{"id":1083,"date":"2012-04-23T21:09:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T03:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:03:15","slug":"dynamite-jack-the-second-prototype-post-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/dynamite-jack-the-second-prototype-post-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamite Jack: The second prototype, post-post mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"

So about six months after I created “Escape from Anathema Mines<\/a>” during the Ludum Dare game jam, I created a game called Dynamite in the PyWeek game jam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Theme<\/h3>\n

So the theme of PyWeek #1 was “Power” .. I worked with my brother-in-law Tim on this game, and we spent a fair amount of time working with the idea of using a “mind control power” over the characters in game. So I wrote some A* code to navigate things around and whatnot. This was boring. So I made it so you could blow something up. This was exciting. We decided “the power of dynamite” was what the game was about, since the dictionary definition of dynamite said something about “a powerful explosive.” Not my best “theme compliance” for a game jam, I’ll admit.<\/p>\n

Gameplay<\/h3>\n

The best way to see the gameplay is to PLAY THE GAME<\/a> if you have Windows \ud83d\ude42 (Download the post-compo version, it’s a little shinier.) But short of that, watch me play through one of the levels. There’s a ton of interesting differences between this and Dynamite Jack. The most significant one is that in Dynamite you can “fail” really easily. You can block yourself into a corner by destroying the floor, and you can run out of bombs. Those are both design decisions I changed for Dynamite Jack.<\/p>\n