check it out:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/$284557

This is Stas, our pride

If you haven't played yet, check out my entry. And while votes are nice, what I'm really looking for are some ideas for how to give the player a bit more control and remove some of the dumb luck (not all of it, but some). I'd like to stay away from a mechanic that brings it any closer to Minesweeper than it already is. Thanks in advance!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/numerus-maximus

We've made it!

Go checkout the Page below if you want to help our little robot friend cleaning up his junkyard: https://snotax.itch.io/endlessjunkjard

Thanks for all the participants and playtesters, we've had great fun!

Sufficiently Roasted

it was a great experience for me, made new friends, and made a wonderful game

Hello guys! for the 20th anniversary and milestone edition i made a little video showing my 6 years of partecipations in this contest, i'm very bad at video editing, but wanted to do something special for this edition of Ludum Dare! i hope this can inspire new jammers, let's continue to have fun in this amazing contest :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2DuRfESII&abchannel=TheAndreadbx

also, if you want, try our entry for ludum dare 50: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/arkbomb-pinballrkanoid

Have fun!

Our game Runic Moon is up! We would love to hear what you think about the game! @starling

Ludum Dare page

Itch.io page

Finished up and published a working build of me and my friend's entry into the jam, Overtime!

Really enjoyed working on this game, and I hope others enjoy it as well!

Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/overtime-1

Done by @mimbladora, @lishiana and @zozol!

Pre LD50

I started off this weekend thinking I couldn't partake this year. Family, jobs, life, plumbing.... I figured, even if I lost major sleep, I could only squeeze out a few hours. Would that be enough, I wondered?

On a hope/whim, I signed up for LD50 ten minutes before it started, and went back to irl.

-----30+ hours into the Jam/Compo----

I'm a huge fan of the Minetest LPGL Voxel Game/Engine, and been around it for a couple years now. Some of the Devs in that community were/are competing, but everyone said Minetest was a bad choice for the Game Jam.

I told them they're wrong, and basically said it makes game making easy, and you could make a good submission in no time at all, and probably rank in the top 50% of games. One challenge later and well.... Okay I'll lose a few hours of sleep.

-----Fast Forward 3 hours-----

Inner thoughts

Okay, game is up on github, I think I have it wrapped up well for windows... hopefully. How am I going to hide basically all of minetest so the user just enjoys my game???..... Oh I'll just toss *the entire engine in a game_data folder*... that'll work...

Now, It needs a theme song... Let's see what I have from High school.... Ah, this should do. Tosses sound into game Yep, nailed it.

Okay let's go check the... HOLY MOLY the countdown timer says I have 10 minutes for the JAM???!?? I thought we had until Monday????!?!!

frantic typing, clicking, and general agony with slow internet

Okay it's published, quick let's write up a readme.... Wait.

That countdown timer now says 17 hours....

...

...

Sigh, Javascript+Browsers+LD bugs strike again. I wish someone would make those counters work right when the browser window stays open for ~40 some odd hours...

Well, the game is "done"! Let's type up a guide, and hopefully someone tries the really awesome multiplayer mode.

Jam, Monday, Now

So yeah I made a fun, quick game with full multiplayer support using the Minetest Voxel Game Engine you've probably never heard about, in ~3 hours.

Hopefully you have as much fun playing as I did in playtesting (especially being 3 different players at once - that's a challenge, haha):

Balloon Bash

It's a space shooter shmup that you can rate here!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/delay-the-inevitable-4

Hope everyone had a good time! :smile: I'll be playing some games now if you want me to try yours you can take a look at mine and leave a comment :wink:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/until-the-end

Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/$284557

Howdy fellow game devs! Me and my team finally published our LD50 game The Last Church.

When we got the theme we pretty quickly came to the conclusion that we wanted to make a classic tower defense game, on one part it might sound boring, but on another it felt just right. We are all great fans of the genre, and on the last couple of jams we've wanted to push our games to a more polished state more than being innovative (guess it goes a bit in waves really).

The Last Church title was blatantly borrowed from our favorite Warhammer 40k novelette, and our game is just as grim in it's prospects. You are the caretaker of the last church standing whilst the rest of the earth has been devoured by all the demons of hell, they have their eyes set straight on your gate, and it's up to you to stop the onslaught as long as you can, though in the end, it's just Delaying the Inevitable

I've heard from our most hardened caretakers that you can reach wave 14, myself have only reached wave 7 as of yet, but I will try my best to come further than level 10 :sweat_smile:

Here a crazy in-game shot when things are looking really sweaty

Now it's time for me and the team to have a really long rest before we roll up our sleeves and start playing all the amazing games that have been made during this here very fine LD edition! And a very big happy anniversary at that!

Chainsaw Cheers from ol' man Sawtan!

Play The Last Church

And then another Ludum Dare has come to an end. Please try out our game!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-inevitable-blast

Hi everyone, hope your games are going well!

I just finished up my narrative game for this jam: just drive! It's about moving on in life, and working through all the thoughts in your head.

If you have the time and would like to play / rate it, I'd love to get some feedback on it and see what people think.

I definitely learned a lot of things this time around, and am excited to see what everyone else has made!

Wow, what a journey. This was my first ludum dare and also my first gamejam. In the beginning, I thought 72h is too short and it means no sleep or rest. But it turns out fine. I finished the game in time and I'm really proud of myself. It 4:30am in my place so I really need to get some sleep now lol.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/catch-the-phone My game's link is here. You are certainly welcome to play. If you played my game, please leave a comment below so that I will be able to play your game in exchange! And of course feel free to give me any advise or criticism!

Came back after 3 skipped Ludum Dare's, with more experience, and we're going to publish our new game, "Bombfall", in a few hours for this 20 year anniversary!

Just doing the last improvements to make the most of the time that remains :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/taoreta-mura

Nobody's survived past the 1 minute mark yet, goodluck havefun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IbuE0UuPg

After a busy weekend, another game jam done. :smile:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/concave-knave