I’m planning to take part in Ludum Dare 23. This will be my first ever Ludum Dare.

I’ve recently been doing a lot of Ruby at work (via a Ruby on Rails project) and have been looking for more opportunities to practice the language. This resulted in me starting to play with Gosu and Chingu. I’m currently learning them by trying to make an Astrosmash clone.

I worked on a couple of somewhat notable mod projects in the past:

• Marble Mania 2003 – a Marble Madness-inspired mod for the Unreal Tournament 2003 engine (textures, music, sound effects, level design, web site)
• Scavenger Hunt – a team-based game type for the original Unreal Tournament engine (everything, minus user contributed maps)

I’m waiting to hear the chosen theme before I decide what type of game I’ll be trying to make but I will likely be using Ruby with Gosu and Chingu. If I decide to do something 3D instead, it’ll be done with Unity (or even UDK…)

My tools of choice:

• Platform: OS X Lion on my iMac
• Language: Ruby with Gosu & Chingu
• Editor: vim (w/tmux)
• Version Control: Git
• Graphics: Photoshop & Illustrator
• Music: Ableton Live
• Sound Effects: Cfxr and Ableton Live
• Screen Capture: ScreenNinja
• Organizing: Trello
• Focusing: Pomodoro
• Notes: TextMate w/Markdown
• Books: Level Up! by Scott Rogers, The Art of Game Design & A Deck of Lenses by Jesse Schell

My desk: