The rule of Ludum Dare says that you must program the gameplay.

Since I decided to use Construct, development tool which is not verified by LDers yet, I thought about whether my game will be considered fair or not. Construct does let you program your game – though the programming paradigm is little different. So, from that point of view, my decision is fine. However, Construct provides several facilities which make game development easier and which may or may not be available in other programming environments allowed by Ludum Dare.

The following list describes these facilities:

• Map editor
• Animation editor
• Collision
• Platform movement

Everything else will be coded.

There are several disadvantages which will certainly not appeal to some LDers. These are:

• It’s Windows only
• It requires latest DirectX

Am I fair enough? I don’t know. But I am certainly going to try and finish my entry.

Cheers