I've done a couple of game jams before, but never this one. I'll be going solo in the 72-hour jam. A bit nervous, but a lot excited!

Don't really remember if I made a "I'm in" post, because I was still trying to figure everything out here last week. Anyway, it's my first LD, and I'm going solo in the jam.

Tools: - Unity 2017.2 - Blender for 3D modeling (I've spent a lot of time this week practicing modeling, rigging and animating, and I'm getting pretty comfortable with it. Hope that pays off!) - Gimp for 2D art (If I go 2D I may create and rig models in Blender, render their animations and use those renders to create sprite sheets in Gimp. It'll take a bit longer, but the result will be worth it.) - Audacity for sound recording (usually that's jut me making all kinds of weird noises into the microphone) - LMMS if I have time to add music. (If I don't have time, I'll create the music in the next few weeks and add it after the ratings.)

My Personal Goals: - to expand my horizons. As I said, I've already improved my skills with Blender. By the end of this, if I am a better game developer because of it, then it will have paid off. If not, at least it will have given me an excuse to hole up in my room for a few days. I would have done that anyway, but now I will have an excuse to do it. - a respectable finish. The first jam I was in (not LD) I think I finished 128th out of 133. That turned me off jams for a while. Ironically, it also had me eating jam out of the jar by the spoonful. - and of course, "Ludum dare": "to give a game." To come up with a game that I like, and that others enjoy playing. Maybe one that I can continue to polish, then release, and maybe even sell. I'm not looking for a fortune, just enough to reimburse me for my coffee bill.

Good luck, everyone, and have fun. I don't know about you, but I feel like a kid at Christmas.

HOLY CRAP! CHRISTMAS!!

I made this for the weekend. Please feel free to use it if you want.

Just made this, and thought some people might like to use it. You can resize it however you want, change it, add it to your screenshots, your submission page, your video, your game, whatever.

... KIDS!

I am seriously disappointed, but I hit a major snag today that I just couldn't get past. As a result, I fell way behind my schedule, and with the amount I still have left to do, there's just no way I can get a decent product by Monday night. I may continue working on it, though, and if and when I finish, I'll post a link to it here so people can see what I would have submitted. Good luck to the rest of you. I'd like to get a look at the games that came out of this, and I WILL be back for LD41!!!