LudumDare #48: Deedee Spy

Here you have, my LudumDare #48 entry.  It is a little demo, barely a game.  This is a little of postmortem, if you're interested.

Initially I had no idea how to apply the Deeper and deeper theme, but then I decided to use the Speed Hack's rule-o-matic and that gave me the ideas I needed to work with.  The cool thing is that I did a single spin, instead of trying various as I usually do.

The Tactical Espionage Action was the key thing.  The Rock Paper Scissors rule fell down (at the moment).  The rest were technical so didn't apply.

For graphics I rescued an old copy of SpriteLib (it included more characters) and I found a tileset at Open Game Art.  Then I spend a lot of time adapting the graphics to what I need:  extracting the sprites, building the animations, adapting the tileset to be used in 16x16 tilemaps...  and the first day gone.

Then programming for two days.  I must say I did it wrong.  I could have complete little game game with a bunch of levels with simple but nice puzzles, but I spend a lot of time in no point things like code formatting, ordering graphics, refactoring (personal note: never refactor in a jam!) or making pixel-perfect animations.  This is an error I commit in every jam.  Worst, I wasted time in the jumping [no] bug.  I wasn't able to fix it and still no idea why it does that weird bouncing at the end.

On the good side I tried to reuse code from an old jam for some things, but just "tried" because I spent more time than necessary refactoring that code to make it look good.  Also I like the hide mechanics and I'm quite proud of it.

In conclusion:  I need to be less perfectionist when participating in a jam.  Doesn't mean to write dirty code or use bad graphics, but things doesn't need to be perfect, just practical.  Also, I'm getting old.  I was quite broke for two days!  That's why I wrote this days after.

BTW I will finish the game.  People like the idea a lot.  But first I have to review the engine, which is still in alpha phase, but once I've made some changes and improvements I will get to it.

Stay tuned.