Not very excited about the themes, too much publicity has made LD become this horrible landscape of kids and trolls, so we’ll see if one of the lesser shit themes gets through. However, I’m in just because I want to make a game in 48 hours now that I have time and motivation!

I’m a little uncertain about what tools I’ll be using, most likely though I’ll be writing the game in Java using its utils and mayhaps (that’s a BIG mayhaps) LWJGL if insanity strikes.

If not, I’ll be using C/++ and SFML.

Art/Gfx: Paint.NET as per usual.

Sound: SFXR.

Another Ludum Dare you say? I won’t let it pass by my base without firing a well-aimed game at it.

And now for my usual tools…

– Unity3D

– Visual Studio C#

– Paintshop Photo Pro X3

– Blender

– FL Studio

Hi everybody!

Our game is going to participate in the LD48 jam.

The team is compound by Samuel (@samer_machine), artist and sound stuffs, and me (@Nacho_DA) as designer and programmer. We represent a spanish video game blog (www.akb.es) and we hope receive a lot of feedback about the builds we will upload.

Source: Unity Pro (language is C#).
Graphics: Photoshop, Cinema4D.
Sound: Audacity.
Music: Famitracker & Audacity
Others: Tons of coffee, a notebook and Post-its

We also wanna publish a lot of “how it’s made” content in AKB and LD webpages.

Can’t wait to play your games!!!

Hello everyone. I am quite new to programming and game design altogether. For the past 3 months or so I have been teaching myself AS3 for flash game development. I have got a lot to learn yet and have almost zero experience with art, but I will give this competition a shot because it sounds like a lot of fun!

What I will use:

• Language: AS3
• IDE: FlashDevelop
• Graphics: Photoshop
• Sound: Bfxr and FL studio
• Libs: Not sure yet. Will post libs if/when I use them.

Got my votes for Round 2 up already! I have way more -1s on this round than on Round 1. In general, I find it a much less appealing round, but there are still 3 rounds to go!

My all favorite in this round is Recursion, I would love to see what people can come up with that, I don’t have many ideas myself yet, but I’m sure I’d cook something up in time. Once again, there are a lot of too vague and general themes that can be used for anything – it’s only natural though it happens every Ludum Dare.

Clearly I liked the themes in round 1 better than round 2.

Tags: themes, voting

I’m in. Hope someone sees this as the login seems to have gone funny and is convinced I’m not logged in, even as it lets me post this. 😉

Language: Javascript. It would be C++, but technically my employer owns anything I write in C++, so meh.
Libraries: My own framework.
IDE: Notepad++ & Chrome.
Music/Sound: Goldwave + MilkyTracker.
Art: Manga Studio / PS CS2.

I’ll post up the framework I’m working on on Friday, but as it’s the result of precisely five lunchtimes worth of Javascript experience, I wouldn’t advise anyone else using it. Plus, I’m a real OOP whore, and Javascript’s take on inheritance makes me cranky, you’ll hate it.

If this post sounds familiar, you’ve clearly been stalking me since last year.

I had a lot of fun last time, but sprained my brain and joints a bit. I figured It would be better to give this one a miss, especially because Saturday I wont be near a computer. But after reading all those posts I got excited again and because the saturday I will be playing some boardgames, hopefullly that will be inspiring (if I go for a board game like theme AI will be a BIG challenge for me).

One day for everything will be way too short  for me, also because I don’t have a framework in my head.

That means: a hastily programmed buggy thingy. I hope to keep it simple enough to finish….. If I enter.

My fourth Ludum Dare, finished 2/3 so far… Would like to use SDL2 this time, but since I prefer to play web games I think I will use Impact again.

Good luck everyone!

One more compo and I am going indie!
That is one f**** good reason to take part in Ludum Dare!

“You have to start somewhere,” I think to myself. Even though I’m only at the earliest stage of learning to make games, I figured that LD #27 would be the kick in the pants I needed to make some real progress forward.

Unfortunately, scheduling has me away from my computer(with my family) for most of the competition, so I have no great expectations for my results. However, I am still excited to “get my feet wet.”

Hopefully, the embarrassing results I come up with will help me start some good habits(actually finish projects) and to not be afraid of people seeing work I consider “unfinished”(not perfect).

NERVOUS

EXCITED

-R

This will be my third attempt.

As always, I will be using:
Language/IDE: Java 7 / NetBeans
Libraries: My own collection of classes I always use (can be found here) and depending on the theme, maybe LWJGL and JBox2D
Graphics: Inkscape and Paint.NET
Sound: sfxr

After my less successful attempt at LD25 I am in to try again. I’ll take a different approach than last time, where I started coding before I had a clear vision of what I’m going to create. This time I’ll work on a complete concept before writing any code.

My tools will be

If I’ll implement some server-backend I’ll use Node.js or Flask (Python).

Edit: May I’ll add bfxr to the list of sound tools, especially if I’ll run out of time.

Hello Everyone!

This will be my first Ludum Dare, I’m not sure if I will enter at the Compo or the Jam yet, but I’m sure of one thing, we will have a good time this weekend!

I’ve been developing games for advertising and digital content for online courses in the last eight years, but I had ever managed to finish a game of mine, with my story, content and stuff. So here is one opportunity.

Last Week I’ve developed a remake of a game of some friends (Killing Moon by Joymasher)  for 7dFPS, my first time there too. I’m very proud of the results, but the porting from point and click adventure to FPS was a little bit more complicated than I think that would be, so I’ve ended just 1 of 3 chapters of the game. But it’ still very fun yet. If you want to see it, follow this link http://7dfps.com/?action=games&id=208

With this last experience, I’ve learned two things, first one, make your projects the shorter possible, second one, I love this kind of competition.

Good Luck everyone! Let’s make a good compo!

This is what I get for taking all IB/AP classes my junior year of high school.

Basically, I’ve experimented with löve for around 4 hours total this weekend, however, of course I must finish all of my summer work.
I’m thinking I should slowly implement items on my checkbox list as the week goes on, so at least I have a working 2d sidescroller by the start of ludum dare.

I don’t even know if I can turn in a warmup game that late. (someone please leave a comment if I can!)

Anyway, I’m really excited for all the themes, mostly on Round 1 though. You are the companion is by far my favorite. 😀

Good luck everyone! I should be typing reports instead of this blog post, though I will be back, heh.

One year has passed since my first and only entrance. The little time I had to work on the project was the most productive time I ever had. So, I’ve been looking for another opportunity to enter and here I am!

This is what I’m gonna use:

Programming language: Java

IDE: Eclipse

Library: Slick2D (probably)

Graphics: Paint.NET /GIMP

Sound: SFXR

Can’t wait for the weekend 😀

My associate and I will be entering the Jam. 2d, C++ with SDL. Simple graphics, probably a tile based game. I plan to use VIM as my “IDE”, and my associate will likely use Microshaft Visual Studio C++. Graphics will be made using the GNU Image Manipulation Program(GIMP). We will release tested binaries for Windows and Linux, and untested binaries for OSX.

Hello !

I’ll be playing Ludum Dare for the first time this weekend, been looking forward to this for a while.
It will also be my first time creating a game! All I did until now is fiddle with graphics but never made it interactive.

I’m posting to share my base code, which can be found here: https://github.com/NuxlyStardust

The repository is ‘NxBase’, it’s a library I’ve started working on recently and I update it quite often. It contains some classes which I might move to the ‘NxGame’ repository, which is currently empty because I’ve never written any code for that library.

Good luck everyone!

Tags: base code declaration, library

After reading all the “I’m in!” post’s I feel I can safely say that Java will be the most used programming language in the entire Jam. I myself am going to be using Java for LD. But all that is besides the point. My question is, how many people here would agree that soon Java is going to replace C++ in a maybe no so distant future. Obviously not going to happen over the course of a year but it is a serious possibility. Not just because people are using it in the Ludum Dare but because it offers lots of control while remaining clean and simple. Maybe not everything about games will writing in Java as some parts of the LWJGL OpenGL port to Java is written in C++. Anyways these are my thoughts and as it is a discussion topic I would like to know what you guys think.

Thanks for reading and have a great LD!

EDIT: when I say replace C++ I mean in the game development industry

RARoadkill is once again going to be trying to make something amazing. This will be my 4th Ludum Dare, unlike the last two I have gotten off work on monday so I have more time to work. I have learned a lot and I have a good feeling about this one.
I will be doing the Jam, although from the looks of it I will be going solo.
I will be using Unity Pro
Maya
Photoshop
NGUI for unity

That is my standard load out. Looking forward to it

Tags: intro, L27