Hi,

My name is Mateusz and I am (actually, I’ll officially become one in October) a university student, majoring in computer science. This is my first Ludum Dare, but I have some previous experience with game making challenges – I took part in two PyWeek challenges:

• PyWeek #9 – solo entry – http://pyweek.org/e/Tenshee/
• PyWeek #10 – group entry – http://pyweek.org/e/SWGC/

I’ll be using:

• python/pygame or c++/SDL or… AGS. Something suggests me to use the third platform or something even less popular among LD participants. Any interesting and simple ideas?
• GIMP for graphics, depending on the theme it may be supported by hand-drawn sketches
• Audacity and TuxGuitar for the audio

I’d like to make a time-lapse video, but it seems I’ll be hopping between Windows and Ubuntu during my development, so it may be difficult. About the time spent – I’m not going to lock myself up in the basement for the challenge, so I don’t think I’ll spend more than 10 hours during the whole challenge. I’m gonna try coding something for the compo, but I don’t feel the need of making it. There is still a possibility that I’ll just play Simutrans and meet with my friends all the weekend.

I know this is slightly out of fashion, but as I don’t have any previous LD games to combine their screenshots into a montage, here is my working environment.

Yeah, I know it’s messy – it’s destined to be like this.

Oh, and I just realized that I won’t be able to code during most of Saturday, so possibly will make it into Jam. Or maybe not at all. I’ll try, though.

After a few hours of brainstorming, I’ve got an idea that is simple enough. So…

• There are three trenches – two are occupied by enemies, one by lone soldier, who’s out of ammo (that’ll be player)
• When player is hidden in a trench, enemies don’t shoot. Player can move in the trench and stick his head out of it (enemies shoot then)
• Goal: to survive and make the enemies kill each other

I have to go now, so after 9,5 hours of challenge, I’ve done:

• 2 hours of brainstorming
• 0 hours of asset creation
• 0 hours of coding.