With the Ludum Dare a week away, I'm using this weekend as an opportunity for a dry run. After all, it's no good having grand ideas and spiffy design documents if you can't get your tools and talent lined up to get things done by the deadline.
So what tools am I using for this? FreeBASIC for the coding and mtPaint if I wind up needing artwork. I don't have anything lined up for sound, but I've seen a lot of suggestions floating around out there, so hopefully I'll find something useful before next weekend. And of course, I'll be using the internets if I have to look something up in a hurry. I just have to keep my reference tool from distracting me to the point where I don't get any work done. Good luck with that one… ohai, there's a roguelike contest going on…*ahem*Anyway, that's the plan. I did tinker a bit last night with a game making tool called BYOND. This yielded some mildly interesting results that wouldn't blow anyone's mind. Nothing spectacular really, I was just following a basic tutorial. It did yield my first attempt at pixel art in years. I'm not sure I'll choose to build too many games with this, but it does let you build a network ready world pretty quickly, and has a passable pixeling tool built in. But enough with the procrastination, I've got work to do. And yeah, I know… I haven't jumped on the "big RPG ideas" bandwagon posting thing yet, but that's because I'm not actively working on an RPG this week. I'm playing a different game of numbers for my warmup weekend: Nim.Whaaat?
I think I'll take part in Ludum Dare for the first time next week. It will be a disaster.
Yeah I don't have time to participate in the contest while I'm still in school :|
@Toast: awesome! I won't be the only one crashing and burning next weekend. :D
@AG: They make you go to school on the weekends now? Wow, that's kinda hardcore… and what am I still doing here? I'm supposed to be coding! Argh.@Lorik: No they don't, but of course I have work to do throughout the week for school. Plus I'm working on another project.
Are you looking for a man with six fingers on his right hand?
I am! How could you tell? o_0
I'm mostly commenting to tell you that reading "warmup" made me imagine Kermit the frog in a soldier's helmet.
However, good luck :)fuck you
but yeah you willI have to work harder than you. The comp starts at 2AM on Saturday for me, and ends 2AM on Monday morning. I have to keep the filesize small and upload it via dialup. Pity me. >:3
I'll still beat him