This will be my fifth Ludum Dare event and the third game Jam for my local game dev group. I’ll be using a lightweight HTML5 framework that I’ve been using for game dev for a while now. I keep meaning to write some docs on it and share it on Github. Not sure I’ll be able to get that done this week though.  Good luck everyone, there are a couple mind blowingly amazing themes this time!

IDE : Webstorm / Notepad++

Sound: SFXR and Caustic 2.0

Graphics: Paint.Net, maybe Spriter or PyxelEdit

Also: Chronolapse, Freemind / XMind, Dropbox for hosting

Will be meeting up with the Cambridge folk again for this one, will try and focus more on graphics and sound this time than I have previously.

I’ll be working in Haxe/NME/FlashDevelop/Possibly hopscotch.

Hello fellow Ludum Dare-ers! Warning: blatant self-advertising ahead!

As some of you may know, I run a website devoted to indie game programming in Java and Processing at StaticVoidGames.com. I’ve designed the site with programming contests like Ludum Dare in mind. You no longer have to worry about time-consuming deployment or web development, so you can spend more time focusing on the fun part- actually making your game!

Just follow the step-by-step uploader, and you have a decent-looking website showcasing your game as an applet, a webstart, and a downloadable jar. At the very least, it’s better than putting your game on dropbox or mediafire. Not only is it free, but developers can actually specify their own ad codes to make money off their games!

I’m working on adding new features (I just added a notification system) and tutorials all the time. I’m very open to suggestions and I love hearing your feedback! But even as-is, the site is useful to both pros who don’t feel like dealing with deployment and web development (especially during the crunch time of Ludum Dare) and complete novices who want to take a look at the tutorials and source of real games for help.

So, check it out! StaticVoidGames.com

Good luck during Ludum Dare!

This will be my second Ludum Dare.  I actually achieved some degree of success with LD #23, so I might be able to do it again.  The goal was to spend the last month practicing for this (and improving my abysmal art skills), but I’ve been suffering from a huge lack of motivation for most of the month.  But still, I’m in it.

• Code: LÖVE + a library of code that I’ve yet to name (I’ll post it a couple of days, because I follow rules), because it worked so well last time.
• IDE: Geany.  It’s nice, but I wish I had a better IDE for Lua and LÖVE.
• Graphics: Gimp, Pinta, and possible Aseprite.
• Sound: Sfxr and Audacity
• Music: Ardour, Hydrogen, my mic, and my instruments.

I’m going to neglect social obligations so hard this weekend!

First LD here!

Totally pumped. Been looking forward to a good challenge for along time!

Code: AS3/Flashpunk/FlashDevelop

Music: not sure yet!

SFX: sfxr

Graphics: Gimp

Any suggestions for a music composing program? That area is totally new to me! 😀

After an okay finish in the previous LD (Theme was Tiny World), I’m really looking forward to this! Hopefully I can use my time better now with the practice garnered from the previous event.

I expect to use the same toolkit as last time:

• Unity 3D
• Audacity
• Bfxr
• Sketchup
• Blender
• Pyxel

And whatever else I need at the time.

Good luck to all participants, and lets keep the overdosing on caffeine to a minimum!

Tags: unity3d

So yeah, that whole “I’m going to make some libraries and learn my tools”. Never happened. Oh well.
Here’s what I’ll be using:

• Python and Pygame
• Either cx_freeze or pyinstaller to build executables
• Some home-grown libraries: (Funcompose as a rendering engine on top of pygame, Pythfinding is a pathfinding library written in pure python that has the feature of sometimes working correctly, pyinstaller_tools as a layer on top of pyinstaller if I go that way, and calcui to help with laying out user interfaces (if I start getting fancy with them).
• One of the sound effects generators in the Ludum Dare tools section.
• FL Studio for music.

First all those posts about Game Jams, then his book I read. I just had to get first hand experience. Too bad I will have very limited time Saturday because of a birthday. Still having fun while doing this seems key!

IDE: FDT 5
Graphics: pen and paper, GIMP
Level editor: TILED
Texture Atlas: Texture Atlas Generator
Sounds: Cfxr
Language: Action Script 3
Framework: Home made framework
Timelapse: Automator with a bash script

About the framework. I started on it this month. The purpose of this framework is to make prototypes fast. Most people I know can run a flash application. So it made sense to make this framework in Action Script 3. The framework is far from finished.

I am using an altered version of the animation class which is described here.  So all credits for this class goes to Pixelpracht.

As an example I add some frames taken from http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.nl/2011/12/game-assets.html It is a free Block Buddies Dummy.

I am definitely in now, unless my cold disrupts all thinking D:

Most of the stuff I will be using:

IDE: Processing IDE
Graphics: pen and paper, Graphics tablet, GIMP, mypaint, paint.NET.
Level editor: coded by hand
Music:(as music is my hobby:) banjo, violin, keyboard, mandolin, flute, ardour, audacity(and the program ;D ) a good mic and some other instruments (I’ll specify on my first release).
Language: Processing
Librarys: don’t know yet, they have to be built into processing, though, so I will say on my first release
Timelapse: Chronolapse on both machines, and I can hopefully get a webcam hooked up to chronolapse too. 😉

and a fujifilm finepix 21500 to do some of the photos(food and such).

I’ve probably forgotten a few things, so I’ll let you know in my first release!

good luck to everyone else!
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So. I uh, may have failed last time. I wrote an entire ASCII game engine in C#/.NET but then lost all creativity. Heh. Back then I was still very much a noob at programming and game development in general. But I spent the entire Summer programming and doing almost nothing else.

BUT I WILL NOT FAIL THIS TIME!!!….I hope

I’m starting my junior year of high school(11th grade) on the 27th, the day after the competition ends. SoooOoOoOo I will be doing LD24 as my last adventure of Summer! I’ll be locking myself in my room with whatever $30 can buy me from pizzahut and a few 2 liters bottles of Soda.

Language:   Python

Library(s):  Pygame! And pyOpenGL! And probably some other libraries but mainly Pygame & pyOpenGL!

Art: Gimp

Sound/music: Not sure yet, might grab some public domain sound effects or something like that.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn’t know that ^^^ was against the rules. I will use a sfx generator instead

Good luck to all other Ludum Dare participants!! <3333

Love,

The newest addition to the Ludum Dare community, Mattykins.

This will be the first time I am joining in on this competition! Knowing me as I well as I do I may never actually finish. The reason I am posting this is because I figued I should say what tools I am using even if no-one cares. Here they are:

Netbeans

paint.net

anvil studio

GX SCC

my brain

There it is! Good luck to my fellow competitors!

So here I am with a framework I know little of, but enough to probably make a decent game in: Love2D. I had a gripe with pygame, as it really was to basic, and did not do things that well for me for some reason. It just kind of sucked for some reason, and it is really, really, slow. However, I have found a (small) appreciation for lua. It has a lot of quirks, like no continue statement, globals by default, etc. but I can manage.

So that’s not very important. But what is important is that I’ll be doing a warmup game until Thursday (which is the day I start my sophmore year in high school, what fun.) Problem is is that I still have a summer AP assignment to finish. Bummer.

Anyway, I did a random dice roll (not really) and the theme from the list I got was Journey. This will be fun.

And if you’re wondering, yes I upvoted both Kittens and Evolution.

Tags: warmup

This will be my first time entering, probably won’t finish but let’s give it a shot. I’ll be using blender game engine and the gimp.

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Wow, I almost forgot that LD was going to be this week! But no harm done

Anyway, need to stack up on loads of coffee this time around (it didn’t even last 5 hours last time), I will probably be using the same firepower i used for the previous LD:

• IDE: FlashDevelop
• Programming Language: ActionScript 3.0 (if you like as3, download my simple, yet awesome wallpaper: http://sauronzdev.com/lib/public/images/as3_wallpaper.png)
• Engine: LOL, what engine? (real men don’t need phony engines)
• Libraries: TweenLite, Hi-ReS Stats and others depending on the game I want to make
• Graphics: Photoshop for pixel graphics (yup you read that right)
• Audio: Probably SFXR, but if I have a lot of time left I might go into Fruity Loops

I will also try to stream my pathetic coding:  http://www.twitch.tv/sauronzdev

Good luck too all other game devs out there! But most importantly HAVE FUN 😀

I’m in for my second time, with Flash/AS3/Photoshop/Ableton…

December of 2011, I found Ludum Dare shortly before it began and prior to some important business. As such, I spectated.

April of 2012, I decided to try my hand at it but quickly realized that, again, other things were more important that needed my attention. So I ducked out rather quietly.

Now, I believe it may be time. I may still have work, but I want to do it this time! LET’S GO!

So then, so far the plan is:

Language: Python 3.x
Libraries: Pygame
Graphics: GIMP and/or MSPaint
Sound: Not sure yet… sfxr perhaps?
Music: Anvil Studio (yay MIDI)

Also, I have a bit of a to-do list before Friday…

1. Start a dropbox account or the like. After all, without a way to get the game on the web…
2. Actually get an executable going for one of my old games. Yeah, I have yet to move beyond hard code when it comes to my games as of yet, and that might need to change. Need to figure out py2exe or something.
3. Once those two are done, maybe I will post the executable to the dropbox to see if all went well. I have a game I made for a mini LD some time back that never made it to the net that I may try number 2 with and then post.

This will be my first LD going completely solo since the Islands themed jam back in 2010.
I’ll most likely be using LOVE2d, but may decide to try Unity or Flashpunk, depending on the theme.

Hi, I’m Richard and this will be my first Ludum Dare.

I’ll be using Javascript (2D <canvas> context, no WebGL), Firefox/Iceweasel (I’m on a Debian machine), Chromium, and the one true editor™ (vi).

No libraries or engines, no hand-painted graphics, no audio (probably – not sure about that one, yet).

The competition starts at 3am local time, so I’ll likely miss the first few hours. I plan to use that fact as an excuse in the case of me failing to submit a game… 😉

It’s gonna be fun!

I shall be making an attempt to build a game, for the first time.

Tools!

• Language: Clojure + ClojureScript (targeting Javascript)
• Engine: My brain and HTML Canvas…mainly canvas
• Libraries: probably at least Monet
• Music: I have no idea, whatever I can work out how to use
• Graphics: Pixen, Pixelmator, that sort of thing probably

I’m gonna have fun but since I’m breaking rule 1 – know the tools (I don’t know any possible tools) this is going to be intense.

Have fun everyone!

IN 68000 ASSEMBLER FOR THE SUCCESSOR TO THE SEGA MASTER SYSTEM

WHY YES I THINK YOU ARE

I’ll be using this lovely base code hacked together from a not-quite-a-game-yet.

To build, use: asmx -e -w -C68000 -b0 -o gm-baseld24.bin main.asm

I think I’ll have a build script at least by the end of this. Quite possibly a Makefile, too.

So anyhow, the usual crap:

• Language: Sweet, sweet 68000 assembly. Would be even better if it weren’t backwards, and arranged primarily to make you shoot yourself in the foot. But 8 data + 8 address registers and a near orthographic instruction set is quite delicious OH YES
  
• Compiler: None. Compilers are for pussies. We use an…
• Engine: OF COURSE NOT, we use an…
• Assembler: asmx – because there aren’t any good 68k assemblers yet >:( (just ask Charles MacDonald)
• Graphics: GIMP. Duh. (It’s nicer than using text files with lines and lines of db / dc.b %00000000 statements)
• Sound: DefleMask, mostly because it’s the only damn thing that works on Linux which does OPN2. It’s not too shabby actually… except for the fact that PgUp/PgDn do nothing >:( FIX IT DELEK
• Text editor: Kate, which is KDE’s offering.
• Emulator (considering I lack the real hardware): Mednafen. Probably going to test it in Kega Fusion some time as that’s probably more accurate, but Mednafen has Charles MacDonald’s Genesis Plus core… I think.

Considering that 100% of all Sega Master System games from LD22 ran on raptor85’s computer (read: there was exactly one), I think we’re onto a compatibility winner here.

P.S. By the way, here’s a working link for Autotracker-BU.

P.P.S. I am, of course, talking about the Sega Mega Drive. Just in case you didn’t notice.