I finally feel rested enough to write the post-mortem for Dorobou Neko!! Let’s keep it short, shall we?

The good:

• Ever since I played Prof Layton, part (I have no idea :?), I wanted to recreate the Toy Car minigame, as it seemed simple, funny, and isometric! And in the end, I did recreate it! This idea spooked around in my head for at least a year, and when I started to have that idea, I tried a few AS3 isolibs, with no real success (everything was just too slow).
• This time, I jumped completely into the darkness, using Flixel for z-Ordering AND isometry, and it even somehow worked! Awesome! That’s the spirit! Always trying something new!
• I made another game with Chicky! And cats! Those mischievious cats!!

The bad:

• I didn’t follow the theme, I followed the 1000 kittens! You see, the last LD Tiny World was abysmal for me, my entry had no inspiration at all. And when the theme was announced, I knew the same would happen, that’s why I followed the kitten running gag
• I jumped into the darkness!! Little did I know that I would be debugging for at least 6 hours this weekend! Just debugging! Because the zOrder was not completely correct, and without real zOrder, isometry can also not work right :<. You can still see bugs in zOrdering ingame
• with that, I lost time, and I actually forgot to implement working open bridges. Yes, Chicky can do a moonwalk over them…
• and, also because of no time, I didn’t had the time for ‘real’, or let’s say, ‘better’ animations. In the intro, Chicky and the cat are running funny (reference to the recent chapters of One Piece^^), as it is a lot easier, not to animate legs. But in the end, I even gave the isometric cat that running style. Because I was so sleep-deprived, I felt like dying
• also, when you watch the timelapse, you can see some parts that didn’t make it into the compo version: the level editor! At the end of day one, I had an editor which produced a correct level, but it was so buggy I couldn’t put it in. That was one of the key features I really wanted to add, plus a server component, ‘CREATE YOUR OWN LEVEL’, but, you know, this is LudumDare, there’s no time!!!
• and I had no time anymore to add Chicky’s trusty flying plane :<. All I did was modifying the offset

Anyhow, everyone, let’s have fun rating! Like McFunkyPants said, I’m also not here to ‘win’ anything, I’m here to have fun 😉