So I’m entering Ludum Dare 22. So’s my brother and friend. The plan is to live stream our desktops (or the primary screen of them at least) , take a photo every 5 seconds for a time lapse, and record the information we place on out whiteboards. And here’s where I’m insane, I’m coding in a language I only decided to start learning today: Java. In about half an hour I set up a development environment, scripts to compile and run and a base program to do my logic loop (which I won’t be using come this weekend).
My set up is as follows:

• Intel Core i7 950
• 10GB DDR3 RAM
• 2 x 22″ 1080p LED Monitors
• 1 x 19″ 1440×900 LCD Screen in Portrait.
• Windows 7 Ultimate x64

And here’s a pretty picture of it all.

Languages:

• Java (Main Client)
• PHP (High Scores or anything web based I want to implement)
• Game Maker (Fall back if Java ends up being insanely hard)

Programs:

• Paint.Net (Pixel Art and Touch Ups)
• Fireworks/Photoshop (Vectorising Drawn Art)
• Notepad ++ (Programming)
• Open Office (Documentation)
• Game Maker (Fall Back Programming)
• VirtuaWin (Desktop Management, 3 Screens isn’t enough)
• pixie (Colour Selection)

Plan is to use mainly black and white, and maybe a red or two for colours.  I’m going to be drawing and scanning my menu systems in, and then vectorising them. As for game ideas, I have a few, some that I won’t be able to do easily due to the lack of knowledge of Java, and some that would look epic and take virtually no time. Worst comes to worst I’ll make a text based adventure game and make a single nice piece of art for it.

~Mitch

Finally, my game is finished. If I had more time, I would’ve added a lot more stuff. But I am too tired of this game, so I am just going to release it now. If you have any problems, comment!

Made by: Game Maker 7.0

Difficulty: Depends on how you play.

Length: I never finished it, but should take 30 minutes-1 hour.

Screenshots:

A battle:

A screenshot of the map screen, taken from the beginning of the game.

Game:

http://host-a.net/kaderli/Lost%20Roads%20Release.zip

Source Code:

http://host-a.net/kaderli/Lost%20Roads%20Source.gmk