We’ve been tracking my Ludum Dare results in order to weaken our strengths this Ludum Dare.

We got off to a bad start in Ludum Dare 23 Tiny World with an embarrassingly respectable 4.14 in Graphics.  Well, we’re not respectable!  So we had to do something drastic about that and that was called Ludum Dare 24 Evolution!

LD24 was a new low-point for us – how could it not be, it being the second entry and worse than the first?

Ludum Dare 25 was predicted to be such a stinker that we didn’t dare enter!  The chart clearly shows our interpolated results would have been disastrously middle-of-the-road, so its all for the best!

However, we became complacent, thinking we’d dodged the LD25 rating bullet as it were, and didn’t keep our eye on the ball; Ludum Dare 26 You are the Villain wiped out our earlier gains and we hung our heads in shame again.

What were we doing wrong?  Should we have gone with a simple 6 hour platform game in 1D without background nor goal?  We plucked the lint from our navels and pondered.

Ludum Dare 27 10 Seconds was masterfully managing the Theme and Audio aspects, but overall far too well received.  As said, we had managed a decent showing in Theme and Audio, and those are now trending safely downwards; but Humour, Fun and Innovation all trend alarmingly upwards and we had to focus on wiping those out this Ludum Dare!

Really, was it time to go use GameMaker or *shudder* Unity or to make Windows-only binaries or blitz the board with speed ratings?

Ludum Dare 28 You only get one is all tender hooks; my first solo entry, Ursa Miner, has definitely wiped our the Fun and Humour categories.  I believe I have successfully exercised them forever, and furthermore I believe my technical Innovation and destructive terrain will be well enough hidden that the bastards who keep playing the game for like 10 seconds (I have the server logs duh) and then passing judgement never even notice!

My game, Ursa Miner.  Please overlook anything mildly impressive:

Thank you everyone who is not a 10 second rater!  That theme was so last year!

I’ve played my way through all the links people have given me on the IRC channel; so if you have a WEB game you want played, its just leave a comment here below