Hey all, this is my first Ludum Dare and I am very much looking forwards to developing alongside so many talented creative minds in this Jam.

If you hadn’t gathered from the above, that means I am in! But wait, there is more! I have been voting as have many this week and blogging about my thoughts towards the themes in a small series of Voting posts created on my personal blog including a final summary post about the tough decisions I made in the final round. Hopefully the themes I chose will shine brightly but I’m sure I couldn’t choose one single theme to come out on top if tasked to do so alone, so thanks to everyone who has voted and may the best theme win!

Onto my workspace, I’ll be using the Phaser Framework alongside a custom Jam framework I’ll be scratching together the night before and making publicly available via my Github if anyone else wishes to use it. This will mainly be tidier looking functions and utility code to make the whole experience go down smoother so I can focus on the gameplay and mechanics. My Code Editor of choice is probably going to be either the Chrome Dev Editor or Sublime Text 3 depending on which works best for me at the time, though I can always fall back into Webstorm but for something small like a jam game it seems like overkill. I’ll be creating all of my pixels using Photoshop, music will probably be created using one of the many smaller tools such as Musagi but if I feel the need I’ll rock FL Studio, say if I need a more real sounding track in the background. Sound effects will all either be recorded by me or generated using Bfxr. I’ll be listening to Trance.fm for most of the jam, either the Trance or Progressive stream. Mainly so I don’t fall asleep in silence and also don’t have to fiddle around with playlists and such. I think I have just about covered everything…

Oh almost forgot! Plenty of Coffee.

Be sure to follow me on Twitter: @GlitchPulse to keep up to speed with my jam progress, I’ll be trying to tweet out screenshots and builds constantly. and I’ll see you at Jamtime!

And finally the links to my Blog Posts:
Round 1: http://glitchpulse.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/ld30-theme-voting-round-1/
Round 2: http://glitchpulse.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/ld30-theme-voting-round-2/
Round 3|4: http://glitchpulse.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/ld30-theme-voting-round-34/
Final Round: http://glitchpulse.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/ld30-theme-voting-final-round-im-in/