{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/overkill\/","author_name":"Overkill","cat":"LD #27","categories":["LD #27"],"comments":[],"epoch":1377048960,"event":"LD27","likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"79001","p_author":"Overkill","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"288012","p_title":"Maybe this time","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377048960","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"source_url":"2013\/08\/21\/ludum-poops\/","text":"

Hi, my name is Andy (@Bananattack on Twitter). I am entering Ludum Dare, probably.<\/p>\n

For my game development, I will likely use Plum. Plum is my 2D desktop\u00a0Lua game engine, it\u2019s permissively licensed and rad (and so are all of its dependencies), and nearing a release. It has 2D rendering (OpenGL 3.2 core profile under the hood), hardware images\/software canvases (.png, .gif, .jpeg, .bmp, .pcx, etc), audio (.ogg and a bajillion tracker formats thanks to libmodplug), tilemaps, sprites, multiple resizable windows, \u201cfake\u201d fullscreen (big borderless window), timing, keyboard, mouse, joysticks,\u00a0files.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/github.com\/Bananattack\/Plum<\/a><\/p>\n

The code itself is cross-platform C++11 and should port without problems later, but I\u2019ve only compiled for Windows lately, hopefully. A Linux port shouldn\u2019t be too hard (and it used to compile on Ubuntu), but all of the build stuff for it was killed after I stopped maintaining it and it fell way behind \u2014 I want to bring it back sometime soon. I\u2019d love to have people audit my code and help me port it to Linux\/Mac. The Windows build is a single exe that bundles all of its dependencies statically, and I hope that other platform builds can be equally self-contained. This is my goal soon, and hopefully it will be of use for jamming games quickly during Ludum Dare.<\/p>\n

Also, I have a few ideas for LD games, not even knowing the theme yet, that I might try and fit if they still apply. I leave things that vague though. I want to actually finish an LD entry.\u00a0Maybe this time!<\/p>","time":"August 21st, 2013 1:36 am","title":"Maybe this time","title_was_empty":false}