{"author_name":"rasmusrn","cat":"LD #25","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 8, 2012 2:24 pm","epoch":1354994640,"text":"You can user familiar tools and still challenge yourself, just need to push the boundaries a bit. That said, I’m almost certainly going to do HTML\/JS this time as well.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"dr_soda","time":"December 8, 2012 4:56 pm","epoch":1355003760,"text":"I think there’s a point at which you are certainly competent to make a game in a new-ish toolset, and that it’s a good test to see if you can do it. For example, my preferred tools for getting something out quickly would be something like Unity or Flash, but in LD23 I used Java, and nothing more than an Android tablet to make an entire game, graphics, sound, and all. I had *never* attempted anything of that scale on my Transformer, and had no idea if it would even work… but it did.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1354993740,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"50941","p_author":"rasmusrn","p_authorkey":"15543","p_urlkey":"86634","p_title":"I\u2019ll be using my good old tool belt","p_cat":"LD #25","p_event":"LD25","p_time":"1354993740","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"15543","us_name":"rasmusrn","us_username":"rasmusrn","event_start":"1355443200","event_key":"14","event_name":"LD25"},"text":"

I’ve been making games for the web for the last 10 years or so. Lately, I’ve been playing around with Objective-C\/Cocos2d, OpenGL, C#\/MonoGame and C++ but I’ve never finished a game with these technologies.\u00a0Therefore, I got the idea that I’d use Ludum Dare as an excuse to build something non-web.<\/p>\n

However, the closer we get the more I’m sure I’ll just fallback to my good old tool belt that I’ve been using for years: HTML and Javascript.<\/p>\n

I’ve realised, I’d rather spend my Ludum Dare time actually designing rather than learning various practical things, like how to load sounds in MonoGame. I want to focus on creativity and that’s best accomplished by using tools I know.<\/p>\n

Besides, it’s my first time entering a game jam\/competition so I really don’t want to make the challenge harder than necessary.
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What about you? Are you playing it safe in terms of tech choice or are you challenging yourself with new tools?<\/p>\n

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