I’m in. (disney’s hocus pocus-tier LD virgin)

Whoa, I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna do the DARE all by myself. It’s gonna be awesome. Or the worst. Probably the worst. (not the event, but my game)

Safety not guaranteed. I’ve only done this nonce before. (Ludum Dare, I mean. I’ve made a video game or three, but you’ve never heard of them because they’re only on my hard drive.)

 

HERE’S THE RUNDOWN:

Language: HTML5 JAVASCRIPT PHP (OH JEEZ IT’S WEB-BASED (i’ve never done web development before and I’m trying to learn it just for this event. Backup language: I dunno, probably java or C++))

IDE: raw-dog Notepad++ (or like codeblocks if I have to use C++ or like eclipse if I have to use java)

Graphics: dat GNU Image Manipulation Program

Sound: Audacity and my own magic fingers on the accordion or something

Libraries: haha (if I use C++, SDL, otherwise I’ll be scrounging the ‘net to find something during the event itself)

Engine: whatever I can scrape together

 

Also it’s still finals week for me. I’m going to be trying to study while I try to learn web development for a 48-hour crunch. FUN

my game is either going to be beautifully terrible, or terribly awful.

Comments

tnovelli
24. Apr 2013 · 13:44 UTC
Cool, I’m doing HTML5 too… but I didn’t learn it in 48 hours. If I didn’t know it already, I would definitely use SDL. I dunno, you may have some luck with an engine like MelonJS or ImpactJS; I haven’t tried those. You want a handful of static html/js/image files you can upload, no dynamic server-side scripting, definitely no PHP :)