I initially gave it a positive vote, until I found out that all I could come up with during my brainstorming session was a physics balancing game, so I changed to a negative vote. Ludum Dare has a tendency of the majority theme being something a lot of people hate, and “Unstable” was no exception. When I said I would take part in LD49, I was incredibly rusty. Not to mention, I had fallen back to my low, unmotivated, state that I thought I broke out of back in LD47, so I had done little to any hobby game development during the months since then. Because I’m kinda lazy, I’ve copied over the postmortem I wrote on the website to explain how they went.Īlthough I’ve done several game jams over the last eight years, this time was rather worrying for me as the last game jam I actively took part in this year was back in April. To start off with the easiest, I decided I was going to take part in Ludum Dare 49. It went alright, but in my stupor I failed to realize that this game jam was a week before Ludum Dare 48, and so as a result of mental exhaustion, I decided to opt-out.įast forward to this month, and needless to say, things went a bit crazy. That being said, in April of this year I decided I was going to set a weekend aside to work on a games jam, a simple bullet hell game for a bullet hell themed game jam. Most of my time outside of work had been preoccupied with personal writings completely irrelevant to games, including a book project that I had been working on and off since May 2019, and after Rogues of the Seven Seas, I was doing lots more writing and walking around the lakes and countryside than writing code.

So it’s been been several months since I last made a post here, life has been busy and it’d been more difficult to motivate myself for games development than it has been in the past.

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