{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ludum_over.jpg","local":"\/data\/posts\/2014\/12\/adbd432d320ebf1ec7220057f71fb714.jpg"},{"original":"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nixtopia-550x550.png","local":"\/data\/posts\/2014\/12\/4465a38ea0b1832c83e9f87d5f21a99e.png"}],"author_link":"author\/sakergames\/","author_name":"Saker Games","cat":"LD #31","categories":["LD #31"],"comments":[],"epoch":1418128500,"event":"LD31","likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"82524","p_author":"Saker Games","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"293256","p_title":"Post-ludum-dare Stress Disorder :)","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1418128500","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"source_url":"2014\/12\/09\/post-ludum-dare-stress-disorder\/","text":"<p>So we are in the calm-down phase of Ludum Dare. The last 4 days were\u00a0unbelievable. Probably the next meme\u00a0is for people like me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.sakergames.com\"><img alt=\"Ludum Dare 31 Calmdown\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-423701\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2014\/12\/adbd432d320ebf1ec7220057f71fb714.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel that I\u2019m like drunk right now, but I had no drinks so far, only intensive creativity cocktails. Still no drinks. No, something else. I guess this cocktail is\u00a0the whole Ludum Dare community.<br\/>\nI\u2019m still shocked\u00a0about how this massive creative power had concentrated all over the world in this weekend: More than 2600 games developed. Amazing. And we were part of it. I never participated before, and I haven\u2019t even followed a single Ludum Dare compo. I think we must be thankful for all the community and the people who organize the events. Even if it\u2019s online only, and we never meet personally, we still can feel each others personality in the games we create. Amazing again. <img alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We made a game. A pretty simple, buggy one. But it is a game, it is \u201cfinished\u201d and it\u2019s ours and your\u2019s whoever plays it.<\/p>\n<p>Ludum Dare started at 4:00 AM Saturday for us. After\u00a0when the theme had been announced\u00a0some\u00a0people\u00a0refused to continue. We started with a not so good idea for which we wasted more than 24 hours of 72. Nice. \u00a0<img alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/><br\/>\nWanted to make a 3D game with cubes that are levels in fact, that are in the same screen and players will travel through these cube levels that are rotating and floating in the space. Meh..<br\/>\nAfter we dumped all the 3D models created\u00a0before, on Sunday morning we switched to some kind of 2D interpretation of the previous idea. Still meh. But at 3:00 PM there was the Revelation regarding what we really have to do. Okay, grabbed a\u00a0pen and a huge sheet of paper and we started to lay down the basics of Nixtopia. After few hours of planning it looked awesome (at least in our\u00a0heads). And then what came is pure miracle: we created character sprites, rigged and animated the character in unity, built inventory and crafting system, created character controller, created enemies, sprites for level and environment, items, pickup and interaction system, teleportation system, boss AI (boss is not included in current build), GUI, dialog system, music, sound fx in only 28-29\u00a0hours (we had to eat and sleep a little bit). As we worked on the new idea we got more and more excited about it. Of course\u00a0there was no time to make everything as we imagined.\u00a0But what we have now is a good starting point for a more complex, whole game. Thank you Ludum Dare for that! <img alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/> I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll ship a full version of this adventure game sometime in the future.<br\/>\nAt half of the development process we started to feel that we\u2019ll run out of time, but we calmed down ourselves saying \u201cEveryone calm the f**k down, Ludum Dare is not over yet!\u201d. It was funny, we laughed a lot. Summing all stuff this weekend was a Huge Fountain of Fun. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>I hope all you guys are the same proud\u00a0of your submissions as we are of ours! <img alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of our submission:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.sakergames.com\"><img alt=\"nixtopia\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423832\" height=\"550\" src=\"\/data\/posts\/2014\/12\/4465a38ea0b1832c83e9f87d5f21a99e.png\" width=\"550\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already played and voted it, THANK YOU!<\/p>\n<p><strong>If not,\u00a0feel free to do so here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/T610Q9\" title=\"Nixtopia\">NIXTOPIA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once again, all you guys and your works\u00a0are amazing.\u00a0I really enjoy playing your games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Time for rest now, we earned it. <img alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","time":"December 9th, 2014 12:35 pm","title":"Post-ludum-dare Stress Disorder :)","title_was_empty":false}