{"author_name":"Shigor","cat":"LD #21","comments":[],"epoch":1314030840,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"63781","p_author":"Shigor","p_authorkey":"5242","p_urlkey":"99566","p_title":"Post mortem of sorts\u2026","p_cat":"LD #21","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1314030840","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"5242","us_name":"Shigor","us_username":"shigor","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"

So… the day after. I spent some time playing my oh not so great yet almost promising game and found out I made it tooo hard \":)\" It really needs few fixes and tweaks, especially island generation, I’ve fixed most of the stuff even before submitting, but I forgot about the grass which plays vital role in successfully escaping from the island. So I’m considering doing some kinda “enhanced” edition with some more stuff.<\/p>\n

Looking back, the biggest problems were:<\/p>\n

not getting motivated enough, didn’t like theme and couldn’t think out anything really good… It was better second day because it seemed that I might have a chance to finish it in some sort of playable version.<\/p>\n

having too much ambitions instead of sticking with something much simpler, but which would be more playable.<\/p>\n

and doing everything from scratch just with openGL via OpenTK – I lost few hours doing stupid things like something resembling GUI (btw coded so ugly my head hurts even now), on the other hand, I took the whole competion more as experiment (my first Ludum Dare, although I participated in global game jam).<\/p>\n

And too bad I just hadn’t time to make some sounds :\/ I started to implement them about hour before the submission hour and realized I never worked with openAL and that there’s no way I could even play some simple wav without looking through some tutorial. Too bad, since I’ve bough a microphone to record some screams and other sounds just for the Ludum Dare \":)\"<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>","time":"August 22nd, 2011 11:34 am","title":"Post mortem of sorts\u2026"}