{"author_name":"pl0xz0rz","cat":"LD #34","comments":[],"epoch":1452011580,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"9202","p_author":"pl0xz0rz","p_authorkey":"17850","p_urlkey":"44418","p_title":"Giant Frog postmortem","p_cat":"LD #34","p_event":"LD34","p_time":"1452011580","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"17850","us_name":"pl0xz0rz","us_username":"pl0xz0rz","event_start":"1449792000","event_key":"31","event_name":"LD34"},"text":"<p>This game was a total disaster. It wasn&#8217;t fun, had bad graphics, confusing controls, and a bug making the first level more difficult than intended(but still perfectly winnable) by making most of the flies disappear.<\/p>\n <p>What went right:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Kongregate statistics API &#8211; it let me know that nobody except for me has beaten the first level.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>What went wrong<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Confusing controls \/ missing tutorial &#8211; the black walls were climbable by pressing\u00a0 D \/ right arrow when climbing a wall to te right, and A \/ left arrow when climbing a wall to the left. Players often couldn&#8217;t figure that out.<\/li>\n <li>Lack of balance &#8211; the first level was way too hard.<\/li>\n <li>Collision detection bug &#8211; collisions were resolved in the wrong order, which wasn&#8217;t apparent with normal walls, but became apparent with the red blocks randomly making you fly to the right and white blocks sometimes randomly refusing to break.<\/li>\n <li>Ran out of time before replacing the placeholder tileset.<\/li>\n <li>No sounds<\/li>\n <li>Arrow keys scrolling in Google Chrome for some reason<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ld34bug.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532419\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ld34bug-300x200.png\" alt=\"ld34bug\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ld34bug-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ld34bug-550x367.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ld34bug.png 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>The offending part, because of the trampoline at the bottom, players couldn&#8217;t figure out how to pass this.<\/p>","time":"January 5th, 2016 11:33 am","title":"Giant Frog postmortem"}