Hey,
I’m Jonathan Whiting, aka/formerly MrPiglet. Haven’t done one of these seriously since LD13 (Roads), though I’ve often meant to other commitments kept getting in the way. Seems I’ve got a properly free weekend coming up though, so I’m in!
Flex is my platform of choice at the moment, and seems rather suitable. So I’ll be aiming for a Flex + Gimp + other random things approach. I’m going to use home rolled base code that has support for blit-style rendering, simple animated sprites, truetype text, and the highly useful as3sfx. It also has little bit of very lightweight generic game/fe framework so I can hit the ground running on Saturday morning.
My work enviroment looks like this:
If you’re getting ‘corner-of-a-bedroom’ vibes from it, that’s because that’s exactly what it is. Not much exciting going on, two screens, well-used notepad acting as a mousemat, ever-present mug of tea, and some highly macho desktop wallpaper. So, basically it looks like I’m pretty much set, roll on Saturday, I’m ready!
Will probably be lurking around on irc (as JonathanW) for most of the duration, and I love to see other people’s creation process, so I’ll try and keep this well updated with what I’m up to and why. I’m actually really rather excited.