h4tch

LD26

I’m in! First time.

This’ll be my first Ludum Dare! I think I’m going with Love2d since my C++ SDL2 engine isn’t quite ready, and Love2d is fast at prototyping games and is very portable.
Here are my tools:

OS: Ubuntu

Graphics: Gimp, MyPaint, and Inkscape

Sound: SFXR and Audacity

Library: Love2d

I’ll be streaming to Twitch at http://www.twitch.tv/h4tch and recording a timelapse.  The scripts I’m using are available on my BitBucket, so if you’re running Linux (maybe even Mac) you are welcome to use them (requires mencoder and scrot for timelapse, or avconv for recording and streaming).

I’ve got a question, for future reference. If I were to use my own game library, do I have to make its source visible or just make the binary available before hand? I realize you could cheat by stuffing an almost complete game into the binary beforehand(but the game code would show that you obviously cheated). I was thinking about using my own library, and then maintaining binary compatibility with it with my game(since it’s unfinished, but mostly usable and extendible). I also realize the code doesn’t need to be open sourced for it to be visible.

LD27

I’m in for the second time. May use my C++ Lib.

The first time I didn’t get a whole lot of time working on the game, but I worked on it for a solid chunk of the initial hours and got the basics of a platformer game done.

TOOLS:

Language/Library: See below

IDE/OS: Geany/Linux

Graphics: Gimp/Inkscape/MyPaint

Sound: SFXR

Target Platform: Linux, plus others depending on the library used and time.

I may use my custom engine I’m working on. It’s not quite done( It needs Lua bindings still ), but it is very extensible.  The engine

supports Linux and Mac OSX. Windows support should be possible, but I don’t have the time to support it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kf9yuh9ed0pa3qk/libPerazim.so

But, I may end up using the basic structure of my previous game for LD26, which uses Lua/Love2d.

https://bitbucket.org/danhatch333/1gam/src/6fe9c472fa609dfa780c24322c2df39883b8471d/LD26?at=master