Thanks to the resources list by Alakajam for lettimg me know about Piskel! It's so lite and lovely that I can focus all my thoughts on making pixel arts. And its animation support - you have to give it a try if you haven't yet. And its exporting function makes it so easy for preparing game sprites.

I think I'll probably make a 2D pixel-style game in this jam. It's just nice and easy for me. For anyone who haven't viewed the resources list, just don't miss it in your preparation.

OK. I just want to show my quick work here, actually. It's my cat Nino (but I keep calling her Puppy)
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I am a young game developer and i am programming since two years, but i started game developement early this year. This is in general my second game jam (my first jam was Ludum Dare 39). My tools are Unity as the game engine, Photoshop to make sprites, bfxr for sounds and FamiTracker to make music. I am also very excited to take part on this jam.

This will be my first jam. I'm very new to game dev in general—I've yet to actually finish a game, but I figured that this jam will be a good incentive. I'm just hoping to produce something simple with a touch of imagination, a sprinkle of innovation, a dash of fun, a smidgen of humor, a scintilla of intrigue, an iota of repressed sexual energy, a mote of dust, a trickle of mysterious goo, and a dollop of Daisy brand sour cream.

I plan on using:

• Unity
• Blender
• Gimp
• Ableton

I have been working with Unity for the past 5 months and I am totally hooked.
I just completed a game that is in the Google Play Store, and pending approval for iTunes.

As I've been researching by scowering YouTube and other resource, I came across the LD. This lead to me spending way too much time watching hours of live streaming for the jam. I was captivated and inspired.. so… I think I wanna try it.

I'm a dev, not a designer… so I will be greatly challenged by visual aspect; however, I'm excited to take on the challenge.
I only have about 48 hours to invest, and I don't know anyone in the field/business/jam community… so I'll go solo and see what I can do this weekend.

Looking forward to getting into my first JAM and seeing what coolness everyone creates!

If interested, here's a little more about me:
http://webthingee.com/games/
https://www.lullabot.com/about/sean-lange

Hello guys,

We are a french team and this will be our first jam! We are 2 developers (Damien & David) and 2 designers (Léandre & Lara). We’ll use Unity, Adobe’s soft and maybe some more.
Some of us are familiar with the videogame process, some of us will discover it during the jam, but in the end we all are pretty excited to do this!

Good luck everyone and HAVE A GOOD JAM!

Damien, David, Léandre & Lara

Hi everyone! My name is Wizcas. I'm from China, which means I'll have to wait until 3 am on Sep 23 for this jam starts ;) I participated LD38 as my first jam, and became a super fan of such events. So I'm here, trying to make something pleasing.

I found Alakajam accidentally, but decided to do this in no time. This site gives me a bunch of surprises - its logo, style, friendly guides of tools choosing, and a whole lot of other things which totally caught my interest. And, it will be the FIRST event in Alakajam's history. Exciting!

I'm not sure yet that I'm gonna to make a 3D game or a 2D game. It depends on the theme, I guess. I'll pray the final decision not to be a Sci-Fi thing… I really don't have much thoughts on such.

Let's do it ;)

// P.S.: I'm going to the Blizzard Video Game Live concert this Sunday evening. Time conflicts, but that's something I can't miss!

Hey everyone! This is my first game jam. I've been a professional game programmer for ~1 year now, and a hobbyist for a few years. This is my first game jam but I'm super excited. I tried getting a team together but getting people to commit an entire weekend is tough. If anybody wants to team up let me know! I have the most experience with UE4 but who knows what I'll use for this. I'm from the US btw. Good luck everyone!

Hey guys, me and some friends (All ITs from different sphere) will participate for the first time in a jam as a team.

We still don't know what to expect but we're super hyped to be part of this.

We'll be using Unity, Audacity and Paint.net.

Still no super cool and/or cringy team name xD.

Let's do this! We'll have a lot of fun sharing our adventure with you guys and I cannot wait to see your projects as well!

Have fun and good luck this week-end!

Lokior

I'm excited to partecipate. I always wanted an european-time friendly ludum dare. I wasn't able to partecipate in the last Ludum Dare and this is a good way to get my fix for the time being.

I am going to make a game in HTML5/JS with my Magic framework that I've developed during the course of a few compos. I will be using MyPaint and Gimp for anything graphics related, and Audacity for sounds and music.

In the mean time you may check out my tumblr or my itch.io page to see some of my past work, if you want of course. If you want to get in contact, give an holler.

Good luck to everyone.

Hi Alakajam! Getting pumped for this weekend. Hopefully, I'll have enough time to finish the game before the outside world interferes with it on Sunday. Going to try my best and hopefully all of you will do as well!

Thinking about the tools I'm going to use, Unity will most likely be the Engine of choice, with Inkscape for graphics,Bosca Ceoil for music and sfxr for sounds, with Audacity and my lousy mic for other sounds.