This is my first time, and I have no idea what to really expect.

Going solo and doing this in Javascript with Phaser.js as my weapon of choice.
Whatever I end up with, it  will not be some fancy pants 3D work of art.

Other tools:

Sublime
Tiled
Pixelmatorand Coffee

For sound, I’ll probably use sfxr if I have time for it.

3AM, abandoning idea of picking up objects and using them.. going with a more conservative approach of “It’s in your inventory already, just select it and throw it using key”.

This is hard.

I did make this little guy.

My guy can move and throw a ball (with gravity and collision).

Also featuring crappy tilemap background made in about 2 mins.

Going to get some sleep and try see if I can marathon this thing to a somewhat finished state.

I think I have some semblance of a working game.  Not a good game, but well, wasn’t expecting much. Added a cat at the request of my wife, which I think turned out to be a good idea.  Adds another gameplay option.

I just hope I can pull it to something worth looking at within the next 15 hours.

Well, at least as done as it’s going to get.  My first time and I managed to complete it.  Regardless of how the game gets brutalized by the judges, I think it turned out ok.

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=43987

This will be my second go, the last one being LD31.  Looking forward to it.

I will be most likely using the same tools as last time.

Javascript/HTML5
Phaser

Other free tools for the Mac.

Despite a few delays and setbacks, I’m happy with the result.  I find I love sprite work more than anything.