Since I ran into so many hardware issues this Ludum Dare, I thought I might take the time to go over them. Sort of a cathartic, stress clearing exercise I suppose.

1. Slept a full 8 hours the first night and was excited to get going the next day, everything was going just swell until viruses struck! Not sure what it was, but it was blocking access to everything “cmd.exe is a virus” it said, “tskmgr.exe is a virus” it whined. I tried fixing it through Safe Mode, but all I did was make it worse, much worse. After I was through with it the computer wouldn’t even start properly… nice.
2. Decided to waste my time formatting the computer, I forgot that my desktop PC is retarded. Once it was formatted I was unable to get the internet working again to download the various drivers/software I needed. I know, internet is easy, but my computer is just weird that way, I have no idea why it wouldn’t work. It found my network, said I had a great connection, but refused me service.
3. Gave up and switched to my laptop, and guess what? Virus! I have no idea how, after working for a while I was looking up what a certain error code meant and BAM! Needless to say I was a little frustrated… so I may have thrown my laptop and I think it is fair to say that my neighbours have a less than respectable opinion of me after that. Reset my laptop to about a month ago, so I was ready to go.

I would say that I lost about an hour of my game (luckily I backed up frequently) and about 8 or so hours between my crashes, attempted fixes, fiddling, and formatting.

Lessons Learned? Back up frequently because you never know what’s gonna happen and check for viruses on a regular basis cuz’ Jesus that was unexpected.

Note: My friend wants me to reenact the throwing of the laptop and post it, so if I feel like humiliating myself tomorrow I’ll get right on that.