My First Dare
Hello I’m Ryan (Rybicon)
Thru the good fortune of being currently unemployed I can finally participate in Ludum Dare #23. I’ve been a fan of this site for a long time but still I’ll admit I don’t know what I’m doing and I have no expectations beyond completing a game within the time frame and not sleeping for 48 hours. I’ve a fair bit of experience programming games, pretty much as a hobby right now.
Tools:
I’m pretty comfortable with Flixel so I can be sure to use that.
Graphics will pretty much be made with Photoshop, I actually bought CS5.5 awhile ago so I like to use it just so I can feel I’m getting my moneys worth even though it’s going to be pixel art, I’d rather use what I know than a pixel editor program that I would be burning time learning to use.
Who knows what I’m going to do for sound effects, I’ve never really played around with creating my own and not sure where to find good usable sounds online.
Music… I don’t really have an ear for music at all so we shall see how that goes.
I’ve always tried not to create my own art for the games I make (because I never really feel comfortable with the end result), and usually that means I can’t really release anything due to copyright restrictions but in hindsight: the amount of time I spend finding that perfect open source image to use online, I could have just thrown together some rather poopie but charming programmer art.
I don’t plan on doing a time-laps but I shall be blogging with as many photos as I find relevant and try to get into this community! I love the creative openness of this website. This dare is kind of a “Do your best with what you got Ryan” and next time I’m sure I’ll be more prepared for it.
Good luck to all!