{"author_name":"erko","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 1, 2011 9:05 pm","epoch":1312250700,"text":"“always stand up and take a break for a a minute when stuck on a stubborn problem. I wasted too much time on a couple bugs that were clear once I wasn\u2019t looking at the code.”","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1312195680,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"65396","p_author":"erko","p_authorkey":"4845","p_urlkey":"101192","p_title":"Submitted on time, time to sleep","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1312195680","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"4845","us_name":"erko","us_username":"erko","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"

The sun is up here and I submitted a little while ago just before the extended deadline ended. \u00a0I also updated the submission to add a source link and fix typos a few minutes after the deadline. \u00a0I had to take breaks to do other things, but still was able to spend plenty of time on this.<\/p>\n

It went ok, but some things took longer than I thought. \u00a0I thought I limited the scope enough, but still had difficulty finishing enough features to \u00a0make the game feel entirely complete in such a short time. \u00a0Also, bug fixing is much slower when tired — note to self : always stand up and take a break for a a minute when stuck on a stubborn problem. \u00a0I wasted too much time on a couple bugs that were clear once I wasn’t looking at the code.<\/p>\n

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I intended to add a few more dynamic things to show multiple sides of a conflict and allow more gameplay options, but ran out of time. \u00a0For example, I was thinking of doing more things with the positive and negative scores. \u00a0Also, war games generally seem to need lots of details, so I \u00a0had to take a simpler approach and create whatever simple objects I could make fastest.<\/p>\n

I did learn an inkscape trick or two — I hadn’t really used tiled clones before, and they were helpful for repeating shapes in a circle.
\n The backgrounds are created with the gimp lava filter. \u00a0I only changed the color.<\/p>\n

If I can think of a few more gameplay features, I may end up adding them — it probably depends on what I think of this game once I look back at it after having slept. \u00a0\":)\"<\/p>","time":"August 1st, 2011 5:48 am","title":"Submitted on time, time to sleep"}