I intend to take this competition as a somewhat masochistic programming exercise. As such I intend to develop in Linux using gedit and makefiles writing my code in C and using SDL (unless I have a good reason to use C++). For the record, apart from the choice of C over C++, this is my usual development environment.

I intend to blog about my design choices in both the game and about how I decide to write it. My hope for the competition is that my blog and source code could hopefully serve as a resource for a beginner programmer (having stumbled through learning to program games, I feel a well documented example would have been very useful).

Of course, given the ludicrous time constraint I cannot guarantee meeting such a hopeful goal! At the least though I hope that something will get hacked together in order to be judged.

An additional goal is to have as little as possible handled outside of source code. E.g. procedurally generating resource images would be nice. However, this goal will soon be thrown out of the window if the competition requires an animated human, say. This is more just a nice thought.

Good luck to all taking part! I look forward to playing your games whether or not I qualify to judge them also :-).