{"author_name":"saguaro","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 20, 2012 9:25 pm","epoch":1356056700,"text":"Adding a storyline, or narrative to your entry will absolutely wreck the amount of effort you can devote to the nuts and bolts of a Ludum Dare entry. There’s no shame in feeling that you came up light on both ends due to the split attention. It happens.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1356047940,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"47414","p_author":"saguaro","p_authorkey":"14557","p_urlkey":"83077","p_title":"Postmortem: The Cards Never Lie","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1356047940","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"14557","us_name":"saguaro","us_username":"saguaro","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

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The Cards Never Lie<\/a> was Li’l’s first game project ever and my first Jam, second LD.<\/p>\n

What went right:<\/strong>
\n We were able to incorporate most of our basic ideas (using the phone, having visitors). Li’l composed all the music in about 48 hours, somehow. (There are 7 original tracks plus a few variant tracks.)<\/p>\n

Three days is A LOT longer than two days, and in our case the difference between a mess and an entry. By the 48-hour compo deadline the game was technically submittable, but the extra hours on Monday made a huge difference.<\/p>\n

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What went wrong:<\/b><\/strong>
\n Mysteries are hard. \":(\" I wanted to compromise between game play features and storyline so the game wouldn’t be too kinetic. I tried to find a good middle-ground, but it still feels light on both ends. <\/p>\n

We had a lot of ideas during the brainstorm phase we weren’t able to implement. We talked about timed events and day\/night scenarios, and I wanted to have a mini-game where you could guess if a person was lying based on their facial expressions\/tics. L’il came up with all this elaborate tarot card stuff that I didn’t even get close to squeezing in. AND I FORGOT TO INCLUDE A GOAT.<\/strong> I have no idea where I would have put one, probably in the park eating delicious trash.<\/small><\/p>\n

What we’d do different:<\/b><\/strong>
\n Should have bribed\/charmed\/stolen an artist, for sure.<\/p>\n

The future:<\/strong>
\n I’d like to continue working on this. There are a lot of features I still want to try and I feel like the basic story has legs and could be expanded into 3 to 5 interlinked mysteries.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: needs more goat<\/a>, postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 20th, 2012 6:59 pm","title":"Postmortem: The Cards Never Lie"}