Game
Pirate's Cove
9 years ago

Post Mortem Dev Log


Overall I learned a lot of new things during the creation of this game. Due to some really bad and unfortunately unreplaceable code, I could not get the game to perform as desired. I tied too much logic to the individual dirt objects in each room. This resulted in about 60% of the entire processing power to run the game. It used to be 90% but I was able to move the code around to make it run better. I could optimize the game further and bring that 60% overhead down to 10%, but due to time restraints and lack of enthusiasm I will not. The last big lesson I learned was to test the game in the correct target environment. I kept testing my game as windows executable, but when I exported the game to HTML5 it had fatal errors. After much testing, I managed to find a work around to the problem and get the game to run reasonably stable. There are two things that I wish I could go back and fix. The first would be the player hurt state. I need some sort of invincibility frames that would allow the player to leave the danger zone. Currently the player can get β€œstun locked” and die very quickly without any control. The last thing would be to make the cannons a solid object so that the player could stand and jump on them. However due to negligence with my parent solid object. I could no longer create any other solid collidable objects outside of the dirt object I used as a floor. Other than all of that, I am very pleased with the game and I am happy with what I learned.



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