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Ludum Dare #13 Postmortem : Badass Frog & game dev for mobile devices
Badass Frog postmortem – the ‘meh’ factor
After my LD #11 ‘Minimalist’ entry was voted “most innovative” game, I’ve been trying to pride myself as “that guy that makes innovative games”. So I thought long and hard about the theme for LD #13, “Roads”, trying to come up with something innovative. But the creative juices just weren’t flowing, and it didn’t happen (I’d also just bought Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip for Wii, which was taking time away from ‘designing time’). After 12 hours, with no good ideas for a game I was actually enthused about making, I decided to make a simple Frogger clone – at least this way I could hone my Processing skills, and learn the ins-and-outs of Mobile Processing.
Some thoughts about developing for mobile devices
Turns out there is a whole “other world” of mobile development that I just hadn’t really thought all that hard about. (more…)
