Ludum Dare 48 hour game dev competition
Ludum Dare is coming up, August 8 – 10. I’ve poked around the entries for the competition before, and once I lurked on irc while a compo was in progress. But this will be the first year I’m participating. My wife is out of town and taking her dog, so I will be left with the other dog, and a house to keep up. But other than a good long walk and a workout on Saturday, I’ll be able to devote most of my time to the competition.
I am going to go with out of the box Java, using Java 2D for graphics. That will let me focus on gameplay and design rather than battling with the graphics. The themes to vote on aren’t up yet, but I quite like the “Meanwhile…” theme. I’ll be spending Friday before the compo cleaning the house, installing time lapse software, preparing food and cleaning up my desktop (physically and virtually). Oh and working the day job, of course.