This will be my 2.5th Ludum Dare. The first one I wasn’t good enaugh to programm anything usefull, so I didn’t submit(half one), and last LD I wanted to participate, but couldn’t long enaugh. Just imagine, there were people wanting to meet me in real life. Familiy, Friends Birthday etc. Just imagine: human contact D: yuk!  This time I have held the LD weekend free, so I’ll participate.

Now to the business part of things:

-I will train by writing the tools I want’t to use. Hopefully the extra practice will help me, but it will at least refresh my memory of the librarys. I’m trying to make a small buttons library for pygame (Python SDL Binding) and/or pyglet (Python OpenGL port +  other fancy stuff) and use it to make a simple tile editor and a tiny tool to synthesize some music. I know pygame way better, but you can only rotate sprites in pyglet -_-

-I will try to make a warmup game, but only if I finish those tools first

-An advice to myself and to everyone else: Don’t write complicated code because you think it’s clever and short, then end up debugging and ‘why u no work!!’ it  for longer than the simpler, longer code would have taken. Basicly sums up my entire last Ludum Dare

-Tools and Stuff:

-CPython 3.2

-Eclipse + pydev as IDE

-paint.net for graphics

-pygame,pyglet and the standart library

-possibly my own tools

Well that’s it, wish you all a nice LD, bye