{"author_name":"Martoon","cat":"LD  #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[],"epoch":1281963780,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"70375","p_author":"Martoon","p_authorkey":"2355","p_urlkey":"106195","p_title":"Sure, why the hell not\u2026","p_cat":"LD  #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1281963780","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2355","us_name":"Martoon","us_username":"martoon","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;ve been following LD48 for a long time now. \u00a0This will be my first time participating. \u00a0I&#8217;m trying to gather the motivation to get started on a personal game project I&#8217;ve been wanting to do. \u00a0I&#8217;m hoping that having the pressure of a 48 hour compo while publicly blogging it will get me doing something, and that the momentum from that will carry over to my personal project after the compo is over. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;ll be using Flash (FlashDevelop, Flex SDK) as my platform of choice, and most likely FlashPunk. \u00a0Depending on the theme, and how I decide to abuse it, I may be using Box2DFlash.<\/p>\n <p>Maybe Photoshop and possibly a camera for art, though I&#8217;m leaning toward procedurally generated, abstracty art since I&#8217;m a better coder than artist.<\/p>\n <p>I might record and tweak some sounds (in Audacity), or just use sfxr.<\/p>\n <p>If I get around to it, I&#8217;ll throw together a music loop in FL Studio, and maybe even dust off and tune the guitar to sample some riffs.<\/p>\n <p>All of this is subject to change, depending on what I decide to do with the theme, and what tools\/platform\/development process will best suit that (it&#8217;ll almost certainly be Flash, though).<\/p>\n <p>I don&#8217;t have any kind of engine or base code yet. \u00a0I&#8217;ll probably practice putting together a quick project in Flash this week, and if anything resembling base code emerges, I&#8217;ll post that here in the interest of rules compliance (but anyone would be ill-advised to use it).<\/p>\n <p>I&#8217;ll see you all in the trenches, may the best geek win, etc., etc.<\/p>","time":"August 16th, 2010 8:03 am","title":"Sure, why the hell not\u2026"}