Ludum Dare always looks like a lot of fun from the outside, time to find out if it’s as much fun (or more?) when you actually take part. My friend Gijs and I will be taking part in the Jam. I will be doing most of the coding, he’ll bring his considerable artistic skills to the table.

Don’t expect a masterpiece or anything, we just want to finish something. Playability and fun are priorities.

One thing I’m not 100% sure about: is it okay for the Jam to use Creative Commons sounds and music? Or is that not in the spirit of the event? Let me know what you think in the comments.

Tools

• HTML/Javascript, with a little quickie homebrew framework I whipped up today.
• Probably Photoshop Elements for the graphics, with a dash of Gimp (mostly for the programmer art :-).
• Audacity for sounds, and maybe something like Bfxr.
• Notepad++, Firefox, Firebug.

Have fun everyone!