I thought I’d make a note, to be polite, and to commit to doing this thing.<\/p>\n
This time, I will be using HaxePunk, and targeting flash, so more people have a chance to play. I’ll also be more heavily focusing on visual appeal, since that was left way behind the last time. Can’t tell much more before the theme is picked.<\/p>\n
Truth be told, I’m not that fond of Haxe<\/a> and HaxePunk<\/a>, and it does require compilation and refresh, so I won’t be able to tweak things on the fly, or anything. Then again, I haven’t worked with them for very long. \u00a0Syntactically they’re fine, \u00a0looking like strongly typed Javascript to my eyes, but of late, I’ve been preferring the syntax of lua and python.<\/p>\n Basically, me and my RSI<\/a> don’t much like chording for {}s on a scandinavian keyboard. I can shift-alt to US layout, though, but while my fingers mostly remember it, my recollection is far from perfect. I will most likely try to type using the US layout just for fun.<\/p>\n Apparently, the standard GUI interfaces of eclipses, fooDevelops and such is better for RSI than even vim, which seems a bit odd. \u00a0Vim, once you get a hang of using the motions without arrow keys, is pretty nice. I am considering a switch to Cream<\/a>, though — I really don’t see any reason not to, at this very moment.<\/p>\n I’ll probably have to do some modifications to the tiled-library in HaxePunk, it will be in the recording — I’ll be recording with Chronolapse<\/a>, probably, if possible, I’ll start with 1 frame per second, and when I get a bit into it, I’ll lift it to 1 frame per minute.<\/p>\n I’ve generated a ton, or five or so, game ideas during the wait already. So that’s cool.<\/p>\n *edit*<\/p>\n Oh, audio-wise, I’ll be going with bfxr<\/a>, and, maybe, the Chirp Composer<\/a>. I am not a musician, though.<\/p>\n I must also mention Tiled<\/a>. Ogmo keeps crashing on me. DAME<\/a> seems powerful, but the way it looks is no good.<\/p>\n I’ll probably animate using some mixture of Paint.net<\/a>, GraphicsGale free<\/a> and\/or Aseprite<\/a>. Possibly maybe with some measure of \u00a0OpenCanvas<\/a> thrown in.<\/p>","time":"December 10th, 2013 7:55 pm","title":"I\u2019m in, Ludum Dare the 28th."}