I spent most of the time I had on graphics. I'm still kind of clueless about the actual gameplay. I hope I can figure out something tomorrow. I really don't want to do a "how long can you last before you inevitably die" kind of game. Oh and remember to keep backups!
Hello, our OGK Games team wishes all members productive work and a good time. Before Ludum Dare the composition of the team has changed, but there's nothing wrong with that) New people always give variety in projects and method of work.
We realized that we have a mascot, what do you think about him? 
~7 hours of work ... I will finish it tomorrow :sweat_smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XxIv2UieiA
Had a cool idea gameplay almost feature complete. Just chilling to regain focus.
With every step you take, the water rises.... Will our frog hero make it to higher ground? Or is this just delaying the inevitable?
A note to everyone: Don't spawn objects that spawn other objects at an exponential rate.
Seems like a no brainer. Clearly, then, I don't have a brain. Unity is frozen.
Edit: Had to force quit unity. Lost a decent bit of in editor progress, but the files are fine of course.
Hey everyone, I can't seem to type blogs. Descripion section greys out the moment I click it. I've copied this from notepad and will try to paste it. If you see it, that worked but it's not ideal obviously. Anyone has any idea? Using Win10, Chrome.
PS: Problem solved, it was grammarly.
Thanks to @LudumDare on twitter, problem's solved: Grammarly caused issues, disabling it on LD website fixed it!
Original message: Hey everyone, I can't seem to type blogs. Descripion section greys out the moment I click it. I've copied this from notepad and will try to paste it. If you see it, that worked but it's not ideal obviously. Anyone has any idea? Using Win10, Chrome.
There's the van. There's the road, the cars, an infinite level. I even added physics-based water barrels. No collisions yet. I'm learning Godot 3D as I'm going :laughing:
I was on vacation last week and didn't get home until late last night, so I'm definitely a bit behind schedule. Still trying to figure out a lot of basic things, but I'm in! Not sure if I'm doing Compo, Jam, or the new category, so I have a lot to do.
I'm using Unity, Cinema4D for 3D, Ableton Live + Reason for audio, Photoshop + Illustrator for 2D.
I had a lot of ideas, but found interesting to make a game about survival =)
I was working a lot but game is still in early-dev stage. I need to speed up maybe. Idk
Just finished composing the character of my first R3F game project: The Good Life First line of code on the way!
It's @wizard-frog's and my first contribution to the LD Jam. After our first day we are already able to send little forces of evil to annoy the local towns! They even do little screams :-)
We are doing the jam with a self imposed twist: Just like in the Compo we are creating everything from scratch without code, graphics or sound from elsewhere. So far so good!
Here is another sketch of the game, this time with UI elements and a 16:9 ratio.
I have all I need for at least one level, but I plan for a second level and a boss for tomorrow.
Here are the basic enemies, here to collect the magician's tax:
Still using placeholder art, but at least I got something up and running.
First time using Godot for Ludum Dare.
Still no idea what to call this game, currently I can only think of "Oscillation Game" which is quite boring.
It's nearly 3.00 AM here in my country and LD50 started on 8.00 AM yesterday. I should get some sleep.
Here's what I got done! Core gameplay is mostly finished.
Tomorrow I'll be - Adding Audio - Balancing - Check for bugs - Add more visual effects if I have time to add to the immersion
Good night & good luck everyone!
Or just pile it up and delay the "taking out" part. That's a future me problem...
Making beeps n boops for the UI and giving the Battery Low Mars rover some personality~ :sunglasses::notes:
Well, first day of Ludum Dare almost passed, and only thing i can say is... I have almost no progress. It's even harder as i'm participating in Compo. I feel upset
Had to do some things this morning, but now I can work on my game! Not that much right now but I will have something soon!
I am taking the baton from @13x666
Here comes some in-game animations :)
Stages of game jam:
The basic mechanic is finally ready! I'll have to figure out how to balance it to go infinite, but that's for later. I'm just glad that the basic game mechanic is working now!
Next up: overworld view / interaction, and maybe some graphic design. I've grown tired of these temporary assets. I just hope that my engine can support better graphics. Haven't updated it yet and I really should after the jam is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJHcN87Pu0E Next up is collision, and being able to enter other rooms.
Unfortunately, I got a late start, but here are some sketches I was working on last night.
Hi there. This is my first Ludum Dare. I'm making a game where nukes do what nukes do. And here is a gif where some nuking takes place
yeah so i've been silent about the game because I've been nonstop working on it (AND I'VE ACCOMPLISHED SO LITTLE OH MY GOD). for the first time though i feel like the ideas are very many, even if i don't like the theme particularly. also i'm joining with a couple of friends so it's much more stimulating.
just using free transform for ez squash and stretch
work smarter, not harder ;)
I'll add updates before the compo ends, but by and large it is done!
https://rosscogames.itch.io/southbound-flight
https://youtu.be/gNSAtlWcnFg
https://youtu.be/lKawFXErsFQ
I slowly realize that I might have slightly overengineered... :(
Very proud with the progress I made so far, but still a lot to do ! Eventually the sandcastle will be destroyed by waves
We decided on a stock market crash card game for Delay the inevitable. Me and @Pegasys have the basic functionality of the card game implemented, tomorrow we plan to flesh out the card mechanics and start adding visual polish.
Full disclosure I hate this theme, but this is what I have come up with so far, I hope everyone else has had a better time haha.
Well, a lot of work has been done today. I mainly spent time on graphics, and so far I like it. Tomorrow I will deal mainly with mechanics.
This was a productive day. We did a lot of stuff but this gobling is the best :\/ Ok back to develop! have a great time!
Here's the progress for the first day...
In this game your job as the player is to delay the worst posible inevitable thing - getting up. You do this by DESTROYING your motivation: seeing how popular your friends are, considering your existance when you see how much work needs to be done and more...
I'm having a lot of fun so far and I hope I can finish the game in time for the Compo.
Hope your ideas and games are coming along well! Bye for now.
the messages are there for testing
concept: you are a robot with a constantly ticking battery, which goes down every 4 seconds, and you must delay the inevitable battery outage by collecting energy. green is +2 (2/10 chance), yellow is +1(4/10 chance), and red is -1(4/10 chance) i need playtesters, if anyones open i'll release demo. still has a few bugs though
link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/670030387/
It's a lost soul and their name is Will!
I'm just stacking guns to delay the inevitable armageddon
playtest please: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/670030387/
give feedback as well?
Just menu music:
https://youtu.be/JmiiC8xWToE
Nobody like paying taxes, right ?
Too bad, you have to do it until you die. But what if there were a way to simply not do taxe ?
It's still a work in progress, considering I'm working alone, I'm quite pleased to have the gameloop pretty much finished at this point. I just need to adjust the gameplay now. It's quite a lot of fun !
Hi, This year we are participating in a team of three. We decided to use Unreal Engine this time and it went really well for us. Despite of problems with custom lightning system everything is going surprisingly good.
We came up with idea of Engineer repairing a space ship. You will be assigned with various tasks to prevent the ship from total anihilation :D .
Screen of mocup interior. We prepared many other objects, which are waiting for implementation.
And editor screen ;)
Good luck!
Today was great! I reached my goal for the day; making a playable game. There is a lot of stuff I'm proud of, such as: the random level generation, the fact that colission works, the wonky ai which is pretty scary actually ^^"
Tomorrow I'll add more features. I like to keep track of everybodies scores. The places where people died, will have a tombstone for instance. Also.. Powerups!! Lets see how crazy this game can get!
You can play a prototype by clicking here: https://www.wouter52.com/PROJECTS/LD50_NIGHTLY/
Right now there are 7 prototypes, in the future more will be added. The 7th is the final one for today.
so now u have no excuses left to delay (hehe) opening your engine and actually working
how do y'all get into your prototypes so fast, executive dysfunction and anxiety MURDER me lmao
And here's the second boss of my boss rush compo entry. Only one left, but first... SLEEP
The graphics is still placeholder, but at least everybody is safe (I guess)
Alright. I finished first day. I made not a lot of things, but basic engine and world generation system is here, so i hope i have time to finish game.
Also idk how to name it =)
the first day was truly wild! finished almost all gameplay stuff, but there is too much visual that i need to do... hope i'll have time before the end of compo. i wish i didn't have to sleep how did your first day of ludum dare went?
refuses to elaborate https://youtu.be/Zm5BRf7QfIE
Implemented awesome boss mesh and animations by @karin-g
So, is a simle game where you sum binary numbers.
Can i polish it enought to make it fun to play?
I managed to do the very professional move of forgetting I agreed to run some errands and do some volunteer refereeing for a youth soccer game today, so 6 hours of doing that plus being nice to myself and letting my body get a whole 6 hours of sleep last night means I've already wasted a quarter of the Compo doing non-Ludum Dare stuff.
On the plus side, taking a break from sitting at my computer and drinking a probably unhealthy amount of Coca-Cola has restored my energy, and there's still over half of the Compo left. Looks like I'll either have a pretty short yet complete game or I'll be switching to the Jam to make my game last more than about a dozen minutes (which I very much wish to avoid doing).
... and I'm pretty happy with the progress so far!
Managed to not do a lot of polishing already like in previous LDs but instead concentrate on the core gameplay loop and I'm strangely proud of that fact :) (except for screenshake, gotta have early screenshake in there ^^)
I got a game that is pretty much fully playable and quite fun already, but the todo-list is still quite long. Before this day really ends for me I'll try to make some music, and tomorrow is mostly about visuals and polish. Might add one or two more mechanics still though.
Hope you're all having a great time and getting along nicely! Looking forward to all those games that I will inevitably play, without that much more delay :)
My video:
https://vimeo.com/695271812
It's going well enough with our egg society (just noticed: no eggs in this picture). Idea feels a bit overly ambitious, but i always like the challenge.
Road and building placement is done and works nicely, but no goods are produced or transported yet - not to think of attack/defend mechanisms. Will be a close one! But we got a super team assembled - details later :D
This is my first Ludum Dare, I'm not entirely sure if I can finish everything in 72 hours, however, there is at least the Extra category. Today I added the basic mechanic to the game. 
Made some good progress on day 1. Most of the gameplay and art is finished, will focus on music, sound effects and levels tomorrow.
Here is a GIF of the DEMO Level:
Excited to be doing this game jam with @Clairric and @Cinsynate again! Animations are starting to shape up~!
I abandoned my own project and have instead joined 2 others in making a game. I'm doing the music. In our game the player has to keep a fire going and there's a day and night cycle.
The music ended up being a bit more upbeat than intended, and for some reason it reminds me of both Kirby and the old Star Tropics games on the NES. And there's a bit of latin influence in there too it seems.
The team did a lot of drawing, animating, designing and coding!
Looks like a good time to call it a day.
Stages of game jam:
Stage 1: Damn, so much work ahead, feels impossible
Stage 2: This doesn’t make any sense, we’ll probably fail this time
Stage 3: Hey, this is actually moving along better than expected
Stage 4: Wtf, how did we pull this off?
Stage ?: Not sure, just sleepy (—> WE’RE HERE <—)
Progress Ludum Dare 50 - Day 1
Joe and Lukas exploring an ancient derelict
Just you wait for all the audio magic done by my friend here Dan @kobylarz
its super fun just flying, not caring about quality, i just want a playable Something quick quick usually i get stuck taking FORRREVVEERR planning and worrying about quality and dissing on myself that something doesnt look great etc but its great to just not care and make whatever
this character ended up looking like a chicken
its supposed to be a really quickly made human like character person thing lol
https://www.twitch.tv/msmiachar
Making progress, come check out our build a bear game!
The main graphics are done and will be implemented soon. It's been a looong day, haha.
This morning's mockup
Current mockup version
Code: Respawn Art: Enemy and barrier graphics
Everyone on our team is working hard on making an awesome game. We decided to go for an endless-runner kind of game (a little bit like Doodlejump).
@hacktier is working on the player model: A fox. The model is finished, and we are currently working on rigging and animations.
@mk-awesome is working on the background graphics for our game. For this he made scribbles on paper and recreates those scenes in illustrator:
And I am working in Unity and preparing the game code itself for all the models / graphics. The core game-loop is finished (jumping, collecting pickups, gameover, highscores, etc.) and now I am working on implementing more platform types and pickups:
I am scrapping my idea entirely. i do not have time ti make it even fun, much less decent. so, I have another idea to get it done
A simple virus defender roguelike. You play as a leukocyte and have to destroy the viruses as long as possible.
get em
Just a reminder for everyone. Make a backup of everything... Often.
Over forty years as a programmer has taught me to back up.
Small animation with cat object 
And new concept art (make by @yuki-albarn)
Slow, steady progress. As it should be. We all BECOME CRAB in time.
This first day has been quite hard, but we've managed to overcome most of the difficulties so far.
What do we have, and what's next?
Well, the first thing is that the player can now build some buildings, that's a start for a "city" builder. There's still some buildings to implement, work to be done on the UI, as well as a LOT of testing on game mechanics. And then we'll have to work on music and sound FX. And of course, a lot of polish needs to be done (some animations, etc.)
But for the moment we're quite happy with what we've done, and we're going to sleep.
Got bored of looking at the same temporary assets, so I made some new sprites with animations for the game. The background may change later, depends on how much spare time I'll have (probably none).
Also figured out how to balance the game a bit. Will implement that tomorrow, after I get some rest.
Now that I'm looking at the gif, it also seems like it doesn't capture most of the detail it has. It's way more detailed that what you're able to see. I'd still like to modify it a bit if I get the chance though.
This is my first ludum dare and second game jam in general- I'm entering the jam as I have a team member working on music this time (and those yummy, extra 24 hours. Mmmm.) Got pretty much all of my basic code down for the systems needed for my point and click.... My sooper dooper music team member is working hard to get all that stuff done, and it sounds 100x better than my game thus far. Thus, I must make my game 100x better, logically.
The art for a couple of the areas are done- hoping to have 6 little areas like this in total!
Mind yourself, everyone, and get good sleep!!
Levels of space station destruction , maybe an actual game mechanic!
The amazing people in this team have been working hard on Unity and aseprite all day whilst I've been coming up with story ideas. Looks like things are really coming together. Excited to share what we have in store!!
I dropped my first 2 ideas :sob: , here are bad assets for the third! (modular characters)
It's still pretty patchwork but there is actually somewhat of a story. If any one has any feedback it would be very much appreciated! I still need music and alot more art https://alexanderchatham.github.io/LudumDare50/ 
First day of our first game jam! Still a long way to go, but already proud of our progress. Time to catch some sleep
https://youtu.be/ZRSKeytYm9o
I've been creating a Tile Level Generator to help us on Level Design in the long run and It's starting to come together very well! :smile: I can't wait to share the whole game concept with everyone! :flag_dz:
1AM and we have a working prototype, alpha version for tomorrow at 12:)
Have a good night fellow devs and fighting!!
Did you guys know some rodents only live for 2-3 years? I wish science would find a solution to that problem... Or magic?
Well, this day just flew by, didn't it? I don't know if it's thew fact that I chose to write a story and do some very minor coding in Twine 2, rather than taking on pixel art or even 3D responsibilities, like I usually do... but man it feels like today was just 12 hours rather than 24.
A couple of ideas floated to the top, but the one I decided on is something I have been meaning to do for a while, with the theme simply giving me a direction to work in.
Writing a complete start-to-end narrative with some branching, and choices affecting story beats that follow later was the reason I picked up Twine 2 to begin with. I just never really got around to giving it a go. So that's what I am doing, writing a side mission for a fictional cyberpunk game. But it won't be a side mission for our protagonist, oh no. He's just delaying the inevitable.
Cyberpunk also somehow means Film Noir, right? So I have to write it from first person view, like a detective from the 50's who just threw his fedora aside and is now sipping a bourbon.
Aside from writing a story I've spent a good chunk of time tweaking the CSS to get an appropriate vibe through color, font choice and, uh... border widths? As shown in the first image, a brief bit of photoshopping a logo was also a part of the day.
These nodes might say 'chapter' but don't worry, these chapters are merely paragraphs. And the colors indicate things! Oooh, exciting.
There is a lot left to do to try and make the story satisfactory to play through, but I am glad I planned out the entire outline. I always thought I was better at starting small and scaling from there, but going from macro to micro gives me a lot more confidence, given that I know where I need to go with it all.
But now I sleep.
I've managed to get the basic mechanics done today. There are enemies that roam the game world and will kill you if you touch them, checkpoints you can activate to respawn when you die, and collectible power-ups that help you deal with enemies and obstacles and allow you to access new areas. Here are the two I have implemented so far:
Fireballs can also light torches, some of which will open doors for you. How handy!
With the basic stuff in place, I'll be spending Day 2 expanding out the game world, and adding new enemies, powers, obstacles etc. Then it'll be on to the polish stuff like music, sound effects, and some snazzy particles, and if I'm happy with it, I can hopefully submit to Compo this time!
I've been building games in Unity for years, but for LD50, I'm using Lens Studio and publishing to Snapchat (!!!). I work at Snap, so it's not huge leap technically, but I'm excited to finally challenge myself with something different!
