I plan on entering LD 37! 😀
This will be my 3rd LD. Here are da things I use:
Python/Pygame
MS Paint
Beepbox.co
SFXR
Anything I can find for foley
Here is a lighting engine that I just finished and hope to use for the LD:
This engine uses heightmaps. It creates (specified amount) of copies of the image on the ram based on the heightmap and the main image. This gif uses 100 copies. 100 copies can be generated by my pc in about 1/2 a second.
Since it’s pretty much only rendering tile variants in real time, the heightmaps don’t cause any lag. Also, since it’s pre-loaded, a 20×20 image takes about 500KB of RAM if 100 copies are loaded. If it were 10 copies, I could easily use 1,000+ images.