Next weekend, I’m excited to join my first Ludum Dare!  I’ve seen LD before, but had not noticed its schedule line up with mine.  In Amsterdam, the school where I host design workshops ends for the holiday that Friday, and so when the 48-hour competition kicks off (at local Amsterdam time of 03:00 AM!) I’ll be sound asleep.  But by morning I’m looking forward to it!

In the rules, I read that it is okay to import a game library and publicly available base code is okay.  I don’t know what the theme is yet, but if it sparks an concept suitable for pixel graphics in Flash, then I’ll try Flixel 2.35  (http://www.flixel.org).   I have some experience drawing in Flash CS 4, so if animation becomes interesting, I am hoping to cache a SWF to a spritesheet, using the FlxMovieClip class proposed by Achmad Aulia Noorhakim.   Discussion and example at:   http://flixel.org/forums/index.php?topic=2425.0

Tools I expect to use:  Flixel with MovieClips, Flash CS4, sfxr, Audacity, DAME (level editor with Flixel exporter).