I’m going to give the LD48 a shot this time around.\u00a0 It’s been years since I have actually attempted any kind of game coding, and I yanked out my old Killer Game Programming in Java book this week\u00a0and started going through the chapters again.\u00a0 The personal challenge with this compo is that there is a baseball game (KC at Oakland) on Saturday that I’m going to attend.\u00a0 That’s a huge chunk of hours out of the 48.\u00a0 Perhaps I can come up with a way to make them useful.\u00a0 Design? Sketches?\u00a0We’ll see.<\/p>\n
At least I don’t have to plant my tomatoes this weekend.\u00a0 I did that yesterday.\u00a0 I turned some half-barrels into self-watering planters.\u00a0 If anyone cares, I’ll have pictures on my home blog, www.lonestranger.net<\/a>, later this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n So I’ll probably use the design patterns from the aforementioned coding book and code in Java.\u00a0 I’m using Eclipse as an IDE.\u00a0 I have used Eclipse for some of my work coding in J2EE, but I didn’t know about it the last time I was messing around with game coding.\u00a0 It’s nice to be able to get the method completion and object browsing that you can do in VS, only not using VS.\u00a0<\/p>\n The last LD48 that I did enter was way back in late ’01 or so, for LD48_2: Construction\/Deconstruction with a minor in Sheep.\u00a0 I’ll have to dig out that old fossil if a game that I submitted.\u00a0 It sucked.\u00a0 In short, all you did was huck sheep from one side of the screen to the other, knocking over bales of wool.\u00a0 But I guess the real success was that I completed something in 48 hours.\u00a0 It’s a challenge in itself.<\/p>\n Anyway.\u00a0 Good luck to all!<\/p>\n \n Tags: baseball<\/a>, java<\/a>, ld48_11<\/a>, ld48_2<\/a>, tomatoes<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 14th, 2008 8:25 am","title":"Games, Java, Baseball and Tomatoes"}