I'm at this Wildpockets Game Jam thing in Pittsburgh.

Apparently me and some friends are supposed to throw together a game in 24 hours using Wildpockets, a browser based thing that I'm not sure what to call it but games are involved.

Anyway I don't know LUA, and Wildpockets doesn't support Blender >_<

Anybody use Wildpockets and have any tips for somebody who's used to Gamestudio?

I'm finding that I'm hating LUA and since I have to use my friend's computer (mine isnt getting internet) I'm also finding I hate Windows 7 but thats another story.

Okay! So while I was there I got better aquatinted with Wildpockets and LUA, and I do like it quite a bit. Once I got over being irked about inconsistent capitalization of some classes and methods (SceneManager gets camel case and math commands are all lower case?) I found that it's got a great deal of the functionality of 3DGS in addition to running in the browser. It seems to still need some things added, but what they've already got is actually very nice.

As for the Game Jam, it was kinda fun being there but my friends and I were the youngest people there (we were all college freshman) and some real professional-looking people were there and are probably gonna win all the prizes. We were completely unfamiliar with Wildpockets and LUA when we first got there and I couldn't model things since I didn't have 3DS Max or Maya and Blender isn't directly supported yet. We basically just ended up making a little zombie castle-defense game, but nothing really fantastic.

All in all it was a fun event, I got a free t-shirt, and I'd definitely recommend checking out this Wildpockets software.

-Clyde

Pittsburgh? Really I live there and was just saying how nothing goes on here (for me) . Wish I knew about this beforehand I would have checked it out, but I'll definitely be looking at this engine, thanks.