{"author_name":"Gaeel","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 24, 2012 6:23 am","epoch":1356348180,"text":"Well you certainly inspired me to take a crack at 3D modelling during the event – in my opinion so long as you’re doing *something* new it’s worth while, and you did rather a lot new \ud83d\ude09","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Gaeel","time":"December 24, 2012 7:14 am","epoch":1356351240,"text":"Memory serves, it was decided and conveyed within 2 hours of the end.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1355906880,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"47465","p_author":"Gaeel","p_authorkey":"1561","p_urlkey":"83129","p_title":"Crobal and friends, post-mortem","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355906880","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1561","us_name":"Gaeel","us_username":"gaeel","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

\"Crobal<\/p>\n

Mixed feelings folks, mixed feelings.<\/p>\n

I mean, I totally made a game in 3D, I learnt the basics of OpenGL, and I did it. I also learnt all the side stuff to that, exporting models and UV maps in Blender, texturing models with GIMP, and importing and rendering that shizzle with Java and LWJGL<\/p>\n

But there REALLY isn’t much to this game.<\/p>\n

I mean, people are getting used to my LD games having little to no actual gameplay. Solitas Exodae<\/a> was the pioneer in the “pretty thing with no gameplay” genre I am defining. Solitas Exodae was followed next LD with Robot in the Garden<\/a>, which didn’t yield quite the same success (more about that here<\/a>), but definitely confirmed my distinctive “Hey this is cute, but erm… what am I supposed to be doing? Oh… Nothing… Kay…”-inducing games.<\/p>\n

Now understand, I’m actually more of a fan of gameplay-rich games, give me Angband over Final Fantasy anyday, but for some reason, during LDs I spend so much time tweaking the visuals that gameplay gets boiled down to pressing arrow keys to explore the world.<\/p>\n

So here goes…
\n What went well:<\/strong>
\n > I totally made a game in 3D, what up with that bro?
\n > The character is procedurally animated, that was fun
\n > I learnt Java (I knew some Java from school, but I learnt so much more here)
\n > I grew confident in my modelling skills
\n > Also, this was made at the LD gathering at my university here in Montpellier, France
\n —–> This event went really well
\n —–> There were 14 of us, and we had loads of fun
\n > I finally completed Hexagon and set a personal record of 81 seconds<\/p>\n

What went wrong:<\/strong>
\n > It’s not very pretty, especially for a game with no actual gameplay
\n > It’s a game with no actual gameplay
\n > I didn’t have time to make music for the game and I LIKE making music
\n > I STILL don’t know how to make an applet, so choosing a Web-able language seems so futile now<\/p>\n

Here, play it!<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 19th, 2012 3:48 am","title":"Crobal and friends, post-mortem"}