… well, sort of…

I don’t like timed games. I don’t like playing them, so I don’t like making them that much. So I’ll play by my own rules, to a certain extent.

My idea:

A Thief who has all the time of the world to steal stuff, but only has 10 seconds to escape the premises… There:

• A game I would like to do
• It is not timed (for the most part of it)

The main idea is while you are exploring the place for your loot, you must be thinking in the guard positioning, and how to get to the nearest exit without getting caught (because you’ll only have 10 seconds to do so…!)

The game is uninspiringly called The Thief.

You may check its progress at http://nng.is-a-geek.net/ld27.

To checkout the development process, watch my livestream at http://www.twitch.tv/n0_named_guy.

Stuff I am using:

• JavaScript/HTML5/CSS (in other words, web thingies)
• jQuery and UnderscoreJS (I thought about using KineticJS but gave up on that)
• GIMP image editor
• Tiled Map Editor (available at http://www.mapeditor.org/)
• gVim file editor (the best file editor there is)
• Firefox and Chrome for testing
• Arch Linux 64 bits with the Awesome window manager
• nginx on a Raspberry PI to host game previews (what hosts the content at http://nng.is-a-geek.net/ld27)
• ffmpeg for streaming and scrot for timelapsing

I may use other stuff, but those are the essentials. I’ll try to keep you updated with my progress. Happy Ludum Dare to you all!