{"author_name":"vilya","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1334927700,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"58881","p_author":"vilya","p_authorkey":"10456","p_urlkey":"94630","p_title":"Tools","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1334927700","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10456","us_name":"vilya","us_username":"vilya","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;ve already declared myself in, but now I know which tools I&#8217;ll be using so here they are:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Code: Javascript &amp; WebGL, with some open source helper libraries (see below).<\/li>\n <li>Graphics: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelmator.com\/\">Pixelmator<\/a>, Autodesk Sketchbook Express, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoundry.co.uk\/products\/nuke\/\">Nuke<\/a><\/li>\n <li>IDE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\/\">Vim<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Chrome<\/a>&#8216;s built in developer tools &amp; <a title=\"WebGL Inspector\" href=\"http:\/\/benvanik.github.com\/WebGL-Inspector\/\">WebGL Inspector<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Source control: <a href=\"http:\/\/git-scm.com\/\">Git<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/\">Github<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Webserver: either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/\">Dropbox<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.github.com\/\">Github Pages<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Sound is my weakest area, so I&#8217;ll only try to put some if I have time left at the end (ha! unlikely!). If I do, I&#8217;ll probably just use Garage Band for music and record myself beatboxing into the mic or something for sound effects.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;ve found a couple of really nice helper libraries for javascript, which I plan to use too:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/toji\/gl-matrix\">Brandon Jones&#8217; gl-matrix<\/a> (I have <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vilya\/gl-matrix\">my own fork<\/a> which adds vec2 operations).<\/li>\n <li>David Bau&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/davidbau.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/30\/random_seeds_coded_hints_and_quintillions.html\">seedable random<\/a> function.<\/li>\n <li>The Khronos Group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cvs.khronos.org\/svn\/repos\/registry\/trunk\/public\/webgl\/sdk\/demos\/common\/webgl-utils.js\">webgl-utils.js<\/a>.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I&#8217;ve got some WebGL learner projects in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vilya\">my github account<\/a> which I&#8217;ll probably copy and paste from too.<\/p>\n <p>One thing I don&#8217;t have yet is a good blogging platform. Any recommendations? I want to be able to post screen shots and code snippets of my progress &amp; that&#8217;s about all.<\/p>\n <p>So I think that&#8217;s everything. Can&#8217;t wait to get started!<\/p>","time":"April 20th, 2012 8:15 am","title":"Tools"}