{"author_name":"BubuIIC","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1335055320,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"57247","p_author":"BubuIIC","p_authorkey":"11335","p_urlkey":"92996","p_title":"Our first ludum dare, Day1","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1335055320","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11335","us_name":"BubuIIC","us_username":"bubuiic","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"

So, finally got around to posting here. So here is a late: “We’re in, yay!” \":-)\"<\/p>\n

That’s two German programmers, for the first time taking part in Ludum Dare. We go for a jam entry because we wanted to work together; even though this means taking monday off from university.<\/p>\n

Language\/Libraries: C++\/OpenGL\/SDL\/Irrklang
\n Engine: Some basic code from previous projects, else custom built 3D
\n Sound: sfxr, and some music generator
\n Art\/Models: C++ \":-)\"
\n Timelapse: chronolapse, this will be fun
\n I wanted to compile for Google Native Client, but we wanted to use a few libraries which are not available there, so no web version for our game :-(.<\/p>\n

First Day experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n

After theme announcement at 3 am we had a comfortable amount of 7h of sleep, got breakfast and started brainstorming. We decided for a concept quite quickly. It will be a game about a genie trying to escape his world in a bottle. (Is ‘Genie found in a bottle’ a good name…? Probably a bit stretched…)
\n So on with the coding. I’m quite rusty in C++, but getting better again. So I didn’t got too much done today. I implemented a sphere tessellation algorithm, starting with an icosahedron. Took a long time debugging some heap corruption (oh how I missed C++…) and other stupid bugs. But at least this works quite nicely now.
\n Maik implemented a Menu and\u00a0 the event handling system, we have gamepad support(!).<\/p>\n

A few screenshots:<\/p>\n

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I’m really excited how this will turn out. There is quite a bit of way to go. I think we can probably finish coding, the interesting things will be graphic and sound.<\/p>\n

Now sleep.<\/p>","time":"April 21st, 2012 7:42 pm","title":"Our first ludum dare, Day1"}