{"author_name":"Overkill","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"Rikkard","time":"April 24, 2011 9:58 pm","epoch":1303700280,"text":"Good stuff. I need to post mine, it is left as a draft still..","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1303699320,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"67253","p_author":"Overkill","p_authorkey":"1210","p_urlkey":"103054","p_title":"I might be entering.","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1303699320","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1210","us_name":"Overkill","us_username":"overkill","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p>Maybe entering. I am still contemplating whether I&#8217;ll be able to do this. I&#8217;ve got to attend a going-away party for a coworker on Friday night, so that cuts into <em>quite<\/em> a few hours of my time, especially since I may be staying overnight. But I&#8217;m hoping that I can pull off some LD48-ing anyways.<\/p>\n <p>I guess it largely depends on the theme. I&#8217;m gonna have one of my friends text me the theme because I likely won&#8217;t have internet until I get home. In case he forgets, can someone make a mention to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Bananattack\" target=\"_blank\">@Bananattack<\/a> on twitter to tell me the theme? I&#8217;ll try and brainstorm horrible ideas while I&#8217;m boozing and partying.<\/p>\n <p>So essentially I&#8217;ll have to treat this as a rather condensed contest, and probably make something more along the lines of a &lt; 24h game. I will purchase energy drinks, crappy microwaveable meals and junk food to prepare myself.<\/p>\n <p>Aside from that, I guess I better lay out some tool decisions before I get into this:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><strong>Platform:<\/strong> Flash<\/li>\n <li><strong>Engine: <\/strong>Flixel, Flashpunk, or something handrolled during the contest time. Not decided yet.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Code\/Text:<\/strong> Programmer&#8217;s Notepad + MXMLC (or whatever the commandline thing is again).\u00a0<em>Maybe<\/em> FlashDevelop.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Images:<\/strong> Paint Shop Pro and\/or Photoshop.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Sound Effects:<\/strong> sfxr and\/or bfxr.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Music:<\/strong> Modplug Tracker (if I get time, and feel ambitious)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Yeah, so I haven&#8217;t messed around with Flash in a while. I might need to get some quick reacquiantance before this contest begins. Hopefully it won&#8217;t be too painful to relearn.<\/p>\n <p>Let&#8217;s do this!<\/p>\n <p>&#8212;<br \/>\n <strong>EDIT:<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>Okay, so I thought about it a bit more. Depending on the game I end up making, I might end up having to use a tilemap editor. I might use tiled (<a href=\"http:\/\/mapeditor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mapeditor.org<\/a>) and possibly dig into its source code here: <a href=\"http:\/\/gitorious.org\/tiled\/tiled-qt\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gitorious.org\/tiled\/tiled-qt<\/a><\/p>\n <p>Alternatively, I might end up using <a href=\"http:\/\/verge-rpg.com\" target=\"_blank\">Verge<\/a>&#8216;s maped3 tool for maps, and use my converter tool to convert to tiled format (or possibly adapt this to dump to a new format as necessary, during the contest): <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/Bananattack\/v3tiled\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/github.com\/Bananattack\/v3tiled<\/a><\/p>\n <p>Anyways, we&#8217;ll wait and see.<\/p>","time":"April 24th, 2011 9:42 pm","title":"I might be entering."}