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Hello!\u00a0You are now reading the post-mortem post for Monstre de Coiffure<\/a>. I will try to explain what happened during those 3 crazy days, and how we actually got shit done considering time limits.<\/p>\n

This Ludum Dare was very messy in terms of work time. Itamar had to work 50% of the time, and both Mati & Itamar got tickets to see the\u00a0Alt-J concert they have been waiting months for. On different days. Time was of the essence, and we had to find ways to work around the pressure.<\/p>\n

Day 0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I got to Mati & Itamar\u2019s house as\u00a0always. Itamar wasn\u2019t around (he works as a\u00a0barista) so me and Mati enjoyed some oriental\u00a0food and mayonnaise. We set up our\u00a0battle stations and\u00a0hit the bed. Itamar came later in the night.<\/p>\n

Day 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We woke up and found out about the theme. We all went \u201cmeh\u201d simultaneously, because we had really been hoping for some of the other themes to win. The Ernst\u2019s dad made us some delicious hot cheese burekas, and we started cracking on game ideas. Mati thought\u00a0of\u00a0a game about working at a monster beauty salon. We immediately loved the idea and started playing around with it, but soon Itamar had to leave for work \":(\"<\/p>\n

A few hours later, Mati had\u00a0some pretty sprites ready, while I started to have doubts about the game. I didn\u2019t find what would make it fun or addicting.<\/p>\n

\"Edward\"\u00a0\"Pedro_strip3\" \"Spraycy \"Lip \"gabot\"<\/p>\n

I seriously started thinking about dropping the idea but Mati convinced me to continue working on it to at least get something playable going, and then decide if we wanted to keep it. I drew a disgusting placeholder and coded\u00a0some\u00a0basic stuff like buttons and basic\u00a0effects. Fast forward a few hours and we had a basic engine ready.<\/p>\n

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At the time you could only\u00a0interact with the eyes that would follow a base monster sprite around, making it seem like they were part of it. I took a second look at what we had so far, and actually began to like. I\u2019m really glad Mati convinced me into\u00a0working on the game. I continued to spew code while Mati continued to design some stuff, and like 4 hours later we had all of the basic tools just about ready gameplay-wise.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m actually really proud of how loop-able this gif is.<\/p>\n

We were all blown away by the amount of love this gif has gotten, so that gave us a lot of motivation to keep working on the game.<\/p>\n

At this point Itamar came back from work and immediately started\u00a0the monster bases, but we soon had to go to sleep.<\/p>\n

Day 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We all woke up to some delicious\u00a0cereal. We decided we\u2019d work mostly on the monsters, a background, and the\u00a0random\u00a0traits engine.<\/p>\n

Itamar spent all day working on the monster bases, which later became our trusty customers:<\/p>\n

\"spr_longhead_strip3\"<\/p>\n

Longhead<\/em><\/p>\n

\"spr_blobas_strip3\"<\/p>\n

Blobas<\/em><\/p>\n

\"spr_zomben_strip3\"<\/p>\n

Zombdatner<\/em><\/p>\n

\"spr_ograti_strip3\"<\/p>\n

Ogtarine Core<\/em><\/p>\n

Each monster base has a bunch of unique parts that belong to it (eyes and mouths) while we also had some generic parts that would fit on most monsters.<\/p>\n

For example, this mouth and eye are exclusive to Longhead:<\/p>\n

\"Monstra_0001s_0003s_0003_1\" \"Monstra-2_0002_Layer-3\"<\/p>\n

While these look good on anyone:<\/p>\n

\"Monstra_0001s_0000s_0003_4\"\u00a0\"Monstra_0000s_0001s_0000_i-3.3\"<\/p>\n

The way the randomization works is by picking a base body, and dictating some parameters that would decide the number of eyes and mouths the monster had, and where everything would be positioned on its\u2019 face. This beauty AI\u00a0was very time consuming to write, but I think\u00a0the monstrosities it can create are worth it in the end:<\/p>\n

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After we had a good old-fashioned Lonebot Pizza Party\u2122,\u00a0Mati worked hard on a nice barbershop background while I worked on some cheesy\u00a0* * *\u00a0particle effects * * *<\/em>\u00a0and soon we had something real nice going:<\/p>\n

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Itamar and I spent literally hours optimizing the monster randomization to make sure almost all combinations looked horrifyingly tasty, while Mati churned hours on finalizing the background. Soon Itamar had to leave for the concert and it was just me and Mati, left listening to Mario Paint covers of Shrek songs<\/a>. (also Monsters Inc. music<\/a> and French cafe music<\/a> because reasons)<\/p>\n

Suezo had started working on music and sound effects and we hit the bed.<\/p>\n

Day 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We all woke up to hear Suezo\u2019s work. He made us some awesome sound effects for spraying and painting stuff, however, the music he made us wasn\u2019t really what we wanted. \":(\"<\/p>\n

We were really hoping to have some layed-back-sorta-ironic French musette music in the background, but instead Jason took it in a more of a stressed French pizzeria shop working around the clock theme. It was really good, but it wasn\u2019t what we were looking for, so unfortunately we had to drop it. You can still listen to it here:<\/p>\n