{"author_name":"Malactus","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1323543480,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"63056","p_author":"Malactus","p_authorkey":"7440","p_urlkey":"98829","p_title":"I am in as a newbie!","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1323543480","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7440","us_name":"Malactus","us_username":"malactus","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally been able to follow Ludum Dare site enough to actually get the dates for the next compo:<\/p>\n <p>Since the beginning of this year, I constantly thought of joining in to the fray and practice some game creation, but due to a busy lifestyle, I have always ended up finding out about the compo too late or many days after It happened.<\/p>\n <p>This will be my first time participating in the Ludum Dare (it appears there are a lot of new people coming in every compo). I nearly missed the compo this year, but it managed to squish into my timeframe just and just: After the 48 hour of coding I&#8217;m off to an airplane and will be flying on a 15 hour trip from Europe to Asia.<\/p>\n <p><strong>Abit of background:<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>I am a last year Media Engineering student, studying the myriad fields of digital and analog media. I mainly come from a technical background, but I have practiced all sorts of visual design, and dabbled abit in audio field. This all is thanks to fooling around with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.norteclabs.com\"> content creation <\/a>in a Virtual World platform known as Second Life.<\/p>\n <p>A Gamer at heart, I&#8217;ve always liked playing games &#8211; So, I&#8217;m making this as my chance to jump start and try my hand at game development, which is an area I would like to be professionally in.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><strong>My Tools:<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><strong>Audio:<\/strong> Adobe Soundbooth, various sound libraries for sound effect composition (if allowed, its not really clear in the rules &#8220;Created by your self&#8221;: but how about composite sound effects from libraries? ), a Samson C01 Condenser Microphone.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Visual 2D:<\/strong> Adobe Photoshop<\/li>\n <li><strong>Concept Doodling:<\/strong> Alchemy<\/li>\n <li><strong>Texture Base Generation:<\/strong> Genetica<\/li>\n <li><strong>3D Framework:<\/strong> Unity 3D *<\/li>\n <li><strong>3D Suite:<\/strong> Blender<\/li>\n <li><strong>Main Programming: <\/strong>Either HTML5\/AS3\/Java (Javascript\/C# for Unity3D, however.)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>* Will be used on this round as that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been looking into using for a while now.<\/p>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p><strong>Risk analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n <p>I know its going to be bit rough to design,code,create everything within 48 hours, especially as I as an individual nitpick on even the smallest of details, but I will try to adhere to the KISS rule. Sure I&#8217;ve done 48 hours rapid coding before, but usually focused with programming side instead of doing anything with visuals or the sort.<\/p>\n <p>The main issue is that I have no prior knowledge of Unity 3D &#8211; Sure I have lots of experience with OOP and Visual Design using Objects, thanks to my experience in Second Life, creating mini-games (such as bomb defusion) this would be the first time I theoretically create an actual game.<\/p>\n <p>But this is a hard decision. I have the most Experience with AS3, JAVA and PHP, However I&#8217;ve never used a game library for AS3 or Java, And PHP is not suitable for other than &#8216;time based farming&#8217; in , or developed visual movement for HTML5\/Javascript.On the other hand<\/p>\n <p>So for this round I will be using Unity 3D which I have been studying the past week.<\/p>\n <p>Will see if I can at least give the warm up a shot, But I&#8217;ll possibly be fooling around with Unity 3D this weekend <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>Anyway Good luck to everyone<\/p>\n <p>Happy GameDeving <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>","time":"December 10th, 2011 1:58 pm","title":"I am in as a newbie!"}