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\"le-chef-farteaut\"<\/p>\n

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You can play it HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

This is Le Chef Farteaut Postmortem!<\/p>\n

First of all, I know, it’s a lame idea, but I couldn’t think anything else that fast and at first seemed like a very simple game. And finishing my game for LD was really important since I’ve failed the last 2 LD’s main events that I’ve participated.<\/p>\n

So, you control P\u00e9ter, Le Chef Farteaut. You really need to go to the bathroom, but first you have to struggle through your messy restaurant’s kitchen. You have to fight and avoid giant mutant radioactive cockroaches and spray them with your farts (yeah, that’s the weapon). You also use your farts as an aid to run faster, jump higher\u00a0and\u00a0float through the air.<\/p>\n

I’ve started saturday late. LD begins here in Brazil at 10 p.m. so I was already kinda sleepy, besides been pumped thinking about a game concept.<\/p>\n

First, I wanted to get the movement mechanics right and tight. Walking, running, jumping, changing directions and FARTS. At first I didn’t know how I would use them as a Weapon and who would you fight with it, but I’ve learned that is far more important to develop anything than nothing in game jams. I knew that ideas would come in the process and I tried to\u00a0kept the\u00a0Done Manifesto<\/a>\u00a0in my mind.<\/p>\n

Character Movement + Tiled<\/a>\u00a0Integration\u00a0+ Physics were done very quickly into a prototype, thanks to HaxeFlixel<\/a>. Tweaking them to perfect values took\u00a0a little longer, but I was very satisfied\u00a0with them in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Then, was time for some (f)ARTS. At this moment, I was forced to define the complete game concept idea…I just had some white square\u00a0that could fart bouncing around the window. I was SO frustraded, no ideas popped for a long time, but I had to draw something. And I’m a programmer by formation who is trying to be a self-taught artist. But learning during a jam is just insane, but I had no other option. PyxelEdit<\/a> saved my time\u00a0as I started drawing some generic white tiles, that made me think about kitchens, then chefs, then restaurant dirty kitchens, and then the whole concept of the game.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0that, I started drawing\/animating the chef and I did pretty well I guess for a brogrammer and learning (f)artist. Basic level +chef arts were done and saturday was over. Time to sleep.<\/p>\n

Sunday was all about art and polish. Refined tiles, kitchen props, chef animation, fart particles, some hazards like spikes and tuning player movement some more. I wished I had finished it for Compo, but I had soo much more to do.<\/p>\n

\"le-chef-farteaut-2\"<\/p>\n

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Monday I did the rotating saw blade, polished death, level transitions, sounds, menu, build the advanced levels and the radioactive cockroaches. That was my Trello self-management Done column (you should read it bottom-up):<\/p>\n

\"le-chef-farteaut-task\"<\/p>\n

To resume, some bullet points:<\/p>\n