{"author_name":"pythong","cat":"LD #24","comments":[],"epoch":1346171700,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"51701","p_author":"pythong","p_authorkey":"717","p_urlkey":"87396","p_title":"Chicky And The Cats: Dorobou Neko! Post-Mortem","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1346171700","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"717","us_name":"pythong","us_username":"pythong","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"<p>I finally feel rested enough to write the post-mortem for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-24\/?action=preview&amp;uid=717\">Dorobou Neko!<\/a>! Let&#8217;s keep it short, shall we?<\/p>\n <h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/08\/28\/chicky-and-the-cats-dorobou-neko-post-mortem\/screenshot3-58\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-178239\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-178239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/screenshot313-300x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/screenshot313-300x189.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/screenshot313-550x346.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/screenshot313.png 1042w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The good:<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>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).<\/li>\n <li>This time, I jumped completely into the darkness, using Flixel for z-Ordering AND isometry, and it even somehow worked! Awesome! That&#8217;s the spirit! Always trying something new!<\/li>\n <li>I made another game with Chicky! And cats! Those mischievious cats!!<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2>The bad:<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>I didn&#8217;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&#8217;s why I followed the kitten running gag <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/li>\n <li>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 :&lt;. You can still see bugs in zOrdering ingame<\/li>\n <li>with that, I lost time, and I actually forgot to implement working open bridges. Yes, Chicky can do a moonwalk over them&#8230;<\/li>\n <li>and, also because of no time, I didn&#8217;t had the time for &#8216;real&#8217;, or let&#8217;s say, &#8216;better&#8217; 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<\/li>\n <li>also, when you watch the timelapse, you can see some parts that didn&#8217;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&#8217;t put it in. That was one of the key features I really wanted to add, plus a server component, &#8216;CREATE YOUR OWN LEVEL&#8217;, but, you know, this is LudumDare, there&#8217;s no time!!!<\/li>\n <li>and I had no time anymore to add Chicky&#8217;s trusty flying plane :&lt;. All I did was modifying the offset<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Anyhow, everyone, let&#8217;s have fun rating! Like McFunkyPants said, I&#8217;m also not here to &#8216;win&#8217; anything, I&#8217;m here to have fun \ud83d\ude09<\/p>","time":"August 28th, 2012 11:35 am","title":"Chicky And The Cats: Dorobou Neko! Post-Mortem"}