I’ve written a little warm-up game to re-familiarize myself with my tools and to make sure everything is working after a few months hiatus from game development due to real-life issues (read work). It’s basically in unfinished, unpolished prototype state, but it’s playable: Java Webstart! Took approximately 12 hours of work and the theme was the first idea that popped into my head that was simple enough to execute in less than 24 hours…

Given how well this little project went I’m definitely in – whether for vanilla or jam will be determined by how much time I have over the weekend or how bad the theme is…

My tools are:

• Language: Java
• Libraries: Slick2D
• Existing codebase: Chaotic Game Logic Library, Jumpers (for both ignore releases and just use SVN trunk)
• Graphics: GIMP, Inkscape
• Sound: sfxr & musagi (in the unlikely event that I have time to add sound)

Good luck to all and I’m looking forward to seeing some great games (and hopefully making a decent one for once)!