This Ludum Dare doesn’t overlap with Guild Wars 2’s launch weekend, so I’ll be giving it a shot. It does overlap with their holiday event, but I can live with that (plus all the events will be doable for weeks to come in Lion’s Arch anyway.)

Surprisingly, I came up with a solid idea right off the cuff this time. Due to my love for puns, my entry is going to be titled Dungeon Leaper.

I’ll be doing it in HTML5/Canvas this time. Why? Because LOVE2D had some issues, the last LD I participated in had someone going around and posting nasty comments on every game that wasn’t web based, and it doesn’t hurt to broaden my skill set. I should probably have made an effort to become familiar with it before the compo, but I don’t expect this to require any particularly complex programming.

Rather than plunge myself into the unfamiliar wilds of JavaScript right away, I’m spending tonight on content creation – I already have half a theme song and I’m going to try for a slightly less abstract look, despite my lack of any real pixel art ability. We’ll see how it goes.

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