I managed to get something ready for submission, just about! This was my 2nd Ludum Dare (previous one was “Evolution”). In both compos I used ClojureScript with just the Google Closure libraries (i.e. no game dev. frameworks). Last time I wasn’t particularly confident putting together things with ClojureScript (but I knew Clojure pretty well) but it was still the closest thing to “using what I know”. I aim to get up to speed with more game development stuff (libraries, graphics in general, even frameworks maybe) so that next time I have more tools at my disposal. I think ClojureScript is an awesome language for very rapidly growing code and for game jams I think it’s a good tool (when combined with the usual HTML5 things like Box2D and so on – those are things I need to work into the mix next time).<\/p>\n
Last time I really enjoyed creating pixel art (in Pixen for the Mac – highly recommended). This time I didn’t have a clear idea about how things would look so I cobbled together some “art” and left it looking rather shabby. I figure that’s the charm of a game jam anyway.<\/p>\n
Probably the element that frustrates me the most about building a game solo is not knowing how to put together any kind of music. I really wanna work on that for the next game jam also.<\/p>\n
Well that was fun, now to assimilate more tools and techniques so next time \u00a0I’m slightly better.<\/p>\n
Hope everybody had a good time and learned lots.<\/p>\n \n
Tags: clojure<\/a>, clojurescript<\/a>, Pixen<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 25th, 2013 7:23 pm","title":"Submitted"}