So I’m entering a LD compo for the very first time – Mini LD#31, ‘Fear’, hosted by my distinguished associate TheGrieve.  This should be fun.  And by ‘fun’, I mean ‘humbling and embarrassing’.

My entry will be browser-based, and built for the latest versions with WebGL + Canvas support.   I’ll be working with the following base code:

• HTML5 Boilerplate – for a nice stable base to build the game hosting page on
• Three.js – for WebGL rendering
• Tween.js + requestAnimationFrame.js – for movement animation
• jQuery – for the UI stuff
• my own partial Javascript port of the Python libtcod library – for procedural map  generation and management
• a HTML5 audio API wrapper of some description

I’ll also be busting out GiMP, FLStudio, and whatever else I need to get this going.  If I can get it going at all.

Happy developing, everyone!

So since my regular running crew from Team +rehab – those responsible for Dark Soils, Wyrmhole and Gradience – are all indisposed, I will be Jam’ing this one solo.  This also means I have no artist or support coders.  Fun times.

Love the theme but inspiration is in short supply, and time is short.  Might do a snarky inversion of some existing gameplay mechanic, since a lot of people seem to be doing either kaiju or demons already.

Tech will be JavaScript on Chrome, probably with PhaserJS or ThreeJS.  The ‘art’, such as it is, will be done in Photoshop.  If I get time for audio, it’ll be FLStudio.

Enjoy the jam folks.

Neil

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