I have a decision about what I’m going to do for LD20. I will be entering the jam and working on my current project. I will either make an excuse for how it fits the theme or just ignore the theme completely. After all, isn’t that part of the point of the jam?<\/p>\n
This LD will be less an “LD compo” for me and more of a “hang out with LD” jam. You can expect food and desk photos, screenshots, and rambling from me all the same, though.<\/p>\n
I’ve also got some information about my game together, which comes after the break.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n The title of my game is Arrow<\/em>. It is a shooter about a space marine whose drop-ship is destroyed during a landing on a hostile alien planet, and is then rescued by friendly aliens and fights to Save The Galaxy.<\/p>\n The game will be made in C++ using OpenGL and SDL. I’m using Inkscape for graphics, as3sfxr for sound, and probably LMMS for music. In fact, the LD jam is just for a demo.<\/p>\n It will feature an upgrade\/part system where the player will need to collect components and scrap metal to build new parts and upgrade existing ones. It will have a branching mission structure, plenty of side missions, and some other niceness that will have to come post-jam.<\/p>\n I currently have code to load images into OpenGL textures by name, build an image around then, then render the image to the screen.<\/p>\n I also have a very basic scene node with some local\/global coordinate conversions that I’m uncertain of and will have to test later. I will hopefully have some kind of scene graph by the jam.<\/p>\n Peace,<\/p>\n — Mr. Dude<\/p>","time":"April 19th, 2011 10:10 am","title":"LD20 \u2013 Decided What To Do"}