{"author_name":"GingerMess","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1323864720,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"62837","p_author":"GingerMess","p_authorkey":"6526","p_urlkey":"98610","p_title":"I\u2019m in!","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1323864720","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"6526","us_name":"GingerMess","us_username":"gingermess","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"<p>Nothing like jumping in with both feet! I&#8217;ll be entering LD 22 and it&#8217;ll be my first. The tools I&#8217;ll be using are most likely to be some or all of:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/java\/javase\/downloads\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Java<\/a>! Yay!<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\/download\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">IntelliJ Community 11<\/a> &#8211; my favourite IDE.<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getpaint.net\" target=\"_blank\">Paint.NET<\/a> &#8211; graphics and generally a nice image editor.<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drpetter.se\/project_sfxr.html\" target=\"_blank\">SFXR<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve not used this before but it looks as though it&#8217;ll be useful indeed.<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbox2d.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JBox2D<\/a> &#8211; if I decide to throw physics into a game I&#8217;ll probably use the Java port of Box2D.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I think the things I&#8217;m most concerned about are the sound portions of the same, as I&#8217;m certainly no musician, and actually packaging the game and publishing it so people can play it easily. I&#8217;m not too keen on apps but they are quick and easy to do..unfortunately I don&#8217;t have much experience with them being a &#8220;desktop Java&#8221; programmer by trade. We&#8217;ll see how it goes I suppose.<\/p>\n <p>And as a side note for myself, it&#8217;ll be nice to start a game project and actually finish it for once. NO REDDIT FOR YOU!<\/p>","time":"December 14th, 2011 7:12 am","title":"I\u2019m in!"}