I am extremely excited with this edition of Ludum Dare. I am really looking forward to see what I can do in 48 hrs this time, and what other people will do. I can’t stop checking the main page at least once per hour 😀 It’s going to be my 3rd Ludum Dare.

I participated in Ludum Dare 25 with the game Earth Destroyer:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=14551

While the game only placed #200 overall (Which is actually pretty good, and beyond my own personal goal), I loved working in the game, and I actually *love* what I did, from time to time I load it up and play it for a while, I personally think it’s an incredibly fun and entertaining game.

In Ludum Dare 24, I was in the Jam supervising some of my high-schools students while they made their first game ever, in 48 hrs nonetheless:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=16030

It was a blast working on that, the kids learned a lot that weekend, and became little heroes in the school. It was a big event for the school actually.

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I am incentivating everyone I know who can code and has any interest in gaming to participate. I am also promoting Ludum Dare heavily in my own facebook timeline, and I am incentivating my students to try to go solo in the Compo. A few will do, while some other will work in a duo, without my supervision, which still is pretty cool.

I’ll use GameMaker Studio. Even though I can code in other languages, I really love GameMaker for, erm, GameMaking. I was thinking about going for HTML5, because its something I am learning nowadays, but I still don’t feel secure with it right now to try to make a game in 48hrs. But I’ll surely try it out in a future Ludum Dare.

I still am not sure what tool I’ll use for music making, that will depend on what I’ll want to do. Soundwise, BFXR and Audacity for sure for GFX, mostly I’ll use the built-in Game Maker sprite editor, though I’ll probably use Gimp for some stuff.

Oh, and I’m Brazilian, I live in Rio de Janeiro. Anyone nearby?

That’s all, I’m in.