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ludum factorum by AMastryukov

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made by AMastryukov for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

Have you ever wondered what it's like to participate in a Ludum Dare compo and create a game in under 48 hours? We all have. That's why we spent 72 hours creating ludum factorum, a Ludum Dare compo simulator.

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Features: - Feel the pressure of the impending deadline - Do everything yourself (coding, audio and graphics) - Work hard all weekend to create something ~~beautiful~~ barely playable - Receive completely fair ratings

Team Members: - @AMastryukov (Lead Developer) - @gnahzanit (Lead 2D Artist) - @AlmightySocrates (Developer | 2D Artist) - @Deathhound (Developer) - @Mahad420 (Sound Artist | Developer)

Youtube https://github.com/AMastryukov/LD47
Youtube https://amastryukov.itch.io/ludum-factorum
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/ludum-factorum

Ratings

Overall 459th 3.747⭐ 99🧑‍⚖️
Fun 452th 3.634⭐ 99🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 312th 3.778⭐ 99🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1075th 3.342⭐ 97🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 406th 3.979⭐ 99🧑‍⚖️
Audio 375th 3.67⭐ 96🧑‍⚖️
Humor 47th 4.206⭐ 99🧑‍⚖️
Mood 420th 3.747⭐ 95🧑‍⚖️
Given 56🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

Dizzy
05. Oct 2020 · 22:26 UTC
What a fun game, really liked!
ZEST_is_BEST
05. Oct 2020 · 22:27 UTC
Best I've played so far. Really quality game in all aspects. Well done!
JoskerDu
05. Oct 2020 · 22:30 UTC
Haha -- so good. A world within a world.
shosanna
05. Oct 2020 · 22:34 UTC
Wow so original :)
Zagganoth
05. Oct 2020 · 22:38 UTC
This is excellent!
TheWustache
05. Oct 2020 · 22:43 UTC
This made me laugh :) also, damn, that's some nice looking art! The hands off approach works well, I think, you did a good job with making the mini games very clear and self explanatory.
Sentynel
05. Oct 2020 · 22:43 UTC
Very meta - I like it. I'm a bit concerned about how hard I find the coding minigame...
c42
05. Oct 2020 · 22:43 UTC
Nice! Loved the graphics and the love of detail.
GloomyFolken
05. Oct 2020 · 22:43 UTC
Nice art, but unfortunately I am not able to code without autocomplete
Feraligatr
05. Oct 2020 · 22:44 UTC
Most innovative game I've been playing so far. Graphics are fitting to the sound and mood in general. Also kind of challenging, I liked it.
Jonas Michael
05. Oct 2020 · 22:45 UTC
Beautiful graphics, good sound and fun minigames. Was a lot of fun!
JemForMango
05. Oct 2020 · 22:54 UTC
This is hilarious! Really great game.
daracodes
05. Oct 2020 · 23:36 UTC
This is pretty accurate.
Tattomoosa
05. Oct 2020 · 23:38 UTC
Hilarious idea, really nice implementation, very accurate simulator
Préda
05. Oct 2020 · 23:39 UTC
Love the humor, all the details and the art!
mlkvr
05. Oct 2020 · 23:44 UTC
"Servers are not down when submitting 1/10"
Jokes aside great game, congrats!
yopox
05. Oct 2020 · 23:56 UTC
The idea is great and well executed, congrats. I loved the background :art:
rvenson
06. Oct 2020 · 01:45 UTC
Love it! I guess that my typping skills are really better now 😄. Looks like the position in each category don't makes difference when you focus on another category (for example: when I play piano, fun gets bad). But I don't know if this is expected. Really nice job, guys!
Jon Topielski
06. Oct 2020 · 06:30 UTC
Niiiice love it. This is the kind of loop we can all relate to.
Henrik Ganard
06. Oct 2020 · 08:06 UTC
The gameloop where a little to shoort, or maybe I am a little bit to bad. However, I got stuck doing one pussle and had a hard time to remeber to switch. So just like a real Compo in other words =)
Alan123
06. Oct 2020 · 09:00 UTC
Loved it, the theme and mechanisms worked well, the music really emphasised the time limits nicely
Mr.developer
06. Oct 2020 · 10:10 UTC
Lmao that's so good! Very original, great job)
BukkakeTears
06. Oct 2020 · 11:26 UTC
I was expecting something similar to Factory.io, don't know why, maybe because of title. BUT I'M NOT DISSAPOINTED AT ALL. Got nice amount of laughing, it also turns out that I can' type fast enough to make a perfect game. :/

Very good entry, it would be ironical if it would win, or at least take high place. I would like to see that, good luck and thanks for the game!
🎤 AMastryukov
06. Oct 2020 · 11:42 UTC
Thanks, @bukkaketears! According to Google translate, "ludum factorum" means "the game works?" in Latin. That's why we chose the name.

@rvenson If you are referring to the fact that focusing a specific minigame does not yield scores in other categories, you are absolutely correct, that is intentional.
LouieJams
06. Oct 2020 · 12:53 UTC
Very innovatative entry and great idea for the theme! The only entry i was able to ever finish was just graphics hehe c:
Ree Rolph
06. Oct 2020 · 14:12 UTC
Interesting little experience! Found the rhythm game a little glitchy (although it's possible I'm just bad at rhythm games), but I always like to see a typing minigame!
Tamail
06. Oct 2020 · 14:25 UTC
I already made a game why I have to do another one?! :laughing: This is a great idea and even nicer execution! Great work!
🎤 AMastryukov
06. Oct 2020 · 14:44 UTC
@ree-rolph yeah the rhythm minigame sounds a bit buggy because if you had to match the rhythm exactly it would be way too challenging and frustrating to play, so it gives you a little bit more leeway and as a result sounds a bit off at times.
Aterlamia
06. Oct 2020 · 14:45 UTC
omg i just barely finished teh compo to fail here over and over again. Great job on the game very fun idea
Flauschzelle
06. Oct 2020 · 15:23 UTC
Very funny idea, but I found it way too hard... I couldn't even finish one game, so I had to miss out on all the jokes mentioned in the other comments :/

It's probably easier for people who can type while looking at the screen, I should learn that some day...
🎤 AMastryukov
06. Oct 2020 · 15:25 UTC
@flauschzelle technically speaking, there really isn't a way to "finish" any of the minigames, you just keep doing them indefinitely to rack up points in the respective category (audio, fun and graphics)
Doot
06. Oct 2020 · 17:32 UTC
This one is awesome!

The art is stunning, the concept is smart, the mechanics are very well implemented.
The ratings at the end, even after a few jams, are quite harsh, but well, I never actually tried compo, so maybe this is actually the case haha.

Thanks for the game 💕
dr khan
06. Oct 2020 · 18:10 UTC
Love the art design. Whoever did the sound design is super hot I can tell idk how but I can. I'm not a game developer but I know too well what anxiety feels like and this game captured it well. Cute easter eggs in the posters and lil ducky and anime girl.
fachscahfttf
07. Oct 2020 · 00:30 UTC
Really fun game. Some of the jokes may have hit a little close to home :sweat_smile:.
dxk2294
07. Oct 2020 · 09:21 UTC
This is fantastic! I don't know if it's just because it's 2am, but this was pretty challenging for me :sweat_smile: I loved the music, the background art was especially fantastic, and the minigames were all great fun. Good job!
tipyx
07. Oct 2020 · 09:39 UTC
Ah ah ah, excellent. All the juice of a LD translated in a game. My hands are moist!
Anyway, maybe more time at the beginning (to avoid chain fails) could be nice, and instead of QWER for the music, maybe "1234" or "UIOP", so it would be common to all keyboard variations?
🎤 AMastryukov
07. Oct 2020 · 11:32 UTC
@dxk2294 the game truly is challenging and hectic to best convey the feeling of participating in a Ludum Dare compo.

@tipyx I was not even aware that there were other keyboard variations besides QWERTY. We will remember this when making our next game.
Los
07. Oct 2020 · 13:42 UTC
Fun and challenging!
microgravitydan
07. Oct 2020 · 15:24 UTC
Frantically humorous! I particularly liked the desk art.
Finn_Tr
07. Oct 2020 · 16:59 UTC
Super fun game! Really love the simple gameplay and music, I had a blast playing this! Great job!
Roikku
07. Oct 2020 · 21:03 UTC
Develop this into a couch coop game so you can have a game jam team. Also make features more realistic and make the theme matter! Good game!
Shelvid
07. Oct 2020 · 21:05 UTC
Fun little game, minigames could be more interesting but the polish on those is very good, hope you will turn it into something bigger in the future!
GaryS
10. Oct 2020 · 00:51 UTC
The music speeding up gave me that same sense of anxiety I get in the last few hours before the deadline! It felt really odd having to code to someone else's syntax style on the keyboard minigame, kept making mistakes because... well... so many spaces. ;)
Good fun.
Trexxak
11. Oct 2020 · 17:31 UTC
Yes, yes, this is EXACTLY how it feels :‘D Especially loved the simulated coding because I was constantly searching on my keyboard for various brackets, symbolic for the search for the code that’ll „make it work“. Great meta entry, love it! Thank you for creating this!

also nice touch with „the theme does not matter“ :D
joonamo
13. Oct 2020 · 18:26 UTC
I consider my real life game dev skills to be best to worst Programming, Art, Music. But in your simulator it was the complete opposite :joy: I just couldn't write any code, but apparely my music good? This game really made me understand that I don't write code from left to right. I have a habit of first writing brackets, then hitting left to enter them and write whatever I need inside. That wasn't valid strategy in your game and threw me off so bad. Almost felt like my hands were replaced with my feet :grin:
130N35
19. Oct 2020 · 08:38 UTC
Funny concept ! A bit hard, but still reflected nicely the last hours of a jam.
The code without autocompletion though, nearly impossible if it's not with my proper syntax :D too much spaces as someone already said
Ryan Paton
21. Oct 2020 · 23:01 UTC
Really cool idea, Had no idea what was going on at the start it was all so fast, but quite fun!
MatchaFlavor
26. Oct 2020 · 16:26 UTC
Very meta! :joy: This was a blast, basically described what I went through, only I submitted for the jam lol. Very well done overall, I don't have much to contribute here in terms of feedback, the game is simple in it's gameplay but deceptively challenging.