{"author_name":"Slossius","cat":"LD #26","comments":[{"author_name":"dualtagh","time":"April 24, 2013 6:39 am","epoch":1366803540,"text":"Why would you naturally choose Slick2D if your experience is in XNA? wouldn’t MonoGame be the natural choice?
\n but good luck anyway \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Slossius","time":"April 24, 2013 6:44 am","epoch":1366803840,"text":"It was a joke! I did consider MonoGame, but having to install VS2010 and XNA again just for the content…","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1366803360,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"46789","p_author":"Slossius","p_authorkey":"21958","p_urlkey":"82451","p_title":"First time for me\u2026","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1366803360","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"21958","us_name":"Slossius","us_username":"slossius","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"

I’m a relative novice, going through a “I want to be a great programmer” phase, and I’ll be entering Ludum Dare for the first time!<\/p>\n

I have most experience (which isn’t very much) with C#\/XNA, so naturally I’m choosing to do this project with Java\/Slick2D! I’m in the process of warming up with Pong right now, to get to grips with the language and framework. It could be a complete flop, but what the hell – may as well give it a shot!<\/p>\n

Java, Slick2D, Eclipse, Paint.NET, (unsure about sound).<\/p>","time":"April 24th, 2013 6:36 am","title":"First time for me\u2026"}