{"author_name":"Yapikom","cat":"LD #22","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 16, 2011 1:35 am","epoch":1324017300,"text":"XNA FTW!! Do it, really. <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/>","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"GreaseMonkey","time":"December 16, 2011 2:41 am","epoch":1324021260,"text":"XNA doesn&#8217;t work on anything that isn&#8217;t Windows, and by that I mean it won&#8217;t work in Wine or Mono. In other words, SAY NO TO XNA (until there&#8217;s a version for not-Windows).","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Suese","time":"December 16, 2011 3:56 am","epoch":1324025760,"text":"Suese says &#8221; use what you are most familiar with!&#8221;.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1324015980,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"62659","p_author":"Yapikom","p_authorkey":"7497","p_urlkey":"98431","p_title":"I\u2019m in \u2013 LD22","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324015980","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7497","us_name":"Yapikom","us_username":"yapikom","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"<p>Hi. I&#8217;ve promised myself that I would join in the next time plenty of times now, but I have always found excuses, this time is for real!<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;m not a good programmer and I mostly have no idea what I&#8217;m doing, but I&#8217;ll try to put something together that at least can be mistaken for a game by a casual user. <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>I Haven&#8217;t decided in 100% what tools I&#8217;ll use, that will depend on the theme and the game I&#8217;ll build. But the tools\/languages\/libraries I&#8217;ll choose from are:<\/p>\n <p><strong>Java<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>Eclipse<\/p>\n <p>Slick<\/p>\n <p><em>or<\/em><\/p>\n <p><strong>Flash AS3<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>Flashdevelop<\/p>\n <p>Flixel<\/p>\n <p>(I&#8217;ve really never done anything real in AS3 or Flixel (except for a quick test game), I just checked it out this week, but this is a good time as any to learn it I guess)<\/p>\n <p><em>or<\/em><\/p>\n <p><strong>C#<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>Visual Studio 2010<\/p>\n <p>XNA<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><strong>Other<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>Paint.net for &#8220;pretty&#8221; pictures<\/p>\n <p>Musagi or famitracker for &#8220;music&#8221;<\/p>\n <p>SFXR for sound (suprise!)<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/im-in\/\" rel=\"tag\">im in<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ludum-dare-22\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ludum Dare 22<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 16th, 2011 1:13 am","title":"I\u2019m in \u2013 LD22"}