Woo hoo, another LD!! Can’t wait. Good luck everyone, hoping for a nice theme and looking forward to playing some cool games!

My tool set:

• Language: Java
• IDE: IntelliJ IDEA
• Libraries: Katsu v3 (Quick-Start IDEA Project + 2D game library built on top of Slick)
• Level Design: Tiled
• Graphics: Photoshop
• Sounds/Music: OpenMPT, Audacity, SFXR

I’ve been working on Katsu recently in the run-up to the compo, it’s now a lot cleaner to use and has some handy new features.

Katsu v3 Features:

• Ready-to-go standalone distribution build based on Slick2D/LWJGL with launcher scripts (Win+Mac+Linux+Solaris)
• Ready-to-go applet build
• Entity/Room/View model (support for multiple views on screen)
• Sound/music manager
• Load room & entities from Tiled map
• Text console (a la Minecraft)
• Convenient resource structure (tiled maps, tileset, sounds, music)

Getting Katsu

Katsu v3 can be downloaded from here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21611/ld26/declare/katsu3.zip

All code and content is released under a public domain license. See the README for getting started!