This is my first time doing a Ludum Dare, but not my first time doing a 48 hour contest. I really thrive on competition, so I’m expecting to have all sorts of fun! 😀

Hardware: An old ASUS laptop… ah, my best friend. And a mouse. Sadly, my external monitor is back at college. Ah well

Development: Flash for sure. I started learning Flixel the other day, so I’ll probably end up using that. I could also end up getting really frustrated with the dumb thing and just doing it all myself (I’ve come dangerously close already! ;). Course the other (huge) advantage of Flixel is that you get to use FlashDevelop exclusively, which is orders of magnitude better than plain old Flash (kinda embarrassing for Adobe, imo). I’ve been working on an old tile editor I made recently, trying to bring it up to speed so I can use it over the competition. It’s here if anyone is interested in using it or hacking on it. I can’t imagine why you would want to, though (it’s pretty far from a generally usable state).

Art: Probably some lame pixel editor. Graphics Gale looks promising. I’ll have to get around to learning how to use it sometime before the competition…

Sound: FL Studio. I hear a lot of talk about sfxr, so maybe that too.

Not sure if I should team for the Jam or go solo for the Dare. Anyone out there have thoughts? Was thinking about Jamming initially, but I would like to have people vote on my submission, and 72h seems a bit of a slog compared to 48.

Good luck, everyone!