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Cold Burn
7 years ago

Post-StencylJam17 Thoughts.


Hey there. The results for #stencyljam17 are out and “Cold Burn” hasn’t scored any places, but it doesn’t matter, since there’re lots of you who played the game, rated it and, maybe, even liked it. After those 10 days of work i have to say that the game definitely could turn out much better, but the concept itself was too hard to handle without any experience of building a game like that, specially in such a short time. Next time i participate in any jam, i’d try to simplify my ideas.

This particular game came out the way it did because of the time limits, lack of complete idea on paper and probably because of lack of self confidence. Regardless the end of judging process, i’ll still try to update some aspects of the game and make it more playable.

Probably the most thing i like about my game - is the pixel art. I always judge myself too harsh on the graphic aspects. It could be better, but i really like how that turned out.

In #stencyljam17 i would give my voice for @TedWennerstrm and his The Great Escape. I also don’t agree with Endless Mountain being on the second place since it has entered the contest after the deadline, but sure, it’s a great game anyway, so no beef.

Anyways, thanks for your time, i really, really appreciate it.

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