{"author_link":"\/users\/wouter52","author_name":"Wouter52","author_uid":"wouter52","comments":[],"epoch":1602878684,"event":"LD47","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":231406,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"151631","p_author":"Wouter52","p_authorkey":"1214239","p_urlkey":"368136","p_title":"System programmer learned some stuff","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD47","p_time":"1602878684","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1214239","us_name":"Wouter52","us_username":"wouter52","event_start":"1601596800","event_key":"76","event_name":"Ludum Dare 47"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD47","removed_author":false},"_superparent":212256,"_trust":6,"author":214239,"body":"Hi everybody!\n\nThis game jam has been eye-opening for me. I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot of stuff in the meantime. Stuff about what went right and what went wrong. Below a summary:\n\n**Have one or two 'Blackboxtesters'**\nYes, that's a real term for testers who don't know anything about the product they are testing. I did not have any of those.\nMy wonderful girlfriend has been test playing all weekend long and I also had friends helping out tremendously. However, they knew the concept of the game. So small details that could be mistaken for bugs were perfectly logical for them.\nFor instance: after submitting the game a lot of you thought that the autumn level had a bug where the player would shift to the left or right. My 'test team' knew about the wind-feature in that level and so did not even think once that it could have been mistaken as a bug.\n\n**Polish polish polish**\nAnother thing I realized is that a game is more fun to play if there is a catchy jingle playing in the background and if there are more fun background graphics to look at. These things did not have priority for LD47. A lot of the feedback given by the community is that there is a lack of music\/background graphics.\n\n**Plan time to implement given feedback**\nI got a lot of awesome feedback from all of you. However, I don't really have time to make a second version of the game implementing all the feedback. Next time I'll plan a day in the weekend after submission to implement all the feedback :-)\n\n**Getting the game mechanics right soon**\nBy spending the majority of the first day fine tuning the characters' movement I did not have to think about that the rest of the time. Ok, the jumping in my game feels a bit strange in hindsight, but i'm very happy with it. And I'm happy spending the first part of the jam doing that task. It resulted in reaching my milestone on schedule: getting a working prototype within 8 hours after staring development.\n\n**More than one season of playtime**\nAt a party my girlfriend and I have been thinking about the time it would take to play CRYSOPHOLIST all the way through. In theory all the levels are infinate, but I set a hard limit to 1024 screens per level for performance reasons.\nWe calculated it like this:\n\nEvery screen takes approximately 5 seconds to play we thought. Every time you end a level, the next level gains a screen to play. So the first time playing a level you will have one screen, the second time two screens, etc.\n\nThe formula for this is: (1024 * (1024+1)) \/ 2 = 524800 screens per level to play\n\nEvery screen takes approx. 5 seconds: 524800 * 5 = 2624000 seconds\n\nThere are 4 levels: 2624000 * 4 = 10496000 seconds\n\nSeconds to minutes: 10496000 \/ 60 = 174933\n\nMinutes to hours: 174933 \/ 60 = 2915\n\nHours to days: 2915 \/ 24 = 121\n\nDays to weeks: 121 \/ 7 = 17\n\nDays to months: 121 \/ 30 = >3 months!\n\nAfter those 3 months you can still play infinitely, but the levels won't get bigger anymore. If you have not played it yet and want to take it for a spin you can visit it here: https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/crysophilist\n\n![CRY4.png](\/\/\/raw\/fd4\/43\/z\/3a360.png)","comments":0,"created":"2020-10-16T19:57:34Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":231406,"love":1,"love-timestamp":"2020-10-16T20:43:23Z","meta":[],"modified":"2020-10-16T20:43:23Z","name":"System programmer learned some stuff","node-timestamp":"2020-10-16T20:05:15Z","parent":214240,"parents":[1,5,9,212256,214240],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/crysophilist\/system-programmer-learned-some-stuff","published":"2020-10-16T20:04:44Z","scope":"public","slug":"system-programmer-learned-some-stuff","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":706306},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"231406","n_urlkey":"368136","n_parent":"214240","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/crysophilist\/system-programmer-learned-some-stuff","n_slug":"system-programmer-learned-some-s","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"214239","n_created":"1602878254","n_modified":"1602881003","n_version":"706306","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/crysophilist\/system-programmer-learned-some-stuff","text":"Hi everybody!\n\nThis game jam has been eye-opening for me. I had a lot of fun and I learned a lot of stuff in the meantime. Stuff about what went right and what went wrong. Below a summary:\n\n**Have one or two 'Blackboxtesters'**\nYes, that's a real term for testers who don't know anything about the product they are testing. I did not have any of those.\nMy wonderful girlfriend has been test playing all weekend long and I also had friends helping out tremendously. However, they knew the concept of the game. So small details that could be mistaken for bugs were perfectly logical for them.\nFor instance: after submitting the game a lot of you thought that the autumn level had a bug where the player would shift to the left or right. My 'test team' knew about the wind-feature in that level and so did not even think once that it could have been mistaken as a bug.\n\n**Polish polish polish**\nAnother thing I realized is that a game is more fun to play if there is a catchy jingle playing in the background and if there are more fun background graphics to look at. These things did not have priority for LD47. A lot of the feedback given by the community is that there is a lack of music\/background graphics.\n\n**Plan time to implement given feedback**\nI got a lot of awesome feedback from all of you. However, I don't really have time to make a second version of the game implementing all the feedback. Next time I'll plan a day in the weekend after submission to implement all the feedback :-)\n\n**Getting the game mechanics right soon**\nBy spending the majority of the first day fine tuning the characters' movement I did not have to think about that the rest of the time. Ok, the jumping in my game feels a bit strange in hindsight, but i'm very happy with it. And I'm happy spending the first part of the jam doing that task. It resulted in reaching my milestone on schedule: getting a working prototype within 8 hours after staring development.\n\n**More than one season of playtime**\nAt a party my girlfriend and I have been thinking about the time it would take to play CRYSOPHOLIST all the way through. In theory all the levels are infinate, but I set a hard limit to 1024 screens per level for performance reasons.\nWe calculated it like this:\n\nEvery screen takes approximately 5 seconds to play we thought. Every time you end a level, the next level gains a screen to play. So the first time playing a level you will have one screen, the second time two screens, etc.\n\nThe formula for this is: (1024 * (1024+1)) \/ 2 = 524800 screens per level to play\n\nEvery screen takes approx. 5 seconds: 524800 * 5 = 2624000 seconds\n\nThere are 4 levels: 2624000 * 4 = 10496000 seconds\n\nSeconds to minutes: 10496000 \/ 60 = 174933\n\nMinutes to hours: 174933 \/ 60 = 2915\n\nHours to days: 2915 \/ 24 = 121\n\nDays to weeks: 121 \/ 7 = 17\n\nDays to months: 121 \/ 30 = >3 months!\n\nAfter those 3 months you can still play infinitely, but the levels won't get bigger anymore. If you have not played it yet and want to take it for a spin you can visit it here: https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/crysophilist\n\n![CRY4.png](\/\/\/raw\/fd4\/43\/z\/3a360.png)","title":"System programmer learned some stuff","wayback_source":[]}