This was my first participation to Ludum Dare and to a Game Jam.
I played games from previous jam, but this time “I’was in”. 
About the theme
I’m a fan of clean manga and “bandes dessinées” (ligne claire), of “minimalist” web design “minimalist”.
Daily I work on a game vdrones with minimal gfx (triangle, cube, plan), sound, …
So I should do something different.
"Google Search" page is a famous example of "minimalism" web design. So start on a game with a visual like it.
+ An other place where we use minimum keystroke : chat, forum, coding,... via abbreviations and acronyms
+ gamefication (try to include fun and juicy)
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= AbbrevsMaster
What wrong ?
about game:
- I prepared some stuff (atmosphere, color palette, libs of code, …), I nearly use nothing
- poor abbrevs’database
- not tune, simple copy / paste from some web page
- the random selection in list should need to integrate a popularity weight of term
- I failed to read data from a wiki page (github) due to security issue, spend too many time to try
- I didn’t find an online service that allow to request by category
- No introduction (instruction, credits screen)
- Not enough funny juicy animations when traduction are crunched (quantity, quality)
I could not fix a bug in css 3d transformation.
- The fun is hidden, the game is hard
- no time to provide an Assistant
- not enough gameplay tuning
- It’s not the kind of game I enjoy to play
- Not enough time to provide a way to share score
misc :
- not enough reuse
- I didn’t reuse all the code (lib, framework) I prepared during previous week
- very short night 😉
- I didn’t post progression, I was not aware of others participants.
- I failed my timelapse recording (glapse has no pause).
- Not enough preparation, I didn’t follow my pre-roadmap
- Last hour on a stupid bug in audio
- Stack email, news, … during 2 days
- I found the name (title) when I filled the submit form.
- Crappy code (and image) lot of places for improvements
What Right ?
- I submit a playable version (80% finished) (last deployement at H – 30 min)
- I was able to reuse audio code (, build code from other project
- I toke time for my friends and familly (saturday afternoon)
- Using a kanban (Trello) vs todo file.
- I successfully try freemarker as css preprocessor (day 2, I should use it day 1)
- Very stimulating
- Good wife’support (Thank you Darling)
Next time
- Prepare better (real project skeleton, timelapse recorder, video capture)
- Try to improve and to enjoy
AbbrevsMaster
An now it’s time to explore LD games (to play … to rate)
Tags: Google Dart, post-mortem, postmortem
