{"author_link":"\/users\/richard-michael-smith","author_name":"Richard Michael Smith","author_uid":"richard-michael-smith","comments":[],"epoch":1494413306,"event":"LD38","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":30673,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"93161","p_author":"Richard Michael Smith","p_authorkey":"1013031","p_urlkey":"306079","p_title":"The next step for GLOBE TROT","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD38","p_time":"1494413306","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1013031","us_name":"Richard Michael Smith","us_username":"richard-michael-smith","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":1,"author":13031,"body":"Many thanks to all of you that have played, rated and left feedback for my game. Hopefully I have returned the favour.\n\nFor any of you that haven't seen it yet, here's my entry:\n\n![Cover Art.png](\/\/\/raw\/7e2\/3\/z\/426d.png)\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/globe-trot\n\nAfter reading all the feedback, I have created a list of what I will do as soon as the judging ends:\n\n* **Fix the camera** - this is my biggest problem. During the jam I should have fired up Geometry Wars 3 again and paid more attention to how they move the camera. I should NOT have allowed the camera to rotate with the player. Big mistake!\n* **Fix the audio** - when there are lots of enemies on screen and they are all firing at you, each one starts a new sample. I should have kept track of how many sounds I was playing and put a sensible limit of the rate at which new sounds could be played.\n* **Allow restart immediately at Game Over** - like some of the most addictive games out there, being able to restart immediately is very important. I regret not including this and it's probably one of the biggest lessons I have learned from this jam.\n* **Show the player's score at Game Over** - an oversight - but funnily enough, people want to know how they did when they die!\n* **Make the player's death BIGGER!** - Feedback from @hegemege suggests that the player's death should be more \"spectacular\" and I like that idea!\n* **Support PS4 controller** - When @occultone played Globe Trot in his live feed (1hr 17min in the video below) he was playing with a PS4 controller...and it did NOT work at all! So I need to sort that out!\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wr-ZBj_dJa4\n\nThanks for reading and happy gaming!\n","comments":0,"created":"2017-05-10T10:35:13Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":30673,"love":1,"love-timestamp":"2017-05-10T12:34:38Z","meta":[],"modified":"2017-05-10T12:34:38Z","name":"The next step for GLOBE TROT","node-timestamp":"2017-05-10T10:48:26Z","parent":17057,"parents":[1,5,9,9405,17057],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/globe-trot\/the-next-step-for-globe-trot","published":"2017-05-10T10:48:26Z","scope":"public","slug":"the-next-step-for-globe-trot","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":81111},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"30673","n_urlkey":"306079","n_parent":"17057","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/globe-trot\/the-next-step-for-globe-trot","n_slug":"the-next-step-for-globe-trot","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"13031","n_created":"1494412513","n_modified":"1494419678","n_version":"81111","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/globe-trot\/the-next-step-for-globe-trot","text":"Many thanks to all of you that have played, rated and left feedback for my game. Hopefully I have returned the favour.\n\nFor any of you that haven't seen it yet, here's my entry:\n\n![Cover Art.png](\/\/\/raw\/7e2\/3\/z\/426d.png)\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/globe-trot\n\nAfter reading all the feedback, I have created a list of what I will do as soon as the judging ends:\n\n* **Fix the camera** - this is my biggest problem. During the jam I should have fired up Geometry Wars 3 again and paid more attention to how they move the camera. I should NOT have allowed the camera to rotate with the player. Big mistake!\n* **Fix the audio** - when there are lots of enemies on screen and they are all firing at you, each one starts a new sample. I should have kept track of how many sounds I was playing and put a sensible limit of the rate at which new sounds could be played.\n* **Allow restart immediately at Game Over** - like some of the most addictive games out there, being able to restart immediately is very important. I regret not including this and it's probably one of the biggest lessons I have learned from this jam.\n* **Show the player's score at Game Over** - an oversight - but funnily enough, people want to know how they did when they die!\n* **Make the player's death BIGGER!** - Feedback from @hegemege suggests that the player's death should be more \"spectacular\" and I like that idea!\n* **Support PS4 controller** - When @occultone played Globe Trot in his live feed (1hr 17min in the video below) he was playing with a PS4 controller...and it did NOT work at all! So I need to sort that out!\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wr-ZBj_dJa4\n\nThanks for reading and happy gaming!\n","title":"The next step for GLOBE TROT","wayback_source":[]}