As usual I'd thought I'd do my quick post jam break down of my game for LDjam 53.

Dawn of the First Day

As tradition, I didn't quite like the theme Delivery, so the beginning of the jam I kind of took it slow. I wasn't really feeling it and I honestly thought I would drop out after working somewhat slower and lacklustre than I usually do.

Saying that, I did straight away prototype a "Crazy Taxi" kind of game where you pick up and drop off passengers around a world. The original concept was 3 smaller worlds where you would fight through enemies, earn cash and upgrade your character. You'd unlock a new level once you hit a certain credit amount or drops.

So the first day really consisted of designing the gameplay, making weapons, creating a few enemies and just getting the main base down. However due to my somewhat laziness on this first day, this ended up spilling over into day 2.

Dawn of the Second Day

So the second day was upon me, after getting quite a bit of sleep (10 hours, which is unusual for me during a LDjam) I set down to finish the main base of the game. During this period I set to designing the passengers, level graphics, area gimmicks and some of the music for the game.

( The areas/biomes of the world, Forest, Aquatic, Magma, Temple and Factory.)

It was at this point where my decision of actually sleeping and taking it a little more relax came to bite me in the backside. I knew at this point I wouldn't be able to make three different levels with a decent size, so I began cramming it all into one massive level. The knock on effect this had is that a lot of the code was based on smaller size stages, so the direction arrow became a bit wonky at finding the best path :/ Sadly at this point it was too late to really edit it and fix it. I also thought I would have enough time to add a couple of a bosses that would allow a "warp" point between both ends of the world, but again due to lack of time I had to scrap this idea, even though I add most of the code to make this work!

In hindsight I should of shrank the world down and knocked off an area. This would of given me a little more time for extra polish, stopped the player from getting a little more lost than I intended and also given me more time to add in music tracks for each of the areas.

Dawn of the Final Day This time I hardly slept, this was because I had the huge task of actually plotting out the world and making sure it all worked. For the next 20 hours I was building the main world, editing the menus, adding in a shop and doing the main bulk of the world.

It was at this point I knew why in the past I never really sleep during game jams! Although in my older age I know that my body can't quite take that sort of punishment anymore! (I'm still feeling it now!) I honestly thought I wouldn't get it finished but luckily I finished it in the nick of time, even though I had to cut out a few things and I didn't get the polish that I usually do. I had to for-go unique tracks for each of the areas and a snazzy intro art.

But it's done. I'm not super happy with this one but still, it's better than I used to do back when I first started.

Next time I'll try and give it a little more, but damn I'm getting to old for that haha.

Play Hazard Saviour here: Itch io Page: https://sinclairstrange.itch.io/hazard-saviour

LDjam page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/hazard-suviour

(I was that tired at the end I spelt the name wrong on my LDjam, oh well!)

Watch a full playthrough here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wMECSq2Wtk

Anyway I hope peeps had a fun jam, looking forward to this weekend where I can play lots of games and see the wicked cool stuff peeps made!

(A full map of the world is here:) Full Map