I always seem to miss it out of sure bad luck and despite a 24 hour work day on friday I will be participating in the compo alone for the first time and am very excited. My goal is to create something quick and fun that’s visually appealing and under ambitious. Tools I will be using:
Engine: Stencyl / Flash
Graphics: PICKLE! Photoshop and Sprite Something
Sounds: CFXR
Good luck to everyone and remember YOU ONLY GET ONE LD48
We’ll I’m at work for about 3 more hours before I hit my keyboard! I’ve been busy sprinting and have around 60 tiles or so.
* Created a blank game.
* Added Helicopter and Hero
* Created basic movement for the helicopter and hero including a single jump.
* Imported tiles and created test scene.
-Up next is getting the hero in the helicopter.
-Hero dies from high height falls.
Small update, you can now climb in the helicopter and jump out.
Heres a brief video of the progress, I fell asleep and got distracted for a few hours today but its coming along.
* Added bombs, bomb UI, and bomb pickups.
* Bombs Kill dogs 
(possibly more enemies? No time!)
*Added helicopter health and health UI.
Lots of UI upgrades and color changes, bug fixes and collision fixes.
Just dropping by to say i’m in!
Going to try a puzzle game as opposed to a platformer or action game.
I’ll be using..
Stencyl
CFXR
Photoshop
need some suggestions for a free music maker, something easy to pick up and learn.
Good luck everyone!
I worked on a warmup game last weekend and added the sound today. Check it out on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/637738
This year I was short on time and ideas so I didn’t post much throughout the competition. I wanted to say thanks to all who played and rated my game this time around and say that I had a great time overall with other games. I also wanted to take the time and publicly thanks and point out some of the great tools I used to create this game in such a short period of time.
First off is the game engine, Stencyl, which has proven over and over that it is an excellent tool for those dedicated enough to develop a polished product. A great community and helpful individual worked with me to get the lighting effects in later levels to work, something I had never done before.
Graphics: Well I used photoshop for my graphics and unfortunately waited until after the jam to purchase, Pickle. Pickle has since been the best tool i’ve used thus far in creating pixel graphics and most importantly animations and sprites. All of which have improved since my purchase. Please support this excellent tool.
Finally I would like to address the audio. The SFX were generated using the very popular CFXR while the music was generated randomly using an amazing website (abundant-music.com) that I was directed to during the jam. The game is flash and browser based so please if you have a minute head over and CHECK IT OUT HERE. Thanks and good luck. 
Hey all,
Today I finished and posted my first mobile game “Strike Team” to the google play store. This was a quick build, something I started on last Wednesday and finished up today. It is a homage to one of my favorite high school flash games “Helicopter Game”. I created all of the art using Pickle, finishing things up in photoshop.
Please let me know your thoughts! Any feedback would be great.
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.travislucia.striketeam
This will be my third or forth ludum dare and I will be half participating this time as I don’t have a lot of free time this weekend. Tools are as follows…
Stencyl (engine)
Pickle Editor
Photoshop
www.abundant-music.com
Good luck everyone!