We made it. This was probably my favorite Ludum Dare, I enjoyed the theme and I really liked working on our idea.
We went with a third person game where you fly down into a bunker and plant a bomb, then escape before the bomb explodes. Along the way you have to fight enemy blimps and try not to lose your path. Players can drop a “breadcrumb” which is a small glowing cube so players can see where they have been. The map was quite large, it’s easy to get lost. Just to make it a bit harder we also added a feature that randomly adds and removes bars in certain tunnels. So a path that was open in one playthrough may not be there in the next.
Working with unreal was a challenge, it’s a very powerful engine. However we had a few crashes and some lost data that set us behind. We wanted something that looked great and was fun to play, this did cause us to have a large file size for a ludum dare game, and many lower end computers will have issues running it.

What went right.
Game design
Level design- Fishy did a great job setting up a large and complex tunnel system for the player to get lost in.
Quad Copter- The model looked great and I was pretty happy with the controls.
Escape- When the timer starts ticking down and you make a wrong turn it causes much panic.
Blimps- That is all
Particle effects- One of the benefits of working with an engine like unreal is the ability to have great looking particles

What went wrong
Ai- I set up a simple ai outside the level, and realized once I started adding them to the level that they would start firing at you before they could see you. Didn’t have time to correct this. And due to some mistakes on my part several blimps do a little dance instead of flying.
Animations- It just didn’t happen
Bomb dropping- In the original game I wanted to have the player be able to drop the bomb to help solve puzzles, but I couldn’t get it working like I wanted, and ran out of time to add any puzzles

In all I am happy with what we did in such a short time, and even with the larger download size I hope you will download it and enjoy.