{"author_link":"\/users\/sebastian-m","author_name":"Sebastian-M","author_uid":"sebastian-m","comments":[],"epoch":1501643434,"event":"LD39","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":47518,"likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"99942","p_author":"Sebastian-M","p_authorkey":"1032890","p_urlkey":"315652","p_title":"So LD39 was my first time....","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD39","p_time":"1501643434","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1032890","us_name":"Sebastian-M","us_username":"sebastian-m","event_start":"1501200000","event_key":"74","event_name":"LD 39"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD39","removed_author":false},"_superparent":32802,"_trust":5,"author":32890,"body":"I think I did great for my first Game Jam.\n\nI would love if you tell me yourself: \n[My game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/ted-crashed)\n\n![front.png](\/\/\/raw\/a70\/8\/z\/8501.png)\n\nI learn a bunch of things though.\n\n## Lessons learned:\n\n- Always plan out what you need to do and set your priorities\n\nI spend too much time in the character model, and at the end you only see it in the menu -.-\nI should have thing what was the essential things to do and focus on that. I could have had time to do more useful things like an in game tutorial.\n\n- Keep the game as simple as possible without giving up gameplay\n\nI think I made my game too complicated, and that's the reason it's not very intuitive. You really need to read the instruction to know what to do. I should have kept the mechanics simpler.\n\n- Gameplay over anything else\n\nI'm a musician, and I spend around 12 hours of the time composing and producing the songs of the game, time I could have used for other important things in the game. I'm really proud of the end result of the music nonetheless.\n\n- **Sleep!!!**\n\nIn my fear of not be able finish in time I did an all nighter on Sunday, and that was a bad decision. I wasn't thinking straight the next day.\n\n## Conclusions:\n\nA Game Jam is no easy task. But it's an awesome challenge and without a second doubt I will participate in another one.","comments":0,"created":"2017-08-02T02:54:39Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":47518,"love":5,"love-timestamp":"2017-08-07T11:43:06Z","meta":[],"modified":"2017-08-07T11:43:06Z","name":"So LD39 was my first time....","node-timestamp":"2017-08-02T04:16:40Z","parent":39109,"parents":[1,5,9,32802,39109],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/ted-crashed\/so-ld39-was-my-first-time","published":"2017-08-02T03:10:34Z","scope":"public","slug":"so-ld39-was-my-first-time","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":132360},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"47518","n_urlkey":"315652","n_parent":"39109","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/ted-crashed\/so-ld39-was-my-first-time","n_slug":"so-ld39-was-my-first-time","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"32890","n_created":"1501642479","n_modified":"1502106186","n_version":"132360","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/ted-crashed\/so-ld39-was-my-first-time","text":"I think I did great for my first Game Jam.\n\nI would love if you tell me yourself: \n[My game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/ted-crashed)\n\n![front.png](\/\/\/raw\/a70\/8\/z\/8501.png)\n\nI learn a bunch of things though.\n\n## Lessons learned:\n\n- Always plan out what you need to do and set your priorities\n\nI spend too much time in the character model, and at the end you only see it in the menu -.-\nI should have thing what was the essential things to do and focus on that. I could have had time to do more useful things like an in game tutorial.\n\n- Keep the game as simple as possible without giving up gameplay\n\nI think I made my game too complicated, and that's the reason it's not very intuitive. You really need to read the instruction to know what to do. I should have kept the mechanics simpler.\n\n- Gameplay over anything else\n\nI'm a musician, and I spend around 12 hours of the time composing and producing the songs of the game, time I could have used for other important things in the game. I'm really proud of the end result of the music nonetheless.\n\n- **Sleep!!!**\n\nIn my fear of not be able finish in time I did an all nighter on Sunday, and that was a bad decision. I wasn't thinking straight the next day.\n\n## Conclusions:\n\nA Game Jam is no easy task. But it's an awesome challenge and without a second doubt I will participate in another one.","title":"So LD39 was my first time....","wayback_source":[]}