Thursday, August 19, 2010

Ludum Dare 18 in under 24 hours!

Ludum Dare is a 48 hour game development competition - a topic is voted on and chosen out of 18 final topics, and everyone has 48 hours (from 10pm Friday to 10pm Sunday) to complete the game. That's 48 hours to come up with an idea from a topic, develop, test and get it done! Now with Flash, it's much much quicker and easier than with C++, but here's how my 48 hours of the competition go:

Friday Night

10pm: Topic Announced
12pm or so: Go to bed

2 hours to work

Saturday

7:20am: Wake up, get ready for work
8am - 7pm: Work (including travel time)
Dinner at some point...
12pm or so: Go to bed

5 hours to work

Sunday

8am: Wake up (as learned in previous compos, any earlier kills my ability to work)

Shower, eating a few times, relaxing between working (also a lesson learned... If you work nonstop, your brain will be so fried that no work will get done and time will just tick by as you try).

10pm: Competition over

10 hours(?) to work

KEEP AN EYE HERE, I'LL KEEP UPDATING HOW IT GOES!

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