{"author_name":"spilth","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1333320000,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"59751","p_author":"spilth","p_authorkey":"2895","p_urlkey":"95503","p_title":"23 \u2013 My First Ludum Dare!","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1333320000","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2895","us_name":"spilth","us_username":"spilth","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;m planning to take part in Ludum Dare 23. This will be my first ever Ludum Dare.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libgosu.org\/\">Gosu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ippa\/chingu\">Chingu<\/a>. I&#8217;m currently learning them by trying to make an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrosmash\">Astrosmash<\/a> clone.<\/p>\n <p>I worked on a couple of somewhat notable mod projects in the past:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spilth.org\/projects\/marble-mania-2003\/\">Marble Mania 2003<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a Marble Madness-inspired mod for the Unreal Tournament 2003 engine (textures, music, sound effects, level design, web site)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spilth.org\/projects\/scavenger-hunt\/\">Scavenger Hunt<\/a> &#8211; a team-based game type for the original Unreal Tournament engine (everything, minus user contributed maps)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>I&#8217;m waiting to hear the chosen theme before I decide what type of game I&#8217;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&#8217;ll be done with Unity (or even UDK&#8230;)<\/p>\n <p>My tools of choice:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Platform: OS X Lion on my iMac<\/li>\n <li>Language: Ruby with Gosu &amp; Chingu<\/li>\n <li>Editor: vim (w\/tmux)<\/li>\n <li>Version Control: Git<\/li>\n <li>Graphics: Photoshop &amp; Illustrator<\/li>\n <li>Music: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ableton.com\/\">Ableton Live<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Sound Effects: <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdcog.eu\/apps\/cfxr\">Cfxr<\/a>\u00a0and Ableton Live<\/li>\n <li>Screen Capture: <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/screenninja\/id408219793?mt=12\">ScreenNinja<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Organizing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trello.com\/\">Trello<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Focusing:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/pomodoro\/id417574133?mt=12\">Pomodoro<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Notes: TextMate w\/Markdown<\/li>\n <li>Books: Level Up! by Scott Rogers, The Art of Game Design &amp; A Deck of Lenses by Jesse Schell<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>My desk:<\/p>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/04\/01\/23-my-first-ludum-dare\/img_1690\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109802\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109802\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1690-550x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1690-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1690-550x410.jpg 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1690.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","time":"April 1st, 2012 5:40 pm","title":"23 \u2013 My First Ludum Dare!"}