Super Generic Princess Saver, Timelapse & Post Mortem

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Super Generic Princess Saver is a game about the classic good guy always saving princesses from the evil princess-kidnapping monsters.
You play as the owner of the central castle and wander around, slashing people and castles with your sword to save the princesses they hold and bring’em back to your castle. But are you really helping them ?

What went right

I found the concept pretty quickly and decided to stick on it, even though I found it a bit too classic (A game about -not-saving princesses where you’re the bad guy ? huh). I didn’t have any difficulty with the code and achieved to do the titlescreen I wanted. In the end, my game is quite polished and finished.

What went wrong

I managed my time really wrong, not leaving enough time for playtesting and tweaking, that I did in the last two hours or so. I couldn’t add all the features I wanted because I was never sure of the direction I wanted to take. Controls are quite hard to handle, because I left the hitbox from the sword slash attack too hard to use.

What to do next time

Ask my friend to playtest some more, write ALL the gameplay mechanics right at the beginning, learn to do some better music, and learn to manage time for code/drawing better.