{"author_name":"ewjordan","cat":"LD #12 - The Tower - 2008","comments":[],"epoch":1218158520,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74937","p_author":"ewjordan","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"110769","p_title":"Getting ready to inflict a Straight Ganking","p_cat":"LD #12 - The Tower - 2008","p_event":"LD12","p_time":"1218158520","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1218153600","event_key":"89","event_name":"LD12"},"text":"<p>This is the first LD announcement I&#8217;ve noticed in time to compete (last year I missed it by about three days).\u00a0 While I can&#8217;t commit to anything until the theme is announced, I&#8217;m probably going to be using the following tools:<br \/>\n <UL><br \/>\n <LI><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/pulpcore\/\">Pulpcore<\/a>, a Java game framework &#8211; Pulpcore has great applet support, which should make trying this a lot easier (and friendly to those on Linux or OS X, which includes me!)<br \/>\n <LI><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/pulpfizz\/\">PulpFizz<\/a>, which integrates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbox2d.org\">JBox2d<\/a> and Pulpcore into an easy to use physics-centric game engine (still in the very early stages, but it&#8217;s open source and available to anyone that dares to try it, so I believe that makes it legit for the purposes of this competition)<br \/>\n <LI>Garageband for music, Audacity for sound<br \/>\n <LI>Whatever I can find to make graphics, which might range from the procedural (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.processing.org\">Processing<\/a>, maybe?) to the natural (a phone cam and the world) to the brutally manual (Gimp and paintbrush)<br \/>\n <\/UL><br \/>\n Oh yeah, and as I mentioned in the post title, you&#8217;re about to see a no-mercy free-of-charge straight ganking.<\/p>\n <p>Er&#8230;I mean, I hope I finish my crap before the deadline. <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ganking\/\" rel=\"tag\">ganking<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/intro\/\" rel=\"tag\">intro<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 7th, 2008 8:22 pm","title":"Getting ready to inflict a Straight Ganking"}