VIGILANCE: Dev log and post mortem.

I already wrote up a quick post mortem on my blog. This is a longer version with more info – if you’ve read the other version, skip down to “What went wrong” and read from there. Cheers!

The theme this time was pretty weird, so I was maybe considering skipping, but I got inspired and then I did it anyway. And I am SUPER PROUD of that because I got to do some cool sprite animation, script some cutscenes and make a game in a genre I haven’t tried before: the genre of PUNCHING.

PLAN

Every time I do a Ludum Dare, I have a vague idea of what sort of game I want to make or what skills I want to develop before the theme’s even announced. This time, inspired by playing Nicolau Chaud’s Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer (review) last week, my plan was to make something contemporary and human. That led me straight to the idea of making a game where you punch people who don’t have rape alarms until they’re scared enough to want rape alarms. For their safety.

Consequently my entry “Vigilance” is a game about suspect charities, lonely women walking through empty parks at night, and pretending you’re a ninja.

Below the jump: my dev process, including roughly how long it took me to do the various things in the game, and a quick post-mortem.

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