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Here we have one of those multi-talented programmers I keep talking about. The same programmer did the code, high-quality sprite illustration, and even the music to the youtube video (which was pretty good, and matched the nature of the time lapse video).

I am inspired by this. I'm going to do this the next time I work on a game. Has anyone used time-lapse screencap software they can suggest?

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> Has anyone used time-lapse screencap software they can suggest?

A LD48 regular created chronolapse for this purpose.

http://keeyai.com/projects-and-releases/chronolapse/

I'll second chronolapse. I've used it for reviewing my productivity at the end of a day.

Oh that is way to confronting.

If you are Mac/Unix you can use cron every minute and screencapture/scrot...

It looks like he used livestream.com's Procaster to broadcast the 48hr marathon and then sped up the output later on. http://www.livestream.com/platform/procaster

To me the really impressive part is his ability to stay attentive. He never strayed away, starting surfing the web etc.

Yeah I'd really have to be disconnected to pull that off heh.

I was impressed by that too, although I did see a quick twitter check in there at least once.

I'm sure I would do my best to appear attentive when working on something like this, limiting my twitter/facebook/hn browsing to my iPhone/iPod/laptop.

I did see a quick twitter check in there

He posted about development progress.

He also posted a screenshot in a Wordpress blog.

Or maybe he has Twitter on another screen :-)

I don't think I would undertake a 48h programming contest with a single screen.

Yeah, he has 3 monitors and a Cintiq.. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/08/21/getting-started-he...

And the Cintiq is a screen as well, so plenty of screen space there.

Here's the sound effect program he was using, btw:

http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

Because it's for a 48h coding competition

http://www.ludumdare.com/

Fascinating, it's amazing what people can do under severe constraints.

I just finished my second JS10K entry (also a game, but much simpler) in about the same total time (though spread over more days).

I found the hardest part was to balance playability of the game. I played it so many times while developing it that what was easy for me turned out to be very difficult for others.

Having an endless supply of 'virgins' around is a staple ingredient of game development.

Now you made me blush.

At least with such short competitions your involvement is limited. Constraints work both ways: deadlines are liberating when they pass.

There is a Billy Connolly joke in here somewhere ;)

In the reddit thread about this, someone mentioned that he had multiple monitors set up, so maybe there was a bit of straying we didn't see :) Nonetheless, I found it very impressive.

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