{"id":1639,"date":"2014-12-11T07:46:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T07:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2020-04-22T21:27:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:27:31","slug":"attendance-conference-project-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Games from Nothing: Post-Mortem \u2014 Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at Attendance I really enjoyed working on it, both for hider seeker and for conference. I started out with a pretty cool mechanic in the vehicles stopping at certain points, but our original idea of a police chase game was pretty tired and had been done before. Coming up with the idea of students racing to their desks was a fun process that led to a pretty nice result. It felt a lot like that talk by the creator of Braid on making prototypes with a decent mechanic and then applying that mechanic to different games later.<\/p>\n<p>For the conference project section of the game the biggest change I made was the addition of the hall monitors on the screen<\/p>\n<p>Before<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Attendance-start-screen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-952\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Attendance-start-screen-300x187.png\" alt=\"Attendance start screen\" width=\"501\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Attendance-start-screen-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Attendance-start-screen-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Attendance-start-screen-624x390.png 624w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Attendance-start-screen.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-11-01-38-381.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1623\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-11-01-38-381-300x187.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2014-12-11-01-38-38[1]\" width=\"501\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-11-01-38-381-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-11-01-38-381-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-11-01-38-381-624x390.png 624w, https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot_2014-12-11-01-38-381.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the change may look really simple, it actually goes a long way towards adding a lot player choice to a pretty simple game. I really enjoyed working with a game for long enough to fully develop ideas, change them completely, add in new things, and just generally really get to know the game making process.<\/p>\n<p>My only disappointment with this game is, although it is not nearly as tired as a cop chase game, the game still has a sense that it could be more original. So I think for the future I will put this game kind of on the back-burner for a while until I can come up with a better concept. But all in all I think this turned out to be a really fun game that has the potential to expand and get better the more time goes by. I feel like I learned a lot about the game making process with this game and I&#8217;m definitely happy I worked on it, even if this specific prototype of the game doesn&#8217;t go much further than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at Attendance I really enjoyed working on it, both for hider seeker and for conference. 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