Declaration of intent: Going in for the compo again, this time using pulsar lua, which is still in beta found at

http://retrogamecoding.org/board/index.php?topic=269.0

its the next level of EGSL which I used for my last 2 entries, but adds some features and hardware acceleration. If you are like me and like writing in lua, but dont  warm up to love 2d’s “every freaking thing goes to a callback” and are more comfortable with just plain ol procedural style of programming, I suggest you check either of the above out.

• Graphics = the gimp 2.6
• Sound FX = Bfxr
• Music = either atrk-bu.py (a “music” generator script published here some number of compos ago) along with modplug to edit, or if I have time to make my own bosca

Will be doing a timelapse using chronolapse

Thats the plan for now, if the theme and my thoughts point to something fairly simple I may go retro … thinking Apple II, maybe MS-DOS, maybe 68k mac … Ill update (and everyone will be on the edge of their seat right?) if that comes about.

I was going to post a desk photo, but its got a lot of junk and the flash showed me some gnarly dust bunnies I need to clean up on the edge next to the wall so … yea not going to post that, and the first thing I do after this is done is drag this thing from the wall and wipe everything down (shame too cause I recently got a really nice monitor I wouldn’t mind showing off)

Dev Machine Specs:

since this seems to be a thing this round here we go, not a bleeding edge top of the line machine, but it plays all current games at 1080 maxed out without hardly a jitter, so I be happy.

AMD FX4170, 4.2Ghz quad core

8GB DDR3 Ram @ 2.2Ghz

AMD Radeon HD 6870 (1GB GDDR5)

my nice new HP 23 inch LCD, great contrast ratio and MATTE screen (down with the glossy!)

my wife ran the model M keyboard out of the bedroom a few LD’s ago, so I got a lenovo … which is not as good as even the older late 90’s early 2000’s IBM keyboards *shrug* ge mouse I bought at the grocery store at some point cause its ps/2 and I have a few ps/2 machines. finally some generic china drawing tablet. Its actually just as good as the old USB model wacom I had (like 1998 old) besides it takes a battery for the pen its price is perfect for the 4 times a year I use it (LD)

Previous LD attempts:

another thing thats more popular these days is screens of previous games: so here they are, dont bother playing them, they are mostly bad … I am not a game programming guru, I just enjoy the challenge

LD 14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LD15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LD 18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LD 26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LD 28

ok enough yapping

LETS DO THIS!

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