{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/mine10blox\/","author_name":"Mine10blox","cat":"LD #37","categories":["LD #37"],"comments":[],"epoch":1483549740,"event":"LD37","likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"84318","p_author":"Mine10blox","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"295061","p_title":"\u201cSeasonal Affective Disorder\u201d post-mortem","p_cat":"LD #37","p_event":"LD37","p_time":"1483549740","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1481241600","event_key":"81","event_name":"Ludum Dare 37"},"source_url":"2017\/01\/04\/seasonal-affective-disorder-post-mortem\/","text":"<p>Well, looking at the score my game got, I\u2019m realizing something\u2026<br\/>\nIt wasn\u2019t very good.<\/p>\n<p>#463 Audio(Jam) 2.82<br\/>\n#603 Humor(Jam) 2.05<br\/>\n#724 Innovation(Jam) 2.55<br\/>\n#733 Mood(Jam) 2.70<br\/>\n#772 Graphics(Jam) 2.55<br\/>\n#790 Coolness 49%<br\/>\n#809 Fun(Jam) 2.43<br\/>\n#844 Theme(Jam) 2.41<br\/>\n#880 Overall(Jam) 2.50<\/p>\n<p>I knew I wouldn\u2019t do AMAZING but I thought I\u2019d do better than this! I started messing up on day 2 and started hard-coding things without functions or classes. This was terrible, and it\u2019s something you should never do. It made for a lot and a lot of bugs, but I would have to fix each of them individually because they were all unrelated. This made for a lot of visual bugs, where things would disappear right before you left a room, or things would appear right before a fade in. Also a couple of falling through the world bugs which also sucked.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of things I learned from this Ludum Dare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never hard code things you use more than once! Go the extra mile or it will come back to haunt you later in development<\/li>\n<li>Add a main menu, all it needs is a play button. Without it, your game looks like even more of a mess<\/li>\n<li>Get mechanics down as quickly as possible<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s better to have some great gameplay instead of some good gameplay combined with some buggy last-minute gameplay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and you can play it <a href=\"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/seasonal-affective-disorder\/217734\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/gamedev-ld37-ludumdare37\/\" rel=\"tag\">gamedev ld37 ludumdare37<\/a><\/p>","time":"January 4th, 2017 5:09 pm","title":"\u201cSeasonal Affective Disorder\u201d post-mortem","title_was_empty":false}