This has been my second LD attempt and my second completed game!

Shoebox World

The Good

• Music.  My first game to have it.  Musagi is fun!
• Artwork.  Perhaps you are thinking this should be in the Bad or even Ugly categories.  This means you haven’t seen my previous games.  I am actually improving!
• I started to hardcode the “goals” for winning the game and then stopped and decided, for once, that I would actually design it.  It took a tiny bit more time than hardcoding but in the end all I had to do was cut and paste my first goal, change two parameters and presto, new goals!

The Bad

• The game is confusing for first-time players.  I need to get better at making it accessible.
• I came down with strep throat on friday.  I was a pitiful sight all weekend but damned if that was going to stop me.
• Even with the strep throat excuse, I could not dodge a commitment that stole away most of my sunday.  I am just not good enough yet to make up for this lost time.

The Ugly

• I was reserving sunday night for game balancing and polish.  I cut out any remaining features, made a test deploy to the server, a quick test pass and…it hangs?!  Obscure error message deep in the framework?!  Gahh!   I lost all my polish time desperately trying to debug a dumb little error that happened only after a deploy to the server.  In a way this was just bad luck since I am pretty familiar with the framework and the error ended up being obscure.

All things considered, another enjoyable experience.  Looking forward to the next one!

LD22 was my first attempt and I actually finished a game!  Was it a fun game?  That is up for debate but I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.  My goal for LD23 is to increase the fun level and increase my standing in the scoring.  I landed square in the middle of the pack  for  LD22.

• Language: HTML5/JavaScript
• Framework: Craftyjs, jQuery
• Graphics: Paint.net
• Music: musagi
• Sound: Audacity, SoundManager 2

Mantra: Keep it simple!  Focus on fun!