{"author_name":"Erlend Aakre","cat":"LD #34","comments":[],"epoch":1450280220,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"9640","p_author":"Erlend Aakre","p_authorkey":"54973","p_urlkey":"44861","p_title":"mini-Post Mortem","p_cat":"LD #34","p_event":"LD34","p_time":"1450280220","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"54973","us_name":"Erlend Aakre","us_username":"frostvoid","event_start":"1449792000","event_key":"31","event_name":"LD34"},"text":"<p>So, my first ever post mortem and my second Ludum Dare done.<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_01.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-526507\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_01-550x321.png\" alt=\"screen_01\" width=\"550\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_01-300x175.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_01-550x321.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_01.png 1006w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>All in all I&#8217;m happy with the game, I wish I could have added some more stuff to do (decorate Christmas trees), maybe improve on the Snowman AI so you could sneak and avoid detection.<\/p>\n <p><strong>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-34\/?action=preview&amp;uid=54973\" target=\"_blank\">play and rate the game<\/a>, would especially like some feedback on the difficulty level.<\/strong><\/p>\n <h4>Tools used<\/h4>\n <ul>\n <li>Unity 3d<\/li>\n <li>Visual Studio (C#)<\/li>\n <li>Photoshop<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h4>What went well<\/h4>\n <ul>\n <li>Used git from the start this time so I didn&#8217;t accidentally mess up my project in the middle of the jam.<\/li>\n <li>Was able to work a lot with renderers, lights and lightmapping, environment maps and other stuff I&#8217;ve not done before.<\/li>\n <li>Learned a lot about improving performance and <strong>discovered the Unity Profiler\u00a0<\/strong>which is awesome!<\/li>\n <li>Up one dimension from LD33 (2d game), guess next year I&#8217;ll have to go for VR.<\/li>\n <li>I was fully stocked up on energy drinks and food that was quick to make.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h4>What didn&#8217;t go well<\/h4>\n <ul>\n <li>Spent about 5 hours trying to figure out what to make Saturday morning.<\/li>\n <li>Time management is hard! Finished the last bit (spawning monsters, their AI and the win\/lose scenes) just before the deadline.<\/li>\n <li>As a result of the point above, the instructions were not the best, but I have now changed them.<\/li>\n <li>Personal hygiene might have suffered <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/li>\n <li>Like last time, there was\u00a0no time to have anyone else test\u00a0the game before releasing it.<\/li>\n <li>Forgot to add a way to track progress (5 seeds need to be planted), I think was just too blinded by already knowing the level and objective so well.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <h4>People and instructions<\/h4>\n <p>Am I the only person who reads the instructions before playing? It certainly seems like that sometimes \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n <p>I even had instructions in game, but I guess to many people reading a wall of text is not very enticing:<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_02.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-526518\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_02-550x344.png\" alt=\"screen_02\" width=\"550\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_02-550x344.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen_02.png 951w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>So I replaced this with a slightly prettier version, hopefully that will help somewhat:<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/slg_instructions.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-526520\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/slg_instructions-550x342.png\" alt=\"slg_instructions\" width=\"550\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/slg_instructions-300x187.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/slg_instructions-550x342.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/slg_instructions.png 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/jam\/\" rel=\"tag\">jam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ld34\/\" rel=\"tag\">ld34<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ludum-dare\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ludum Dare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/post-mortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">post-mortem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/screenshot\/\" rel=\"tag\">screenshot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/unity3d\/\" rel=\"tag\">unity3d<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 16th, 2015 10:37 am","title":"mini-Post Mortem"}