First time to play
I’ve never done one of these competitions before. I have a bunch of other plans this weekend but I’ll see what I can make! The themes look really interesting.
I also realized recently that the best way I program games is not by designing the whole thing out but rather just starting to program something and see where it goes from there. I like simulations. This will be good to get my creative juices flowing again after doing contract work for almost 3 years solid.
I still haven’t decided between Unity, Haxe (which I’ve never used) and Stencyl. Anyone have thoughts or recommendations? I know js, as3, C#.
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Hectate
10. Dec 2013 · 14:20 UTC
If you’re using free Stencyl (2.x), your AS3 experience will help because it’s built on Flixel which is an AS3 library. Always handy if you want to break into actual code; I’ve done that several times.
10. Dec 2013 · 16:12 UTC
Don’t use things you never used before in jams. Just a recommendation.
11. Dec 2013 · 14:27 UTC
Ha, ratking, good point. I’m definitely leaning towards Unity as it’s what I’ve been using a lot recently. But if I get stuck with that (depending on what I get stuck on), I’ll probably switch over to Stencyl.