{"author_name":"Taldius","cat":"LD #31","comments":[],"epoch":1418339940,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"22087","p_author":"Taldius","p_authorkey":"504792","p_urlkey":"57452","p_title":"Hard Winter \u2013 Post Mortem","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1418339940","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"504792","us_name":"Taldius","us_username":"Taldius","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"<p>Here&#8217;s the post mortem of our game <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-31\/?action=preview&amp;uid=12650\">Hard Winter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <p>If you haven&#8217;t played it, it&#8217;s a game between action\/exploration and tower defense.<\/p>\n <p>We were a team of mainly 3 people, all involved in the game design, with one programmer and two graphic artists (1 for the characters and 1 for the environnement).<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ezgif.com-optimize-1.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-423715\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ezgif.com-optimize-1.gif\" alt=\"HardWinterGIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><strong>What went good:<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>&#8211; We made a lot of jam recently so we became really trained for this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n <p>&#8211; We all know how to work on our own so we don&#8217;t always depend for the others for small stuff.<\/p>\n <p>&#8211; We were able to put a lot of small content like feedbacks which add some understanding to the action.<\/p>\n <p>&#8211; Blood split, because we put it in everygame we make \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><strong>What went bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>&#8211; We had a hard time finding the idea of the game, we figured it out 30 hours after the beginning of the jam.<\/p>\n <p>&#8211; We either live in different country or have obligation, which make hard sometime to be always together to discuss.<\/p>\n <p>&#8211; When we upload the game, we had a bug that make the game really easy but almost unfinishable, but accord to the LD terms we were allowed to correct it, and so we did.<\/p>\n <p>&#8211; Not enough time to balance the difficulty, as always.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>Overall we are happy with what we have done, the game feels really polished and people seems to like it. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n <p>Anyway good job for every entries and see you soon in other game jams!<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Victory.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-425264\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Victory-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"Victory\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Victory-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Victory-550x309.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","time":"December 11th, 2014 6:19 pm","title":"Hard Winter \u2013 Post Mortem"}