{"author_link":"\/users\/roboolet","author_name":"Roboolet","author_uid":"roboolet","comments":[],"epoch":1665168699,"event":"LD51","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":307067,"likes":9,"metadata":{"p_key":"168091","p_author":"Roboolet","p_authorkey":"1244744","p_urlkey":"395637","p_title":"Missing of the mark","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD51","p_time":"1665168699","p_likes":"9","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1244744","us_name":"Roboolet","us_username":"roboolet","event_start":"1664496000","event_key":"114","event_name":"Ludum Dare 51"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD51","removed_author":false},"_superparent":296586,"_trust":4,"author":244744,"body":"So the Ludum Dare compo has come and gone again, and i walk away from it with mixed emotions. Don\u2019t get me wrong, i had a lot of fun putting my soul into something in the timespan of a weekend. I keep doing game jams because i enjoy them. And above all else, i find [my game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/hostile-climate) fun to play, so why the fuss?\n\nIt was pretty clear as the first review came in that i\u2019d missed the mark yet again. That\u2019s no big deal; i\u2019ve done it many times and will continue to do so until the day i die. I messed up the movement in a *platformer*. Embarassing. By itself this would be completely fine, but i realized immediately that i had made the same mistake i\u2019d made in my last game jam. One that i thought i'd corrected\n\nSo as a recap, for my last game jam i made an adaptation\/spinoff of the game Yahtzee. But after the jam was done, i realized i missed the mark. Cause of failure: not actually playing Yahtzee before i started coding. I ended up with a game not at all like the game i was basing it off of\n\nWhile the game i made this time isn\u2019t an adaptation, i basically made the same mistake as back then. I neglected polishing the core mechanics and gameplay loop in favor of adding more *stuff* to the game. Back then it was cool perks, this time it was funny cow physics.\n\nYou could make the argument that funny cow physics are always worth it, but i really did just end up focusing too much on the little details. Thankfully some people have noticed the care i took to make all those little details, but my time would\u2019ve been better spent making sure they could jump on 1-wide platforms without getting annoyed. (which i ended up having to fix a day after the compo)\n\nSo right now, i\u2019m looking at all the games on [my itch.io page](https:\/\/roboolet.itch.io\/), and find myself annoyed. I have made this mistake again and again, i struggle to find a thing i\u2019ve made that doesn\u2019t fall for this same trap. Maybe next time i\u2019ll end this madness\n\n![ezgif-4-57cc5d4a18.gif](\/\/\/raw\/80c\/b3\/z\/50a72.gif)","comments":3,"comments-timestamp":"2022-10-07T19:49:05Z","created":"2022-10-03T19:43:53Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":307067,"love":9,"love-timestamp":"2022-10-07T21:05:30Z","meta":[],"modified":"2022-10-07T21:05:30Z","name":"Missing of the mark","node-timestamp":"2022-10-07T18:59:44Z","parent":304471,"parents":[1,5,9,296586,304471],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/hostile-climate\/missing-of-the-mark","published":"2022-10-07T18:51:39Z","scope":"public","slug":"missing-of-the-mark","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":964342},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"307067","n_urlkey":"395637","n_parent":"304471","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/hostile-climate\/missing-of-the-mark","n_slug":"missing-of-the-mark","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"244744","n_created":"1664826233","n_modified":"1665176730","n_version":"964342","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/hostile-climate\/missing-of-the-mark","text":"So the Ludum Dare compo has come and gone again, and i walk away from it with mixed emotions. Don\u2019t get me wrong, i had a lot of fun putting my soul into something in the timespan of a weekend. I keep doing game jams because i enjoy them. And above all else, i find [my game](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/hostile-climate) fun to play, so why the fuss?\n\nIt was pretty clear as the first review came in that i\u2019d missed the mark yet again. That\u2019s no big deal; i\u2019ve done it many times and will continue to do so until the day i die. I messed up the movement in a *platformer*. Embarassing. By itself this would be completely fine, but i realized immediately that i had made the same mistake i\u2019d made in my last game jam. One that i thought i'd corrected\n\nSo as a recap, for my last game jam i made an adaptation\/spinoff of the game Yahtzee. But after the jam was done, i realized i missed the mark. Cause of failure: not actually playing Yahtzee before i started coding. I ended up with a game not at all like the game i was basing it off of\n\nWhile the game i made this time isn\u2019t an adaptation, i basically made the same mistake as back then. I neglected polishing the core mechanics and gameplay loop in favor of adding more *stuff* to the game. Back then it was cool perks, this time it was funny cow physics.\n\nYou could make the argument that funny cow physics are always worth it, but i really did just end up focusing too much on the little details. Thankfully some people have noticed the care i took to make all those little details, but my time would\u2019ve been better spent making sure they could jump on 1-wide platforms without getting annoyed. (which i ended up having to fix a day after the compo)\n\nSo right now, i\u2019m looking at all the games on [my itch.io page](https:\/\/roboolet.itch.io\/), and find myself annoyed. I have made this mistake again and again, i struggle to find a thing i\u2019ve made that doesn\u2019t fall for this same trap. Maybe next time i\u2019ll end this madness\n\n![ezgif-4-57cc5d4a18.gif](\/\/\/raw\/80c\/b3\/z\/50a72.gif)","title":"Missing of the mark","wayback_source":[]}