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wat did he clear up? lol
neways.... Post-mortem? :P
http://crownsnake.com
Received very well. Got fairly good reviews on newgrounds, but wasn't a hit. Everyone who played the game though loved it. Ran into optimization problems as it was my first game. I was, and still am (until version 2 is released) running hitTests on each and every piece of the snake! This bogged it down rather quickly. Still has some bugs, memory leaks, etc...
No High Score system. I relied on simple shared objects to store player data. Many people never read the instructions. So, they didn't even know you could hide the instructions... Don't even know why the hell I put in compensation. It was a stupid idea and just made the gameplay rather lame in my view. But, people got used to it and *****ed a storm when I tried getting rid of it.
What I've learned?
OPTIMIZE! Create a better interface. Implement a high score board in a game that records scores... Improve controls. The controls so far in Snake 2 (not the version in my sig) are beautiful. EXTREMELY responsive, thanks in part to Strille's tutorial and my game runs much better now. I can actually pause and control the flow of the game now via 1 line. Snake 1 was terribly disorganized and required like 15 lines at 5 different points to start a new game....
Well, Snake 2 is in production and has a projected release date of Valentines Day (Feb. 14). So, keep an eye out! :)
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I finally got to typing up a post mortem for my game, Little Loki Escapes from Hell (that I did for Liquidgeneration.com ). Discussed in an earlier thread.
You can check it out at http://blog.sokay.net/ or this direct link.
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Very good read. I really love the graphic style of the game. Also good to see how it looked post graphics :p
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Great write up mate, a really good read and a sweet game too.
Nice this thread has had a bump, I'd like to see even more [ pm's ] here, bring them on gang :)
Squize.
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I always wanted to make games
I start the job life after university making websites until one client ask me to make games for him, without any knowledge of actionscript I start to make games, how? miltipath movies
Baseball
Very simple game, and after I learn how to script and make more complex games, this game in my client portal is the most played game, I dont know why
Ive made more than 80 games and never know how the people is going to react
Pinguins
This game was for me, no client ask for it, surprise !!! is my best game talking about selling, I could sell that game many times and was a game for me, just to play in my free times LOL
In my expirience Ill say that you have to like what you do, just have fun and everybody will have fun, for people Ill say that the best games are those that are very simple
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If you must read instructions make them have to read them before playing but put them extremely simply and not much text explanation if pos
