This will be the 2nd or 3rd LD that I’ve wanted to participate in. Real life has always got in the way so I’m hoping that this time, things will be different! I don’t know as yet if I will be going for the Compo or the Jam as my girlfriend may be helping me out a bit with art assets… we shall see! My background is in all kinds of front and back-end web development, but I’ve been interested in games for about 25 years now and I’m hoping my passion will make up for my lack of experience…

Engine: Unity3D – I’ve  recently decided that damnit, I’m going to learn how this thing works. Hoping to have some time to practise before LD starts, probably won’t get the chance!

Platform: I’ll be developing on a Mac but hoping that my engine choice will allow me to easily deploy on Windows and Linux.

Art: Pixelmator, hope to try out Piskel, possibly Spritely

Sound: CFXR, NanoStudio, Jesokla Buzz (via virtual machine)

My plans to make something as a quasi-learning exercise with Unity have been ruined. Not the fault of Unity, but of my (now) ex-girlfriend who decided that Friday night was the night to ruin our relationship. So that’s kind of been the story of Saturday for me.

I was going to just give up except out of all of this has come inspiration. I’m going to turn instead to trying to create something entirely different. I must admit that I couldn’t think of anything to do that fit the theme… until I started getting creative with the dictionary…

Oh, and I’m ill with something now too. I have a feeling the end result might be kind of depressing…

Tools:

Sublime Text 3

Chrome

Whatever Javascript libraries I end up grabbing and assembling together in some kind of crazy bespoke way as an ‘engine’ before the time runs out.

Pixelmator