Hello everyone!! Ludum Dare 21 starts soon and I wanted to say that “I’m in!!!”
This time I’m going to write my game in c++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010:

• Graphics Engine / Game Engine / Libraries: Allegro 5
• Sound: SFXR
• Graphics: GIMP

I hope the this ludum dare will be a lots of fun and good games
See you after a good sleep, and Good Luck Everyone!!

Tags: 2D, allegro, C++, msvc, VC++

I made plans to play Portal 2 with a friend tonight, so if that goes past 2100 (local time for LD start) then I might not bother.

I don’t really know if I like making games, anyway. I might be in the wrong place.

I’m totally in and ready to rock hard this time.

I will be using:

• Python
• Myrmidon
• Nano
• Graphics Gale
• GIMP
• Audacity
• Rosegarden
• Sfxr
• Scrot
• Also a kazoo may be involved

I will attempt to abide by the following self-imposed rules:

1. Get all my tools and libraries ready to avoid wasting time on setting things up ready to code
2. Have some game ideas in my head before the theme is announced. Have one last look at the theme list and come up with an idea for each
3. Keep it astonishlingly dizzyingly simple to the point where I scoff at my own game idea because it could be thrown together by a visually-impaired amoeba in a timescale measured in planck time
4. Put absolutely no effort into graphics until the game is working. So throw together placeholder graphics that look like scribbles at best
5. Spend zero time making the code “nice”. If the code isn’t repulsive to look at, I’m doing it wrong. It should be the most hacked together piece of crap I’ve ever written. If it runs, it’s good enough.
6. Have the game playable by the end of day 1. So the core gameplay should be in place, and ideally the levels done too (depending on what time of game it is. The concept of “levels” may be more complex than I’m aiming for here)
7. Don’t get hung up on bugs if they’re not total show-stoppers – they can be squashed in the cleanup phase
8. Spend day 2 polishing the thing to a shine, including sounds and music!

I have a feeling this is going to be the greatest Ludum Dare E V E R.

Best of luck, everybody!

Tags: declaration, im in, nano wtf, plan, rock hard, tools

wazzup dawgs
For any of my fellow XNA using peeps, here is a 3D camera class


public class Camera
{
protected Vector3 position, target, up;
protected float fov;

public virtual Vector3 Position { get { return this.position; } set { this.position = value; } }

public virtual Vector3 Target { get { return this.target; } set { this.target = value; } }

public virtual Vector3 Up { get { return this.up; } set { this.up = value; } }

public virtual float FOV { get { return this.fov; } set { this.fov = value; } }

public Camera(Vector3 position, Vector3 target, Vector3 up, float fov)
{
this.Position = position;
this.Target = target;
this.Up = up;
this.FOV = fov;
}

public virtual void rotate(float xdeg, float ydeg)
{
Vector3 direction = (Target - Position);

Matrix yrot = Matrix.CreateFromAxisAngle(-up, MathHelper.ToRadians(ydeg));

Vector3 xaxis = Vector3.Cross(up, direction);

xaxis.Normalize();
xaxis = Vector3.Transform(xaxis, yrot);

Matrix xrot = Matrix.CreateFromAxisAngle(xaxis, MathHelper.ToRadians(xdeg));

direction = Vector3.Transform(direction, yrot);
direction = Vector3.Transform(direction, xrot);

Target = Position + (direction);
}

public virtual void forward(float distance)
{
Vector3 direction = (Target - Position);
direction.Normalize();

this.position += direction * distance;
this.target += direction * distance;
}

public virtual void left(float distance)
{
Vector3 direction = (Target - Position);
direction.Normalize();

Vector3 xaxis = -Vector3.Cross(up, direction);
xaxis.Normalize();

this.position += xaxis * distance;
this.target += xaxis * distance;
}

public virtual void upward(float distance)
{
this.position += this.up * distance;
this.target += this.up * distance;
}

public virtual void move(Vector3 direction)
{
forward(direction.Z);
left(direction.X);
upward(direction.Y);
}
}

Peace out

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Hoping the theme will be inspiring and will kick me into creating a little game.

I fancy doing something in Silverlight has I’ve never used it.  If I do, I may use some of the code from this tutorial.  http://cgeers.com/category/programming/silverlight/

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As usual, Visual Studio 2010, Paint.Net and perhaps a microphone for sound effects or music.

Finger cross I get the time and inspiration.

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Hello all

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Language: C

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Tools: Audacity, TuxGuiter, Inkscape, GIMP.

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Good luck all

Just finished cleaning up my desk and still need to go out and grab supplies.

My rig, where i will be spending a large portion of the 48 hours

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That is all.  😮  I think.

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Though I haven’t really figured out how to package them yet… oh well!

Tuuuuuuurbo Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!!!!!!

HEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeHAAAAAaaaaaaaa !!!

Wooooohoooooooooo!!!!!

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Cheers!

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Tools:

Photoshop CS3

FruityLoops 7

Eclipse

This radical java game framework for Android, which I will share, shortly