After making a 2D game last year, we decided to set our goals higher and make a 3D action packed shooter with a little graphical twist. Here is a screenshot of yesterday's progress with our first enemy type.

Well, unfortunately, our ambitions have surpassed us

It happens. I think it's part of the game jamming - sometime you just need to admit that you won't finish your game on time. And oh boy, we tried really hard that I'm writing it with my eyes only partially open and with one leg inside my bed.

Our idea

We had some ideas. But two came to the forefront. A game about a knight who really needs to take a shit - the game would be kept in the Half Minute Hero (DiarrHero!) concept, where the goal would be to get to the loo.

However, our hearts were stolen by a second idea!

A card game where you are a comedian and have to choose jokes from your deck so as not to offend someone in the audience too much (based on traits like skin color, body type, being a ginger, gender and so on). And as we know, as a comedian you won't be able to delay the inevitable forever.

And when someone gets too offended - well, Will Smith can tell you what's done to comedians who have ill-fitting jokes.

Pssst, there was a plan for a final boss to be an audience on Academy Awards. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

We will be back!

But it's not that we give up completely. We will finish the game, but in our own time. From my side - I had a great time, even if we failed in the end.

Good luck to everyone!

Assets

Some simple mocks from early stages of development:

And some tracks to feel a vibe: (1) (2) (3) (4)

Finished all my art today- Minus a title screen (saving the fun parts for tomorrow, basically, as well as the awful parts of testing and debugging over and over). Spent about 9 hours straight just... making art... then 2 hours straight putting it into the game and adding sound effects etc I'm learning the funny thing about point and clicks, is that because I'm testing so much, I really don't know if my game is genuinely 3 minutes long or if it's just because I've absolutely optimised where I click and I know the exact process to get to the end... Hopeeefully that's it... The "main feature" of the game, rather than having something like a complex inventory or combining items, is actually being able to jump between different rooms using text related to those rooms found on the objects around you. Not gonna lie, the room transitions look whacky. Here's one of the 6 'rooms' (tiny screens lol) to explore!

48 hours is a very short time. I got something working but not something I can really enter the compo with (probably). So much more to be done. So little time. My back is killing me. I got to tap out (of the compo). Here's the current iteration: https://ambi.itch.io/survivor

Cloning an existing well defined game idea (Vampire Survivors) shortens the time quite a bit, but getting stuck into weeds like autotiling and procedural level generation really eats all those gains and then some.

I learned a lot. New engine (Godot). New ideas (procedural world creation, autotiling). Doing everything with optimal, most well oiled workflow would give a better end result, but what would be the fun in that? :sweat_smile:

I'm so glad I could finish my game as I intended in good conditions, even though it was pretty stressful... I must have put something like 32 hours in total for this compo !

Looking forward to trying and rating all your games !

This is mine, "Wait For It" - a wacky and weird Wario Ware inspired game, where you try to go through as many quick challenges as possible to save and serve your beloved cake... which will eventually lay flat on the ground.

Check it out : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/wait-for-it-1

Cheers, Simon / Forgin' Bits

My LD50 entry, The Flower of Marasca, is now complete! I think this is the most polished Compo entry I've ever submitted, so I'm very proud of myself.

It's available on Newgrounds, itch.io, and the TIC-80 website. Give it a go, and see if you can earn just a little more time with your beloved...

Second LD entry - I tend to only get a few hours for these jams because I work weekend shifts. I think I scoped this one pretty well, I didn't finish all my goals but the game doesn't feel like it's obviously missing anything.

Now for a well deserved nap! :zzz:

Check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/final-warp

Less than 2 and a half hours left and I still haven't hooked up any of the logic for the UI. And I'm wasting time posting...

Physics is a boatload of fun. I think I'll abandon my original idea and just make a juggling simulator!

So far very excited to very soon show what I've made! About 33 hours of development so far. Whew!

Did this as a joke, realised I look exactly like this lol. He may look scary (or tired), but he's got the spirit!

I always get paranoid around this time in the Compo. The submission hour is counted on top of the current countdown, right?

So 2:15 hours (the current countdown) from now + 1 hour for packing up and uploading?

you can play it now here!

https://notsostudio.itch.io/batteries-not-included

To mark the occasion, I decided to not do a puzzle game again, and made a platformer instead (tough I managed to slip in there some puzzley stuff ^^).

As usual I'm really looking forward to play all your amazing game, cheers !

Here's mine: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/cant-escape-your-past

Making some progress :) A game about not making a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYYzy6I1Anc

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/crab-battle

https://cottontshirtz.itch.io/crab-battle

I guess there's other things in here too. But I'm proud of my dumb sky shader. Next game will just be 100% shaders.

The round symbols with the hammer show the parts of the ship that need repairing, and the cannon and ship's wheel icons will have a differently colored arrow when they're not in need in repair, since the player also needs to use them.

The oval "dialogue bubbles" will show the stats of the different pirates.

This is a small 2D Platformer, where you play against your biological clock. Try to reach the end of the game, while collecting as many roses as possible. Use your age as an advantage! You can now play it here: https://jorbits.itch.io/graveyard-path

I just finished my Compo Submission, “The Mark of Time”. You can play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-mark-of-time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnycv9ldxCY

First time implementing this kind of player movement, and as such I've spent a lot of time learning. I also spent too much time yesterday on project plumbing, but I'm hoping it'll pay off when it comes to the submission hour.

Circular movement was the biggest frog on my list and as such I'm feeling pretty confident with the remaining time. My submission may be strung together with primitives but I'm hopeful it'll be a playable game with source code 🤞

I managed to pull together two more minigames, for a total of 4/8! After two entire days. And there's still no timer, no scoring, no overall lose condition, and no difficulty increase over time. I think the most notable thing I've done today is develop a burning hatred of Euler angles. Trying to do clamp a rotation with the minimum as a positive and the maximum as a negative is bad.

My plan was to finish the mechanics today and use all of tomorrow for art, audio, and general polish, but that might not be totally feasible. If I'm lucky the other minigames will go smoothly, but after the extreme difficulty of "click and drag to rotate the snake around its origin" I'm not betting on it.

On a real Famicom, of course ;)

Looks like I scoped my project too large – I’m still working on systems and don’t have the interface finished for the main gameplay loop. This is going to have to go in the Jam instead of the Compo but at least I’m pretty sure I can have something playable, if not polished, by tomorrow.

I gotta stop trying to make these complex numerical simulation games for LD

*I'm super tired right now but I managed to finish the game, pack it and upload/submit it everywhere. I'll write a proper post-mortem and descriptions for all the submission pages. Good night all! :sleeping: *

I just uploaded my first Ludum Dare participation ! It's 1 am here and I am exhausted but really happy ! Good luck for the next hour everyone

You can play here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/study-breaks

It works fine in the editor but the drawing order are messed up in webgl. Can someone help me?

I finished my first game for Ludum Dare. I went for the compo category and could only finish because I saw all the handwork people were doing. Here is a screenshot of the game:

Finished with a few hours to spare. Had some technical issues with the production build, like always, but I had enough time left over to iron them out.

ZEZ is an time based action game. Kill enemies to gain more time. Each enemy you kill makes time drain faster. Inevitably you will lose. See how many enemies you can kill before you do.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/zez

https://tengusheath.itch.io/zez

Finished the line art for the death animation! Look at the absolute pain in this ghost's eyes

How's up for some hacking ? Not my best game, since I didn't do much work on it. But hey, it's done.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/hack-or-die

Give a it a twirl :)

At the start of the jam my level generator wasn't working the way I expected, creating levels that just had individual wall blocks sprinkled in the arena. I felt it worked fine for the game so I didn't try to fix it due to the time investment needed to make what I had already done. While working on code to fill in disconnected holes, I found out that the levels weren't generating right due to a tiny off-by-one error when deciding whether to set tiles to wall or floor. The levels are now much more cave-like and as I originally intended.

A quick mocup I did using @Griszka render and @lishiana sketch.

And also playable on the Pocket or any Game Boy!

play CONQUERING DEAD now on web-no downloads at all. Go here:(https://lazer-blade-studios.itch.io/conquering-dead) or the ludum dare page:(https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/conquering-dead)

https://youtu.be/nvfblUK4lrA

An undying boss!

Bullet curtains, bombs, and a clock to beat!

Death comes, but don't go quietly!

Post your times and your scores!

DELAY THE DESTRUCTION! DANMAKU DOWNFALL

This is taking longer than anticipated. I'm not as adept at game development as I used to be way back when, but working on it. This jam is definitely helping me learn ways to implement different things. I've got visual effects added. Along with most of the Enemy AI, Animations, etc.

Tomorrow, I've got Level Design, Audio Design, UI Design(if there is time), possibly more visual effects such as particles. Below are some screens of the various visual effects, in a basic debug level.

Tonight, I catch up on sleep. Congrats to everyone who made the 48 hour mark! :)

i is a simple man and have no idea how to vote on other games and would like some help pls\

I finally had to make the call today and cut the third puzzle room. I finally had a good design for it but room 2 just took a huge amount more time than I expected. I think I have to accept that making 1 room per day is the maximum I can pull off for an adventure game.

I still have tomorrow that in theory I could use to add the extra room. However I want to spend tomorrow pulling everything together as a game. Lots of polish, bugfixing and adding an intro/ending sequence.

So I'm fighting against my ambition on this project and focusing on a game I will get finished tomorrow. I think if I want to add more beyond that great, but if I don't get this game done tomorrow it runs the risk of ending up in the "good intentions, but never finished" pile.

So here's a quick preview of the scope of the game, two puzzle rooms with the vault door in the middle.

Well this was a great weekend! My second Compo and this one went a lot better even though there was still a lot to do on the gameplay and I didn't have time to add sounds. I need to start saving some code so I don't waste so much time with the same things :sweat_smile:

Feel free to give my game a try, leave a comment and I'll try yours too :smile:

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

After the second day, advanced path finding for enemies is done.

Also, you can now place various traps to make the life of the small red placeholder square even harder.

play CONQUERING DEAD now on web-no downloads at all. Go here:(https://lazer-blade-studios.itch.io/conquering-dead) or the ludum dare page:(https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/conquering-dead)

Protect the Village from pending doom!

HERE : https://liluo.io/instant-builds/f4a02e0c-18c0-41a6-bb9c-1daca7e2b34d

https://phats604.itch.io/pillage-quest

I did the game for Compo. I haven't even thoughе i will able to , but.. i did it!

Here is my submission: https://ldj.am/$277231

This character is temporary, but if I doesn't have time he will end up being the finalized one.