Hello! I am static_boy123 and I just wanted to share my experience in my first LD, and first game, with others:<\/p>\n
I found out about this competition last year when Notch(The maker of Minecraft) entered\u00a0Prelude of the Chambered<\/a>, I immediately said to myself, \u00a0\u201cI will do this next year.\u201d So now I did it, I entered in my first, but not last, Ludum Dare.<\/p>\n I was watching tv one night when something popped into my mind, the Ludum Dare. I checked the website to see when it was, two hours. I ran to my computer and started memorizing my basic -5 file- library inside and out, after an hour I was able to repeat most of it from memory and the rest, thankfully, wasn\u2019t needed. So I waited the longest hour of my life hoping the theme would be kittens.<\/p>\n Once the\u00a0competition\u00a0finally started I cursed everyone who voted anti-kitten, opened up handy dandy Visual Studio, and got to work. I typed out what I remembered of my library only two classes, but I was able to make a bunch of edits to one to make a new class. I had lots of trouble starting and coming up with ideas for what to do, but I did the basic things, like changing the screen size and creating the controls for moving.<\/p>\n After an hour of sitting and thinking I had an idea, a game that is more based on story than game play, but still has game play. I sat down and started, I added in textures, added a way to shoot, and realized just how inexperienced I am when it comes to game making.<\/p>\n Coding was crazy, I had tons of road blocks; bugs, bugs, and more bugs. I had to go into untraveled land to create the game, and I also spent plenty of time in well worn territory. Overall my game was very fun and\u00a0frustrating\u00a0to make, but it was well worth it.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Now a list of what was good and what wasn\u2019t:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Good Things:<\/p>\n\n
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