Fantastic Post Mortem

I admit it. I was one of the theme ragers this time.
Actually I didn’t even wanted to participate, but when I saw the theme being a technical limitation rather than a theme, I intuitively made this –

The “Fantastic” Ludum Dare theme generator

It’s not even a generator as it says – it just throws some random items out of the list at you when you press a button.
Probably the largest effort went into providing strong user feedback for this single action.

What went wrong

• I participated although I had other stuff to do 😛
• It’s not much polished, nor an actual game

What went right :)

• Challenging my fear of using humor in games
• extremely rapid development – about 80min (new record for me)
• the humor may not be at the top, but the inside jokes are good enough for some giggles among other participants
• getting people to play & rate my game (see the vid by DietrichEpp below)

So all in all, this was a fun, little Ludum Dare for me, taking away my fear of using humor in games.

I also did a special of GameARTMonday with beautiful Ludum Dare games, you might be interested in:

GameARTMonday Episode 12 – Ludum Dare SPECIAL!