Hey Everyone! First Time doing Ludum Dare here. I’ve done GGJ and the Adventure Time Game Jam, but this will be my first solo jam. I’m excited and terrified. Here’s what I’ll be using.
Tools:
Language: Actionscript
Engine/Library: Flixel
ART : Photoshop
OTHER:DAME, FlashDevelop,
SOUND: sfxr / LSDJ
Here’s a pic of my setup:
I might set up a live stream but I’m not too sure yet.
I’ve participated in two Ludum Dares before.
The first was a Jam effort with a couple of other guys, which was a lot of fun and something of a success in it’s own way: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=8218
The second was a solo effort for Ludum Dare #24. I was overly ambitious, spet too long on the art and a complex paper-doll-ish system, quit with four hours remaining, and drank beer instead.
But it was a lot of fun, and even with the stress of working life and impending Christmas all around me I’ve committed to trying it again. Immediately.
So HERE you will find the public git repository of the really terrible and horridly embarrassing mess of an SFML 2.0 framework I’ve pieced together in a tiny fragment of the last two weeks. It’s still open to sweeping changes because I’ve had little-to-no time for designing and testing, so I do not recommend you try to use it. I put it together from ideas I’m familiar with so that I’ll know where I stand on Saturday morning, because I have no experience with SFML itself, and don’t want to be screwing with that.
Bad framework or no, it’s working so far, it’s familiar, putting it together so quickly has forced me to get to know SFML, and I have been thinking about nice ways to implement different systems a lot along the way, even if I didn’t feel I had time to experiment. That’s a job for later.
Other tools I will be using, notes, etc:
Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch Tablet – I suck with it, so it’ll keep my art rough (I tend to be a perfectionist with pixelart)
Otomata (http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata) – If I have time for music. I’m not a musician, so this will have to do
SFXR – For sound effects. The classic one. The newer one makes me dizzy
Visual Studio 2010 (which I’m swiftly falling out of love with after this last week)
Windows 7 (my favourite OS)
Linux Mint (if I find time to port during or after the comp)
Dust – The huge collection of it I just found under my keyboard…huh…
GitHub – Source control. Can I keep a live public repository of my LD comp game while I work? I don’t see why not. I also don’t know how to use git properly so uh… let’s hope things go smoothly.
Junk food – To eat when I’m hungry
Coffee – To drink when I’m tired
Beer – To look forward to when I’m losing focus but not drink too much of because I have work the next day
Digital Camera – To take pictures of all the food and coffee and beer
Good luck all!
Is there a Ludum Dare countdown program? I had not seen one listed on the tools page. It would preferably notify you when the blog updated, when time passes, etc. If this program exists, please tell me. Thanks!
-Bactopiad
I put this up yesterday but forgot to post about it 😛
Finished up a warmup game this last weekend, ended up being kinda a zelda-roguelike hybrid with randomly generated floors, took about 12 hours to make, can check it out here
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25-warmup/?action=preview&uid=7131
and see my post with the tools used and information on the game engine here, I could really use the support to get this thing developed further, it’s well along but has so much more to go!
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/12/09/im-in-new-engine-releasekickstarter/
Ludum Dare is pretty much the best thing ever. But we all know that, right? 
Tools:
How can you say no to that face??
Goals:
I’ll be committing all my code here regularly: https://github.com/johnfn/ld25 Follow me! I’ll also be putting up base code there, if I ever get around to it…
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this will be the second time LD for me.
I would like to use Python or HTML5 but still considering which to use…
Tools:(Python)
Libraries:Pygame,PyOpenGL
IDE:GVim + Pydb
Tools(HTML5)
Libraries:EaselJS,SoundJS
IDE:GVim,Firefox
Tools(common)
Sound:sfxr, LMMS
Artwork:Gimp,Inkscape, and paper & pencil & scanner
good luck everyone!
Right, third LD time I guess.
Still going to go with C++ because I love that language. With the help of Visual Studio 2010, SFML, some home-grown libraries and a fair amount of code snippets just wanting their glory.
Let’s hope this one works out better than the last, where I got sick halfways through and was forced to quit it.
Stream will be available at http://twitch.tv/ananace and this time I’ll remember to run a timelapse program in the background, I want a nice video after all.
Good luck to the rest of you people I guess.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25-warmup/?action=preview&uid=5551
I told you I’d make a warmup. And now I feel… warm. It’s like piss running down my hairy legs.
I didn’t know anything about ActionScript or FlashPunk when I started this, but it only took a couple hours of actual work to make. Experience helped, but I had to unlearn things too. I mostly struggled with the tree generation (because I did it dumb the first time) and all that nasty reference stuff, combined with FlashPunk abstracting away information that I’m used to being ubiquitous. Still, I get the impression it’s a powerful framework once you learn its way of thinking, and it feels great to have maed gaem with it.
But much like warm piss, transient feelings of success go cold fast. An ambitious developer always aims higher, all the way to integer overflow.
The real test is exactly two days away. Not sure if picking up Ogmo would be worth it at this point. I think I’ll just go take a look at others’ FlashPunk games and see how I’ve been doing everything all wrong.
Tags: flashpunk, planet piss, warmup
Hi folks, I’m rukbotto and LD #25 will be my first competition.
I’ll work with my brother @davix1228 and we’ll be participating in the Jam. We know nothing about creating videogames so probably won’t be finishing anything playable. Anyways, this gonna be really fun!
After doing some research (googling), these will be our perks:
We’re also streaming the whole process on twitch.tv for those interested :).
Let’s jam!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Lanaguage: C++ && (Maybe) Lua
Code: VIM
Music: Midi-keyboard && zynaddsubfx && Ardour && Hydrogen
Graphics: Photoshop || The GIMP
Map Editor: Tiled
Livestream: http://www.twitch.tv/gazok (Maybe)
Cause, you know you want to build robots!
All right. So, as for Team Jam rounding up. I wish there was some sort of message system here otherwise I wouldn’t have to do this. However! I’d still like to go through the list:
Programmer: Me!
Programmer: davidsgallant
Audio: maverickprogrammer
Designer(?): Wixio
Other: ???
But really, I’d really love it if we could get some more people or an artist or two here. If you have a skill set that you’d think you can contribute then post below! We will be grouping up in the chat on Friday!
Also, Construction. Cause robots are cooler then zombies.
Base Framework: https://github.com/epc09/c-game-project
Lang: C
Libraries: SDL (SDL_image, SDL_ttf, SDL_mixer (if possible))
Artistic Content: GIMP (no idea about sounds)
Good luck, people.
I am going to make a game with Java and Slick2d. Can’t wait.
This will be my second Ludum Dare attempt, and hopefully the first I complete. I’ll be using:
I’ll be live-streaming here.
My setup:
Hi just saying I’ll be making my first entry in Ludum Dare this 25th edition and it is also my first entry in a game jam.
I just want to wish everyone a nice weekend and good luck :).
Edit:
Oh and by the way I’ll be using a Java/Slick2d.
Language: I’ll try Java
Library: LWJGL
Platform: MacOSX (the game itself will probably be cross platform)
Images: Photoshop
This will be my first. Super excited. I have always followed every ludum dare but the time wasnt right. But this time.. ho ha.
I will be doing my development on Mac using:
– Unity3d with C#
– ragepixel for pixel art
– drop box for sharing contents and code and everything else
We are a team of two members. It’s our first time in Ludum Dare, so we hope we can finish it on time, or at least finish it. We’ll use:
Programming: Java
IDE: Eclipse
Graphics: Photoshop, Paint.net
Sound: SFXR
Will be on a fligh back from the US to germany on Friday and was hoping to use the flight-time for good. Only problem will be that the theme should not be anounce before I board my plane from Washington to Munich… lets hope for a delay
Will be using Javascript, WebGL, Bxfr and Paint.NET.
Though I will be working morning into afternoon, I plan to participate. By setting a reasonable goal and keeping my ambition in check I think I can complete a fun game in 2 evenings.
I plan to make an HTML5 game using Craftyjs. I will be using paint and Gimp for graphics.
I am still not sure what I should use for sound effects and music, any tips would be most appreciated.
PS This will be my first LD, but it wont be my last, and hopefully next time I will have the full time available.