{"author_name":"miwuc","cat":"LD #34","comments":[],"epoch":1451244720,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"9371","p_author":"miwuc","p_authorkey":"6177","p_urlkey":"44588","p_title":"Making of \u201cAlien Number Attack\u201d","p_cat":"LD #34","p_event":"LD34","p_time":"1451244720","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"6177","us_name":"miwuc","us_username":"miwuc","event_start":"1449792000","event_key":"31","event_name":"LD34"},"text":"<p>Here\u2019s a very short\u00a0behind the scenes of <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-34\/?action=preview&amp;uid=6177\">my game<\/a>.<\/p>\n <h2>Timeline<\/h2>\n <p>Note: I&#8217;m in Europe so for me LD is from Saturday 3am to Monday 3am.<\/p>\n <p>Saturday 8:00 am: Wake up. Open laptop. See announcement email. Oh sh******t, I&#8217;d completely forgotten LD was this week-end! But, but&#8230; I have plans for the week-end! Sorry guys, I&#8217;m definitely not participating this time.<\/p>\n <p>Saturday 8:05 am: Two buttons&#8230; binary&#8230; I have an idea! *Starts coding*.<br \/>\n In one morning, I got\u00a0numbers falling from the top, destroyed by typing binary.<\/p>\n <p>Saturday afternoon: Go out because sometimes you have to pretend you&#8217;re not completely asocial and all that. Ended up being busy until pretty late, so no more progress on Saturday.<\/p>\n <p>Sunday morning: More coding! Added points, game over, arithmetics, difficulty curve&#8230;<\/p>\n <p>Sunday afternoon: WHY DO I HAVE TO VISIT FAMILY AND STUFF I HAVE <strong>*THINGS*<\/strong> TO DO.<\/p>\n <p>Sunday night: More coding. At\u00a08\u00a0pm, most of the gameplay was\u00a0there, but here&#8217;s what the game looked\u00a0like:<\/p>\n <p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-530332 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/binary-218x300.png\" alt=\"binary\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/binary-218x300.png 218w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/binary-550x756.png 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n <p>So in the time\u00a0remaining I added some graphics (just a background image\u00a0and\u00a0some clouds), particle effects, intro and game over screens,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfxr.net\/\">sound effects<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/abundant-music.com\/\">background music<\/a>. I got to bed at 12:30 because I was working on Monday!<\/p>\n <h2>What went well<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>Finished another\u00a0game, yay! And it&#8217;s pretty much what I had planned, so I&#8217;m pretty\u00a0happy about that.<\/li>\n <li>Got an idea in 5 minutes! Usually I spend hours brainstorming.<\/li>\n <li>Idea was simple. Usually I have to throw away 90% to make it remotely possible to code in a week-end.<\/li>\n <li>Got an actual *gameplay* idea! Usually I have vague idea for a thing with stuff and I still have no idea what my actual gameplay is until the very end.<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phaser.io\/\">Phaser<\/a>. I used a framework, yay. Makes adding things like\u00a0particles really easy.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2>What went wrong<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>Time pressure. FOR ONCE that I had a simple idea, I was still under time pressure because I didn&#8217;t find that much time to code. In the end\u00a0I spent about 12 hours on the game (two mornings, one night).<\/li>\n <li>Phaser. The thing when you use a framework is that sometimes you have bugs straight from outer space with cryptic stacktraces, which are very frustrating and time consuming to fix.<br \/>\n In\u00a0my <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/2015\/09\/13\/making-of-escape-from-the-city\/\">LD33 making of<\/a>\u00a0I wrote &#8220;I\u2019ll try and take the time to learn more about [Phaser]\u00a0before next LD! (but that\u2019s what I tell myself every time, and know I won\u2019t).&#8221; Guess what? I didn&#8217;t! And I hadn&#8217;t used Phaser since LD33 either, so I was (re) discovering it as I went.<\/li>\n <li>Getting\u00a0stressed out and angry because of the two bullet points above made me a very unpleasant roommate. Not cool.\u00a0It was pretty much the same for LD33, so I should work on that.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2>Final result<\/h2>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-34\/?action=preview&amp;uid=6177\">Play here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/binary-final.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-530339\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/binary-final-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"binary-final\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/binary-final-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/binary-final.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","time":"December 27th, 2015 2:32 pm","title":"Making of \u201cAlien Number Attack\u201d"}