Getting ready for my first Ludum Dare.<\/p>\n
I will be participating in the Jam together with my good friend Vidar<\/a>\u00a0as team ATOMIC STRAWBERRY<\/b><\/a>!<\/p>\n We are going to be writing our game in LUA using l\u00f6ve2d,<\/em> we will also be doing our own graphics with tools like grafx2 and the gimp. It is still a mystery to how we are going to get music and sound into our game, but I am sure we will find a way.<\/p>\n This will be a very new experience for me since I’ve never really HAD to finish a programming project\u00a0in such a short deadline, so we will see how it goes, luckily Vidar already has some experience with this!<\/p>\n We have decided to try and design our code with data oriented design<\/em>\u00a0also known as\u00a0component oriented <\/em>which\u00a0Vidar introduced me to. In striving for a\u00a0data oriented design one tries to steer away from\u00a0the mindset that comes with object oriented design <\/em>in which one creates sets of data that live in an object, instead you try to group related data together, such as having one array for the positions for all of your entities. This approach has\u00a0advantages, especially for performance. I have not had much experience with this style of programming so this weekend will be a perfect opportunity to get some! (more info<\/a>)<\/p>\n I am writing this the day before we start. Being in Sweden means that the Jam\/Compo starts in the middle of the night (in about 3 hours). So I will try to get a reasonable night’s sleep and then head of to Vidar’s early in the morning to get started! I am very excited!<\/p>\n Best of luck to you all!<\/p>","time":"December 5th, 2014 3:45 pm","title":"Getting ready!"}