Ludum Dare 56 October 4–7, 2024

Making of Dwarf Colony

I used an auto screenshot program to take screenshots of my screen while I was developing the game. I compiled all of the images into a timelapse.

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

Pick! Pick for your Life!

Goober Goblins: A Nose Picking Simulator is fun the whole family can enjoy... if your family was a family of goblins trying to pick to your brain and eat it.

Come give it a try! Let us know what you think:)

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Looking for mobile-compatible game

Holà, I'm looking for touchscreen compatible HTML5 game to start grading them during my daily commute back home.

Any recommendation ? :iphone:

I'm interested in everything but games with ~~gnomes~~, because we all know that they do NOT exist !

You can pet tiny creatures in this game!

Here is our submission for LD 56!

In Druid's Friends, you befriend the local animals by feeding them their favorite treats. Be gentle and attentive to the cute creatures' wants and needs!

Try it out!

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Entries for unusual platforms - LD 56 Edition

Mini Running Ant

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Compo game by @drludos, for the Pokémon Mini (first entry for this console!)

Petri Plate Potpourri

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Jam game by @wendel-scardua (that's me), for the NES

MeepToss

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Compo game by @killthealias, for the Oculus / Meta Quest

Go Big

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Jam game by @tatu-heinamaki, for the Playdate

David vs Goliath: What the government doesn't want you to know

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Compo game by @captaindreamcast, for... well, the Sega Dreamcast

Friends Adrift

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Jam game by @byrdelli and @samuli, for the Playstation 1

The Hunt for Flippys

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Jam game by @da-oi and @ibs571, for Flash

( games are listed in the order the platforms show up here: https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/ )

PLAY IT BEFORE IT GETS BORING

Traffic for the Ludum Dare page tends to slow down after people submit their games, and that means that less people will be playing games, and that means that there will be less concurrent players at the Club Penguin clone I made for the jam! And an online multiplayer without other players is boring! So join before traffic slows down even more!

Chat with birds! Eat seeds!

Also, please rate the game! A few more ratings and the game will get a score!

Also, the server is running at the time of this post! (The server was offline most of the day yesterday.) Join before the server goes offline!

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

Miku's Minion Madness Creature Spotlight: Hamttek

In this Creature Spotlight for Miku’s Minion Madness, we gaze upon the majesty that is Hamttek. For 4 Miku Points, playing a Hamttek card summons two hulking tank units, with a whopping 30 health!

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Hamttek is an excellent support unit for your other summoned creatures, such as Mipaka!

Play Miku's Minion Madness and leave a comment and review! We'll go play your game, too!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/$396587/,

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Film noir aesthetic video game ? The Dunk Bassist of Hamelin

Hello hello hello,

We are proud to present The Drunk Bassist of Hamelin, which was developed during our second game jam.

In this game, you'll play as a bass player in the 1940s who flies into a rage when he discovers his girlfriend Pamela has cheated on him with a cockroach. Also, you are a dunk.

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Of course, this is HTML5 for your pleasure. rect1030.png

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/the-drunk-bassist-of-hamelin

Kisses from France.

In an alternate universe 80s arcade somewhere...

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If you're into retro arcade classics, why not try out my own take on one and give Carrot Patch a go? I'd love to hear your feedback on it!

(oh and if you also made a game in pico-8 please leave a link to it in the comments I would love to check it out)

LIVE: Playing Your Games for Instant Feedback

Join the stream and use !submit and !queue

I am only playing web-based games at this time with exception of a few very trusted regulars of my community. This is mostly first-come first-serve, though I reserve rights to change priority for important peeps & subscribers. If you are not around when name is called, you will be skipped.

I did another VR entry!

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If you've got the hardware for it, check it out here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/crittey-vr-only

If not, the game page does have a full playthrough video of it on there.

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I'll be porting it to standalone VR later though I can't really guarantee performance as it is pretty hefty due to live navmesh regeneration being used a bunch.

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Browser support added!

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Fishing in the browser? It's more possible that you think!

I've uploaded my LD56 entry "Snow Flipper" to GX.Games, you can find the link on my jam entry page!

GX.Games supports Chrome, Edge, and Opera browsers!

Have fun!

Made a gif - or two

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I'm so proud of this ldjams result - try it out yourself!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/the-pasture

our f-f-first game jam...

1.png 2.png Hey friends, check out our game! We worked really hard on the graphics, and all the images and sprites were created by us. Our character find himself in his own mind, where he faces his inner fears. He must fight through them and reach the end to wake up. It was very hard for us, because coding is not our cup of tea… but anyways, we tried! The game will be updated with some bugfixes. We'd love to receive some feedback to improve and fix issues. Thanks!!!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/fear-unbound ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/fear-unbound

Tiny Beast Hunter

This is Tiny Beast Hunter - a game where you soak tiny creatures.

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It is a bit inspired by Luigis Mansion so hopefully you like it.

Play it here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/tiny-beast-hunter

Exotic platforms

Hello ! There is no easy way to navigate in the games by platform. It's a good thing to avoid people rating only web games, but I would be happy to see all entries supporting exotic platform like game console.

Please comment here if your game (or if you saw a game) that run on anything else than PC (Win / Lin / Mac) or Web. I would be very happy to play a game on my 2ds or my PS vita. 640px-Nintendo-DS-Fat-Blue.jpg I'm sure there is at least someone that made a gameboy game or stuff like this, we have to find that person !

It's been an experience!

Ludum dare 56 has given us the opportunity to create Goofhood, a Real Time Strategy game in which you manage the priorities of a colony. It's been a journey for us and we are very proud of the fact that we achieved a good part of the milestones we have set for ourselves.

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If it looks interesting to you, you can play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/goofhood

Tiny Turtles

Our game came together nicely and we're very excited to see what people think.

A completely realistic game showcasing turtles and their amazing ability to rapidly change size whenever they want!! TinyTurtlesGif2.gif

Third Time Participating, First Playable in Browser!

Souls of the Lost and Insignificant is my third LD game and the first where it's not just a Windows build and source, it's playable in browsers! It took some finagling with Emscripten and figuring out weird quirks but I'm glad it worked out.

The weekend was a bit of a rollercoaster. The theme was one of the few I didn't have any good, doable-in-the-time ideas so I was pretty aimless. Sunday was eaten up by other things and not feeling great - so, as always, most of SOLI was done on the last day. Going into LD56 I had wanted to try doing something turn based or more strategic but it's funny how things end up when time is slipping away. Bummed out I never found time to learn some music tools to take a shot at doing a track. The boids implementation is very hacked together but I think the way things get more and more chaotic and hard to control is neat.

Unfortunately I still can't include links in posts, so if you want to check out SOLI, please click on me then my games!


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