{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/karlin\/","author_name":"karlin","cat":"LD #25","categories":["LD #25"],"comments":[],"epoch":1356031020,"event":"LD25","likes":6,"metadata":{"p_key":"78736","p_author":"karlin","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"287746","p_title":"Unsave The Princess Postmortem & post-compo status","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1356031020","p_likes":"6","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"source_url":"2012\/12\/20\/unsave-the-princess-postmortem-post-compo-status\/","text":"

You can download the 48-hour edition here<\/a>\u00a0or the post compo version here [exe]<\/a>\u00a0[zip]<\/a>\u00a0[rar]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Logo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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What went well?<\/h2>\n

This was my first Ludum Dare and my first finished game. I\u2019m pretty happy with the game and very pleased with how things went.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I Finished!<\/h3>\n

\"finished\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The deadline kept me right on track and by hour 48 \u00a0my game was finished, I didn\u2019t manage to get everything in I wanted and the code was a little sloppy but there\u2019s plenty of room for me to build on if I wanted to work on the game in the future.<\/p>\n

The Art<\/h3>\n

\"artwork\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a very good artist so I decided to go for as simple a style as possible. I ended up trying to go for a style similar to the game\u00a0Realm of the Mad God<\/a>. which worked out pretty well. I focused on trying to create \u00a0a lot of variation in the backgrounds to try to break the grid which meant I spent a lot more time on art than I\u2019d have liked.<\/p>\n

Keep it Simple<\/h3>\n

The game needed to be simple to pick up for players so they wouldn\u2019t lose interest and simple for me to design so I\u2019d be able to finish it before the deadline. Thankfully sticking to this idea meant that the majority of people managed to finish the game but it also lead to the game being a little too easy.<\/p>\n

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What went wrong?<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m generally very happy with how everything turned out but there were a few major problems largely caused by lack of planning. I\u2019ve got a lot of them fixed now, but there\u2019s still one or two I\u2019m working on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lots of Bugs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"crash\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Annoyingly there were some major gameplay and graphics bugs still present when I released the game. Some of them I\u2019d spotted but simply didn\u2019t have time to fix, others such as the tile scaling bug I didn\u2019t spot til after I\u2019d uploaded.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve fixed the majority of them in the post-compo version.<\/p>\n

Music!<\/h3>\n

\"music\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It may be partly because I\u2019ve listened to the tracks in the game for hours during testing but I felt the music was probably it\u2019s weakest point. Before the compo I didn\u2019t plan on how I was going to create my music which led to a frantic search at hour 46 for a way to quickly generate it. I eventually settled on Otomata<\/a>\u00a0thanks to the post by caranha<\/a> on music generators<\/a>. The music it generates is pretty good, I then ran it through\u00a0GXSCC<\/a>\u00a0to give it a nice 8-bit feel.<\/p>\n

For the post-compo release I\u2019m planning on redoing most, if not all of the music using Famitracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over-scoped, under-delivered<\/h3>\n

When I originally sat down to start sketching out game ideas the first thing I thought was \u201cThink Small\u201d and despite this I still managed to over-scope. \u00a0I\u2019d planned to have around 6 puzzles but ultimately ended up with 3 at most.\u00a0This was mainly due to lack of time and poor planning. Thankfully the brevity of the game seems to be something a lot people liked so I plan to keep the game short but add a lot more depth.<\/p>\n

Post-compo Version<\/h2>\n

\"AntiHero\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve fixed up all the bugs and improved the graphics a litle for the post-compo version, you can download it here [exe]<\/a>\u00a0[zip]<\/a>\u00a0[rar]<\/a>. If you find any bugs please post them below and I\u2019ll try to get them fixed asap.\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tags: antihero<\/a>, post-compo<\/a>, post-mortem<\/a>, unsave the princess<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 20th, 2012 7:17 pm","title":"Unsave The Princess Postmortem & post-compo status","title_was_empty":false}