Hi everyone, hope the ratings are going well so far.

I've played and rated a few games already, and it's been a blast! There's been some awesome games released this jam, with some of my favourite LD games EVER coming out of it.

But, something I've been curious about: what inspired your games? Beyond the theme, or course.

Was it just a spur of the moment idea? Was there a specific game you wanted to emulate? Was it just a stew of all your favourite games in one? I'm curious!

For my game, Hellfall (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/hellfall-1), it was a mix of inspirations for all kinds of different mechanics, but the most obvious one would be Downwell.

If you're familiar with the game, you can probably see it... In fact during development I lovingly called this thing 'Downhell', before I settled on 'Hellfall' with my teammate.

There were definitely other influences though! Mario was definitely one, with how we tried to always be introducing something new (though this got harder as the levels went on...). I even took inspiration from my last LD game, Agewalker, where I used no more than 4 colours per sprite (the entire game, in fact!), which ended up giving Hellfall it's clean look.

So, what inspired your game? Drop a link and what inspired them below, I'd love to play them!

Best of luck with voting!