How's it going LD 51! My team and I(we still can't decide on a name) are all jamming for the first time. We have gamed together for a couple of years now but have not done much together outside of that. We always thought that making a game together would be fun. I found out about this contest from watching a Unity tutorial and knew we had to partake. And now we're here!!!

We will be using Unity as our editor and Aseprite for our sprite sheets.

Exited to be here and happy jamming all!

LD51! If I submit, this will be my 14th entry. Where does the time go?

This time, I'm entering with 2 friends and my partner. We're in different time zones as well, so I'm not sure how that will go. I'm planning on taking it chill and having fun, and maybe making something a bit quirky. Simple, quirky and polished.

I really hope the theme isn't 10 Seconds. I competed in LD27 (my 5th!) and hated the theme back then. Our entry was "10 Second Army", and I think it's the worst entry I've ever completed :smile:

It's Flash, so essentially unplayable :frowning2:

Even if it is the theme, I'm sure we'll have fun. And don't forget, that's really what counts! :smile:

I also came up with a list of alternative themes (or sub-themes) when I visited the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver last night. Feel free to take one or any of them into your game:

• Dolls
• Masks
• Borders and not belonging
• Changing times
• Block colours, warped and odd shaped animals and colours
• Ecology and climate change - tree of life
• Froggies
• Ducks and waterfowl
• Creation stories
• Canoes, water travel
• Trade, tourist art, colonialism
• Zuni owls
• Geometric patterns, sweaters

For reference, this is a Zuni Owl. They are magnificent.

Working with quite the team for this Ludum dare. Super excited to see what everyone can turn out this weekend!

Yes it is! Lets go Ludum Dare 51! Also my first time working alone so lets see how this goes :D

2 desktops, 4 laptops, 1 steam deck, tons of cables, 1 negative covid test, 2 hours and a couple forgotten items later, our temporary office is finally set up. It's a bit of a mess, but should hopefully get us through the weekend.

I should use: - Unity3D WebGL - C# / Visual Studio Community 2022 - UModeler (if I go 3D) - Gimp / Inkscape (if I go 2D) - Bfxr / Audacity

Happy weekend to all ;)

I think that I don't want to be judged this year. I always feel a lot of pressure at LDs, and this time I will just take my time and enjoy myself.

I'll follow the Compo rules, but grades will be disabled (can I do that?).

Good luck everyone!

Hurricane struck! So I'm still without power. Hopefully it come back tomorrow morning so I can participate this year. I will be live streaming development tomorrow if the power comes through.

Good luck everyone. We start soon!

Let's try to finish the game this time :]

Het guys!

First time doing Ludum, here! Hope to have fun and hope you guys do as well.

We are a studio of part time bounty hunters, where we make games in our down time in a station out in space. For this jam, we will be teaming up with artists from @madbunnylabs!

Check out our Twitter for updates on our jam entry! https://twitter.com/BountyMouseDev

Mad Bunny Labs Insta: https://www.instagram.com/madbunnylab/

I'm stubborn and I refused to make my life easy, so after 2 years I'm in with WEBGL Typescript web-game stack:

• Svelte
• ThreeJS
• Supabase (online leaderboard maybe..?)
• Bfxr, Audacity
• Aseprite, paint.net

So I was planning on going away in the countryside, away from the computer, but my friend asked me if I wanted to team up for Ludum Dare this weekend. So here we are!!!

200% Sound designers, 50% Game designers, 1% Programmers... Will they manage to pull anything off???

-The triller you did not know you needed-

Best of luck everyone!!!

This will be my 32nd LD. My toolset:

• Engine: Godot
• Language: C#
• Editor: Visual Studio Code
• Graphics: GIMP, Blender
• Sound: Audacity, Leshy SFMaker, LMMS, Abundant Music

I'll probably be using my Godot C# Library and possibly my Starfield Maker. Good luck everyone!

I did some game jams before but never did the Ludum Dare (student and casual only). First time trying the Compo, it's gonna be savage. Don't forget to have a normal sleep time to be productive !

Tools i'll use : - Unity - Aseprite (first time) - C#/Visual Studio - Bfxr/Audacity

Good luck everyone, may the theme be with you ! <3

I won't be able to actually do the Ludum Dare (I have to do the leetcodes for interviews next week) but thought I would post my initial ideas for each of the themes in the final round. I've grouped certain themes in categories:

Impermanence

• Every 10 seconds
• Use it or lose it
• Nothing is permanent

I was thinking of a riff off of the Nolan movie Memento, except the MC is a goldfish. The setting would be limited and I guess a short memento would disappear every 10 seconds or something.

Multiples

• Split
• Duplication

I would have a prism game where the character can run through prisms and filters to split/duplicate into multiple selves.

Chemistry

• Making connections
• You shouldn't mix those

For both I would just make a very wonky chemistry game where you can stick atoms together and see what happens.

Going Bad

• Mutations
• Corruption

This idea seems the most doable to me, and fun. You would have a DNA sequence, and every time it needs to get copied, you play the notes that make up the DNA sequence. Every wrong note you play equals a mutation/corruption of the new cell. Things like free radicals that can ding up the DNA can make it more challenging.

Grow At All Costs

• Keep it moving
• Overgrown
• Ascend
• Harvest

All four themes could illustrate the growth-at-all-costs mentality companies have today. I was going to have a company represented by bacteria in a petri dish and they try to grow at all costs to keep shareholders happy, until the harvested resources of the dish are completely exhausted.

Miscellaneous

There were three other themes that I couldn't really group with the others:

• Parasite - I dunno, I guess you try to grow a hookworm in an intestine. You could flip it back and forth to avoid the immune system and dewormers and grab the food bits.

• Shelter - You are a hikkikomori but your food level goes down often, forcing you to leave the 'shelter' and get food every now and then. You try to build up confidence, which can get killed by mean randos or something.

• Side effect - I can't really think of anything. Maybe you're Adam/Eve after eating the forbidden apple and thoughts keep popping up that prevent Adam/Eve from sleeping, so you're like a little angel thing you swing around to bounce the bad thoughts away, because the side effect of sudden knowledge is insomnia from the endless stream of anxiety-inducing possibilities the brain is now able to conjure.

I might try doing LD Casual after interviews finally end for me. Good luck to everyone doing the Dare!

This is my Obligatory "I'm in" post. LD51 will be my 15th in a row Ludum Dare, going all the way back to 37, and my 22nd LD entry in total!

Streaming!

I'm going to be streaming over on Twitch(and maybe YouTube we'll see what happens tomorrow ^_^)

https://www.twitch.tv/snowdrama

https://www.youtube.com/snowdrama

Tools

If you're using Unity I highly recommend checking out my packages! They include a great tool for doing menus as well as some other helpers! https://github.com/Snowdrama/SnowdramaUnityTools

What I'm Using

Engine: Unity

Graphics: Aseprite, Gimp, Blender

Music: Lovely Composer, LMMS, Tenacity

What Else?

Recently I went full time game dev, I am currently working on a short Horror game which I'm planning to release just after the LD! Consider supporting me over on Ko-Fi, people who support me in October will get a copy of the horror game!

https://ko-fi.com/snowdrama

Hey guys, I am new to LD and I am a student sound designer in my final year.

I am looking for a team but not exactly sure where to start! If anyone needs a sound designer, I’d love to join and get some experience - no matter the project!

I am in the Uk and I’m free tonight and all day tomorrow…Sunday I am a little busier during the day but can do more in evening.

Please give me a shout if you want to get something on the go :)

Thanks!

Rate My Setup with 1 hour to go, and see how many things you can identify on my desk that are game or dev related.

With an hour left until the theme announced I'm getting through my last bits of advance preparation. Audio on the SNES is weird and confusing but I'm getting there. On it's simplest level I'm just converting WAV for sound and IT MOD tracker files for music into something the SNES SPC chip can play back. Implementing that, even with PVSnesLib doing most of the heavy lifting is taking me some time to get working nicely. I'm terrible for leaving audio until last so I'm glad I'm ironing out some of these problems tonight, so that I'm not left making excuses on Monday why I'm submitting a mute game. I also wish I was better at composing music. It's the one aspect of the "lone wolf indie" I've never been able to pull off and normally I get away with some royalty free music. That's not so easy when working with systems that need MOD tracker based music.

Anyway here's my first meal of Ludum Dare. It's a steak pie and it tastes a lot better than it looks:

Oof! I'm on repeat now. I haven't finished a game since LD46. I'm hoping to prove to myself I can still do this! Good luck y'all!

I wish this ludum dare goes well. I hope that we will see many interesting and fun games. I will develop a game in java, without using external libraries. For sounds I will use sfx generators. To create textures - paint.net

Also I will stream here https://www.twitch.tv/exaggegen

All good mood and good ludum dare!

My daughter @Addy and I are participating in our 5th Ludum Dare together.

We first teamed up 7 years ago when she was 7! (https://disperse.itch.io/cursed) and most recently participated in the 46th Ludum Dare (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/stoker).

We're both very excited to resume the tradition.

I'll be coding the game in IntelliJ IDEA using Typescript and Phaser 3 with Vite (starter template: https://github.com/disperse/ld51).

Addy will be making the music and sounds using Ableton Live and the art using Aseprite.

Rosie the cat is on technical support duty and will be monitoring the phone.

On a side note, I almost forgot about the technically-not-mandatory traditional "I'm In" post, so I guess this counts. I have absolutely no confidence in my ability to make a 3D game with Unreal Engine and Blender, so a 2D game with Construct 3 and paint.net it is. As for the music, I'm hoping I'll be able to incorporate some piano music into my game, otherwise it'll be completely BeepBox.

Hey folks, we'll be streaming all our dev this weekend! Check us out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBdcjKVMKPE

Thats It... Cant Wait For The Theme Reveal. Hoping for every ten seconds or making connections!

Good luck everyone.

Good luck to everyone!

estou mais preparado, sinto que vou ter um bom desempenho!

Let's go! Ludum Dare 51!

@enduring and I are in for the first time in a couple of years. Good luck everyone!

One more Ludum dare! Here I go!

Looking forward to getting back to the jam. Hoping my power stays on during the hurricane.

I'm going to try to fit in my secret theme of... PIRATES

if I can.

Here we are! Let's do this

Jacking in

Various members and contributors for Or-Bit Studios are all working together for another Ludum Dare. This is the first time me and my co founder will spend the entire weekend with nothing but the Jam to work on. We are all really excited for another opportunity to make a game. The final round of themes is one of the better lists I have seen. Best of luck to everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwCVQdW1HM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOa-ObWPAKg

For those unaware, sometimes the Ludum Dare site is slow to update when the theme is announced. Check out the Ludum Dare Twitter Account right at launch to see the Theme Announcement as soon as possible. Good luck and have fun this weekend everybody!!

i'm in. either jam or extra. just wanna finish a game with bevy.

tools: - Language: rust - Engine: bevy - Art: aseprite || blender - Audio: bfxr || fl studio

I'm in! After some missed LDJam and few unfinished/canceled tries, this time, i will try to finally post something. Good luck every one and enjoy!

Been on the road in EU for the last week for work stuffs but I have some downtime and will make an attempt at something simple this time for LD. If I don't make the jam or compo deadlines I will at least submit something for extra. Lets gooo!

Godot / LSDJ / Blender or Crocotile

I'm making a game for WASM-4 fantasy console. I like the limitation of the platform with the screen size and the number of colors. But let's see the theme and if I can actually think of an idea to make.

I spent a good amount of hours fighting with Zig to create some basic template code to start the compo, then I dropped it and decided to go with C, at least I have experience with it and it will save me time.

I'm very excited for this LD, the last time I did one was edition 41, and I didn't even finish the game.

I already have a repo on github, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/CrociDB/ld51-game

hope we can have a perfect time this week!

@mosrid @o00o @Tenjiku-kakei @grt @shuihaoliang404

(unless I get tired and need a nap)

Welp; first Ludum Dare jam, but have previously participated in other jams.

Unreal Engine - most people aren't using Unreal, since it's a bit on the heavy side, but I'm used to it, so yeah!

Not very good at graphics so I'm going to be using stuff from the Unreal Marketplace, and I am not going to be participating in the "Graphics" ratings.

Mostly by my self, although I have a friend who is going to be helping me with the idea and the music of the game.

17 minutes to go!

Got a weekend off so let's do this. Let's give Godot a shot.

This will be my first ever LD. I'm a little scared haha. I'm not really skillful in any one area of game dev (least of all art and sound production), but I am going to do my best to give this a solid attempt!.

I will keept at it until I make an interesting game

Impatient to start this Ludum with my teammates @Sigo and @Asheko! Good luck to all!!

Hey LD Jammers! Ludum Dare 51 is upon us!

https://youtu.be/tAoNN22vE

I put out a post yesterday seeking words of wisdom and motivation from the community to serve as an unofficial community keynote! This was very last minute, thanks a lot for all who sent a video or message at short notice. Shoutout to @brainoid for whacking the video together at short notice too.

ENJOY THE JAM

Credits: @neowhoru @lawrence @kaiherbertz @trexxak @pomo @langotriel @mrphil @ukulelefury @frogman @outfrost @ruddiculous @coleslaughter @kuviman @bauke-regnerus @lex @rainbowkappagames @defrag @icylava @jeremy-ryan @anchorlight @honest-dan @brainoid

I will use pico8 or sugar !

I'm in! Ready for another weekend of jamming.

Hello amazing game makers!

We are in! and I will be streaming most of the LD process on https://www.twitch.tv/tobugis (starting now!)

We will have a team of 2 to 4, depending on weather condition and available time.

• 0 to 1 musician
• 1 designer
• 1 to 2 coders

We will mostly use Godot to make our entry ^^

And of course, once the jam is over, we will test your games live! But that is a story for next week :smiley:

GLHF to everyone!

I'm in.

Can't wait to make this game with @Sigo and @louis-mareau ! Hope Everyone will have as much fun as i will ;-)

Gonna try to make a game with some friends. Using Godot as the engine lets goooo :D

Returning once again for another Ludum Dare!

This time I'm going to try to see if I can bodge something together out of WebGL. I have some testing code (a model loader and some basic shaders) which I'm going to use to save me some time in the jam.

For other tools, Blender for 3D modeling, Audacity for audio, Notepad++ for text editing (IDE?).

Good luck to everyone participating the jam!

Hey there! it's my first ever game jam and I can't wait :)

Good luck to all !

I'm in! Last time I competed in a Ludum Dare it was edition 26 I believe, so I'm a bit scared my skills might be extremely rusty but I will give it my best shot anyway!

Insert motivational quote here.

We're all gonna do great! Pumped to work with my amazing art team again on another project. Hopefully I can bring the heat with my programming.

Live on twitch all weekend developing http://twitch.tv/Orionhart

Less then 6 minutes!

I'm so not ready for this :_D

My first jam

First Jam!!!!!

Its my first time trying to actually make a video game! Here's hoping my old college CS classes and my experience in analog games is enough to muddle through. Pico-8 seems like it's my best bet!

Less than 5 minutes left...I'm so not ready for this lol

I'm not sure I'll make it. Please notify my next of kin.

I swear to god I have never finished a game (let alone any creative project). This is my chance to fix that... Good luck everyone :)

It's me and @raikish first LdJam and we are so hyped. Let's give our all (and remember to rest too!)

MIN -2 LETSGO

One minute to go i am quivering and shaking and faking

Let's go, first jam

you might be a tropical storm by the time you get to me but that's no excuse to scare me with two big loud BOOM sounds that made the house go black twice MINUTES before jam starts

luckily power and internet came back up very fast

let's hope that the mess this time will result in a published game

20 seconds!!!

daughter and dad probably doing the jame this year

.

Every 10 seconds? Really?

I am so demotivated right now what is wrong with you people

OK mama taught me to be strong and not give up

Fingers crossed for a good theme :laughing:

https://www.twitch.tv/jammaker

Welcome aboard everyone, WE'RE ALL TEAM 10 SECONDS NOW!

Honestly I'm not that disappointed by Every 10 Seconds, as long as everyone comes up with good unique ideas there shouldn't be too many similar games.

Game idea: you are a Ludum Dare game developer desperately refreshing the Ludum Dare home page every 10 seconds trying to find inspiration for your game

hi mom

I just heard of the new Extra format and decided to join! GLHF!

the publicly hated theme winning? the community theme strawpoll ACTUALLY predicting the theme???

MADNESS!

Theme : Every 10 seconds - Have phun :)

I suppose using themes you don't really like is part of the fun. . . I do feel kinda restrained though. At first glance, I can only think of arcade style games, which I'm not sure I feel like making. Gonna probably have to spend extra time this jam brain storming. Anyways, good luck folks, let's make some games.

I tend to dislike theme in LD, but this time... I'd say I hate it, but I just feel so demotivated that I can't force myself to feel something so strong as hate :( Maybe I'll have an idea for something inventive worth trying, but when I was going through finale them voting, I had some idea for every one of them - in case of 10 seconds it was - ok, if this actually wins I'll either give up or do something completely unrelated...

I dont know but there will be so similar games and few masterpieces and thats it.

"The theme always sucks" is a common thing to hear in LDs, but I'm of the opinion that this theme is uniquely terrible.

I'm thinking more likely than not I'll just completely ignore it. But I'll give it a bit to percolate. Maybe other people will have clever ideas that inspire me.

• turn based game where you have to plan the next 10 seconds of your character(s)

• repeat the last 10 seconds

• play with relative physics to stretch or squeeze those 10 seconds

Feel free to use these or add your own in the comments!

Have fun!

We chosen it and we don't have any idea of what to do with it ? We are probably human developers. ;)

Every 10 seconds is a very open theme. Add a counter and something happen or must be done every 10 seconds to gain points or loose something.

A new bonus in an arcade game, a new enemy in a space invader game, so many things can be done.

I will see after some hours of sleeping and let's start something in 10 hours online on Twitch.

Have a good day and night depending on your time zone.

Dropping on Tilted Towers, lads. Every 10 seconds --- interesting, can work with this. I'm vying for the classic survival. Will touch base after some no-lifing!

Looks like I'm one of the few that actually like this theme... :laughing: I'm gonna make something that is tied to a regular beat so I can make a nice music for the game. I've been watching videos about SunVox today and I wanna use it. I'm thinking about a simple 2.5D shooter where you shoot the gun every 10 seconds? :thinking:

I Just freaking loved this theme! it's so easy to come with a new idea!

Lumines. That puzzle title came up to my mind when timed game is more less the theme for the jam. The theme suggest constant pace throghout the gameplay which is match already the Lumines's core mechanics.