{"author_name":"demonpants","cat":"LD #13 - Roads - 2008","comments":[],"epoch":1229493300,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74150","p_author":"demonpants","p_authorkey":"531","p_urlkey":"109982","p_title":"Everything rated \/ Postmortem","p_cat":"LD #13 - Roads - 2008","p_event":"LD13","p_time":"1229493300","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"531","us_name":"demonpants","us_username":"demonpants","event_start":"1228435200","event_key":"92","event_name":"LD13"},"text":"<p>I have finally rated everything that I can possibly run (on Mac OS X or with Boot Camp in Windows), and phew that was a challenge. Now I see why we have 2 weeks to vote. <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n <p>Postmortem:<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m glad I finally got to do a LD48. I&#8217;ve been making games for something like 12 years now so I&#8217;m happy I can still find the time to do it even though I&#8217;ve got a full time post-college job now. As a personal note, I think I chose a gameplay idea that was the perfect level of simplicity for a 48 hour contest, and I think I executed it as well as I could have hoped. This is my second timed competition, and although both times it has come down to the last few minutes for me, I&#8217;m surprised at how well I&#8217;ve been able to execute a simple idea without adding <em>too many<\/em> bells and whistles. As someone who has a few games I&#8217;ve spent years on and almost none I did in a few days, this is pretty big for me.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m sort of ashamed at my game&#8217;s racism at this point, though. Although I&#8217;m a person who strongly believes in the value of nearly crossing the line for comedy, I actually managed to annoy some people on this, which wasn&#8217;t my intention. I figure because it&#8217;s so pixelated and poorly drawn nobody would mind so much. In order to get that risky comedy I think I alienated a few people from my possible audience, but that&#8217;s life I suppose.<\/p>\n <p>I think maybe I&#8217;ll update it so you&#8217;re a redneck with a shotgun shouting, &#8220;Yeehaw, pa, relawd!&#8221;<\/p>\n <p>Would that make it more appropriate? <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n <p>Badness aside, having gone once into the foray of stupid bad racist humor, I think I&#8217;ll stay out of it in the future.<\/p>\n <p>And while I&#8217;m here, a plug for my website which has some other (most incomplete) games.<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otcsw.com\/\">http:\/\/www.otcsw.com\/<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 17th, 2008 12:55 am","title":"Everything rated \/ Postmortem"}