I’m excited for LD 14, I’ll definitely have a go at it. I was also pondering what language or dev platform I would use. Java is my staple, but I’ve learned or mastered so many other technologies lately I thought I would give one of them a go. Let’s see, there’s XNA, which I recently made a game in, there’s Unity, which I’ve got a good amount of experience with, there’s Objective-C/iPhone, which is always cool because then it can be published, there’s Flash (I still haven’t made anything in AS3)… hmmm…

I don’t know at this point, but it’s likely I’ll go with Unity or the iPhone. Trouble with doing an iPhone game is that nobody can play it unless I release it on the app store, and aside from that being more or less impossible in 48 hours I still think the audience who could play my games would be very limited. Still, I’d love to mess around more with the iPhone – using the accelerometer and the touch screen leave some big possibilities.

Well, we’ll see…

test

Alright, I’ve never done one of these Ludum Dare’s so I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’ll give it a good try!

Don’t forget to get crackin’ on themes!
http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/ld14:themes

I originally planned to use LOVE game engine, but i thought i just keep it for later as Pyweek is just days after LD.

Moreover, i probably don’t have much time as i has some school field trip for 1 day. (11pm GMT+8 – 11pm GMT+8 = 24 hours)

I’ll be using Python and Pyglet, and here’s my states/buttons/sprites/resourcemanager

http://code.google.com/p/jabersgamelib/downloads/list

Ported from a game called No (nonogram game) from LOVE game engine to Python/Pyglet.

Have a look at the example – don’t just copy and paste the example code and add your contents later.

EDIT: Veerry sorry, link goes to to LOVE website, now updated to my googlecode page.

Tags: game, jaber, lib, pyglet, python

Hi everybody,

Theme voting has now begun! We usually prune the list, but since a few people asked for it, I’ve included nearly every suggestion. I did remove some that could be considered offensive, but almost every suggestion will get it’s chance. Stop by the site every day this week to make your choices heard.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/

For Friday, I’ll be taking the best 5 entries each day Monday-Thursday to compile the final list. Then, as per usual, the theme will be announced Friday night (or whenever your timezone normally begins a compo).

That’s it from me. See you all this weekend.

– Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

I am looking forward to doing Ludumdare this weekend, and I’m intending to do a timelapse of my progress again. Is there any software or scripts that I can use on the Mac to capture two screens simultaneously, ideally stitched together as one long image?

Tags: timelapse

I am pretty sure I’m going to make a go of LD14 this weekend.  I will be voting in the theme rounds all week long and take a look Friday to see the theme that is picked.  I will make up my mind then for sure.  Why the hesitation?  Well, I have a lot of things I’m already working on game wise so I have to make sure working on ANOTHER game is the best use of my energy… 😉  I do love the LD compos though.. it’s what got me back into game programming again so it will always have a lot of pull on my heart.  It is just so much fun as many of you know to participate in this event.

As far as programming tech and libraries go I will be making a change for the first time in all my LD experience!  Previously I was rocking the Ruby language and using the excellent Gosu game dev library (which I still highly recommend!)

This time I’ll be using Flash / ActionScript 3.0.  I have spent the past couple months learning ActionScript (first used AS2 for one game) and then another game I did in AS3 to work on my knowledge in that.  Plus I’ve cranked through a couple really great books I picked up that I also highly recommend to anyone looking to make the leap.  Essential ActionScript 3.0 (O’Reilly), ActionScript 3.0 Animation (Keith Peters), and Flash CS4 Professional  (Katherine Ulrich). The Kongregate Shootorials were also a great place to start for AS2 and they have an AS3 version of the finished tutorial to learn from the code (it is well commented.)  I learn good from books so I had to grab a few to help out.  Anyway, I’ve been having a blast with Flash / ActionScript!

I’ve been very impressed by how quickly you can rough out a game prototype using the Flash authoring tool and some simple ActionScript classes.  I used to think that I’d be hard pressed to find as rapid a dev environment than what I was already using with Ruby / Gosu but all I can say is DAMN.. flash is fast. 

Plus, the added benefit of having both rapid playable cross platform versions for compo feedback as well as not worrying about the various builds after the compo and I think it builds a strong case as rapid prototyping tool geared for quick compos like this one.

Tool Set I want to use:

Flash / ActionScript 3.0

Libraries I want to use (if this seems ok par the rules?):

GreenSock’s tweening engine TweenMax / TweenLite

Looking forward to a great theme and a great compo everyone, take care!

Tags: actionscript, as2, as3, books, compo, development, flash, greensock, intro, libraries, prototyping, rapid, tools, toolset, tweenlight, tweenmax

I will be participating in LD this weekend. I’ve never done one of these before but, I watched the last time around. I will be using Flash CS3 and AS3.

Some of you may have already seen this 2009 Global Game Jam Keynote video, as it has been around for a few months, but I first watched it only a few minutes ago.  As we will very soon be taking part in a 48 hour game development competition, I thought I might bring attention to this video.

Kyle Gabler give a number of great tips.  His 2nd Theorum of Destruction is likely very true for a lot of people.  I know for myself, the less I care the better my results become.

Tags: 2D Boy, inspiration, Kyle Gabler, tips, video

Hello all,

I just found this open sources lib (http://www.web-adventure-kit.com/) and i want to know if the rules let me use it for this compo.

What you experienced devs say?

ps: It is a framework to make point & click adventures in AS3.

Thanks,

Lucas

Tags: as3, flash, lib, rules

I am in! Well, I have an exam on the day after, but I’ll do my best to study enough beforehand that I can comfortably participate in the compo… we’ll see how that goes!

I’ll be using either Slick, which is a hardware-accelerated 2d Java library, or ActionScript3 for this contest, I think. Or fall back on Java2D if I don’t want to use the others for some obscure reason.

I’ll be using some of my SlickTemplate if I use Slick, or my Template4k if I go with Java2D, I think. Both are very short, smallish templates that really don’t do anything besides setting up a frame and saving input states.

That’s all for now. Good luck in the competition, everyone!

Tags: actionscript, java, LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, Slick

Well, it’s Python after all, the prospect of simultaneously visiting my future in-laws and programming a game in Haskell is simply too much intensity for one 48 hour slot. Suffice to say that I *will* be like a member of the living dead come Monday morning, and that whatever I create after a 48hr no-sleep marathon will either be excellent or tripe.

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009

I’m Hideous (haha) and I’m most likely participating in LD14. I will be using Construct to make my game. I’m also known by my real name, Andreas Jörgensen, if you wonder who I am (I programmed In Another Brothel). Looking forward to the weekend!

I have to get blood drawn (routine stuff) before Monday – so I will have to break from the competition goign 12 hours with out food to get that done – I think I will try to plan it around a sleep break.

My wife works and I have a 5 year old- but I still think I will get enough time in.

I found out last week that I have not one, but two birthday parties to attend.  One is for my brother-in-law’s 40th, the other is for our friend’s son’s 4th.  I’m hoping I can scale back my idea enough so that it’s doable, even with the lost hours. 

I’m not sure what I’ll be using for my entry.  I have used Java in the past, and likely would use the same basecode that I’ve used for the past two compos.  I’ve been thinking about doing something over the web usign PHP, so if the theme is right, I’ll give it a shot.

Things to use for the compo.  The usual list:

Tags: declaration, ld48_14

Planning on participating in this, just have one question. I plan on using Construct and would like to know if the premade behaviors are allowed in the contest. But anyway, should be fun.

Howdy!

My second real LD (did a mini LD and a half too). I’m not sure I’ll have time this week end, but I’ll sure try. Will be using:

Comp:
My tiny EeePC 901 under Ubuntu. And now I got myself a mouse for increased productivity.

Dev:
Either evöL, my own tiny Lua+SDL library (https://gna.org/projects/evol/), or Löve, a way cooler Lua game engine (http://love2d.org/). If the theme makes me feel like it, I might use glöwve, a simple script I wrote yesterday to make glowy vector graphics in Löve (here).
Löve is now available for Linux, Windows, and MacOS X, so (almost) everyone’s happy.

Graphics:
Inkscape, Gimp, and no talent. I do also have a camera.

Sound:
I’m tempted to make music as a module, in which case I’ll use MilkyTracker (http://www.milkytracker.net/). Possible sound synthesis with ZynAddSubFX and DrPetter’s sfxr. And my microphone.

Can’t wait for Evolution to make it the final round and not win, as usual. Oh and I wonder what will be the running joke this time.
See you all on the other side!

This is my second LD and I am soo looking forward to it. Even a friend’s birthday on friday won’t stop me. 😀 (Hopefully)

My two main goals

• keep the game simple
• finish more than just something like a demo

My setup:

• OS: Windows
• IDE: Eclipse 3.4
• pr.lang: Java 1.5
• framework: JMonkeyEngine 3d framework
• blender
• gimp
• if there is time to include sounds: reaper

CU on Friday (Saturday 5am for me),

ToM

This is the first time I’ve ever done a game compo, I’ve been looking forward to it for the last month. My wife has been warned. 😉

I’m planning to use Ruby with the Gosu library, since I’ve been playing around with that a lot lately. I’ve been using Ruby for 7+ years so it’s a natural fit. I’ve been writing a few quick game prototypes to practice, but I’ve been out of the game industry for years so this could be interesting… keeping my fingers crossed.

this is my first attempt, wow!

I think I’ll go with pyglet + rabbyt though I’m still experimenting with these frameworks…I hope I’ll finish the compo a least…finger crossed 😉

Hi everyone!

I used SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_gfx, SDL_ttf to develop Itchy! in Global Game Jam. Probably I’ll use them in LD too.

I hope we choose a flexible theme that can lead to a variety of creations.

This is the first time I’ve done a game compo, so I’ve no idea how it’s going to turn out

I’ll be using SDL, SDL_image and PortAudio (and C++), and some basic template code I’ve had for a while (window setup, a drawing wrapper, random number generator etc.).  You can see it here: http://www.niallmoody.com/downloads/GameTemplate.zip

Hopefully I’ll manage to do Linux and OSX versions as well as a Windows one of whatever it is that I come up with, but we’ll see how things go…

Hey all — I’ve done my previous two entries (one mini ld, and ld 13) in python with pygame, but this time I’m considering using flash. I’m just wondering if anyone knows a good suite of open tools to work with flash/flex? I have literally no experience with any of that stuff, although I’m a professional (if junior) java developer.

I wonder if I can make a game without copious amounts of blood this time…

I’ll be using your friendly neighbourhood Python with my own game lib that lives on top of Pygame.

Be using my pycatcher program for timelapsin’ again. Home grown yo.

Tags: aliens, blood, lulz, timelapse

Hello! This will be my first LD entry.  Tools:

lua with LOVE (naturally includes SDL, OpenGL, Box2d…)

Photoshop CS2

FL Studio 7 (semi-expensive software sequencer and synthesizer)

Goldwave (shareware audio editor)

Notepad++

So, I finally decided to give it a real try. I guess I’ll be using Python with PyGame, just so that I can keep myself in “python form” if nothing else.

Looking forward to this.

Hey, this will be my first LD entry. It seems like a lot of fun, and I have seen some great attempts at it. I hope to do something as cool as what I’ve seen some of you guys do!

I plan writing in Flash/ActionScript 2.0, and I’m going to use MSPaint to do my sprite drawings and Fireworks for any other drawings I may have.

I’m really excited about this. I look forward to what kind of theme it ends up with. Good luck to everyone!

You can grab it over at jemgine.omnisu.com

I promised you I’d get a new version out before the LD, didn’t I guys?

Hi, this is Windsor (winferno on IRC). I’ve got some other obligations over the weekend, but will give it a shot anyhow! My development set up is something like this:

OS: Debian Linux
Language: C++ (GCC)
Editor/IDE: XEmacs
Toolkits: SDL (I guess)
GFX tools: GIMP, Imagemagick,  digicam
Audio tools: Akai MPC1000, Roland JP-8000, microphone

See you guys on IRC.

Tags: new bootie

Right before the compo, I’d like to remind everyone that Musagi and Sfxr actually do exist. These wonderous pieces of software aren’t just figments of your imagination. No, they’re real! Yes, DrPetter actually allows us to use these amazing engineering marvels for free!

So swing by http://www.cyd.liu.se/~tompe573/hp/projects.html and get them, they are incredible.

..also use JileEd. Please?

Alas, it turns out that I am going to miss yet another LD. A last minute invite to las vegas with free travel and a free place to stay is taking over this weekend. It was a hard decision, but I’ve stopped voting on themes because of this. I’m half tempted to help out by culling the ones people hate, but I’m also tempted to vote up the ones we always see on the list but don’t want (evolution, I’m looking at you).

Good luck to everyone who is competing. There are a lot of new names posting — special good luck to all of you. Hopefully you all get hooked and become permanent parts of the community.

Quick advice to you newcomers:

1. Pick a game design that you can completely finish with time to spare but with room for additional features if you find yourself with extra time (lol). Too many first timers fail because they bite off more than they can chew.
2. Make code that does only what it needs to do. I’m the worst about spending way too much time writing general, well commented, extendable code snippets instead of just writing what I need. It’s 48 hours – if you want a piece of your code to use later, re-write it later.
3. As mentioned in an earlier post and on the wiki, there are lots of tools created by the LD community that can quickly add a large amount of polish to your game. Dr Petter has written two amazing tools that give you sound effects and music, as well as a graphics editor. Blecki has a good looking map editor. RB has a new 3D python framework (allowed?). I wrote a tool for making timelapses, and a loader to make judging the games less of a chore. I’m sure there are more – read what people are posting about their toolsets and ask around in IRC. In fact, we had a whole mini-LD on tools, so check that out as well.
4. Have fun! If you aren’t enjoying yourself, take a 20-60 minute break. If you hate your time making your game, we will probably hate our time playing it.

Tags: advice, newbies, tools

So I just heard that the compo’s this weekend. Might as well join, I guess.

My previous experience with *rapid* game development is limited to having coded up a simple shmup in Java with 3 enemy types (graphics courtesy of MSPaint) in approximately 6 hours. This was when I was on the graveyard shift and bored out of my mind. With any luck I shouldn’t have too much trouble cooking up something for this round.

The other problem, though, is that I have no idea how to do sound. Music, maybe, but not sound. I guess I should go find out about those two free audio tools that everyone’s raving about…

I’m thinking about making a custom library for simple management of assets and 3D models in XNA – probably built upon Michael Schuld’s tutorials (http://www.thehazymind.com/XNAEngine.htm) – I’ve done that twice in the past, so it should go pretty smoothly. Will see how that goes. In any case, if I do do that, it’ll be made available to everybody before start time.

Tools I’m using:

– XNA 3.0

– Photoshop 7 – yes, 7! I’ve never really felt the need to upgrade…

– Milkshape, if I do decide to do 3D graphics

– Possibly some audio stuff – what’s that one audio tool that everyone says is awesome?

– I may compose music using Daigasso! Band Brothers DX for the Nintendo DS, provided I have time. Since I have prior engagements during the compo period, the commute time should allow me to bang out a quick track or two.

Anyways, in my local time zone, the compo runs from 11am on Saturday morning to 11am on Monday morning – may actually take a half-day off work on Monday to finish up, but otherwise I fully intend to go at a relaxed pace. This probably means I’ll only have about 24 hours of working time – should be interesting.

Edit: Just downloaded sfxr. Thanks, DrPetter! Will play around with it when I have a bit of time.

Edit 2: sfxr is awesome. I’ll probably want to use Audacity to post-edit the sounds though, tweak the frequency or add echoes and stuff. I managed to produce a decent steam-valve effect in less than 5 minutes! Of course I’ll have to try and remember how I did it, since I can’t use it for the compo ><

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, tools, xna

Today’s post for my Art & Games blog is about Ludum Dare, and the more general phenomenon of what I refer to as “tachygenesis,” events that encourage people to create something in a ridiculously short span of time. As well as plugging Ludum Dare and a few other tachygenesis events, I explain why I think it’s important for creative people to participate in these competitions.

Hi everyone. This is my second LD. I will be using:

– OS: Windows

– IDE: Code::Blocks

– Library: SFML

– Graphics: GIMP, Inkscape

I got some plans but I hope I’ll finish the game in time.

I’ve only participated in one Ludum Dare before, which was LD12 – The Tower. I really enjoyed it, and if all goes well, I should be participating in the upcoming competition. Let’s hope it’s a good theme (ahem, vote!). I plan to use SDL and OpenGL in C++, and maybe SDL_mixer for sound. I’ve been bouncing around some ideas for trying out some other libraries too, but I don’t want to do too much, or I won’t get much of anything done.

Let’s go Ludum Dare!

Just a quick note that if anyone uses Twitter it might be worth everyone tagging Ludum Dare related tweets with #ld14 before and during the weekend.

Tags: microblogging, twitter, what i had for lunch

I’m in for the compo! Looking forward to this weekend.

Platforms (MacOS) Intel — if there’s time, Ubuntu and Win.  versions may be published.

Pygame (python2.6, installed from macports)

Tools: using cfxr (sfxr, redone to be pretty on the Mac)

GIMP

Hope to post more than just pictures of food this time. I’m intimidated by the awesomeness of many of the entrants in this compo. But I’ll be brave and try to finish up with something awesome myself.

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009

Hey, everyone. I’m Strong. I’m a gamesmaker, though that’s probably obvious by now. I’m just writing in to say that I’m going to be participating in LD14, and it’ll be my first one. I’m going to be using Multimedia Fusion 2, mainly, and I might end up throwing in Modplug Tracker or SFXR just for kicks.

So… hi!

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, Strong

My wife has an early afternoon barbeque on Saturday morning, so I might be able to come up with something fun for LD14. If I do, I’ll be rocking the Code::Blocks, C++, SDL, and OpenGL.

Hi All, wow it’s a full version of LD, well I think I’ll just have to dust off my keyboard and give it a whirl!

I’ll be mostly using:

Language: BlitzMax

Platform: Windows

Graphics: Xara, Gimp

Sounds: mostly beeps, or microphone sillyness, no singing I promise!

Note to self get plenty of sleep, walks, fluids and the simpler the better!

I will also be entering this competition for the first time. Can’t wait to start building the game.

Tools i’ll be using :

IDE – Eclipse

Language – Java

Libraries – Slick2D Game Library with the LWJGL Library.

Art – Inkscape

Audio – Audacity

Deployment – Java Web Start, possibly Applet too.

Good Luck ppl and have fun.

Hey guys. I see lots of other first-timers here — looks like this is a good year for joining! Well, this will be my first time too, hopefully the first of many.

I heard of LD a few times but I never got round to checking it out. Well, I just randomly thought of it a couple of days ago and it turns out it’s just around the corner. What luck! So I’ve been playing a through some of the previous entries. Favourites so far are the tower defense with the owls, and the one with the robots. Oh, and the one where the aliens spill their purple guts everywhere. (All from the same theme… ‘Tower’ was a winner!)

Probably going to go with Flash for this. I’m usually a C++ or Python guy, but as someone beneath me said, flash is faaaaast.

Tags: hello world

Well, I’m ready and roaring for a great LD14 weekend. I’m going to break my programming-vacation for 48 hours and have myself at some code.

I’ll be using:

IDE: Code::Blocks
Language: C++
Libraries: SDL, SDL_image, SDL_ttf, and SDL_mixer, all rolled into one big PlatyGame (which I wrote myself), and possibly libcurl if internet is needed.
Art: GIMP and a little Paint.
Audio (if I do any): Musagi, SFXR, and Sound Recorder.

PlatyGame source and object files can be downloaded here:
http://www.platymuus.com/goods/PlatyGame.zip

Also, does anyone have any idea how to cut down on the number of DLLs I need to include with my application?

Tags: C++, LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, PlatyGame, SDL

Hey there, and greetings to all of you!

This’ll also be my first time joining LD. Quite a few people I know have been participating in LD, and this time, I’ll see what I can manage to do as well!

What I’ll be using (most probably):

– Eclipse with a Ruby plugin, so I’ll code in Ruby

– Flash, Photoshop and/or Paint + my tablet for graphics

– and Gosu (cause Gosu + Ruby is great!)

Have fun people

Hooray for me, I’ve managed to finangle myself an extended vacation in Hong Kong. Anyhow I’m going to try and enter this Ludum Dare, though I’m going to be in Macau for the first 12h or so of the compo.

The last few LD48’s I’ve used a basic, minimalist C++ engine and coded the game in LUA. This time I’m going to just code the whole thing in C++, I guess just for a change more than anything. So it’ll be C++, OpenGL, and SDL.

My Special Ludum Dare Goal: Include at least sound effects into this one! I’ve never managed to get SFX/music into an LD48 before, triple shame shame shame on me. Ptoiee fireflower spit spiky ball at my butt!

Looking forward to participating again. Learned a lot from LD10. Hopefully I’ll really finish my game this time.

Gonna be using:

• Ruby + Gosu + Gosub (http://code.google.com/p/gosub/)
• or Python + Pyglet, not sure yet
• sfxr (and musagi if I’m lucky)
• TileStudio (http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net)
• GraphicsGale (http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/)

Hiya everyone =]

I’m about ready to make a game. I just updated my msvc blank project and allegro toolkit at the site where I’m publishing my games: www.originowl.com.

School has kept me very busy, 5 more weeks of math and english and piano and then I’m moving to UC Santa Cruz to do game design. Living on campus in the forest making games all the time, yeah I think I can handle that.

Good luck and love to everyone!

And I’ll really try to finish something this time.

I’ll be developing with Allegro under Linux on my PIII 933, 512MB RAM, ATI Rage Pro 128. Aw yeah, that’s right… try not to be too intimidated.

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009

This is my first Ludum Dare and I look forward to it!

For my tools, I’m keeping it simple:

• Flash/Actionscript using FlashDevelop and the SDK
• For art I’ll be using Photoshop
• Audio will be done with sfxr and Audacity
• I’m using a few libraries such as Casalib and the AS3DS to aid development unless these are not kosher

I’ll try keeping a live blog going from my own blog and hopefully after the 48 hours I’ll be back here with something cool for everyone.

Tags: flas, hello world, LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009

I’ll throw my hat in again…

Last time I didn’t finish anything to the point that I could submit, but this time… this time it’ll be different.

48 hours… one game.  One laptop on a table just large enough to support it.  One brand new apartment that’s really frosty most times of night.  It’s on.

Is GB coming?  I haven’t seen his declaration post yet.  I still owe him a prize for guessing the theme to my last (failed) entry-in-the-making.

My tools: Vis Studio 2005, Torque 2D, perhaps my own ‘fade’ behavior for said engine just because it’s ridiculous to re-write a ‘fade’ behavior… Photoshop 6.0, possibly a microphone and a handful of Korg toys, a Harman vocal effects doodad, wikipedia, and Lieutenant Dan.

I look forward to the theme and checking out all the entries.

-Tim

Tags: hello world, TGB

Yeey for another Ludum Dare, this is going to be my third one.

No matter what theme, I will use quaternions for something. I never really got around to implementing them in any of my projects, so this is as good time as any to finally grok the whole thing.

Language of choice is C++, SDL and propably SDL_mixer for sounds. And if I have enough time, I’m going to do game logic in Lua.

Good luck to everyone.

Hi!

This will be my very first LD entry, hopfully I’ll be able to produce something playable and fun by the end of it.

Progress report will be posted at http://tametick.com/blog.

After last time which has been a good experience for me, I decided to enter again! I made the 4th place in “Theme”, and I am very proud of that. It was my first ludum dare and my first playable (and winnable!) game ever!

Will use C++ and Gosu like the last time, not screwing around with OpenGL. Well… maybe I will try to implement some shaders if I find the time for that… Just hoping for a good theme now :S

Just wondering:

Do HLSL shaders count as “content” (in which case they must be written during the compo) or “part of a graphics library” (in which case they can be written before the compo)?

Tags: 3D, shaders, tools

So, an another Ludum Dare. Ludum Dare 13 was great; and I am hoping for an another great competition. I will be using Game Maker (which I hate) again; for I think I won’t have much time to finish the game. Ah well, we will see…

Will probably use:

• Flex 3/AS3
• Box2dAS3 for physics
• as3ds for data structures
• musagi, sfxr, audacity for sound
• gimp, paint.net, inkscape for imagery

Tags: compo

I forgot where I has going with that title.

Third time in LD.

Going to try do something in either.

• PyGame
• C++ with PTK & Chipmunk
• DS Homebrew

I’ll see what the theme is and how much time I have. Looking forward to it.

This will be my third LD, let’s see if this time I can get to more higher place than previous entries.

This time I’ll try Python+Pyglet.

Good luck to everyone

PSnake

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, motivation, motivational, poster, towlr

I’m also planning to join LD14, and I hope to actually finish something this time! Depending on the theme I might use the haXe base code I posted last time (see http://www.wieringsoftware.eu/).

On Saturday, I also have an orchestra rehearsal day (again!), so I can only start in the evening. But I’ll check the theme before I leave and try to come up with an idea.

Yet another first time LD entrant here. I’ll be using Lua and LÖVE, as well as Notepad++ and Paint.net. I was originally planning not to do any sounds, but sfxr does look rather neat for that.

To test out my system of packaging the game I made a small test app and uploaded it here. It also has a small utility library and an example of how to turn a .lua into a finished LÖVE executable if anyone is curious how exactly that works.

Today started off pretty well. I got a phone call to say that my students are all having exams next week, meaning I have the next nine days off. Great: I can be more flexible with my sleep.

Then something horrible happened. I got paid. I bought ten Wii games last weekend, and I’m not sure I’d have the willpower to avoid getting distracted if I can play them, so as I mentioned in #tigirc I am totally not going to buy a new TV until Monday.

This will be my first LD. I’m planning on using Construct, since I’ve been screwing with it for a few weeks and haven’t finished a game yet. Audio’s my voice (advance apologies for disgusting saliva sounds) with Goldwave, and graphics will be my ancient copy of Paint Shop Pro 7.

Good luck, all.

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, motivation

Hello, after hostile persuation (thinking about it myself) I will probably enter. I’ll use Construct and whatever other means to create assets, I guess Graphics Gale or Photoshop for graphics and stuff. I use several things for everything.

Prepare for nothing! And good luck.

Tags: kongame

Heya all, this’ll be my first attempt at LD.  I’ve done the 7DRL a few times, but this is a little more brutal   I’ll be using:

IDE : Code::Blocks
Language : C++
Framework: OpenGL, GLFW
Libraries : irrKlang, possibly box2D or bullet

Can’t wait for the theme!

Tags: hello world

I finally have time on the weekend one of these compos takes place! I will try to use the opportunity to get familiar with LÖVE. If I run into problems I might have to switch to Gamemaker or Construct.

Graphics will be done in Gimp, sounds with sfxr. I am not sure if I will manage to produce any music. My goal is to simply finish something playable and hopefully also something enjoyable

Good luck all!

So this is the first LD im doing, and i got some stuff setup. Heres my desk, cleaned up and ready to go 😉

As you might notice theres a book on Lua there, and I intend to use it for this LD together with love. Other possibilities are Java, C# (XNA), C++ with SDL and flash; but I thought Id learn something new, I hope it works out 😛 Other tools lying around are a wacom, a calculator, a T-Square, a scanner and earplugs (who knows I’ll be needing those ).

I’m going to timelapse my work with Keeyai’s chronolapse, and i’m going to try and post intermediates on my blog as well as doing small updates on Twitter.

Thats it for now, until later

Tags: desk

What would LD be without the motivational posters?

Tags: motivation

I’m ready. As always, I’ll be using C++/libSDL, building on my Linux-based systems for both GNU/Linux and Windows users. I’ll be using The Gimp for art, sfxr and Audacity for sound, and good ol’ pen and paper to jot down ideas and designs.

For Linux users interested in creating a timelapse, I’ve provided a simple Makefile that should work for you, linked from the LD Wiki: http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/ld14:submit#optional_fun_things

I already posted about LD #14 on my blog, I’ve tweeted about it @GBGames and I’ve double-checked that I had all the tools I needed.

Unfortunately, I have a birthday party to attend tonight, so I won’t be there for the start, but I will be receiving a text message from my lovely girlfriend letting me know what the theme is once it is announced so I can think about it while I drink.

Good luck to everyone! Have fun!

Tags: twitter

Tags: motivation

This is a little library for XNA to help with game making. It wraps stuff like object management, asset loading, shaders, etc. into a compact package. The idea is to make it easy to bang out something double-quick.

The library is based on Mike Schuld’s tutorials (www.thehazymind.com).

It’s not complete, but I don’t have the energy to finish it right now. Will try to add more functionality before the compo begins. No documentation but there’s an example program.

http://haitaka.googlepages.com/Booon.zip

Also, I made a page for my compo entry, whatever it will be.

http://haitaka.googlepages.com/ludumdare14

Blah, must sleep now. It’s 1 am here.

Tags: \syameimaru!/, 3D, booon, tools, xna

9h45m to go.. I’ve purchased food, cleared my schedule (mostly), and made a plan.

Tonight, I go to bed relatively early, then I get up at 7 am tomorrow, two hours after the competition starts. I spend most of the day tomorrow getting an early playable version of the game up and going, then at 5 pm or so I go to my friends 30’th birthday party.
There I do some light drinking, heavy guitar hero playing, and massive eating, then I get back home at about midnight to implement all of the ideas I’ll have thought up while not thinking about ludum dare.

The next day, I sleep for as long as I can, then spend the rest of the day finishing up the game, polishing it until it hurts, and fixing any final game play issues that might have arisen.

I’ll do a timelapse for sure again, and I’ll try to get as many entertaining pics as I can. I’m considering doing a video log on my Eee to document the development process.

Exciting! =D

Oh, and here’s my desk:

This is the library I made myself for my first LD. It’s very basic, just a simple menu shell around a stubbed out class that could be turned into a game. It also has an asset loader to make it really easy to add fonts, images, sounds and music to your game and reference them. Finally, it wraps the setup and shutdown of SDL, SDL_ttf, and SDL_mixer. It has a sample game (not really a game at all) that I made to test the library.

Thanks to doches for hosting this for me.

GameLibrary

I am in like April Showers bring May out like a lion. I really think that maybe this time I could have a bit of a chance to possibly finish something.

But for real, I’ve got some great rain ideas so let’s do this right.

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, rain, tigs

After having participated in LD5 some years ago I’ve finally found the time and motivation to enter again. Once again, I’ll be using jlnr‘s Gosu gamedev library for Ruby. As my coding skills are a bit rusty at the moment, I hope to regain some programming and time management practice (apart from enjoying a fun contest!)

Here’s my pretty basic workspace:

The compo will start at 5am German time so i think I’ll go to bed early and sleep til 8am. Also hope to resist any persuasions by my friends to go out Saturday night

Will be posting updates here, maybe some on my twitter. Good luck to everyone!

Tags: desk, gosu, ruby

Hello everyone; I’m Dan! I’m 29, don’t work professionally on games, but I am a GIS developer and it tends to involve a lot of the same graphics skills, and I’ve dabbled in gamedev for years including a few not-entirely-successful LD48 attempts. Hopefully I won’t be too far out to sea this time around.

Chances are, unfortunately, that this will be a 18-to-25 hour contest for me though. I’m going snowshoeing on Sunday morning/afternoon, tonight is date night, and I need to be (mostly) normal on sleep come Monday a.m.

Which means I’m going to have to seriously address the personal weaknesses that have kept me from finishing in the past:

• Planning. I need to have a roadmap and stick to it! I’ve got something sketched out, and am now working on some base code to have that in before things begin.
• Ambition. No full 3D rigid body dynamics for my game this time around, alas. (I consider a prior LD48 to be a resounding success, despite how pitifully far I still had to go, simply because I had a cube fall, bounce, and come to a rest on the floor. This was before ODE was considered kosher.)
• Procrastination. As helpful as brain-breaks can be, I won’t really have the time for any (besides my already-scheduled prior commitments).
• Commitment. In the past when I was limited to well under the full 48, I sort of waffled around and gave up within the first six hours. Won’t be the end of the world if I do this again, but this time I’m being a bit more serious about the goal of finishing.

Now that I’ve reminded myself of my priorites and committed myself to them by posting them for all of you to see….

Best of luck to everyone! Once I have a working basecode (priority #1 is to be able to start working on the actual game right away) I’ll see if I can get a pic o’ my desk, etc., before 9pm tonight.

Tags: iamin, intro, wellcaffinated

Right, come on everyone, vote for Procedural Generation, you know you want to!

Here’s my desk. I’m finishing off a maths assignment at the mo, so I’m on the coffee.

Tools: Pair of Laptops (both Linux), Korg Nanokey, Python, Pygame.

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009

Oh boy oh boy, almost time.

Sorry for the blurry phonecam, but wanted to upload something

Tags: keys

I won’t have a ton of time this particular weekend, but I will try my best to have something ready by the end of the compo.

Tools:

• python
• pyglet
• pixelmator
• reason
• audacity

Hardware:

• macbook
• guitar
• keyboard

Good luck to all!

Only 7 more hours until my first compo. My home office is always at the ready:

Though I’ll probably spend a lot of time in coffee shops instead, no way am I sitting in one place for two days straight.

The contest starts at 9PM local time, so I may start doing a bit of work tonight if I feel confident that I can force myself to go to bed at a decent hour.

Everybody vote for layers! I’ve got some good ideas there. 😉

Tools: Macbook, Wacom tablet, Ruby, Gosu, cfxr. Possibly chipmunk for physics but I’d rather avoid it to keep things simple. I’m gonna try and avoid 3d too, or keep it to a minimum.

Lots of coffee and green tea. I’ve stashed up on miso soup, dried fruit, and burrito fixings. I’ll try to avoid hitting the homebrew beer but I make no promises.

Tags: desk, ruby

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, motivation

So, this is my first LD. I’ll be using GameMaker to program (although if my CS4 trial didn’t run out I might’ve used Flash), and PXtone to create sounds. However, I ran into a small problem for this weekend. First, I came down with a sickness yesterday. Then, on Saturday (first day of working on the game) I have a concert to play in at about 7:00 AM. The rest of the day is free, thankfully. I’ll get most of my stuff done then. Then, the next day, I have a piano recital to attend to, AND an awards ceremony to go to. As a result, I won’t get a huge amount of production time. I’ll still try my best, though.

Looking at my archive, I find that this is my 8th competition ever… Hope that is my lucky number this time, and I can actually submit a game that I’m proud of… I usually deliver a complete game with sound and everything, but I never seem to quite nail it gameplay-wise.

So, my primary goal this time is too try to tone the ambition enough to have time to actually do level-design and such, while keeping it high enough to actually be fun to code the game.

I’ve just finished to build my framework (don’t know if that’s against of the rules or no, I’m just taking some stuff out of the way, like D3D initialization (ripped from the samples) and some stuff I took from my previous competitions (like a particle system, which I love!)). I hope that’s not against the rules, but I’m guessing it goes in the spirit of the compo, considering lots of people program with Flash and SDL and other such platforms that implement that logic from the base.

Anyway, here it is, for those that want to look at it…

Framework Source

I’m using Visual C++ with Direct3d for most stuff, FMOD for sound. For art, I’m using 3d Studio and Photoshop CS3, and for sound, I’ll hopefully use Musagi and Sfxr… If I do any 3d artwork I need to spritify, I’m using IBGen, but I doubt, since my talent with 3d is almost NULL… I wish it wasn’t (and that I had a loader of some format or anything), so I can do 3d stuff for a change, but that’s wishful thinking…

Advise for the first-timers: don’t do 3d…

Competition starts at 3am local time, so I won’t stay up waiting on theme… I’ll probably just set my alarm to 3am to see the theme and go back to sleep thinking on an idea… goooooooooo proceduralism!

Good luck everyone!

A friend of mine (Morre) have convinced/forced me to participate in this madness. I don’t know how much time I can put aside for this mission since I have an exam that I should be working on instead.

Anyways.. Hopefully I can manage to get something finished (thanks to all those motivation posters <3).

I will probably only use Slick as of custom libraries.

Good luck everyone!

Tags: java, Slick

Participated in the GlobalGameJam This year and was pretty nice, let´s see what I can in this challenge. will use Love2d game engine.

Tags: love2d, lua

This is my second Ludumdare, after entering the bulldozer tree destruction game for LD13. I didn’t really finish last time, so this time I’m determined to do better. I don’t really have many ideas figured out so far, but I guess I’ll wait for the theme and roll with it from there!

Stuff I’ll be using:
– Unity (game engine)
– Textmate (text editor)
– Photoshop
– 3D Studio MAX (yes, I am determined to do 3D again! D: )
– GarageBand (for music!)

See you on the battlefield tomorrow morning! Just five and a half hours until the kick off, I should probably get an early night!

This is going to be my first LD. I first heard about LD right after LD13 and have been looking forward to participating since that.

Since this is my first go at making a game in 48 hours I’ll stick to a language and library I know, C++ and SDL.  I’m using Visual Studio 2008 as my IDE. Other tools I’m using will be Gimp for art and sfxr for sound. Not sure about music yet.

The compo starts at 5 in the morning in my timezone. So I won’t be awake when the theme is announced. I’ll probably get up around 8 and start then.

Someone at work pointed this competition out to me, so I figured why not give it a shot.  In my usual manner, preparation has only just begun.  I still don’t even know what development environment I’m going to use.

Following what seems to be tradition, here is my workspace.  complete with cat and emergency supplies (the good stuff is in the fridge!)

Tags: desk

Tags: ld48_14, motivation

So, I didn’t get anything done last time. I’m hoping to this time, if I can think of something for the theme that hasn’t been announced yet :P. I’ll be making a really simple game with Torque Game Builder, so that I can learn to use it. But, I probably won’t get something done with that, and be forced to make a really quick game with something else.

Planned tools:

• TGB for making the game
• Paint.NET for graphics
• That’s all!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/julianmh/ld14workspace.jpg

Filled with crap, it’s my desk. The CDs by my Laptop are, from lrft to right, Guns N’ Roses: Use Your Illusion II, Pennywise: About Time, and Pennywise: Full Circle. The Pennywise are there because I’m seeing The Offspring in Toronto with Pennywise opening.

Tags: deskphoto

With PlatyGame in hand, I’ve got some simplified basecode ready.

#include <PlatyGame.h>
using namespace PlatyGame;

int main (int argc, char* argv[]) {
if (!initialize())
return 1;
atexit(shutdown);
if (!initText())
return 2;
atexit(shutdownText);
if (!initSound())
return 3;
atexit(shutdownSound);

bool fullscreen = false;
if(argc > 1) {
if(strcmp(argv[1], “fullscreen”) == 0) {
fullscreen = true;
}
}

Screen screen(800, 600, “Game”, fullscreen);
if (!screen.good())
return 4;

Sound snd(“snd/platymuus.wav”);
BitmapSprite splash(“gfx/platymuus.png”);
splash_run(screen, splash, snd, 4);

return 0;
}

Tags: C++, LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, PlatyGame, SDL

Not about to miss out on a real compo, not when I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks. Doches is in, though I’m still undecided on what I’ll use. First time around was Ruby, second was Python. I had pretty good success just diving in and learning python last time; thinking about doing the same for flash. Or maybe Objective-C. Who knows. Really, I guess it depends on how much I like the theme.

And come-hell-or-high-water I’m doing all the extraneous stuff this time, too. I’m doing this compo right: motivational posters, journal, food. Everything that goes into my stomach this weekend is going to be photographed and blogged in real time. You heard it here first, folks.

Also, I’m responsible for the twitterbot in #ludumdare. If it annoys you, complain to me!

Cleaned and ready to go!

Tags: desk

Just over 4 hours to go and I’m looking at the possible themes, wondering which one I can do justice to in the 5 or 6 hours that are going to be available to me this weekend. I came close to talking myself out of it, but what the hell – I’m going to go for it.

Back in the days of the BBC model B (yeah, I’m old) a procedure in BBC BASIC was defined with DEF PROC and invoked with PROC followed by the procedure name – spaces optional. Let’s just say that I won’t be calling the procedure named RASTINATE this weekend.

Tags: LD #14 - Advancing Wall of Doom - 2009, motivation

As per compo rules, I thought I’d make available some random functions in torquescript that I might use since I don’t feel like rewriting such nonsense.  They provide stuff like “generic button” behavior, gotoMount, changing the mouse cursor, having a splash screen, and “fade in / out”.  No game code in there, I swear!  Just some nice utility functions that I’ve come to rely on a bit heavily.

MouseOverCursorChange.cs belonged to Stanley D. Chatman, and

splashScreen.cs belonged to Mike Lilligreen, both of which were freely available TGB resources, and I may have modified either of them (so don’t blame anything on those two guys!).

I put everything in a zip in case anyone wants to take a peek: The Zip

-Tim

Tags: libraries, rules

Not for the game, for your development work!

If you have a Nico Nico Douga account, go search for the tag 作業用BGM.

More music than you can shake a stick at. Also, the downtime when the current mix ends and you’re looking for a new one helps to clear your head.

Say hi to my desk, which I hope to see only when I do Photoshop work:

Other than that, coffee shops and the university will probably be where I am most of the time, meeting up with pythong and mathias. Wee!

Tools

• Ruby (1.8, sadly)
• the Gosu library—<plug>just released version 0.7.13!</plug>
• TextMate
• Photoshop + Wacom
• cFXR
• MacBook
• actually
• I’ll make this list
• a bit longer to make it look
• like I am well-prepared

So be very afraid! … *runs to the mall to buy some pizza*

Tags: desk, gosu, ruby