Please find enclosed my formal declaration of stuff:
Game Title: “Circus Peanuts”
Language: Processing
Framework: My own, available here
Sound: sfxr and Audacity
Music: Famitracker and/or PXTone
Graphics: GIMP if anything
Food: Whatever I’ve got on hand, supplemented with the local convenience store and Voodoo Doughnut.
Desk: thusly
Morale: Kobolds
I’ve made an updated version of my starting framework; anybody can use this for LD19 compo or the LD19 jam. The main differences are as follows:
1) I now have a polymorphic render list of self drawing items, each with a material
2) A material consists of a shader, a texture, and a load of properties.
3) When drawing, I iterate the render list, and tell each item to draw itself.
The framework I have linked includes some placeholder artwork which should be OK to use, but obviously due to the rules cannot be in the final version. Its just there to test that my tile map and animation are working.
My name is David.
I plan to write a game in Actionscript using Flixel. I’ll use Garageband and cfxr for audio, and the GIMP, EDGE Touch and Brushes for graphics.
The only thing I’m starting with is my production logo.
Let’s do this!
Declaring myself ready and willing for another awesome Ludum Dare.
Coding:
-Flash w/FlashDevelop IDE
-Main engine library is Flashpunk 1.5
-With an assist from Noel’s Advanced Platforming Engine
Art:
-Adobe Photoshop CS3
-Color palettes from Adobe Kuler
Sound:
-The immortal Sfxr by DrPetter
-Audacity for editing
-Sound effects from freesound.org
-Public domain songs from archive.org
Will be listening to:
-Anamanaguchi
Will be playing:
-Team Fortress 2
Let’s do it!
Edit: Since the question of public domain/sample materials has come up I should clarify I’m probably edging more towards the jam portion rather than the competition one. I will adjust accordingly depending on how I feel about the game near the end.
Although this is gonna be my third LD, it will be the first time I’ll be making a LD game completely in Linux using my new laptop. Stickers are the essential part:
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So, just to be complete, here my computer setup(yes, I know too much front light ;D ):
And since I’m quite excited about the upcoming LD I made a simple wallpaper for my desktop. If anyone interested:
1920×1200:
Still, 6:40h to go…
Yeah, I’m a dirty little bastard, I know … but hey, it’s snowing outside! (not related)
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I cleaned my desk and took a picture!
Time to go to bed now. In about six hours I’ll wake up (in the middle of the night here in Belgium; 3 AM).
Will go to sleep early today to start early in the morning. 
Lets make some games!
This is my first LD! As such I promise to:
This n00b can’t wait to get started!
(But if it matters for legal reasons, FlashPunk/FlashDevelop, Sfxr, Paint.NET, my drums/synths/fx boxes if I get truly inspired but I doubt I’ll have the time)
I’m not going to lie, I’m killing time before the compo by posting stuff about my plans.
Before I get into my time schedule, I want to clarify some of my terms.
“Basic design” means a general idea of how the game will work.
“Boilerplate” means things like game physics, world structure, and a way of displaying a Hud.
“Prototype” means a thing I can play with that gives me a good feel of how the game will play.
“Feature-complete” means that there are baddies you can fight and kill, there are items you can pick up and they work, there is a boss that has an “area” that the player must stay in during the fight, there is a Hud that works, and the level at least features all of the game’s mechanics.
“Basically finished” means that the game is “feature-complete” and the level is finished. It also means that there is a title screen.
“Polished” means that the game is beyond “basically finished” and has music and possibly intro and end cut-scenes.
With those terms defined, here’s how I’ve got the weekend planned out:
Friday evening – Come up with an idea, sketch out basic design
Friday night – Roll the dice and stay up late, boilerplate, begin prototype
Early Saturday morning – Try my hardest to finish prototype
Saturday afternoon – Work on feature-completeness
Saturday evening – Go to bed early, try to wake up early Sunday
Sunday morning – Work toward feature-completeness
Sunday afternoon – Feature-complete (Hopefully!) work on being “basically finished”
Sunday evening – Hopefully “basically finished”, get in what polish I can manage
Sunday night – Compo is over, submit game regardless of current state. Jam begins, go for broke and stay up late.
Late Sunday night / Early Monday morning – Prototype of jam game should hopefully be ready
Monday afternoon – Jam game has been prototyped, move on to feature-completeness
Monday evening – Work down to the wire on feature-completeness
Monday night – Submit jam game regardless of current state.
Tuesday morning/Tuesday afternoon – Sleep in, recover from LD scramble.
Tuesday evening – Write post-mortems.
There. That should be nice and stressful, and will be a good challenge for my ability to develop quickly.
Hooray, I have been relocated to the guest “bedroom” for this weekend’s competition. What better place to work in than a cramped, cluttered, cold cube! 😀
Desktop shot (I even have a pen and paper!)
By sunday evening this desk will be covered in crumbs, tea stains and blood. If it goes to plan.
-DBS
The notebook is now my main PC, the big one is now just giving Wlan access/backup. I will not use a piano after all, since I can’t find it. Oh well, I found a cool music program called LMMS, so I will use that or not make any music at all. Also on the last post I forgot to say that I may use Audicity to tweak sound.
6 hours left!
Going to use that awesome cross platform framework p+
I decided to upgrade the Irrlicht component at the last minute and it’s half broken.. oops, one hour to fix! Not sure if I want to use it though…
2d or 3d? Optimize for touch so I can release for mobiles too or not? QUESTIONS!!!?!?! Nice to have choices I guess.
Tools: MSVC++, sfxr, mic (or is still broken?), midi keyboard
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Originally we weren’t going to do a keynote for Ludum Dare 19, but I threw one together last minute.
However! It happens to still be stuck in a video rendering queue.
So to keep us all calm and entertained until then, I’d like to present the backup keynote, created by mjau.
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Everyone interested in putting Ludum Dare participation on his or her LinkedIn account, check the Ludum Dare 19 event I just created on LinkedIn:
According to LinkedIn at the time of writing, only one person is attending! 😮
Wouldn’t it be great to see who in your network is attending, and how we are connected?
It’s raining outside in usually sunny California. Going to be hard to get going.
This is my first Ludum Dare!
Code::Blocks
Starting source basic SDL/OpenGl code generated when choosing an SDL/OpenGl project in Code::Blocks.
sfxr
Good luck all!
Hi everyone,
this will be my first try for the LD…
My Name is Thomas and i am from Germany..
The Setup
Graphics:
Hardware:
Sound:
IDE:
Language:
Libraries:
My Backups are in Github.com – Link: will follow..
Here an Image of my Workbench.
Thx,
Glacier
