{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","cat":"LD #26","comments":[],"epoch":1369068900,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"42548","p_author":"GeorgeBroussard","p_authorkey":"8631","p_urlkey":"78183","p_title":"Last Second Ratings!","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1369068900","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"8631","us_name":"GeorgeBroussard","us_username":"georgebroussard","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"

I’m going to be available this afternoon so if you swing by my game and rate\/leave a comment, I will do the same for you!<\/p>\n

Play and Rate My Game!<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Shot4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m going to be rating as many games as I can in the next few hours and am already at a 100. Didn’t have as much time to rate in the last week as I wanted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quicky Postmortem<\/strong><\/h4>\n

What went right?<\/p>\n

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  • Super small scope. Picked an idea that was easy to do but left ample time for polish and iteration<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Played with tools beforehand like the autotracker.py script to randomly generate music. You should get stuck on a bug during the compo but never “how do I do music?”<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Had a better set of base code this time for doing text and basic housekeeping things like screen fades etc. More time to focus on the game\/idea vs grunt work.<\/span><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n

    What went wrong?<\/p>\n

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    • Still ran out of time and as a result there isn’t a nice ramping difficulty curve. End result is that the game is hard right off the bat. I kept intending to do it but as it was nebulous and not a 15 min task I let it slip. The fact that it wasn’t a 15 min task is\u00a0precisely\u00a0why I should have gotten it in as a major priority.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Was pretty anal about submitting before the close time, but there’s a 1 hour grace period to submit. In reality I could have saved off what I had, and worked another 45 minutes and done more stuff and submitted, or fallen back to the saved \/ safe version. Next time \":)\"<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n

      Overall, pretty happy with this LD.<\/p>","time":"May 20th, 2013 11:55 am","title":"Last Second Ratings!"}