This will be my first game jam, and hopefully also my first non-mod, non-prototype game.<\/p>\n
This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n My Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n My hardware:<\/strong><\/p>\n Warm-up<\/strong> Basic idea: A 2D sidescroller where you have to use nuclear waste to mutate plants, animals and NPCs in order to solve puzzles involving steam engines. Don’t know if I have enough time for something like this, but I want to go through the whole process once so I might make one short level, without tutorial. I will post it when it’s done, if it’s done.<\/p>\n One last thing<\/strong> Tags: audacity<\/a>, blender<\/a>, chronolapse<\/a>, LMMS<\/a>, photoshop<\/a>, Siewart<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, twitter<\/a>, unity<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 17th, 2012 11:56 am","title":"Let\u2019s do this!"}\n
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\n <\/strong>I’ve been using Unity for 2 years now, and I still like it. Luckily I have a Pro version that I can use, which has some nice new features like pathfinding, an awesome particle system tool and of course dynamic lightning. Not sure if I will use any of those, but it’s good to have.<\/li>\n
\n <\/strong>Unity comes with MonoDevelop, Unity is partly integrated with it, the auto-complete is nice and I’m used to it, so I will be using it to code my C# scripts.<\/li>\n
\n <\/em><\/strong>Sound, and therefore music, is the only thing I have no experience with, so I will have to practice it a lot before I start. I also have to find some nice VSTs which I can use. I do know something about music so I hope I can produce something worthy.<\/li>\n
\n <\/em><\/strong>When I have to do something with sound, which rarely happens, I use Audacity. I will probably be recording sounds with my smartphone and\/or laptop microphones, <\/em><\/strong>and I know how to remove things like noise with this tool. Also editing and looping sound works pretty nice with this free tool.<\/li>\n
\n I love<\/em> Photoshop, I have been using it from time to time in the past 10 years, I’m far from a pro but I know my way around in it. And, most importantly, it works really awesome with my Wacom.<\/li>\n
\n <\/strong>I usually use 3ds Max for 3D modelling, but I only have a student license for this, so I use Blender as substitute. Since the new interface I no longer really hate it, but I do not have a numpad on my laptop… Anyway, I want to try to make a 2D game, so I won’t use it extensively. <\/strong>Otherwise I will have to fall back to good ol’ 3ds Max.<\/strong><\/li>\n
\n I always work with music on. (Unless I’m doing hard mathematics) I usually listen to a few styles, sorted by requirement: For creativity: death metal, progressive metal and prog. rock. For speed: drum ‘n bass, deadmau5 (yes, that’s a genre) and industrial. For inspiration: minimal classical music. And for relaxation: Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighters, Muse, or any of my other favourite bands, that no longer need attention (because I know every single tone).<\/li>\n
\n I never tweet, but I would love to give updates and give answers to questions. (Not that I would know why you would do that.) Follow: “@Siewart_”. I will be posting some blog posts as well, because the process of creating a game is awesome, inspirational and informative. (It’s also nice to look back when you are done)<\/li>\n
\n Everyone seems to do it, so I will do it as well. Also: I love<\/em> timelapses :).<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n \n
\n For my warm-up a theme generator gave me a (clich\u00e9-ish) theme: Post-Apocalyptic Steam Punk. But I vowed to use it so I will.<\/p>\n
\n One last thing: Good luck and above all, have fun, my dear opponents!<\/p>\n \n