{"author_link":"\/users\/g12345","author_name":"g12345","author_uid":"g12345","comments":[],"epoch":1495346424,"event":"LD38","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":31960,"likes":8,"metadata":{"p_key":"94256","p_author":"g12345","p_authorkey":"1000231","p_urlkey":"307174","p_title":"My LD Postmortem: Rating was a waste of time for me","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD38","p_time":"1495346424","p_likes":"8","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1000231","us_name":"g12345","us_username":"g12345","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":6,"author":231,"body":"Let me first thank everyone who has played and rated and commented for my game, it was very insightful.\n\nNow that LD 38 is finally over, I should write a post mortem for what went well and what went wrong for me:\n\n* I've started my game on Sunday instead of Monday, but i still didn't had any inspiration for the theme and instead I just started on Sunday doing \"whatever\".\n* I finished the game, but there was a lot of last minute stuff, like \"programmer graphics\" because I really ran out of time. No sound or time for testing too; would have ironed out some bugs.\n* I think I got rank 150+ for fun, but the rest was way worse.\n* I've played and rated a lot of games (about 50), but this time voting doesn't really gives anything but bad scores.\n\nIn the end, \nthis Ludum took me 3 weeks of playing\/rating\/commenting and 1 week of preparation. \n\nFor what?\nfor a 500+ place overall???\n\nAlso, the site worked against me... uploading images was a mess (and probably still impossible unless i install a new browser), couldn't really opt out for categories until many people voted (which affected overall score...)\n\nFor me, the conclusion is that I might make games during LD for fun, but this rating part is so not worth it... for me at least. I won't spend 3 weeks playing LD games and rating and commenting on them... it feels just a waste of time. (And I know I'm not very good at making games under pressure.)\n\nDon't worry, I will still make games (probably), just not in 72 hours (but, never say never)... This format doesn't work for me. And I will still play LD games by other people, but it won't feel like work any more.\n\nPS. Well done everyone! and Thanks for the comments!","comments":7,"comments-timestamp":"2017-05-21T12:12:38Z","created":"2017-05-21T05:35:59Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":31960,"love":8,"love-timestamp":"2017-05-21T12:24:00Z","meta":[],"modified":"2017-05-21T12:24:00Z","name":"My LD Postmortem: Rating was a waste of time for me","node-timestamp":"2017-05-21T06:02:50Z","parent":16521,"parents":[1,5,9,9405,16521],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/wrong-delivery\/my-ld-postmortem-rating-was-a-waste-of-time-for-me","published":"2017-05-21T06:00:24Z","scope":"public","slug":"my-ld-postmortem-rating-was-a-waste-of-time-for-me","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":86068},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"31960","n_urlkey":"307174","n_parent":"16521","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/wrong-delivery\/my-ld-postmortem-rating-was-a-waste-of-time-for-me","n_slug":"my-ld-postmortem-rating-was-a-wa","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"231","n_created":"1495344959","n_modified":"1495369440","n_version":"86068","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/wrong-delivery\/my-ld-postmortem-rating-was-a-waste-of-time-for-me","text":"Let me first thank everyone who has played and rated and commented for my game, it was very insightful.\n\nNow that LD 38 is finally over, I should write a post mortem for what went well and what went wrong for me:\n\n* I've started my game on Sunday instead of Monday, but i still didn't had any inspiration for the theme and instead I just started on Sunday doing \"whatever\".\n* I finished the game, but there was a lot of last minute stuff, like \"programmer graphics\" because I really ran out of time. No sound or time for testing too; would have ironed out some bugs.\n* I think I got rank 150+ for fun, but the rest was way worse.\n* I've played and rated a lot of games (about 50), but this time voting doesn't really gives anything but bad scores.\n\nIn the end, \nthis Ludum took me 3 weeks of playing\/rating\/commenting and 1 week of preparation. \n\nFor what?\nfor a 500+ place overall???\n\nAlso, the site worked against me... uploading images was a mess (and probably still impossible unless i install a new browser), couldn't really opt out for categories until many people voted (which affected overall score...)\n\nFor me, the conclusion is that I might make games during LD for fun, but this rating part is so not worth it... for me at least. I won't spend 3 weeks playing LD games and rating and commenting on them... it feels just a waste of time. (And I know I'm not very good at making games under pressure.)\n\nDon't worry, I will still make games (probably), just not in 72 hours (but, never say never)... This format doesn't work for me. And I will still play LD games by other people, but it won't feel like work any more.\n\nPS. Well done everyone! and Thanks for the comments!","title":"My LD Postmortem: Rating was a waste of time for me","wayback_source":[]}