Oh look. It’s that guy with the neat formatting!

And he’s joining Ludum Dare for the 12th time.

Well, it’s been a while. 4 years and 2 days ago I started my first Ludum Dare with Game Maker. I had fun, I was 13 and, of course, I didn’t finish. But that doesn’t matter. It sparked something in me. The discovery that programming is fun.

Since then I’ve gone on to participate in over 30 game jams, host 4 myself, start a game jam management system that I might actually finish at some point, got a job as web developer at a cool company and in general had lots of success. But that’s another story, that I’m sparing for a keynote, that I want to do for LD32. Go nag PoV if you want to hear it.

The tools

Now is the time to declare my tools. I will stay within my comfort zone and go with web stuff. Javascript and Canvas (and Node.js if I want to do stuff on the back). For graphics my tool of choice is Paint.NET, or Krita. I usually don’t have the time for audio.

My base code is available here

Sadly, but also luckily, I’m terribly busy helping with another game jam on the side, so we’ll see how much time I can allocate to this.

See ya all during the compo! I hope you make some great games!