Rubyweekend Post-mortem

What went right:

• The character art came out well.
• I was really happy with my original game concept, even though the actual game didn’t live up to it.
• The code is pretty clean, IMO.
• I got it to a playable state (altho not very fun).

What went wrong:

• I spent too much time on the character art, and not enough on the coding.
• I hit several periods of coder’s block that hurt my productivity.
• The gameplay is pretty dull.

What I learned:

• More familiarity with using Git, especially good merging practices.
• How to set up a publicly-accessible Git repository on my web site.
• The fact that hanging out in IRC is a huge productivity sink. … Oh wait, I already knew that one. : P

What I’d do differently:

• Less time on art, more time on code.
• Instead the boring spacebar mashing gameplay, implement the more interesting gameplay concept of strategic answers and rebuttals, like I wrote about in the original concept, and showed in my concept screenshot.
• Use Gosu. Gosu is so cool. ; )

You can also read more post-mortems by many of the other competition participants.