesome!<\/p>\n<p>This is our fourth\u00a0time entering Ludum Dare and will most definitely not be the last!<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>Our Entry<\/h2>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-33\/?action=preview&amp;uid=39707\" target=\"_blank\">Player Rush<\/a>, you play as the final boss in a newly released RAID dungeon. Players from across the globe are partying up take you down and steal your loot.\u00a0Your objective is to survive and kill as many of them as you can!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-33\/?action=preview&amp;uid=39707\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"HotBoxGames_LD33\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-497904\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2015\/08\/3cccdcde17edc6bb483201872b8a2713.gif\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-33\/?action=preview&amp;uid=39707\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to play Player Rush!<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>So another Ludum Dare over, another game made!\u00a0Here\u2019s how it went:<\/p>\n<h2>The good!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We managed to make a really pretty looking game this time around, which is awesome.<\/li>\n<li>We came up with an idea very quickly, and settled on it almost straight away with the pitch \u2018play as a boss in an MMO raid\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>We used our special Hot Box Framework to base the game off which made a bunch of things easier, and some more difficult (our\u00a0foresight is not as good as we like to think it is).<\/li>\n<li>The game works, controls are solid and there aren\u2019t many bugs (that we know of!).<\/li>\n<li>We had tons of fun of course!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>The not so good!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As usual, we overshot our initial idea. Even though we tried to keep it simple, turns out we\u2019re not very good at keeping it simple.<\/li>\n<li>Because we overshot the idea, we\u00a0had originally started to make the enemy AI a lot more complicated than it is in the final version. This wasted <strong>a lot<\/strong> of time and caused a bunch of confusion. On the last day we\u00a0had to practically scrap all existing AI and make it a lot simpler.<\/li>\n<li>Again, because of the overshoot we only had enough time to implement one player attack, although it does look super sweet.<\/li>\n<li>During the submission hour, all hell broke loose when our game was crashing instantly on web &amp; client builds. We were panicking and screaming and jumping until we found out that we had some issues with some of our sound files. Reimporting the sound files and recreating the objects fixed this problem. We\u2019re\u00a0also going to blame this on our initial idea being too large, as we were struggling to not be overwhelmed we forgot to do test builds!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>What\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve decided to make a post-compo version with a few of the things we didn\u2019t have time to implement such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slightly smarter AI, healers don\u2019t avoid you enough, knights aren\u2019t too good at knocking you back and warriors have this lame bug with trying to attack the player when they\u2019re not in range.<\/li>\n<li>An additional dps enemy, a mage.<\/li>\n<li>A few visual tweaks that are\u00a0bugging the hell out of us (like animation speeds, transparency on some of the animations, lights etc.)<\/li>\n<li>More player attacks, this includes a \u2018rage mode\u2019 for the last 25% of health in which the player will get an extra attack and be able to move faster along with a few other perks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick preview of the new \u2018rage mode\u2019 attack:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-33\/?action=preview&amp;uid=39707\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"super_lazor\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-497887\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/super_lazor.gif\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Show me what you got!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So far we\u2019ve had some really great\u00a0feedback, both on\u00a0the LD website and on Twitter \u2013 we\u2019d like to say a big THANK YOU for all the kind words AND any constructive feedback, it really is appreciated. Who knows, you may see this as a full release in the near future\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We\u2019ve also been having a blast playing all these awesome submissions,\u00a0there are so many creative and whacky ideas out there! We\u2019re doing our damndest to play\u00a0as many entries as we can and so far we\u2019ve managed to play every entry that has come our way on Twitter, so keep em\u2019 coming!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?screen_name=HotBoxGames&amp;text=Please%20play%20and%20rate%20my%20%23LDJAM%20entry!%20-\"><img alt=\"sendusyourgame\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-497875\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sendusyourgame.png\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sendusyourgame-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sendusyourgame-550x275.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sendusyourgame.png 1024w\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay\u00a0schwifty,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/HotBoxGames\" target=\"_blank\">@HotBoxGames<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 29th, 2015 5:31 pm","title":"Player Rush Post-Mortem","title_was_empty":false}