{"author_link":"\/users\/egordorichev","author_name":"egordorichev","author_uid":"egordorichev","comments":[],"epoch":1494317077,"event":"LD38","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":30573,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"93080","p_author":"egordorichev","p_authorkey":"1003885","p_urlkey":"305998","p_title":"MF100 - Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD38","p_time":"1494317077","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1003885","us_name":"egordorichev","us_username":"egordorichev","event_start":"1492732800","event_key":"69","event_name":"LD 38"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD38","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9405,"_trust":8,"author":3885,"body":"If you are bored with gamedev or programming, game jams is a thing you need to try.\nIn october 2016 I found my self bored with c++ madness. Suddenly, I found a blog post about great game jam, that will help you to re-think your skills.\n\n> Ludum dare is one of the worlds largest and longest running Game Jam events. Every 4 months, people make a game from scratch in a weekend.\n\n**Sounds neat right?**\n\nI though, I will have a try. My first LD (37), I wrote an RPG-kind of game:\n\n![687474703a2f2f6c7564756d646172652e636f6d2f636f6d706f2f77702d636f6e74656e742f636f6d706f322f2f3539333831342f3132353131352d73686f74302d313438313630383331312e706e672d65712d3930302d3530302e6a7067.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41ca.jpg)\n\nIt was my first experience of java game development, I was completely to game jams. Any way, I did a great job, and I was proud of my self, because I did compo first try. Things I noticed:\n\n+ Ascii art is great, but doen't fit game jams\n+ My java framework was buggy\n+ I did not have any clue, how to make music\n\nBut, what I enjoyed a lot, that I got new inspiration from the jam and the positive feedback from people. It was so lovely, to hear great words about your game!\n\n### Streaming\n\nTill the LD, there is always a few streamers, that stream their development. When I saw that on LD 37, I thought, that it would be nice to try this. I wrote a small plugin, [witch can be found here](https:\/\/github.com\/egordorichev\/TwitchSpaceShip). Not the best code ever, and the idea is taken from Drunk Devs on twitch.\n\nThe plugin it self is a twitch chat bot, that displays all of the users, that had typed something in the chat, on the screen. And every 7-10 minutes happens a random event, that users can vote for.\n\n![77625614-2f2b-11e7-9fef-c97ba443fe53.png](\/\/\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41cb.png)\n\n### The truth\n\nMy stream got 0 viewers :) Strange, isn't it? Also, my PC was not powerful enough. When the chat bot was active, my PC was lagging so much...\n\n### Another way to do this\n\nNext LD (it will be in summer 2017), I will record a time lapse, and post it on youtube. Hope, that it will go better.\n\n### Wait, but what about LD 38?\n\nAh.. it was a complete fail.. First of all, in a few hours before jam, i found pico-8. I thought: \"Well, I write a game-emulator, this can fit almost every theme..\". I created a prototype console, and got to bed.\n\nWhen the theme was announced (it was Small World), I though, that this theme is great for writing an emulator.\n\nThe first day went alright. But on the second day, I just did not know, what to do.. I mean, I run out of ideas. My game was not playable enough. There was not enough time to start another game.\n\nI just failed.\n\nBy the way, game is here: https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/mf100-hack-the-jam\n\n![22d.png](\/\/\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41cc.png)\n\n### END\n\nNever start a brain storming before LD. Otherwise, you will fail.. Trust me.\nNext time, I will use lua + love2d for my game. And no ascii art!!","comments":0,"created":"2017-05-09T07:57:07Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":30573,"love":1,"love-timestamp":"2017-05-09T09:56:20Z","meta":[],"modified":"2017-05-09T15:06:59Z","name":"MF100 - Post-Mortem","node-timestamp":"2017-05-09T15:06:59Z","parent":19474,"parents":[1,5,9,9405,19474],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/mf100-hack-the-jam\/mf100-post-mortem","published":"2017-05-09T08:04:37Z","scope":"public","slug":"mf100-post-mortem","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":80794},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"30573","n_urlkey":"305998","n_parent":"19474","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/mf100-hack-the-jam\/mf100-post-mortem","n_slug":"mf100-post-mortem","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"3885","n_created":"1494316627","n_modified":"1494342419","n_version":"80794","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/mf100-hack-the-jam\/mf100-post-mortem","text":"If you are bored with gamedev or programming, game jams is a thing you need to try.\nIn october 2016 I found my self bored with c++ madness. Suddenly, I found a blog post about great game jam, that will help you to re-think your skills.\n\n> Ludum dare is one of the worlds largest and longest running Game Jam events. Every 4 months, people make a game from scratch in a weekend.\n\n**Sounds neat right?**\n\nI though, I will have a try. My first LD (37), I wrote an RPG-kind of game:\n\n![687474703a2f2f6c7564756d646172652e636f6d2f636f6d706f2f77702d636f6e74656e742f636f6d706f322f2f3539333831342f3132353131352d73686f74302d313438313630383331312e706e672d65712d3930302d3530302e6a7067.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41ca.jpg)\n\nIt was my first experience of java game development, I was completely to game jams. Any way, I did a great job, and I was proud of my self, because I did compo first try. Things I noticed:\n\n+ Ascii art is great, but doen't fit game jams\n+ My java framework was buggy\n+ I did not have any clue, how to make music\n\nBut, what I enjoyed a lot, that I got new inspiration from the jam and the positive feedback from people. It was so lovely, to hear great words about your game!\n\n### Streaming\n\nTill the LD, there is always a few streamers, that stream their development. When I saw that on LD 37, I thought, that it would be nice to try this. I wrote a small plugin, [witch can be found here](https:\/\/github.com\/egordorichev\/TwitchSpaceShip). Not the best code ever, and the idea is taken from Drunk Devs on twitch.\n\nThe plugin it self is a twitch chat bot, that displays all of the users, that had typed something in the chat, on the screen. And every 7-10 minutes happens a random event, that users can vote for.\n\n![77625614-2f2b-11e7-9fef-c97ba443fe53.png](\/\/\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41cb.png)\n\n### The truth\n\nMy stream got 0 viewers :) Strange, isn't it? Also, my PC was not powerful enough. When the chat bot was active, my PC was lagging so much...\n\n### Another way to do this\n\nNext LD (it will be in summer 2017), I will record a time lapse, and post it on youtube. Hope, that it will go better.\n\n### Wait, but what about LD 38?\n\nAh.. it was a complete fail.. First of all, in a few hours before jam, i found pico-8. I thought: \"Well, I write a game-emulator, this can fit almost every theme..\". I created a prototype console, and got to bed.\n\nWhen the theme was announced (it was Small World), I though, that this theme is great for writing an emulator.\n\nThe first day went alright. But on the second day, I just did not know, what to do.. I mean, I run out of ideas. My game was not playable enough. There was not enough time to start another game.\n\nI just failed.\n\nBy the way, game is here: https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/mf100-hack-the-jam\n\n![22d.png](\/\/\/raw\/d2f\/z\/41cc.png)\n\n### END\n\nNever start a brain storming before LD. Otherwise, you will fail.. Trust me.\nNext time, I will use lua + love2d for my game. And no ascii art!!","title":"MF100 - Post-Mortem","wayback_source":[]}