{"author_name":"Luthwyhn","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324258320,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"60454","p_author":"Luthwyhn","p_authorkey":"3911","p_urlkey":"96207","p_title":"Submitted: Carry Meow Home","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324258320","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3911","us_name":"Luthwyhn","us_username":"\/author\/luthwyhn\/","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

My game is done and submitted!\u00a0 The last hours were hectic, both in terms of trying to finish the game and because I had some stuff going on in “real life” of great urgency… so unfortunately I wasn’t able to do a lot of updating.\u00a0 Ah well… I’m here now!\u00a0 Here’s the entry link!<\/a><\/p>\n

Brief summary and screen shots are included with the entry, of course, so I’ll use this space to mention some other things:<\/p>\n

First, what went right:\u00a0 Most everything!\u00a0 I made a lot of lovely art, got most-all of my intended game mechanics implemented within the time limit, and got a playable game out of an already otherwise very busy weekend!\u00a0 I learned some new useful programming tricks and now have a MUCH better understanding of how to effectively use SpriteGroups in pygame, which helps greatly with streamlining code.\u00a0 Hooray for me!\u00a0 Also it’s my damn birthday, so double-hooray!<\/p>\n

What didn’t go as planned?\u00a0 Well… I didn’t have any time for sfx\/music, which would have been nice.\u00a0 I also wasn’t able to add all the text screens I wanted for a narrative, but that’s actually less than 10 minutes additional work there, so I’ll have it for a post-judging version.\u00a0 A few other little details: Cars on the road, maybe some time\/score mechanism, possibly even predators?\u00a0 Hadn’t put any thought into that last one really… just an idea that existed.\u00a0 There’s also still some awkwardness with people’s movements that wasn’t fully polished and makes the games slower and more frustrated than it’s meant to be… I really want to redo some of their pathing logic when I get more time.\u00a0 I also didn’t have time to add a few little in-game decorations I was considering adding… wouldn’t have really made much of a difference except visually… and without the improved navigation it would have made things slower, so maybe it’s for the better.<\/p>\n

OH YEAH!\u00a0 I also need to mention!\u00a0 Did you notice?!\u00a0 All the maps in the game are procedurally generated!\u00a0 Isn’t that awesome?\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I’m bad-ass like that.\u00a0 Random roads, trees, buildings, ponds… people navigating between them… it’s pretty dang awesome.\u00a0 Sometimes you start out right next to Mommy… sometimes insanely far away; I would like to make that less random and perhaps make it something like a difficulty setting?\u00a0 Changing the map size and the number of each thing in it is trivially easy, so I could easy adjust for desired complexity.<\/p>\n

Anyways,\u00a0 yeah.\u00a0 Please play my game if you haven’t yet!\u00a0 And vote on it!\u00a0 And more importantly, give me some feedback!\u00a0 I want to make the best games possible, so comments and constructive criticism are incredibly helpful for me.\u00a0 Thanks \":)\"<\/p>\n \n

Tags: alone<\/a>, awesome<\/a>, done<\/a>, game<\/a>, kitten<\/a>, play my game<\/a>, pygame<\/a>, python<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 18th, 2011 8:32 pm","title":"Submitted: Carry Meow Home"}