{"author_name":"IcyLava","cat":"LD #31","comments":[],"epoch":1417279020,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"25844","p_author":"IcyLava","p_authorkey":"36159","p_urlkey":"61265","p_title":"I\u2019m participating again, again","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1417279020","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"36159","us_name":"IcyLava","us_username":"icylava","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"<p>Well, probably&#8230;<\/p>\n <p>This will be my third time (in a row) doing the compo. Hopefully this time I will think of a solid game idea from the start and won&#8217;t waste a whole day&#8230; and I&#8217;m hoping to make a better game this time too. Guess we&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n <p>Anyway, my tools\/tech:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Language: Java<\/li>\n <li>IDE: Eclipse &#8211; I haven&#8217;t actually tried any other IDEs before, so it&#8217;s not much of a choice<\/li>\n <li>Engine: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/IcyLava\/IceEngine\" target=\"_blank\">IceEngine<\/a> &#8211; my totally amazing (not really, don&#8217;t use it) game engine, which I recently realized should probably be referred to as a library&#8230; but hey, nobody cares anyway. It&#8217;s using LWJGL for graphics, JBox2D for physics, Beads for audio and jFlac for decoding flac sound files.<\/li>\n <li>Art: probably Gimp, but I may try Inkscape if I&#8217;ll have time to play around with it before the compo.<\/li>\n <li>Audio: last time LabChirp seemed to serve me well (despite the previous LD scoring worse than my first LD, even though I had more sounds in the previous LD) so I will probably use it for sounds again. Maybe I&#8217;ll record some sounds to layer with the LabChirp generated ones, but my mic is just an in-built laptop mic, so I&#8217;m not sure if that would work out. I&#8217;ll also use LMMS for music, which, by the way, recently (not sure how recently) has had the addition of a few new instruments, one of which is &#8220;Nescaline&#8221; &#8211; an NES sound emulator, so if you are looking to create some 8-bit music and have them production skillz, you should give LMMS a whirl (edit: oh, and you should download from their <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/LMMS\/lmms\/\">github<\/a>, I&#8217;m pretty sure the latest official release doesn&#8217;t have those). Also, I will probably use audacity to clean things up, or something.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Well, make sure to have a good time and good luck!<\/p>","time":"November 29th, 2014 11:37 am","title":"I\u2019m participating again, again"}