The Code Kitchen

April, 2009

Ludum Dare 14

The idea of competing to write a complete game in a very short time has always appealed to me for some reason. I think mostly because it means I'll actually be forced to finish a game. So I'll be entering Ludum Dare 14, it starts around 9PM tonight and ends 48 hours later. Ruby isn't my favorite language for game development but it can't be beat for rapid prototyping, so that's what I'm using.

I'll be liveblogging as the contest is in progress, if you're bored this weekend you can check my posts here:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/codekitchen/

I'll also be doing a short presentation on the experience and on prototyping video games in Ruby at this month's Salt Lake City URUG meeting.

Comments? Feedback? Drop me a line.

My name is Brian Palmer. I'm a software developer at Instructure. Sometimes I post on this site. Other times I post on Facebook instead. Sometimes elsewhere. I have a Twitter account, but I've never tweeted. And yet I have 28 followers?


I live in Salt Lake City, which is a really cool town. Plus, mountains! I'm terrible at introductions, so if you have questions or feedback just drop me an email.


Oh, about the name: I write software and I love food. That's all it means.

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