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Father-Daughter Teamwork Post Mortem
Posted by tcstyle (twitter: @RustyBotGames)
September 13th, 2012 1:09 pm
Finally I found some time to make a post-mortem for “Watercolor Wheel Evolution“:
What went well:
- Letting my daughter with her now 3 years doing the art. She did incredibly well, had fun doing this (as every time she can make some watercolor pictures), and was really impressed with the result in the game. Seeing her self painted creatures move along the screen put a really big smile on her face. Is there a better way to give your child some insight into your game-making hobby?
My daughter at work doing the game sprites.
- Being in the jam – not only due to the teamwork but to have this extra day. This is quite valuable with wife and two children at home.
- Fixing late bugs. Wow, it is quite scary everytime what strange bugs will appear if your game is almost finished and the deadline approaching. But I could fix them.
- Noticing the progress I’ve made since my first LD one year ago. This is one of the greatest aspects of this time restricted jams. You really get a hang on efficient techniques for creating and developing and also improve in code structuring even if it’s still quite a mess compared with a project in a more extended time frame. The sound/music recording, which cost me some time last LD, was merely a routine this time.
Like last LD: totally professional recording equipment.
What went wrong:
- The game mechanics. I totally missed the point with giving the player a good incentive doing the things the player should do to make the mechanics work. I don’t know if that was due to lack of testing the game or a misconception of the whole mechanics.
- Social (real) life. My wife fled with the children on sunday noon as I was too much into game development. Returned in the evening
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So if you like to, you can play and rate here.
The result.
Tags: handdrawn, post-mortem, pygame, python