Speculations About the Mini-LD by Henry McLaughlin

Speculations About the Mini-LD

[raw] LD23LD #23 05. May 2012 · 00:51 UTC · 15 days after compo start by Henry Mclaughlin · 0

So… there’s a Mini-LD this month, right? I thought so.

Well… I’m going to be doing freelance work (hopefully), but I can will carve out some time for the Mini-LD.

So here are some tools that I’m thinking about:

XNA with C#
XNA with Visual Basic (as of 4.0 “refresh”, XNA supports Visual Basic!)
Construct 2
Unity Free
Python+Pygame+py2exe
Game Maker (unlikely, though)
FlashPunk + AIR
Flixel + AIR

That being said, I’m not sure yet. I’m leaning toward XNA+C# or Construct 2 at the moment…

Any thoughts on this are welcome!

With this many options, how can I go wrong?

– Henry

Comments

digital_sorceress

05. May 2012 · 11:35 UTC

I’m not sure if XNA has much of a future. So it may not be a good thing to start learning.

Attrition

07. May 2012 · 12:42 UTC

If you want to learn something that you can apply to several operating systems (good for LD), I’d go with Unity — and note that contrary to what another poster said, you CAN make commercial products with Unity Free. This is from their official FAQ: