Even though the theme wasn’t my favorite thing in the world, I was able to think of something to make and come up with a plan within my first hour.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n What went wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n \n - I didn’t think I was going to finish at all (I’ve never actually finished a game before), so I didn’t put more effort into it.\u00a0 What can I say?\u00a0 Arrested Development won’t watch itself.\u00a0 This filled me with regret when I had 12 hours left and something that could actually be submitted.\u00a0 I only worked on this for 20 of the 48 hours.<\/li>\n
- Art is hard.\u00a0 I’m just not very good at it (yet?).\u00a0 I didn’t spend enough time working on my art skills before the start of the Ludum Dare.\u00a0 Not only is the art less than optimal, it’s a bit inconsistent.<\/li>\n
- The start of Ludum Dare fell on the same night as a Cake concert!\u00a0 And I don’t have a smart phone, so I didn’t even know the theme until I got home 3 hours later.<\/li>\n
- I didn’t get a chance to add everything I wanted; e.g., power ups, more enemies, a tutorial that isn’t just a screenshot with text on it, and an actual victory screen & music.\u00a0 The lame victory screen I added is just the game over screen, except instead of “Game Over”, it says “Victory!”.\u00a0 Weak sauce.<\/li>\n
- I had a nice plan as to how I’d organize all my code.\u00a0 That plan fell apart during the last 6 hours, and my code got really ugly.\u00a0 I guess that’s to be expected.<\/li>\n
- I really wish I remembered to think of a better name than “Save Your Planet!”.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n
I’m definitely will be doing LD #24, and encouraging others to do the same.\u00a0 Have you played my game yet?\u00a0 You should.<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 24th, 2012 7:01 am","title":"Save Your Planet! \u2013 Post Mortem"}
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