{"author_name":"Crimsoneer","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"EatenAlive3","time":"December 12, 2012 3:46 pm","epoch":1355345160,"text":"Wow, automata is pretty cool. Thanks for the link. I’ll be sure to use it if I have 5 minutes left before the end of the competition and I still haven’t added music! xD","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1355344680,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"50620","p_author":"Crimsoneer","p_authorkey":"17652","p_urlkey":"86313","p_title":"Lessons from the Warmup","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355344680","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"17652","us_name":"Crimsoneer","us_username":"crimsoneer","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

So, I’ve gone and produced my\u00a0warm-up\u00a0game. \u00a0 \u00a0It’s called Driver Hunter<\/a>, and it’s laughably abysmal, but I figured it’d be worth doing just to see if I could actually produce a working executable. \u00a0Don’t trust \u00a0that fancy tool you’ve been told does the trick, because it doesn’t. \u00a0Distributing pygame is like fighting an angry dwarf. \u00a0In my case, it turns out pygame doesn’t like my system font. \u00a0Don’t ask why. \u00a0So my game now uses Arial, because I’m hip like that. \u00a0If \u00a0Pygame2exe isn’t working, maybe it’s worth trying for you too.<\/p>\n

So yes, lesson 1) check you can actually publish your damn game. \u00a0Do you want to release to mac? \u00a0To Linux? \u00a0To Windows? \u00a0Try it, and make sure it bloody works.<\/p>\n

Lesson 2? \u00a0Sound. \u00a0I’ve never done any of my own sound before, but seeing I’m trying to enter the compo, looks like I’m going to have to! \u00a0 I discovered automata<\/a>\u00a0thanks to this post<\/a>, and it worked flawlessly, producing something that was at least barely passable as game music.<\/p>\n

Other than that? \u00a0I’m good to go! \u00a0Timetable is cleared, tools are ready, fridge is stocked with diet coke. \u00a0I’ll be producing a timelapse if I can \":)\"<\/p>\n \n

Tags: lessons<\/a>, pygame<\/a>, pygame2exe<\/a>, timelapse<\/a>, tips<\/a>, warmup<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 12th, 2012 3:38 pm","title":"Lessons from the Warmup"}