I think I'll probably use hand-drawn sprites for my projects, and also Unity for my engine.

Thinking of using hand-drawn sprites, and Unity for my engine.

In previous years I've sometimes picked a certain thing I'd like to get into my Ludum Dare game no matter the theme so that I learn something, like saving/loading, procedural generation.. I think for this year I'm going to aim to have a nice colour palette and work on the art a little more.

Do you have a particular goal you'd like to work on?

This is my first LD. Hope to finish a game :)

I have not been in LD for many years. Sadly all those games seems to been lost. This year I will be using godot! I have waaay less time than i did when i was younger but feel godot will speed up the process a lot. Doing games in C/c++ is hard.

Hopefully i will get something playable!

Each slide is a basic idea for how the theme would fit our constraint for this year. I had fun creating this :grin: The whole presentation is peppered with some of the most horrible random animations known to mankind

I have an extended weekend booked off work to get a compo done and recover. Looking to move away from making something in Unreal this time and back to the old days of working in GameMaker. I might throw that idea out of the window when the theme is announced. Anyway, lets go!

Last time I participated was LD40, it's been quite a while!

Looking forward to doing a jam where I restrict myself to only using open-source tools. Godot, Blender, Krita, Ardour, here we go!!

Let's do this bros! good luck everyone!

My Girlfriend @Lotzi and I will again enter the Jam. We will reuse the "engine" created for Jam LD53. It was further expanded during Jam LD54 and I started making a bigger game with it recently, adding more features to the "engine". In general I plan to use it in future LDJAMs and improve/expand it continuously. Therefore I will always participate in the Jam category, since I do not make the game from scratch, and I find 48 hours too stressful anyways :smile:

I put engine into quotes because the codebase I'm creating does not pretend to be a general purpose engine like godot or unity. It rather is a framework or call it custom, single purpose engine for 2D tile based platform games and every Gamejam features are added if needed and kept and maybe reused in the future.

We hope the theme will be tiny creatures :blush: because we always put cute little critters in the game anyways. the theme sideffects would be cool too.

We also plan to put more effort into sound effects. We didn't have any in LD53 and LD54. LD54 atleast hat a song that I created where I actually recorded myself playing bass and composed a track out of it.

Bird Day is when you wake up and you can hear a bird and the bird is telling you not to go to work. It's very important to listen to the bird. If anyone asks tell them its Bird Day.

This will be our fifth joint Ludum Dare and first in three years. Tools undecided at this point but probably some arcane work flow like Procreate > Adobe Animate > HTML 5 via Ruffle or some such madness. Let's find out.

Hope everyone enjoys learning, developing and trying something new. Just take care of yourself hydrate, eat and take breaks as needed. See you at 6pm.

Hi, I'm going to be participating on a two man team but before I joined my friends team I clicked to make a game and so now I have a My Game page that goes to my own game instead of the game we're making jointly which is on his page, is there a way to delete this?

Ready for my eleventh LD (10th in a row). Will be using Godot, Aesprite, Krita and I'll figure something out for sounds.

Good luck and have fun!

The themes are historically bad, but I find that quite a few of the final round themes are somewhat decent. I hope its going to work for me, and I can release something for LDJAM this time around.

I'm joining a team for (practically) the first time so I'm not familiar with how it goes. I imagine only 1 team member should setup the page and it will appear in the "Games" page of all teammates, but can teammates other than the person who setup the page edit it? or is it something only the person who setup the page can do?

Since @pov likes this so much, here is a full res version of me and my cat Nina. She's amazing! We have the same mood.

as Eddison once said "I didn't fail, I just found 99 ways not to make a light bulb." I feel that sums up my Ludum Dare progress haha now i will nap before the comp starts

Unity
Photoshop
Asprite
some music program

This will be my 8th LD in a row! Keeping it simple this time around. Just want to make something fun, and have fun making it. If all else fails, hoping to at least make some dope music.

• Godot 4
• Aseprite
• Blender
• FL Studio