{"author_name":"pantomimepony","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 16, 2011 9:48 am","epoch":1302965280,"text":"Wait, you don’t have tools to rig characters? Have you tried Blender? It does modeling, texturing, animation, render, AND post-production. And it exports to an assload of different formats.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 16, 2011 2:00 pm","epoch":1302980400,"text":"Yeah, I’ve heard Blender is the thing for building and rigging models. I downloaded it a while back with the intention of learning to use it’s non intuitive ‘built for productivity’ interface but never got round to it. So for now I shall stick to the tools I know inside out. Maybe for LD21 and using it with Unity…","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"stqn","time":"April 17, 2011 3:34 am","epoch":1303029240,"text":"The latest 2.57 version of Blender is supposed to have a better UI. (But I haven’t checked.)","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1302963960,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67315","p_author":"pantomimepony","p_authorkey":"509935","p_urlkey":"103118","p_title":"Another first timer","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1302963960","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"509935","us_name":"pantomimepony","us_username":"pantomimepony","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

Hi guys,<\/p>\n

If all goes to plan this will be my\u00a0first LD and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m a veteran of the UK games industry and I’ve always messed about developing my own games. I appreciate most people will be developing for mobile and the web. I wish I could do that with confidence in the result but I’m oldschool. I’ll be producing a download and it’ll run on Windows.<\/p>\n

I’ll be using the following tools:<\/p>\n

Code\/engine – Blitz 3D<\/p>\n

Graphics pipeline – Metasequoia & Serif Photoplus 8 to Ultimate Unwrap 3D to .b3d files<\/p>\n

I don’t have the tools\u00a0to rig characters so if any animation is required I’ll use work arounds using static models.<\/p>\n

Sound – Simsynth, sfxr, Techno Ejay4,Magix Music Maker 2005 deluxe, Audiomatik, Audacity<\/p>\n

Music – as above if I have time.<\/p>\n

I’m not intending to use any code libraries but I do\u00a0like to plunder the Blitz examples that come with the install for methods and techniques.<\/p>\n

I don’t expect there to be time to do anything fancy graphics wise. Usually I’ll take several weeks over getting sound right or attempting to create some atmospheric music but all that will have to go by the board.\u00a0Just enough time to create a working prototype of an idea.<\/p>\n

If you want to follow my efforts I’m on twitter @pantomimepony and on tumblr http:\/\/pantoponyldare.tumblr.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m\u00a0expecting this to be a lot of fun\u00a0and I\u00a0can’t wait to see what the theme is going to be. I’m just hoping it’s not ‘Royal Wedding…’<\/p>\n

Alex<\/p>","time":"April 16th, 2011 9:26 am","title":"Another first timer"}