{"author_name":"Pitzik4","cat":"LD #30","comments":[],"epoch":1407045300,"likes":8,"metadata":{"p_key":"29637","p_author":"Pitzik4","p_authorkey":"8883","p_urlkey":"65101","p_title":"I\u2019m in!","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1407045300","p_likes":"8","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"8883","us_name":"Pitzik4","us_username":"pitzik4","event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"text":"<p>Looking at some past LD&#8217;s, the I&#8217;m In posts probably won&#8217;t start naturally for several\u00a0more days. I&#8217;m going to see if\u00a0that&#8217;s because a lot of people don&#8217;t start visiting the website until close to LD or because they&#8217;d rather write\u00a0their post when there are other people writing\u00a0theirs by seeing if this post triggers an early start for the flow of &#8220;I&#8217;m in&#8221;s. It&#8217;s not a perfect experiment, but we&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n <p>Anyway, this is my, what? Eighth LD? Wow, it is. I&#8217;ve participated in every single LD since #23, I wouldn&#8217;t miss one for anything. Almost. I guess I&#8217;d miss one for a million dollars, or for immortality, as long as it comes with eternal youth and health and a guarantee that humans won&#8217;t blow themselves up and leave me all alone. But I&#8217;m probably not going to be offered either of those things in the next 20 days.<\/p>\n <p>Here are the tools I&#8217;ll be using:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><strong>Platform:<\/strong>\u00a0<a title=\"Haxedecimal\" href=\"http:\/\/haxe.org\/\">Haxe<\/a>\u00a0with <a title=\"Google always corrects it to &quot;OpenGL&quot;! It's so annoying.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openfl.org\/\">OpenFL<\/a>\u00a0yet again! I just don&#8217;t see how anything could be better. I like the language, it runs well on all of the platforms I export to and a lot of ones I don&#8217;t, and it&#8217;s got good libraries. Such as&#8230;<\/li>\n <li><strong>Engine:<\/strong> <a title=\"I was going to make a pun(k), but I couldn't think of one.\" href=\"http:\/\/haxepunk.com\/\">HaxePunk<\/a>. HaxePunk has served me excellently in the past, and I&#8217;m actually making Spanner in the Works, my first large-scale game, with it, which has vector graphics. Go figure!<\/li>\n <li><strong>Sprite editor:<\/strong> <a title=\"The ase of sprites. Was this your card?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aseprite.org\/\">Aseprite<\/a>. Buy the $10\u00a0version. The only reason I didn&#8217;t is because I&#8217;m a cheapskate. You don&#8217;t want to be like me, do you?<\/li>\n <li><strong>Tilesetting:<\/strong> <a title=\"ARGH THIS NAME IS AWFUL.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pitzik4.net\/program\/\">GoTile<\/a>. I made this one! Whoopee! It&#8217;s totally free and stuff. Go get it, it&#8217;s sort of like <a title=\"ngggrog titleee TEXT\" href=\"http:\/\/autotilegen.com\/\">AutoTileGen<\/a> if it had been made in 2 days.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Text editor:<\/strong> <a title=\"Soob-lime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sublimetext.com\/\">Sublime Text 2<\/a>. You know, this list is starting to look suspiciously&#8230; identical&#8230; to <a title=\"Why would you even want to look at this? It's just a dusty old blog post with no relevance anymore.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2014\/04\/09\/did-i-fool-you-haha-1337\/\">the one I posted<\/a> last Ludum Dare.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Timelapse:<\/strong>\u00a0<a title=\"It could be called &quot;OpenGLapse&quot;, I guess, if you're weird and don't mind using the wrong name.\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/siondream\/glapse\">gLapse<\/a> again. But this time, I&#8217;ll turn the quality up higher. My last timelapse looked, well, disgusting. Because that&#8217;s what JPEG artifacts look like! Disgusting! Blech.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Streaming:<\/strong> Not doing it this time. Nope.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Sound:<\/strong> <a title=\"Jafexer! Huh, that wasn't funny at all...\" href=\"http:\/\/jfxr.frozenfractal.com\/\">jfxr<\/a>, made by our own Frozen Fractal and announced in the post right before this one! Let&#8217;s give him a round of applause for\u00a0bringing us the third generation of Ludum Dare low-tech sound synthesizer software that really blows away <a title=\"sfxr. So long, old buddy.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drpetter.se\/project_sfxr.html\">both<\/a> <a title=\"bfxr. I never got into this one because, without the graphs, all those sliders are just too confusing.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bfxr.net\/\">of<\/a> the previous ones. Oh, and I&#8217;ll also possibly use\u00a0<a title=\"You don't have it? And yet you have the Audacity to ask the bank for money?\" href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\">Audacity<\/a>. And maybe even <a title=\"Linux MultiMedia Studio! Is that right? I don't feel like checking. It does run on Windows, too, though! Right? I think I'm right.\" href=\"http:\/\/lmms.sourceforge.net\/home.php\">LMMS<\/a>, if I&#8217;m feeling bold.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>So, best of luck to everyone! I don&#8217;t expect to get another medal (certainly not another gold one), but I do expect this to be a lot of fun, because that&#8217;s what prior experience would suggest. I&#8217;ll have to start going to bed at midnight and getting up at 8 a.m. by then, though, because going to bed at 1:30 a.m. and getting up at 11 won&#8217;t work for several reasons. So, let&#8217;s all make some games! (In 20 days.) Wahoo!<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/im-in\/\" rel=\"tag\">im in<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 3rd, 2014 12:55 am","title":"I\u2019m in!"}