{"author_name":"chaotikZA","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[],"epoch":1304299320,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"65862","p_author":"chaotikZA","p_authorkey":"505014","p_urlkey":"101658","p_title":"Lone Tank \u2013 Submitted","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304299320","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"505014","us_name":"chaotikZA","us_username":"chaotikZA","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p>I got my game submitted about 10 minutes before the submission deadline &#8211; that was the longest 80 minutes of my life &#8211; phew!!!<\/p>\n <p>Things that went wrong:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Initial concept failed, because the art requirements were too difficult for my poor skills&#8230;<\/li>\n <li>Only managed to come up with another concept 13 hours in&#8230;<\/li>\n <li>Performance issues about 6 hours before deadline, requiring implementation of more efficient hit detection!<\/li>\n <li>Struggled with Java Webstart in-spite of having done a warm-up game as a test before the competition started.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <div style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.chaoticengine.org\/LD20-bpCd-example2.png\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.chaoticengine.org\/LD20-bpCd-example2-tiny.png\" alt=\"Grid Based Broad Phase Collision Detection Debugging\" width=\"550\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almost failed to finish due to having to do this...<\/p><\/div>\n <p>Things that went well:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>My most complex and complete game in an LD so far (ignoring graphics \/ sound) &#8211; in spite of the 13 hour penalty due to my theme problems!<\/li>\n <li>My base code library performed pretty well (the hit detection issues aside) &#8211; also made many improvements in the course of the competition.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>All told I feel like a winner! For about a week of work spent on Ludum Dare warm-up and competition I have:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>2 good prototype games that can easily be fleshed out into nice games.<\/li>\n <li>Massive improvements to my base code library that will help my all my other projects.<\/li>\n <li>I had a lot of fun!<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Thanks for a great competition and well done to everybody that finished a game &#8211; to those that didn&#8217;t: keep trying and better luck next time!<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/post-mortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">post-mortem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/postmortem\/\" rel=\"tag\">postmortem<\/a><\/p>","time":"May 1st, 2011 8:22 pm","title":"Lone Tank \u2013 Submitted"}