Hi there, this is my first time at Ludum Dare. I'm not yet sure if i'll go for the compo, but just in case, i was curious about the requirement to publish source code: Do you have to also publish project files for all assets? (Gimp/Photoshop/Aseprite files, music/sound project files, etc) Or is it only the game project?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/pendulum-postman

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My main computer perished horribly. I have been itching to try gamedev again. Ludum Dare is around the corner. Godot released a copy of the game engine that runs directly on my Quest headset. And the Meta OS just added a virtual keyboard that is actually fairly reliable. Do you see where this is going? Sounds fun. Sounds miserable. It can be both.

I am using the Godot editor from within my Quest 3s headset, to create the game directly in it. No computer. It sounded like an "interesting" experiment.

Progress is... slow. Long story short, my body... understandably disagrees. The Godot editor port is fine for the most part, my keyboard is janky, but the main issue is that at any point in time, I either feel sick, really sick, or about to feel sick. So I can take breaks, which loose time, and don't fully help anyways; or I power through, feel miserable, and work very inefficiently.

There are parts of this setup that have impressed me for being more usable than i expected, but overall, a 3 day jam like this would already be a feat of endurance. Besides comfort, a big weakness is that there really isn't a good way to create or import assets of any kind. You need a PC, or a teammate. I could probably go on for an hour listing all the jank, infuriating things and inefficiencies i encountered. Making a game like this is possible, but not fun.

I have not given up yet: i like the game idea, but the odds that it will be playable in time are very slim. My plan now is to revert to a more "normal" setup: move the project folder to my old slow 12 year old Thinkpad, and testing the game with godot's quite decent "Build and Run" feature. Despite the computer's age, this will be the least bad compromise. I will probably end up with working movement and player mechanics, but no gameplay loop.

I have seen a lot of the games feature a screen front and center. (and even, usually a CRT)

Not complaining about this flavor of the theme's interpretation, as a Voices of the Void fan...