I have known the competition since, maybe, five years and I have always wanted to participate. Last week I saw that this edition is the 10 year anniversary, and I decided to jump in this time. I wasn’t able to schedule all my weekend (and maybe take a day off monday) to commit to the compo, but I’ll try to make the best of the hours I have.<\/p>\n
As a first timer, my objective this year is\u00a0submitting\u00a0something. My tool choices may not be the best, but without almost any preparation I haven’t been able to test a tile map editor or a different music creation tool (I feel this year most of us will use Otomata for the music).<\/p>\n
Programming: <\/strong>I’ll code in\u00a0C++ with Visual Studio 2010 using SDL (with SDLImage for loading PNG, sdl_picofont) and TinyOAL for audio. bss_util<\/em>\u00a0looks quite useful (and seems it’s quite similar to TinyOAL), but as I don’t know it very well, I’ll stay with the STL. For my VCS I’ll use Plastic SCM<\/a>.<\/p>\n Graphics<\/strong>: PyxelEdit, GIMP and Color Scheme Designer 3<\/a><\/p>\n Sound: <\/strong>sfxr and Otomata<\/a><\/p>\n I plan to hang in the IRC (mIRC<\/em>), record the weekend with Chronolapse <\/em>and share my tracklist in Spotify<\/a>. I will also tweet at @fanatiko<\/a> but, probably, in Spanish.<\/p>\n Good luck and greetings from Barcelona. The city, not the planet.<\/p>","time":"April 17th, 2012 2:05 pm","title":"First compo"}