Ok I wanted to write a post before this started.  This will be my first attempt at a LD.  I’m going to try and keep this SUPER SMALL.  This especially important considering I’ll be not full-time on this (spending some time away to setup a desk, whiteboard, UFC, food).

Here’s my plan on tools:

• Photoshop
• Unity
• Leantween (unity plugin)
• Bfxr
• Audiotracker
• Coffee

Guess what kind of game it is

https://googledrive.com/host/0ByAUJbBXzPYBODYwbUJjWTJ6Tlk/SylvainLD29Web.html

Here’s what I got today.  I’m a slacker and slow 😛  Here’s about 14 hours worth of work:

It’s reverse whack-a-mole.  You are the mole:

Submitted my game: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=34899

Here’s a bunch of notes:

• About 20 hours total…tool mucho breaks for UFC and sleep/eating
• Spent about 20 minutes after theme announce to come up with game
• Boy I suck at Unity some times.  I probably spent 7-8 hours on Unity bugs.
• Just realized I forgot to add blood and blood permanence

• Stuff I need to get better at:

1. Animating using mechanim
2. Using enable/disable active and the flow that engenders
3. Not using enums/state machines every time I encounter “ai”
4. Rotating things toward other things
5. Tweening in more interesting ways quickly.  I want to point at generic functions for bounce and blip text in/out
6. Singleton usage – particulaly upgrading my singleton class to support singletons that persist between levels
7. GUI
8. Making my own assets in 2d/3d.  Too scared to do any art in such a short time period
9. Smart reusable classes (screen shake, hit pause, menu flow, blood, health bars, tween stuff)

Whiteboard came in handy at the start.  Here’s the ideas I thought of: