Luckily I have a case of Red Bull for me, and many treats for my JRT, Dig Dug.

Workspace, newly cleaned and arranged. PC for dev. I don’t think I’ll have time to get code compiled / running on Mac

Pre compo breakfast (at 5:30pm localtime):

My secret weapon, pre compo pie:

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Umm…  Do we need to declair our intent to participate?  It seems like everybody else is, so I guess I will also.  I’m going to see what I can do this weekend.

It’s got to be the first time that we don’t get a flood of absolutely everyone whining about the theme.

But hey, ‘caverns’ is a great theme. At the same time, you can’t just take ANY game idea and bullshit your way to the theme (as is the case for most themes), and on the other hand, ‘caverns’ opens up lots of game ideas.

Roguelike.
Pitfall.
Scubadiving.
Underground platformer.
Dig dug.

And so on. I still probably won’t be entering, but it’ll be interesting to see what people come up with.

Pre-LD deskphoto. I expect I’ll quickly fall into a lazy pattern of not cleaning this weekend, so the end-of-weekend photo should be pretty bad. Of course, this is bad by some people’s standards–but hey, it gets the job done. I love my Microsoft Digital Media Pro keyboard, and the Logitech mouse is unbeatable. Also notice the Xbox 360–that’s for downtime, not development. 😀

Kato's Deskphoto

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Its 3:15 AM where I live right now. About one hour to the start of the compo

It’s about a year since the last t time I entered. I hope I manage to produce something on time

I can’t remember if I have to explicitly declare my participation, or not. However I hope that this post is enough 😛

I’m not sure what I’m going to use this time. SDL + OpenGL or Java + JOGL? We’ll see 😛

I will definately be using some of my own libraries. Mostly for resource management, nothing fancy 😛

Well one hour to go… Maybe I’ll get some sleep?

Getting in my pre-compo meal:

Pre-compo nutriment.

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This is my first LD, and I’m super excited to see what happens.  I plan to use either Game Maker or FlashDevelop + Flixel.  Probably Game Maker if my game demands lots of level design, but FlashDevelop + Flixel if I do something more arcadey/procedural.

Other tools I may or may not use include: PXTone, Audacity, SFXR, GIMP, Paint.NET, a mic, a webcam, a tablet and a guitar.

Let’s do this!

This will be my first time doing a ludum dare. Gonna use Löve2d and lua and mtPaint and probably sfxr or something.

This should be good.

The desk - before the horror

Yes, you *HAVE* to look at it sideways.

vacavitoria-engine-20090828-1053pm.zip

Messy workspace reporting in.

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Everyone will want to know what my workspace looks like!
I’ve actually moved since LD11, so things have changed around quite a bit – I’ve found an arrangement that works well for this new space though, and have set up my additional stuff for LD15

See desk: (uber-high res if you click)

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Also enter.

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…if my game colors are off I can always blame that horrendous peppermint striped covering I’m using to hide the splintered sheet of 3/4″ plywood.  I’ll probably remove the bucket hat from my left speaker if I have to do any audio too…

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I’ll make a little gamey something or other. Here’s a bunch of framework sort of files I created for the last mini-LD in place of an actual game.

http://www.madgarden.net/junkz/codez/mad-ld.zip

Don’t expect it to compile at this point. 😉

Its almost time!

It will be my second compo.  My java3d one turned out terrible last time, so this time i will be giving xna a shot!

Thanks to xkcd for letting people steal his images for their own use as long as credit is given!

I’m entering for the second time.  I hope to use:

Python, because I’m too cheap to give Game Maker $20 for the full version.

Pyglet,  to handle windowing and media and otherwise everything that would send me back to game maker from being too scared to try myself.

Sfxr, for the sound.

Photoshop, came with my tablet, so I might as well use it for images.

ChronoLapse, for screen recording that doesn’t have a giant watermark saying something about not giving them money.

Milky Tracker, if I have enough time I’d like to try to make some basic music to spice up my game.

So yeah,  here it goes.