Thanks! Yeah it is crazy and I need to make sure it stays sane. :)
I'd be interested to hear more about large simple shapes. In this jam I was using a couple packs from Craftpix just so I could focus on other aspects, and I just used what I had. But I'm still interested in more details on those thoughts.
I did think about having the characters collide, even tried it out, but I didn't like it gameplay-wise. If I had more time for tweaking, I might have changed that. I actually split the characters' collision shapes into a rectangle bottom and an oval top because I had a single oval and the character was getting stuck under ledges when sliding. Also doing that did serve double-duty by making the daggers sink deeper into the characters.
You actually can outrun the zombies if you slide. Your slide is a dash, I just didn't explain it. I wanted them to attack fast and annoyingly. That's why I had them drop potions, because I couldn't myself avoid at least one hit from them. I realize now I should have implemented knockback with the hammer. That would've solved the damage problem.
The zombie's attack collision was a rectangle, but it was pixel accurate to the weapon. However, I agree it should've been smaller, and something I was thinking about doing on the last day, but I forgot to write it down and well. . . With their speed, they didn't need the same attack range as the player. (I used the same shape.)
The lots of hits things sound like a bug I saw occasionally but couldn't pin down that sometimes it took me an extra hit to kill the zombies. I will look into that for the next jam. I think it's my state machine doing something I'm not expecting.
Yeah someone else commented on the locks. It was an homage to Metroid and how you have to shoot the doors every damn time. But I get it was weird. Good feedback. Homage not worth it.
I wrote the post mortems for myself, but I just do them as consumable blog posts because it's a convenient place to store them for me, and a friend suggested that people like to read them, so it's also a way to build up a presence as I move towards publishing a game on Steam.
Ok, I wasn't sure. My internet connection goes from great to wonky and I didn't know if it was me or the game jam that was preventing me from updating the page for the info about the locks.
Good call on the template. I do tend to be ivory tower with my coding. But that's only because I plan on using it again, and I don't want to spend time refactoring. However, you're right some of that is going to happen. I don't even remember if I went through all the stuff I had to do with my sound system. I'd cleverly made the SFX system polyphonice and thrown away my system for spawning AudioStreamPlayer nodes to keep the memory down - only to find out that you can't push polyphonic streams through buses. Probably a bug, but still really annoying.
Oh and the nest game jam starts tonight and will be over in 7 days. Ha!