{"author_name":"Spacehunter","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"goerp","time":"January 6, 2013 12:49 pm","epoch":1357494540,"text":"I thought an egg in a microwave would always explode?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Spacehunter","time":"January 6, 2013 4:46 pm","epoch":1357508760,"text":"true, only if you let it cook for more than 20 seconds \ud83d\ude09","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1357484880,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"47319","p_author":"Spacehunter","p_authorkey":"18000","p_urlkey":"82982","p_title":"Death Star Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1357484880","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"18000","us_name":"Spacehunter","us_username":"spacehunter","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<p>This is my post-mortem for my 1st Ludum Dare game, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-25\/?action=preview&amp;uid=18000\">Death Star<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n <p><strong>What went right<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Finished the game in 48hrs!  This was my 1st priority.<\/li>\n <li>Using Web technologies (HTML5\/CSS3\/Javascript) really sped up development<\/li>\n <li>Ate 3 meals a day and got some decent sleep during compo<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>What went wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Game controls suck!  Apparently everyone who played the game complain about the crosshairs being too difficult to control with the arrow keys.  I think part of the problem was that pressing a key would cancel all other keys.  So, once you were ready to shoot (by pressing the spacebar) this would cancel the crosshairs from moving.  I think using a mouse would remedy this fine<\/li>\n <li>Game only renders (correctly) in webkit browsers<\/li>\n <li>Music track does not loop properly<\/li>\n <li>Not a orignal story nor game, but what do you expect in 48hrs \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n <li>I left a boiled egg too long in my microwave which resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/glmsptd40ppk04c\/20121216_073247.jpg\">big mess!<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>Timelapse<\/strong><\/p>\n <p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-zmRT3sJW3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n <p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>Participating in this event was a lot of fun.  The people here are just awesome!  I love reading their posts and viewing the in-game progress screenshots.<\/p>\n <p>Here&#8217;s to an awesome 2013 year and I wish you all success!<\/p>\n <p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-25\/?action=preview&amp;uid=18000\">Play Death Star!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","time":"January 6th, 2013 10:08 am","title":"Death Star Post-Mortem"}