So this is going to be our 3rd Ludum Dare, our best was 700/2300 in overall, we want to make it into 300 this time!
Me (jancsiba5, programmer) and my fella (graphics designer) are ColonierGames, and we’ve been preparing for LD the whole week! I wrote a little engine, so that I can start to code game right away! You can download it here. It is a 2D engine for top down view games OR platformers, featuring collision detection, per vertex lighting, Texture and Sound handling and some more stuff.
So the tools are the following:
For me: Eclipse(for JAVA), LWJGL, Slick, CEngine, Fruity Loops(for music), Audacity, sfxr
For graphics: Pickle, Paint.NET, Photoshop CS6(maybe? i dunno)
Hope all of you will have fun and make great games!
Good Luck!