So I see the stream of “I’m in” posts increasing as the date approaches. I guess since I already requested Jam-Monday off from work, I should declare. I’ll be in the compo. Unless I’m not, then I’ll be in the jam. Unless I’m not. Failure most definitely is an option, for if I don’t make the deadline, I still come out better than I started. Disappointment is temporary, improvements to skill and design are permanent.

I’ll be using XNA (shush, I’ll port to HTML so you don’t have to install it) plus a library of helper code (sprite handling, collision handling, tile map rendering, etc) I’ve been working on for a while now. I’ll declare the library later, as I’m actively developing it as part of another game. Offline tools include GIMP, Tiled, autotracker-bu, bfxr, OpenMPT, and whatever else I find I need as I go.