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Love Apple Games gamedev team is in for the jam! Our team consists of Boris van Schooten (tmtg.net) and Val Jones (val_hax).

For software development we are going to use jgame.js and possibly the new game development toolkit CellSpace (beta).

Graphics: Tiny Sprite Editor, Gimp, Inkscape, Evolvotron.

Sound: SFXR, Audacity, LMMS, a microphone, and possibly a keyboard.

More info about the dev tools:

Jgame.js is a 2D game library based on WebGL, which we’ve been using for our previous games.

CellSpace is built on top of it, and enables tile-based game development by defining tile rewrite patterns (cellular automata style). It comes with an IDE and a sprite editor. It has similarities with PuzzleScript, but allows action games with smooth animation to be developed as well! See the screenshot below.

read the manual, which includes several example games
check out the demo game demonstrating enhanced graphics (142 lines of code total)
edit the demo game directly!
download the JGame and CellSpace source code (BSD license)

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Loveapple Games proudly announce our entry: Mythic Morph, and a Postcompo version!

Contributors: Boris van Schooten (game concept, programming, graphics), Val Jones (game concept, graphics, audio), Athena Norcia of Norcia Muziek (violin parts).

>>> Play the game here <<<

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The game was developed while being on vacation in Seville, which was an interesting challenge in itself!

It included some epic distractions, like the Spring Fair (Feria de Abril).

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We weren’t exactly well tooled up… All programming and some graphics and audio processing were done on a tiny netbook that was too slow to actually play the game, so the game was tested on a tablet! We used the hotel room and tapas bars as development studios.

Other graphics and audio processing were done on an ancient Macbook Air. For audio capture we used a Cowon Z2 mp3/mp4 player running Android 2 – it still works great apart from the Korean interface (good if you speak Korean; we don’t). Audio review and playback was on a cheap capsule speaker.

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Musical and other audio effects created in Spain were done using local equipment: a bidet, toilet, washbasin, wet flannel, flapping T-shirt, squeaky bathroom door, various beer cans and glasses from the hotel minibar struck with the courtesy razor, the human voice… to mention but a few.

Gamedev food included Spanish bread and guacamole (we used the courtesy toothbrush as a knife), iced coffee, chorizo, and melon sweets. Epic vacation!!!

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Here’s the Love Apple Games gamedev team with a late “we’re in” post. We spent this afternoon working out the game on paper and are ready to begin implementing!

Our tools of choice:

jgame.js (a WebGL 2D game library)
Gimp, Inkscape for graphics
Audacity, sfxr, possibly lmms for sound/music.
And, most importantly a microphone! Possibly we will have violin music by our guest member Athena.

Good luck everyone!