{"author_name":"etherframegames","cat":"LD #29","comments":[],"epoch":1398733020,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"30299","p_author":"etherframegames","p_authorkey":"35100","p_urlkey":"65771","p_title":"They Beep \u2013 Postmortem (Spark Notes Edition)","p_cat":"LD #29","p_event":"LD29","p_time":"1398733020","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"35100","us_name":"etherframegames","us_username":"etherframegames","event_start":"1398384000","event_key":"22","event_name":"LD29"},"text":"

We’ve learned a lot.<\/p>\n

We fell too in-love with the humor and flavor of the game and I kept adding planned features and depth to the game mechanics before we had anything done.<\/p>\n

We had to change art styles halfway through, and our artist had to learn pixel art and how to develop game art assets on the fly (which he did fine, GJ Jesse).<\/p>\n

Our programmer Alec said he got really hung up on the architecture of the code.<\/p>\n

We had a font issue that prevented the words from rendering. This issue presented itself at the eleventh hour, forcing me to madly go back and edit all the text to use Arial.<\/p>\n

We probably won’t be using Flash again just because it has a lot of weird interactions (like the font issue).<\/p>\n

This is now a game about finding yourself.<\/p>\n

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All in all we were extremely fortunate to be able to submit a “playable” game in the first Ludum Dare, or even Game Jam we entered.<\/p>\n

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-Jason, Etherframe Games<\/p>\n

\"Good<\/a>

Good Night Sweet Prince<\/p><\/div>","time":"April 28th, 2014 7:57 pm","title":"They Beep \u2013 Postmortem (Spark Notes Edition)"}