I had to take a photo of each light bulb to make it work

Hi everyone!

Check out our game - AquaLens, a photography game where you take pictures of different (tiny) fish!!

Ludum Dare post

Play it on itch.io!

https://www.twitch.tv/pomothedev

The game has some issues, but I'm really interested to see if this concept appeals to people! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/infesto

• Job title:

SEED COLLECTOR (m/f) APPLY HERE

Give yourself the chance to work in a vibrant alien ecosystem, surrounded by literally otherworldly beauty.

• Job description:

As part of a gardening mission, the applicant will need to collect endemic seeds of the exoplanet LD-56. Equipment will be provided to the candidate, including 4 (four) specimens of Parabowls.

• Qualifications:

Spatial awareness, Tossing ability. No diploma required. Experience working with alien species a plus (but not required).

• Remuneration:

depending on results

APPLY HERE

This is what the first build of my game looked like in the first 10 hours of ld.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/butterjar

Play Super Antbox!

Approach on design and visuals

My plan was to make a diorama-like game, that takes a lot of visual and design cues from Gamecube era Sega games, as an example Skies of Arcadia Legends and Super Monkey Ball. I'm such a fool for level based games and this approach worked flawlessly, letting the skybox do the heavy lifting and subtract all maps as a floating cutouts. I'm really happy how visually coherent this became and how fun it was to work on it.

The opening screen is definitely one of my favorites, showing that era-specific lightness and optimism. I found out that it needed some movement, so I reused the asset placement randomizer and made it loop top to bottom. chefs kiss

Design through theme

Tiny creatures clearly meant point-of-view for me, so it was somewhat natural to make something that resembles diorama. Anything can look tiny based on the perspective. I thought about it overnight and my mind was set on multiple creatures - which means traffic - which led to controlling the traffic. I had some thoughts about HUMANITY, game revolving around leading crowds, but i wanted to steer away from grid base , so I came up with suggesting path changes to ants.

It was all fairly straight forward, until it became apparent that hivemind isnt a simple task to imitate. I went with Navmesh solution, gave the ants some incentives to find new waypoints and tested for a solid day. There was always something bugging me, ants heading back to visit newly found locations, getting stuck in traffic and many other issues. At the end I settled with one path that ants update together, but keep their own until respawn.

Last design changes like ants lifting the crumbles, came just few hours before deadline. Same time I started implementing the logic behind feromone tracks, but simplified it to single locations. Sadly the predictability of ants and paths didn't become clear or easy to understand, so I kept this sandboxy in many senses. No tutorial, no explanations, just experimenting.

Cleaning ants logic and making the interaction more readable would make it quite an interesting game with unique gameplay.

Thank you for reading!

Come play God Awakener now :smile: :heart:

We've uploaded our version on Itch.io first (and in time :timer:) as usual but the LDJam embedded version wouldn't work until now ! I just had to RTFM... (needed to zip the content of the forlder, not the folder itself... :sob:)

Getting Bugger is Snake reimagined as a bullet heaven where you will need to kill spiders and pick up there bodies to add to your own. The longer you are the stronger you get!

Would love if you came and played our game and left some feedback on what you think!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/getting-bugger

When playing the game don't forget to post a comment with your high score.

Also, feel free to reply to this post with your games for us to play too while you're at it !

Cheers, RizeDovah.

I can't keep the server running constantly, so if the server is running when you find this post take it as a UNIQUE OPORTUNITY to join The Seeds Restaurant!

It will probably be empty when you join, though. If so, tell some friends to join! Send me screenshots of that later!

Also, please give it a rating! I want this to get a score and I think it will be kinda hard due to all the server downtime.

Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/birbs-online

Is this allowed?

From that concept, I started making the game:

This is how the game looks now(far I didn't have time to draw nice tilesets):

Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/follow-me

Hello there, you can see my publication here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/coulomb

A friend told me that I had put a collider that was too big on the "end" text, but is that a bug? No, it's a feature (or maybe not) hahaha; when a bug seems to fix your game, and it blows up if you fix the collision.

Come and find creatures in your local forest! Be the first to find and analyse them all!

LudumDare page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/finders-creatures

Play here: https://shadowmitia.eu/ld56/

In my game you play as a spider who has to smash up and destroy an office that is trying to kill all spiders.

Itsy Bitsy

I would really appreciate feedback.

Also I forgot to mention this in the game but you can rip off the people heads to get more points.

We got games to play!

Come visit Wally's woods!

Link to Wally's Woods

A tiny Dwarf Fortress and The Sims mashup! 🏰🏡

Don’t let them run out of beer and food... or they might explode! 🍺🍗💥

Play on Ludum Dare!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/evergrove

Or play on Itch.io!

https://pumpkinchariot.itch.io/evergrove