{"author_name":"Tenoch","cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","comments":[],"epoch":1251683580,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72562","p_author":"Tenoch","p_authorkey":"328","p_urlkey":"108384","p_title":"The story of Moleshroomciraptor","p_cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1251683580","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"328","us_name":"Tenoch","us_username":"tenoch","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"<div id=\"attachment_9826\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-9826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-Moleshroomciraptor-550x343.png\" alt=\"Oooh, magic mushroomies!\" width=\"550\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-Moleshroomciraptor-300x187.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-Moleshroomciraptor-550x343.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Screenshot-Moleshroomciraptor.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oooh, magic mushroomies!<\/p><\/div>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-15\/?action=preview&amp;uid=328\">Link to the entry<\/a> (downloads for Windows, GNU\/Linux and Mac OS X)<\/p>\n <p>Another LD. It was fun, but maybe less (for me) than the previous times. Indeed, the conditions were not really good. I just moved back to school, so I spent quite a lot of time with my friends during the week end (saturday evening, and sunday afternoon). Plus, I&#8217;m crashing at a friend place so it&#8217;s not like I can throw pizza boxes around the room from my bed. And I didn&#8217;t have all my stuff, including a mouse for the laptop.<\/p>\n <p>Despite all this, I managed to make a complete game, and I&#8217;m kinda happy about it.<\/p>\n <p><strong>What when wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Strictly no idea for the theme. Plus the fact that I knew I couldn&#8217;t give my full attention to the compo. So after a (short) while, I decided to remake Boulder Dash, which I actually didn&#8217;t know (I had in mind a clone I used to play on my old Mac). Originality zero.<\/li>\n <li>Loss of motivation halfway through it. I actually spent quite a few hours on late saturday night toying with LuaGL and doing the examples of the Red Book, to distract me a little.<\/li>\n <li>Erm, graphics. I suck at them, and I didn&#8217;t have a mouse. So I re-drew stuff from the web, which I&#8217;ve been told is valid.<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> <strong>Note however that the title and win screen use images I didn&#8217;t create, and therefore shouldn&#8217;t be taken in account when voting<\/strong><\/span><strong>.<\/strong> All the rest is &#8220;hand drawn with a model&#8221;.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><strong>What went well<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>As the game itself was fairly simple, and since I didn&#8217;t need to think of new\u00a0 ideas, the coding was fast and headache free. Gamplay was complete in maybe 6 hours.<\/li>\n <li>With all the time I had left, I could take special care about the sound. SFXR gave me all the in game sounds, but I took a while to select them carefully. And I managed to write a 1:19 min music with Milkytracker, which I think is not too bad (could have been a lot better, of course).<\/li>\n <li>For once, I have a game with an end, and the difficulty progression is quite OK. I managed to play to the last level, so the game should be hard but beatable.<\/li>\n <li>Once again I praise Lua and L\u00d6VE. They rock. Plus the multi-platform awesomeness.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I don&#8217;t know how to compare this entry with my previous ones. On the one hand, it&#8217;s not original, super simple and doesn&#8217;t look too good, but on the other hand, it&#8217;s finished, a bit polished, and the gameplay is supposed to be good (I didn&#8217;t invent it. I just hope I didn&#8217;t screw it in the implementation).<\/p>\n <p>Now I don&#8217;t except high positions in the results, but I don&#8217;t consider it a &#8220;real&#8221; LD for me either. Next time I&#8217;ll be more ready and available.<\/p>\n <p>Good voting, and congrats to all entrants!<\/p>","time":"August 30th, 2009 8:53 pm","title":"The story of Moleshroomciraptor"}