Team Cocoa Moss is in! After doing LD45 by myself I'm happy to report that I'll be joining forces with my partner-in-crime @xellaya once again for Ludum Dare 46.

You might remember us from previous entries such as Samurai Shaver and Goodnight Meowmie, along with our other works.

Here's a random screenshot from one of our older games, Rain:

As always, we're not sure what kind of thing we'll end up with this time and we don't have any particular goals or aspirations. Will we try to make an atmospheric narrative? Will we make something involving dialogue? Will we record our own voices? Will it involve meowmies? Nobody knows!

I switched over from Unity to Godot for LD45 and will be continuing to work in Godot for LD46. The lightweight nature of Godot has been perfect for projects like this, and the engine has gotten better and better, recently adding in language server support for better intellisense with IDEs like VSCode! Similar to Unity, Godot has an integrated tilemap editor, even supporting autotiling and animated tiles, so Tiled (while a lovely tool) is no longer needed as part of my toolsuite.

Our base starter code is split into two projects on bitbucket, a project template and a library of commonly-used functionality.

Full list of tools we may use:

• Godot, as our engine, exporting to HTML5, but perhaps also iOS/Android/downloadable
• VSCode, as an IDE
• Paint Tool SAI for drawing, along with a Cintiq
• Aseprite, if we end up with pixel art
• FL Studio, for essentially all audio needs

Some random tips for all you newbies out there:

• Now is the time to take care of all of the logistical work of upgrading your software, getting your project stub setup, creating a source code repository, and figuring out how you're going to share assets and host your game!
• Give your tools a test run and have your export templates all ready! There's nothing more stressful than figuring out that your engine's HTML5 export is buggy and doesn't work during the last hour of a game jam :(
• Stay safe and take care of yourself :)
• Last, but not least, "the theme always sucks", so be prepared for that :D

I'll see you all at the starting line!