So with 4 hours remaining and an estimated 8 to 12 hours of coding to get something worthy of submission, I am out. \u00a0Here’s my postmortem.<\/p>\n
1.) Totally lost interest on Saturday, which caused me to be a day behind. \u00a0I got frustrated with trying to create the art for the game. \u00a0Didn’t regain interest until Sunday afternoon. \u00a0So a good 10 to 12 hours lost.<\/p>\n
2.) Trying to create art before game play. \u00a0I think a big mistake is getting caught up in the frustration of trying to create art for the game before working out the game play.<\/p>\n
3.) Know your tools! \u00a0So I keep jumping from one set of tools to the other. \u00a0My first LD, I used AS with Flixel. \u00a0I believe the last LD, I was using Java with LWJGL. \u00a0This time I used AS with FlashPunk. \u00a0Though I didn’t have much trouble with FlashPunk, I got caught up in trying to create elaborate code for things that were much simply handled by the library.<\/p>\n
4.) Scale back features. \u00a0I don’t think this was a big problem for me this time, however, looking at what I had to complete – a scoreboard, A* Pathfinding, a tiling system, and intro and end screens, and various other tweaks, I didn’t have enough time. \u00a0These things were important to the game itself.<\/p>\n
5.) Quite proud of these. \u00a0First, after my initial frustration with art – I finally came up with some things that I liked. \u00a0I implemented a timer based spawner, where the number of spawns were directly proportional to game elapsed time. \u00a0I had a little trouble with how collisions should be implemented but finally figured that out.<\/p>\n
For next LD
\n 1.) Prototype gameplay with basic rects.<\/p>\n
2.) Find a graphic artist and\/or sound designer to pair up with for graphics and sound\/music.<\/p>\n
3.) Implement a level system.<\/p>\n
I believe that I will finish this game and post it to my website later in the week.<\/p>","time":"December 8th, 2014 3:38 pm","title":"LD31 Jam Postmortem"}