Ludum Dare 56 October 4–7, 2024

No, my creatures! Patched up!

Thank you all for the great feedback.

I released a post LD version on my itch.io profile! You can still play the compo version as Desktop version.

Would love feedback on the patched version, feel free to also play the compo version!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/no-my-creatures

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Play: https://rhewid.itch.io/no-my-creatures

Squirrel Mail

Need one more reviewer, if someone is feeling generous :smiley:

Play as a squirrel using your squirrel friends to solve puzzles

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/squirrel-mail

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Puzzles and Traps are in Development

We decided to add some puzzles and traps in game

— Spikes (player must follow the correct path past the real spikes)
— Doors (player must choose the correct doors, in case of mistake - rolls back to the first door)
— Leavers (player must pull leavers to make a correct combination)
— Picture Puzzle (mini puzzle game in which the player must rotate parts of the image to make a complete picture)

Please rate out game on Ludum Dare https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/the-ritual

New versions of the game will be available on itch: https://logovostudio.itch.io/the-ritual

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Professional Game Developer Streams & Gives Feedback on YOUR games!

Hello! I'm Misa, from https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/mikus-minion-madness and I've been making games professionally since 2008. I've worked for Sony, Wizards of the Coast, and Cryptic Studios.

I'm going to be live on Twitch for a bit and I'm happy to stream your game! Pop on and let me know if you have a game you'd like me to play!

https://www.twitch.tv/misaravensoul

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Those Who Die As Cattle

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A WW1 trench warfare simulation game, with a personal touch. Take command of a Regiment in the First Battle of Ypres as either a French Colonel or a German Oberst. Underneath the simple UI is an ECS simulation of 12000 troops and 24 artillery pieces. Each soldier has their own name and story, which you can shape by how you use them.

HTML5 Version is the main one. Leave feedback on my game and I will do my best to play and rate your game, especially if it doesn't require an install

Gunpoint Sojourners

This is my entry for this ludum dare, Gunpoint Sojourners.

With the ukraine war and the palestinian genocide I've been thinking a lot about war lately. Now there's the expansion of the conflict into Lebanon and it doesn't look like things are going to stop anytime soon.

There is a lot of media out there that covers these events in a completely dehumanising way. It feels normal. The stories are cold. The data is just numbers.

So I've crystallized my emotions into this tiny narrative experience. It's about normal people.

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I hope you like it.

It's the first time I make a game all on my own and that I use godot to do so. It's available only as a download as I used a C# ink narrative system engine and at the moment godot sadly cannot build C# projects for web. I plan on upgrading the project once this is a possibility but as far as I've read it'll be late this year, maybe next year.

Lost critters needs your help!

Guide lost critters to the ancient runes using Luminates in Forest Guardians. Give the game a try and help rate.

It is best played on a desktop browser.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/forest-guardians

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Weird...

I wrote my regular "techy stuff" deep dive into my jam entry yesterday - spent a good 1-2 hours on it - and now it's completely disappeared, like I never wrote it. Did it get deleted for some reason? I really don't want to have to type it out again...

Did you save all the ducklings!?

Thanks for everyone who tried and rated our cute game!

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Do you know our silly tiny creatures disguised as ducklings have names?

Squishling, Boingling, Batling and Furbling!

If you did not try it yet, please give it a go! It's very simple, takes about 3min, but it's here to warm your heart!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/quackling-rescue

By the way: the ending gets a twist depending if you save all the ducklings or not. Will you manage to see both?!

Let us know! <3

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Fishfestation post

Hi! This is my first post for my first ludum dare game, Fishfestation! It is a barelly 15 minute play-in-browser jam game and i think it'd be cool if more people checked it out (:

I also try to comment back everyone who writes me comments!

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How We Arrived at Stuart's Perfect Day

Taking on Ludum Dare 56

We are a team of three based in Norway. This was our first game jam together so we are far from being seasoned jammers with effective plans and routines (We have none! :D). Our aim was to have a bit of fun and see if we could come up with something unexpected over the weekend.

The only prep we had done was from Fredrik, our in-house designer and artist, had done some concept sketches to get a feel for an art style that we wanted to aim for. These were the concepts:

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Saturday morning arrived, along with the theme and we started throwing out ideas around the Tiny Creatures.

Quick Prototypes

Fredrik also happens to be lethal at the oul Construct 3. He can bang out 2 prototypes before you can say "So what engine are we using?". While we sat in the first coffee shop of the weekend, he took one of our early concepts and got a quick version going. We could then see how that played, riff off it and do a good few "what if"s and see where it would lead us.

We went through about 3 or 4 of these.

A platformer... Squares0.gif

Another platformer... Squares1b.gif

A circly platformer... Circles0b.gif

An arty platformer... Pearl.gif

...and they all could have gone somewhere but they weren't lighting our world on fire. Instead of choosing one and going for it like we should have, we decided to park them and try something else.

We returned to Fredrik's concept sketches in search of inspiration and decided to capture the boat sketch in something simple that incorporated some tiny creatures. Fishing game! Lets go! Suddenly this brought life back into the gang imagining the world that could belong to the image.

Saturday evening, in the dark corner of a cafe/bar situation in Bergen, we set off at trying to figure out this world of Stuart and started bringing it all to life.

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At this point we are almost a day down with nothing substantial towards a submit-able project. However, without being able to try out those different ideas quickly, we wouldn't have found Stuart. Being able to test the ideas in reality as opposed to concepts in our heads or on paper was beyond helpful.

For the rest of the jam, we needed to scope down even more than normal since we had about 1 day to get the rest done but we were still able arrive at something that brought us joy!

You can see the Ludum Dare page for Stuart's Perfect Day here: Ludum Dare - Stuart's Perfect Day

And here is a timelapse of Stuart and is world coming to life... StuartsTimelapse.gif

friends?

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Find the others.

Alone in the forest, you awake to a different world than the one you knew.

Seek out other fae; more are lost as you are, and with numbers comes strength. Once you are many, you may find your way home.

Play our LD56 entry Will of the Wisp here :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/will-of-the-wisp