Woo! In a few mere hours, the 11th Ludum Dare game development competition is starting again!
This is a hectic time for gamedev compos, as the judging for Pyweek isn’t even over yet and we’re already starting on another one! Har.
I’m looking forward to this one, hopefully I can finish up all my Pyweek judging before Ludum Dare starts. It’s especially exciting because this Ludum Dare competition will be occurring during my birthday! Hooray!
Once again, the theme “Kittens” was voted out. *a big sad panda face*. Oh well, the final themes are usually pretty good, so I’m not too worried.
In addition, Ludum Dare has an optional “Timelapse Challenge” where you post a timelapse movie of yourself developing your game. If I can get my webcam working, I’m definitely going to participate in that. There is also a challenge to document everything you eat, using pictures, but I think I’ll probably sit that one out as my digital camera is out of commission.
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Here’s some art that I made for my team’s pyweek 6 entry. I’ll post a postmortem after the judging is over. The time, the theme was ‘robot’.
Click to make the pictures bigger. Om nom.
About a month ago, I participated in the 10th (semi-annual?) Ludum Dare 48-hour game development competition. This time the theme was “Chain Reactions” and I created a fun little game in Python called spaceReactions. The aim of the game is to destroy planets using the pieces/fragments of other planets, which you explode using rockets! Bam! It also features 9 unique levels.
Screenshots (click to enlarge)
Take a look at the full results. All in all, I think I did pretty well. Although I did place 19th overall, (out of 50 completed entries) I did manage to get 2nd place in the audio category! Alright!
Since my last blog entry, I’ve released a very small update to pillows, mainly just bug fixes and making things a little nicer for linux users.
My friend (and best man!) Jeff Powers recently started a new webcomic called GeoGuys. It’s a funny little comic about three friends who are “nerds at heart”. I think it’s pretty good, so you should go look at it.
In addition, another friend, Dave Butt (a groomsman at my wedding!) also started a new blog, called d:\blog.exe. To be honest, I don’t really know what’s wrong with his old blog, but I won’t ask the hard questions. He recently became engaged (exciting!) and has asked me to be the Master of Ceremonies at his wedding reception (also exciting!). So congratulations to Dave and Ashley! 
Oh also, if you’re into game development competitions, the “Ludum Dare X” competition is starting soon! Dec. 7-14th for Registration and Theme Voting, and Dec. 14-16th at 7pm PST is the competition. Of course, see the Ludum Dare website for more information. For what it’s worth, I’m hoping to take part in the competition (if time permits)
Hooray! I’m married!
Yes, it’s true. On Sept. 1, 2007, I totally got married to my beautiful new wife, Kristen. Alright!
Both the ceremony and reception were awesome. We’ve got a zillion pictures to sort through (and thank you notes to write), and I’m considering putting up a gallery of some of the pictures. We’ll see what my hosting provider thinks of that. 
Anyways, if you’re getting married in Central Alberta, I’d totally recommend the Red Deer Lodge. Very helpful and accommodating! They were really great about letting us use candles and rosepetals, etc. whereas other Red Deer Hotels were either very strict about that sort of thing, or clueless.
(And no, they didn’t pay me to say that, har har.)