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\"League1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Since I got some great feedbacks on The Quite Annoying League (Thank you!) I thought some might be interested in a time-lapse and post-mortem. So here they are :<\/p>\n

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Time Lapse\u00a0<\/strong> (integration doesn\u2019t seem to work, click the link) :<\/p>\n

(some little part are missing, that\u2019s because I used to stop the recording everytime I went out for a cigarettes, and sometimes I forgot to relaunch it when I came back)<\/p>\n

The Quite Annoying League Time Lapse<\/a> par Oujevipo<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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Post-Mortem<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What went right<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The theme<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a lot of people, I was quite sure the theme would be End of the World. So I started to think about some game ideas like 2 or 3 days before the compo, and I came up with many of them. Having a game idea before the compo seemed like a good thing, but deep inside, I knew it was a problem, because 1) I would feel like cheating 2) it wouldn\u2019t be as fun. So, the You Are The Villain \u2018s victory was quite a relief!<\/p>\n

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The train-trip<\/strong><\/p>\n

I spent my three first LDs all alone, I spent the last one with a friend (Jam) and this time, I wanted to do something different, so I went in a LD gathering in Montpellier, 2 hours away from my house. To go there, I had to take the train (yeah, in France, we\u2019ve got trains), and that\u2019s exactly when I got my game idea : a train trip in which people are quite annoying, obviously because that\u2019s what I was living at this very moment. This confirms something : I never ever ever ever got a LD idea in front of my computer, always in a caf\u00e9, a train, or walking in the streets. So\u2026this could be a tip.<\/p>\n

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\"league3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The gathering<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working with other people (even if I made the game alone) was very motivating. I was a bit afraid at first, but it turned out to be just great. I met a lot of cool people, I\u2019ve seen them working on their games, some gave me ideas, some lend me some material (microphone\u2026). It was a great experience overall, and very useful too! I never worked that much on a LD : usually, I work something like 30h on my LD games, this time, I worked 42 hours, and wasn\u2019t even sleepy!<\/p>\n

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Cigarette breaks<\/strong><\/p>\n

My biggest fear was the fact that I wouldn\u2019t be able to smoke in front of my computer as I used to, but it turns out to be great too, because I had to go out to smoke from time to time, and think about the game away from the screen. Once again, that\u2019s when I got the best ideas, and when I decided, for exemple, to restart some things from scratch because it wasn\u2019t that good.<\/p>\n

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The mini-games concept<\/strong><\/p>\n

My game is in fact made of five mini-games (and some barely interactive cutscene). I think this is a good format for LD games : after 30 hours, I could have submitted my game with 3 mini-games for exemple, or work to add some of them. It\u2019s a very good way to be in times, whatever happens, and I understand why this LD have so much WarioWares minigames in it!<\/p>\n

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\"League2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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What went wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Annoyance<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a problem with Adventure Game Studio : I can\u2019t find a way to create a skip button to skip many dialogues at the same time. So\u2026replaying the same scenes again and again in the game could be quite annoying. The game being called \u201cThe quite annoying league\u201d, people might think it\u2019s meta etc\u2026but in fact, I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a good thing to annoy the player, even for a laugh, and especially not when he has hundreds of games to rate.<\/p>\n

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Sounds<\/strong><\/p>\n

The game has sounds, this is good. But I feel like I cheated by using a train sound from Freesound.org (I warned the players\/raters about this, but still), it\u2019s not something I made, and this is frustrating. I wanted to record train sounds myself with my mouth, something funny like repeating \u201cbruitdetrainbruitdetrainbruitdetrainbruitdetrain\u201d (which means \u201ctrain sound\u201d in french, and actually sound quite like a train sound), but I\u2019m too bad at editing audio, and it wasn\u2019t good at all. On the other hand, I\u2019m quite happy with all the other sound effects I made myself.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall, I feel things went mostly right for me. \":)\"<\/p>\n

can\u2019t wait for the next ludum dare<\/p>\n

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Tags: post-mortem<\/a>, time lapse<\/a><\/p>","time":"January 5th, 2013 1:03 am","title":"The Quite Annoying League late post-mortem and time lapse","title_was_empty":false}