Excited about taking part in my first LD this weekend!

I’ll be developing a Java game for the first time (previously have a little experience with GameMaker and Unity).

Depending on the theme, I’ll spend anywhere between 3 – 12 hours working on it.

I’m also looking forward to reviewing & playing the other entries.

Some details on my plans:

Planned distribution: web applet + standalone (platform independent jar, and probably .exe for Windows using launch4j or something similar).

Libraries: Slick (2D engine built on LWJGL of Minecraft fame), IBXM (music)

Tools: Photoshop (graphics); OpenMPT (music); Audacity & sfxr (sound FX)

I’ve been learning Slick for a while and managed to get the applet & standalone builds working.  So hopefully will be in a good position to code and publish something at least!

One problem I have is that .xm files don’t play when deployed as an applet, but they work in standalone build.  If anyone has any advice how to debug this, I’d appreciate it!