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    Mayor vs Aliens – Post Mortem

    Posted by (twitter: @https://twitter.com/#!/DaanHaaz)
    Friday, May 18th, 2012 4:01 am

     

    What? Next Ludum Dare is when? August?! Damn.. what to do in the mean time? Post mortem I guess..

    I suck with post mortems, so I’ll make it short. I expected to be ranked a lot higher, since I got #50 overall last time, and that game was not that good. This time my game was a lot better, so I expected to be ranked a lot higher. But of course, there were a lot more people participating.

     

    The results

     Coolness 93%

    Next time 100%!

    #42    Theme     3.96

    I’m glad I made it to the top 50 with at least 1 category. The fact that it’s this category is even more awesome.

     

    #52     Humor     3.44

    I guess the story had some humor. Also the fact that the tophat shoots rockets.

     

    #150   Fun            3.35

    Well, I’m always glad people enjoy my game. That is really important, so I’m glad with this ranking.

     

    #158      Overall      3.46

    As I already said, this came really unexpected. I thought I would end up #40 or higher or something. But damn, there were so many good games! I should be happy with this ranking!

     

    #182        Mood        3.14

    Not much to say about this one. For most games I skip voting this category for most games, since I think it’s more for the sad, artistic games.

     

    #283       Audio       2.84

    I would never got this ranking without the Autotracker-Bu tool. Thank you so much for that! Although a lot of games used it. Oh well..

     

    #332     Innovation      3.15

    I expected a much higher ranking with this one. I thought my games was quite innovative. Oh well, better luck next time.

     

    #435       Graphics         2.88

    Again. I expected a much higher ranking. I forgot how good (or ‘not bad’) I was with pixelart. I thought the cutscenes would have helped me with this category, but apparently not.

     

     

    Yay, that was my stupid short post mortem. See you next Ludum Dare!

     

    Post-Mortem: Mayor vs Aliens

    Posted by (twitter: @https://twitter.com/#!/DaanHaaz)
    Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 1:44 pm

    Wow, what a weekend! This was my second Ludum Dare, and it was awesome (as expected). I already rated 50 games, and some of them are amazing! I want to congratulate you all for making and finishing a game. Finishing a game is hard, and you did it!

    Allright, enough about you, let’s talk about me! (Hmm.. that doesn’t sound very nice). Anyways, I made a game as well. And to be fair, I think this is one of the best games I have ever made. I’m really happy with it, and of course it has some flaws, but I’m gonna change those in the future. Now, let’s start the post-mortem!

     

    What went right?

    Coming up with an idea – I have no idea how I got this idea, the whole story and gameplay  just popped up in my head.

    Making graphics – This went so much better than expected, I really underestimated my own pixelart skills!

    Programming the game properly – Maybe not the way of coding the game, but how I placed my codes and named my variables.

    Finishing the game – That is always something good, right?

     

    What went wrong?

    Bugs! So many bugs! – I had some serious bugs, but there was the IRC chat that helped me out of the trouble! Thank you IRC ♥

    Balancing the game – And I mean this programming based.  I needed a formula that makes the monsters spawn more quickly / more at once. SLiV helped me with this, thanks!

    It all went too easy, so I was slacking off – I didn’t had much of a big game. Since it’s a small arcade game, it wasn’t much work. Because of this I took things too easy, and slowed myself down instead of working with the full 100%

    Creating music – I suck at creating music. Thank god the “random 8-bit music maker code” showed up. It really helped me a lot, and I’m going to use it more in the future!

     

     

    I hope you all enjoyed this Ludum Dare as much as I did! Can’t wait for next Ludum Dare to make an even more awesomer game!

     

    Click here to play the game!

     

    http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=5959

    Finished! Play my game! – Mayor vs Aliens

    Posted by (twitter: @https://twitter.com/#!/DaanHaaz)
    Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 5:17 pm

    http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=5959

    I will tell you all about it, tomorrow!

    I’m in (original title right?)

    Posted by (twitter: @https://twitter.com/#!/DaanHaaz)
    Thursday, April 19th, 2012 2:28 pm

    So yeah.. I’m in

     

    - Tools

    • Programming: Game Maker

    • Art: Paint :D

    • Music: Fruity Loops 10

    • Sound effects: bfxr

     

    Something else that’s supposed to be in an “I’m in” post?  Nah..

    Oh right… my game will have kittens! :D

     

    Let’s make awesome games, people!


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