Hey all! This will be my first Ludum Dare!

I plan on using either CraftStudio or LÖVE and Notepad++, depending on the type of game.
I’ll use Paint on Win7, Paint.NET and GIMP for images.
Bfxr for sounds, maybe Audacity for other sound stuff.
I haven’t made much music before, but I’ll try pxtone or Milky Tracker!

Good luck everyone! Let’s have an excellent weekend and MAKE SOME GAMES!!

Time for a journal post!

My first day didn’t go that excellent! I was originally going to make a ninja turtles-ish beat them up, but I produced some code that quickly turned into the World Wide Web before I could even put meatballs and Parmesan cheese on it!

After talking a very comfortable 18 hour break, I came back stronger and started on a completely new idea (to me)– A non-action game! My tools had to change a bit, I found that I like LMMS more than pxtone or Milky Tracker, but to make the songs loop I had to manually cut them in Audacity.

I ended up going with LÖVE, but now I have to write an interactive story, which I have never done before. I plan on making the player and the characters around the player evolve based on the player’s actions with some invisible stats. You can play a small demo with none of that cool stuff, except for the AWESOME art I have right now, and the ROCKIN’ music! It is VERY short.

Click to Download (.love)

You will need to install LÖVE to play this game! It is available at https://love2d.org/

Work in Progress!

Be sure to watch for this friend in the final version!

Looks like my entry won’t be completed in time! My plan originally was to make a TMNT-ish Beat Them Up game, but it turned into spaghetti! My next plan, and the one I worked on the longest and hardest, ended up turning into a visual novel inside Love2D! I still have the entire story to write, and it will not be finished before the end of the compo. I could probably come up with another game idea that could be made in the next 6 hours, but I’m completely out of energy, and I’d rather reflect on my experience of this weekend.

And wow, did I learn a lot on my first Ludum Dare!

• I have never done any sort of creative writing on my own. This weekend I spent less time programming, and more time inventing some characters, drawing a map of the city, planning their daily routines, and more! It was fun, and I’d like to continue to improve in that area.
• I have never tried making music on my own. Even though they were garbage, using LMMS to create the lazy 5-second loops was still fun! I’d like to get to a point where I can create something useful and enjoyable!
• Sleep really did help a lot. The first day I stayed up way too late, trying to get a good start, and the entire project ended up being garbage! Not having sleep isn’t entirely to blame, though. I’m still not that great a ‘grammer… yet, and I sort of rushed in there, creating a very messy situation! The next day when I had sleep, I was a lot more focused. I had a nice breakfast, and snacked on some good veggies. The possibility of creating a game without action came to mind, and I started work on what became the tiny game demo we have today.
• I recognize my weaknesses, yet I see them as only an opportunity to improve! It’s time to learn C! Then I’ll try C# or Java? I don’t really know but hey, let’s just go!

Also, in addition to learning all that nice stuff, I feel extremely motivated! Before the Ludum Dare, I was creating nothing and just letting the days pass. Now that I’m finished with it I can make any game I want, and want to! I could learn something new, learn to make music, too! It will all be fun, I’ll never be done, so many new areas to explore, always learning more!

Check out the unfinished game!

I haven’t participated in the Ludum Dare in a long time, but I’m really excited to be a part of it again!

Depending on the theme, I’m hoping to create a game for the Arduboy handheld game system (With a PC port too, of course!)

My tools will be:

• Arduboy game system ($49)
• Arduino IDE (Free)
• Notepad++ (Free)

• C++ with Arduboy2 (at least initially, until I get the cross platform stuff done!)
• Lua with LOVE game framework (For the PC version)

• Paint.NET (Free)
• aseprite ($14.99)

mspaint (Included with Windows)

Good luck everybody!

The theme seems cool! Good luck everyone!

Game Engine - https://love2d.org/

Code - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Art - Draw in Paint - Finalize in https://www.aseprite.org/

Music - If I end up solo: https://www.renoise.com/ - If my bud joins up: https://www.image-line.com/flstudio/

Sounds - Record using a voice recorder on phone - Edit in https://www.audacityteam.org/