Comments on: A Massive Postmortem http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/11/a-massive-postmortem/ A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Sun, 26 May 2013 03:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Puzzlem00n http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/11/a-massive-postmortem/comment-page-1/#comment-57912 Puzzlem00n Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:32:00 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=150175#comment-57912 Yeah, I’ve been thinking that one was a little specific. If you read the whole post (I’m not necessarily saying you didn’t), I explain that I used a camera library that I needed, mainly, for rotating, and it didn’t rotate. I suppose a better revision for the tip would be:

“Don’t use libraries if you find they need “minor modification” before doing what you want. Code it from scratch, or find a library that does exactly what you need.”

Yes, much better. I’ll fix that now.

(For reference of future readers, the original was “Don’t use libraries if you find they need “minor modification” before doing what you want. Just code it from scratch. Only use libraries that do exactly what you need.)

]]> By: ratboy2713 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/11/a-massive-postmortem/comment-page-1/#comment-57871 ratboy2713 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:41:51 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=150175#comment-57871 I disagree with number 6. In certain circumstances that is an acceptable thing to do, but more often than not when presented with something like that the better choice is to ask yourself “do I really need that minor modification?”. With the limited timeframe, you don’t want to spend unnecessary time coding from scratch when you can just use a library for most of it. Put that addition to the side, and if your code is modular enough, you can come back to it later if you have time.

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