{"author_name": "OrangeeZ", "cat": "MiniLD", "comments": [{"author_name": "", "time": "July 30, 2013 4:16 am", "epoch": 1375175760, "text": "That one in 7 days? Damnyou`recoolman!", "spam": "N"}], "epoch": 1375171500, "likes": 3, "metadata": {"p_key": "42178", "p_author": "OrangeeZ", "p_authorkey": "12415", "p_urlkey": "77801", "p_title": "Crime 1930 – Post Mortem", "p_cat": "MiniLD", "p_event": "LD27", "p_time": "1375171500", "p_likes": "3", "p_comments": "1", "p_status": "UPD5", "us_key": "12415", "us_name": "OrangeeZ", "us_username": "orangeez", "event_start": "1377216000", "event_key": "18", "event_name": "LD27"}, "text": "

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Well, that was a busy week 😛

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We already had some RTS codes in our codebank, so making one didn’t seem like a problem. 7 days? Bring it on!

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Oh, we were wrong. Very, very wrong.

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First of all, most of the codes were rewritten anyway. Previous RTS was too different and much simplier than this one.

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Crime 1930 features four players trying to capture the control points. AI needed to capture points and fight 3 opponents, thus alot of time went into writing the worthy opponent.

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Secondly, we wanted to make a game with shared economics, where one player’s purchases would influence prices of all other players.

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This system ruined our testing immediately, sending and receiving NaNs. We fixed in a very last minute.

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Thirdly, in the middle of the process our artist suddenly departed.

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We needed character skins and fast, so I had to take her place, remembered GTA Vice City modding times and used VC skins as references.

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Well, that’s pretty much it!

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Here’s the game: Crime 1930

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I hope you enjoy it!

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We’re planning on expanding the game further, so if you have any suggestions, let us know!

", "time": "July 30th, 2013 3:05 am", "title": "Crime 1930 – Post Mortem"}