I’m going to try this out, mostly as a way to motivate myself to make a complete game. I suppose that I will enter the jam instead of the competition.

I’ve been playing with various game construction kits recently like Construct and Stencyl. I do a lot of my art with Blender. Don’t really have any sound and music making skills, so I’ll probably be looking for stuff that’s freely available.

I’m just about to start working behind the computer. Want to do a quick entry talking about what’s been happening so far.

This is the first time I have participated in Ludum Dare. I’m doing this to push myself into completing a project rather than just poking at the tools used for game programming. I’m going to use Stencyl to knock together something fairly basic, but I think it will have good potential for being expanded after this weekend.

I was lucky and had yesterday off from work. I took the time to prepare. Got the cleaning done around the house, bought groceries, basically got rid of anything that might distract me over the weekend. With a clean office I’m hoping that I’ll be able to focus.

I was out with the wife last night when the theme was announced. It immediately reminded me of an idea for a simple game I had a while back but never really developed out. I hoped that by thinking on the theme before bed I might get some inspiration as I slept, but had no real luck there. Thank you traitor brain. But I got up this morning and sat with a notebook as I ate breakfast. Did some brainstorming and I’m pretty happy that I have an idea that can be implemented over the weekend. Took some time after the brainstorming to make a plan/schedule. Already running behind some, so I’ll post this and get back to work.