{"author_name":"schnerble","cat":"LD #25","comments":[],"epoch":1355521440,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"50112","p_author":"schnerble","p_authorkey":"11560","p_urlkey":"85799","p_title":"Hello!","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1355521440","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11560","us_name":"schnerble","us_username":"schnerble","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"<p>Greetings!<\/p>\n <p>Hope you&#8217;re all doing well, and looking forward to LD25 (:<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m in, once again &#8211; and returning to my favourite language, Python, after a brief flirtation with Javascript\/WebGL, and of course C++ for my day job. \u00a0My preparation has, as always, been pretty average; this time I&#8217;ve even barely touched any vaguely-related code beforehand, and had my office Christmas party last night. \u00a0Still, I&#8217;m not here to win it &#8211; I&#8217;m here for the buzz we all get from exercising our creative instincts (:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Language: Python<\/span><\/li>\n <li>Library: Pyglet (hopefully; maybe back to Pygame if things go pear-shaped)<\/li>\n <li>Graphics: Gimp<\/li>\n <li>Sound: Bfxr<\/li>\n <li>Music: Autotracker<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Big hugs to Increpare and Greasemonkey as always for Bfxr and Autotracker. \u00a0I&#8217;d like to write my own music for one of these competitions one day, but that&#8217;d require more preparation and learning a new app, as well as taking some time away from game coding &#8211; so we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m crossing my fingers I can avoid bugs of the magnitude I had the last couple of times: jerky updates in LD23, and resource load timing weirdness in LD24. \u00a0Pyglet looks very nice so far, so we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n <p>The one person I know on here isn&#8217;t joining in this time &#8211; so, Ludum Dare community, it&#8217;s just you and me this time&#8230; \u00a0and let&#8217;s have a good one! \u00a0All the best to all of you, and I hope you have a great weekend (:<\/p>","time":"December 14th, 2012 4:44 pm","title":"Hello!"}