Comments on: Schedule permitting, I am in again. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/07/schedule-permitting-i-am-in-again/ A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Mon, 20 May 2013 21:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: dr_soda http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/07/schedule-permitting-i-am-in-again/comment-page-1/#comment-38196 dr_soda Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:23:51 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=110414#comment-38196 Indeed, it’s theoretically possible. On a lark I decided to try to work through as much of Mario Zechner’s “Beginning Android Game Development” book as I possibly could stand to using nothing but the Asus Transformer. Tonight I’ve managed to clear chapter 5. At that point I took off in my own direction and started making a “game” where you lay down fading lines by drawing on the screen since chapters 3-5 are the buildup of his book’s framework and after that point you’re able to take the code and run with it.

It’s not a fast process. In particular it would be nicer if you didn’t have to exit the app and go into the IDE to see LogCat whenever things go awry. On top of that I’m not planning on using any 3rd party engines (though I have to admit that whatever I write will probably be influenced somewhat by the Zechner code since I’ve spent so much time looking at it), so the scope for the game would probably be limited.

You know, I just thought of something… ICS *does* have Flash. I wonder how feasable it would be to try using the online bfxr on the tablet? I imagine it would be kind of a disaster, but you never know until you try.

]]> By: bndwagn_junglst http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/07/schedule-permitting-i-am-in-again/comment-page-1/#comment-38193 bndwagn_junglst Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:11:10 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=110414#comment-38193 AIDE rules! I am a big fan of self-hosted dev environments, and while I’ll probably never make a killer FPS with only my (absolutely horrid, lg-should-just-give-up-and-stick-to-microwaves, no-physical-keyboard) phone, it’s nice to know that it is theoretically possible. :)

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