Hello everyone!<\/p>\n
This is my very first time participating in a LD event, so I don’t know how well it will go. I just hope to have enough fun and deliver an acceptable game by the end of the week-end.<\/p>\n
I don’t yet know (by the time I write this post) what the theme announced will be, however I plan to work on a point and click adventure game. I will adapt it as I see fit for the theme itself. Due to real life misfortune I am left with a very old computer (from 2003) with very low specs running Linux, so I don’t know if I will be able to port the game to Windows in time (I might try borrowing a windows laptop just for the porting), so yeah.. this will be a 100% Linux game.<\/p>\n
The game itself will be developed in C++ and Lua, I’ll be using a game engine called Angel-Engine (a really amazing engine for quick development\/prototyping of 2D games, you should check it out) freely available (under BSD license) here http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/angel-engine\/<\/a> . I will also be using a boilerplate\/library I’ve been working on for the last few weeks, it’s a library for point ‘n’ click (and visual novels\/interactive stories) game development based on Angel-Engine. The code is freely available (I have not yet decided on the licensing but it’s either GPL or BSD so no big deal) at my github: https:\/\/github.com\/Morgawr\/Virtual-Click<\/a><\/p>\n The Virtual-Click engine isn’t finished yet, of course, so I will take the chance and see if I can get it to a finished\/workable state during the Ludum Dare itself. It’s going to be a fun challenge.<\/p>\n I’ll be updating this post, as the LD compo continues, with screenshots, opinions, reflections and I’ll be listening to your comments and critiques to help me polish and develop a fun and entertaining video game. After this is over, I’ll try and stick together a small timelapse video: I’m going to capture a screenshot every 10 seconds using a small C program (using scrot) during the whole duration of the LD.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading this, hope it will be an interesting competition!<\/p>\n Cheers!<\/p>\n Morg.<\/p>","time":"April 20th, 2012 5:20 pm","title":"Morgawr \u2013 Point \u2018n\u2019 Click \u2013 First Ludum Dare game ever!"}