{"id":2050,"date":"2017-08-02T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T04:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T03:14:09","slug":"the-last-e8-postmortem-ld39-and-a-unity-vs-ue4-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=2050","title":{"rendered":"The Last E8 postmortem (LD39) and some Unity vs UE4 thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Presenting, the crappy game title I made! Akiko’s comment was “I didn’t know you were going to show my model up close, ugh”<\/p><\/div>\n

The Last E8 Postmortem<\/h1>\n

Last weekend was the triannual Ludumdare game jam. \u00a0If you don’t know what that is, it’s a masochistic ritual where you voluntarily force yourself to create a new game over a weekend and publish it for all to see.<\/p>\n

Akiko pressured me into it as she wanted to Blender<\/a> up some things for practice. \u00a0I acquiesced to be her programming partner if we could come up with something to match the theme.<\/p>\n

The LD theme announced was “Running out of power”. This was 10 AM our time.<\/p>\n

The Idea Phase<\/h1>\n

We agreed to think up some ideas and exchange them at lunch. \u00a0So in a Kyoto thai place Akiko showed me her idea:<\/p>\n

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Hmm. \u00a0I don’t know what to say about that except, I like it. \u00a0Something about being an employee who has to manage his drug use to stay productive. \u00a0(for the record, RTsoft does not endorse the use of illegal narcotics. \u00a0I do however, endorse the world’s favorite stimulant, coffee.)<\/p>\n

As for myself, I didn’t have much except a vague concept of celebrating the Tesla Model 3’s release with a game based on it somehow. \u00a03D flying game?<\/p>\n

So we starting working on Akiko’s idea – resolutely requiring that we completely nail down the game mechanics in photoshop or on paper before even starting.<\/p>\n

I figured there were two possible ways to take this:<\/p>\n