{"author_name":"Kato","cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 23, 2009 5:02 pm","epoch":1251064920,"text":"Why shouldn’t you be using Photoshop? Are there good, non-political reasons for using the Gimp? Especially if you’re not a programmer-type.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1251057840,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"73192","p_author":"Kato","p_authorkey":"994","p_urlkey":"109014","p_title":"Woo, first LD.","p_cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1251057840","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"994","us_name":"Kato","us_username":"kato","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"

Like a few other here, this’ll be my first LD. I’ll be using Construct<\/a> for the creation of the binary if my concept ends up being 2D. For 3D, I have a variety of technologies I’d like to explore.<\/p>\n

The first is Dage<\/a>. I’ve been playing around with it for a few days now, and even though the odds of me getting to make a 3D adventure game are hard, I’d certainly embrace the chance to use my recent experience.<\/p>\n

I’m also not above Unity<\/a>, if the trial is viable.<\/p>\n

No matter what I use to assemble the game, though, I’ll be using Blender<\/a>, Photoshop<\/a>, and Notepad++<\/a> for the majority of modeling, texturing\/art, and writing, respectively. I know that I’m a bad egg and should use GIMP–but, hey, I like Photoshop’s interface better. If I wind up with Dage, I’ll also have to use Max<\/a> in my pipeline, another evil, commercial program.<\/p>\n

As far as my experience in other areas, I’ve tried a few compos, followed more than a few, but never made a real entry. I’m determined to sneak one into this LD. I’m pretty experienced with Construct, Blender, and Photoshop, and I’m just learning other techs like Unity and Dage. I grasp programming concepts pretty well (Event Sheets in Construct come almost naturally to me), but I fail pretty hard at actual programming (even XNA is beyond me). I like it that way. I like that in this modern day and age, there’s a bunch of technologies (Construct, MMF, AGS, Wintermute) that allow you to script an entire game without programming it. I like that many things are set up for you, and I like WYSIWYG. There’s nothing wrong with WYSIWYG in my book–if you can create something totally awesome, it doesn’t matter by what means.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s me. Sorry for being wordy. I can’t wait to participate, honestly. I’m sure I’ll be dreading my decision in about 144 hours.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: 2D<\/a>, adventure<\/a>, blender<\/a>, compo<\/a>, construct<\/a>, dage<\/a>, first<\/a>, first compo<\/a>, intro<\/a>, photoshop<\/a>, tools<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2009 3:04 pm","title":"Woo, first LD."}