Hi there everyone! Although I’ve looked at some past Ludum Dare games, this is my first time actually participating in the Dare. And honestly, I’m not really ready, despite being a 3rd year CS major that should know what he’s doing. But hey, it’s a learning experience, right? And a great way to celebrate the start of my Christmas vacation as well!<\/p>\n
Anyway, here’s my tools:<\/p>\n
Coding: C# w\/ XNA 3.1 via Visual Studio 2008.\u00a0 No base code, though.<\/p>\n
Graphics: GIMP w\/ a Fujitsu Lifebook Tablet PC. Probably won’t actually use the tablet features, though.<\/p>\n
Sound Effects: sxfr, which goes good with…<\/p>\n
Music: Famitracker. I REALLY like how this allows for pure NES music. No “8-bit” midi conversion, the real thing.<\/p>\n
Time Lapse: Chronolapse. Just the screen though. The webcam built into the laptop is terrible, and honestly I really don’t like showing my face to the Internet. At least right now.<\/p>\n
Considering all this, and the fact that I am a decent programmer and composer but a terrible artist, I’ll probably be going for a “retro” look no matter what the theme.<\/p>\n
One more thing: I also happen to be the vice president of my college’s game development club, and by coincidence our last game jam of the semester is this Saturday. I told the group about Ludum Dare, so maybe a few will sign up or maybe they’ll be a jam game from the group. We only do 12 hours of work at our jams, so I wouldn’t expect much for Ludum Dare itself, but a lot of the time we do expand on the concepts we create. So, something good will come out of it no matter what.<\/p>\n
Hope to have some good news at the end of all of this!<\/p>\n
-Voltekaru<\/p>","time":"December 17th, 2010 4:13 pm","title":"Hey, look, another 1st timer!"}