I’m here, like it or not
This will be my third Ludum Dare.
I entered the previous two as ElectricSeagull, but I’m a bit tired of that name.
Since I’ve not done any kind of game development stuff since the last LD (that was a whole third of a year ago!?!) and I haven’t left myself any time to practice new tools, I’ll stick within my comfort zone, using Java, libGDX, Eclipse. I wanted to try out Phaser, but…
Nevertheless, inspired by the great key note speech, I want to push forward into some new areas for me and try and do one or more (or none) of the following:
- hand drawn/painted graphics:
Drawing and painting are things that I do, but hand drawn animation is way out of my comfort zone. - narrative:
always something I ignore … but could be really interesting to explore - nice acoustic audio:
I don’t play a musical instrument, but I can try some kind of sound effects - joining in, Twitter, the site blog, IRC, etc:
I’m absolutely atrocious at social media (or anything at all social for that matter (I’m nice really, just shy, don’t hate me!)) - not using Box2d:
It’s a great physics engine and it worked really well for my last game, but I don’t want to rely on it for some simple collision system I should write myself.
That’s about it, thankfully. Good luck everybody and god willing a good theme.