I've written a few long posts before and had no response from Mike, so I'll keep this short.
I'd love if LD considered appointing someone they trust as a community manager. This would allow tasks to be delegated and avoid having one single point of responsibility for communication of information / announcements / organisation of the jam.
I've never participated in the Ludum Dare game jam before and I found it a lot of fun. Everyone left some great feedback and made some amazing games. I made a youtube video going over how I made my game, and it would be much appreciated if you check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJbUFm0kX4A
I will definitely try to do another Ludum Dare when they come up! Thanks again :)
Pretty happy with my ratings, i ambitionned a top 100th overall but honestly i'm pretty happy with my ranking with the amount of features i was able to put in.
Lots of games in top 50 are not game i played during the rating period. So still a lot to discover !
My top 5 from the game i played:
- Elonkorjuu - Live Harvest
- The Bountiful
- Grow Golf
- Veggie Voyager
- Wheat Master
I really want to take part to the next LD, hope i'll be available. And next time i'll aim for the top !
Congrats everyone !
Congrats everyone on another successful Ludum Dare!
For Ludum Dare 51, I drew fan art of every game I played during the rating period. This event, I did the same thing, with a twist. I've drawn each game in the style of the cards from my entry, Fallowtide.
If you're interested in playing any of these games, here are the links: - Boba by @danman9914 - Charlie's Lemonade Stand by @exezur - Fall Faybound Festival by @juxipolo - Harvest Hewn by @bibiki and @bwalter - Herogatchi by @alchemic, @gizmolo, and @wiredoverload - Metallic Yield by @daniel-alhadeff - Poo Farmer by @jesseww, @ethan-hair, @caldane, @gavincknapp, @leith-prise, and @psypher9 - Speed Wheat by @ghostskill24 - Star Tech: Deep Space Mine by @brainoid and @honest-dan - The Bountiful by @100th-coin - Typefarmer by @antti-haavikko - Void Reader - A desktop multiplayer game by @aliiiii and @daivyishere
Once again, I didn't end up rating as many games as I would have liked, and received more than I gave. Thanks everyone who gave extra ratings this event to balance out slackers like me!
Harvester Inc. is the 16th most innovative Jam game of Ludum Dare 52 😎
Thank you to everyone who played it! If you haven't yet, check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/harvester-inc
By the way, we're making it into a full game now. Join our Discord for updates on its development! https://discord.gg/m8mvgz53HZ
10TH FOR THEME! 10TH FOR THEME! 112 overall has me chuffed too!!! Also, 64th for audio has me SO HAPPY. I only started composing this year, y'all. Overall, a successful ludum dare, and more motivation to bring forward!
walking home from our house, Christmas Eve...
So, another LD comes to a close. I haven't done a post mortem in a hot second, nor do I have the energy to do as detailed a PM as I have in the past (my dumb ass really wrote 5 pages of text for an LD post mortem once, huh?), but it's worth getting back into that mindset.
I'd say the fact I had an idea before the final voting round, for a theme that didn't make it through, but that I liked more than my ideas for the themes that DID make it through... was a pretty solid beginning. I wanted to make Old People Juggling Party, and 'Harvest' just told me that making delicious GramCo Sugar was the reason for juggling the old people. I managed to stay on track and finish my game on time, I even submitted before submission hour. I made a great song, and I love all the SFX I did as well. It's the first time I've managed to get a story into an LD submission instead of shoved into the description; and my game even had a tutorial level! By far, my most successful project managing and scoping for LD. And I mean like, 28th in Humor?!?! That's huge!! I'm so glad all y'all found my little game so funny!!
This was also my first time putting effort into cover art that didn't involve just a screenshot of my gam e or artfully arranging assets. I don't know if that helped or hurt the game's visibility, but I'm proud of it anyway.
Honestly, I wasn't feeling the jam much due to chronic fatigue as usual. Couldn't sleep well leading up to the jam, during the jam, whatever. No energy to put the love and polish into Grammy Bouncer that it needed, except for the soundtrack and SFX, but even then the song I made wasn't exactly the vibe I wanted & it was too long compared to my actual gameplay loop. There was so much more polish I could have done; I had the time, but no motivation/energy to put into it. It's the worst score I've ever gotten on graphics & it shows. Maybe that would have worked out better in Compo, but as per usual I ended up submitting to Jam. (Having to go on a quick road trip with my dad during the weekend certainly didn't help my fatigue or time management either, I basically started on the base of the game, took a nap for a couple hours, then had to go on the trip lol, super exhausting)
I'm glad I got a story into the game, but the story could have been better - I didn't at all apply anything I learned in my writing classes to it, I just needed some text to smooth the transition between levels & the ending.
Also, my game's title is way too long. I still stand by my decision to give it a Long-Ass Anime Title, but it made marketing hard since that title's not readable at cover image size (thus leading to having to make a 2nd cover art), and I think visibility suffered since the short form of the title ("Grammy Bouncer") is less intriguing but was all I could visibly fit into the game's 2nd cover art. Also, it was a pain in the ass to paste my game title/url to streamers, lol.
As far as I'm aware, only 1 person recognized that the bonus level's intro text was a reference to the song Re: Your Brains :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tmzjaN2DWc
specifically, "Bob from the office down the hall" and "I know you don't have the head for all that bigger picture stuff".
Last time I did a (5 page ass motherfucker) post mortem, I did all sorts of statistical analysis on my scores, and figured out a plan for what I needed to improve separately outside of game-making as a whole. Well... I never got much chance during the remaining semesters of university to follow through with that study plan, although I do think I improved my worst skill which was Audio, with a big thanks to Beepbox for existing. Now that I'm out of university, I think I just need to make more games, build up my confidence, etc.
And if I can make a game for 'Harvest' or any of the other awful themes it could have been this time around, then it's time I stop using objectively bad themes as an excuse to not participate in random itch.io game jams. So, guess I'll start trying to make more games this year! I've already got my eye on the weekend Trijams & Juice Jam, which I think is only once a year so I'm gonna focus my attention on practicing polishy game feel things this week before I start going down the Trijam rabbit hole.
Hopefully, I'll actually be a marginally competent developer by LD53. Right now, there's still an embarrassing disconnect in my literal age, my mental age, & my game developer brain's mental age, lol. I do feel like my game developer brain age has graduated from 5 year old to like, 13 year old or something, but I don't think I've yet reached the stage of game development maturity that matches my actual age, lol. I have two degrees centered on game development & neither one taught me jack shit apparently, so I'm definitely not where I want to be yet lol. Hopefully I can get my physical health in order too, so I can stop with all the chromic fatigue and lack of motivation. Super cramping my own style, me.
Anyway, until next time...
Hey guys, I'm super late to the party but I finally got my game to a decent working state. Feature creep and poor prioritization made hitting the LD deadline tough for me this time around!
If there's anyone still hanging out here, please take a moment to try out my game if you have time!
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After i make a prototype in some hours i received a excelent feedback from you guys, the feedbacks really made me happy and confiant to do a game than can be playable and enjoyed from people, and i really apreciate this, i wish one day make games than can give me money, and for really, i pretend release a version of this game on steam, but before i will release a free version for everbody, and in acknowledgment signanl, who played and commented in my game for Ludum Dare will receive a steam key for game, you guys motived me too much, i dispended a lot of hours in my free time and the comments did the fuel for me, thank u again. below a video of how are the game now:
https://twitter.com/spectrum_cafe/status/1619940742591574016
:smile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ZaChc6E3Q
I wasn't able to do anything playable, not even for the extra category... writing basic code for a rather big game just takes too much time if you want to continue with it, instead of just hacking it together to hold enough... But, after 3 weeks, I'm now in a stage where I'll freeze current functionality and content and start working on the visuals and controls polishing - if I can't get to a level where I'll be satisfied with the visuals, there's not much point on working on it anymore :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/star-harvest
Thank you everyone. This LudumDare session was amazing as usual - and I had fun developing my project, playing other games. Some of them were just amazing. Bravo to the winners. I did not expect anything about my own project, but I am surprised by its scores which are not bad at all. Thank you ++
PS : the Pixel game Engine which I use for my projects is now available on GitHub with some other stuffs. If you are searching for a simple way to create a prototype (or participating in a GameJam/CodeJam), you could be interested by its simplicity. Take a look at this single header file. High C++ skill required ++
https://github.com/geckoo1337/Geckoo1337-engine
I just got this 'friendly' feedback on my good old LD game "Space Travel 15"
I am pretty sure Emma Watson @emmawatsons have used her free time as an actor to write this. But it is kinda weird, because I also got an old message that says this
So maybe it just spammers that has learned to copy/past. They should perhaps has learned to copy/past the spam part a bit better, but I am sure they will also learns this soon.
I gotta say I am really happy with the results (even though I honestly thought graphics would be one of the highest scores, but there are just so many pretty games this time around)! As I mentioned before, I am super thankful for all the ratings and the amazing feedback we've gotten.
If you get the chance you should still definitely check out the post jam version as we have poured a lot of love and effort into it.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/hex-yield
It took a bit of interrogation under pressure, but eventually it gave in and the truth started coming out.
I was checking out my scores, because I am a sadist like that, and I noticed that one of my better scoring catigories is audio... We ended up scratching the audio at the last second because it wasn't ready and made the game worse. I guess that was the right decision.
On the topic of random posts. Our post jam release is not quite ready yet. I went over board on features and decided to rework the menu system and it is taking a bit of time but I'll post a link to it here soon. In the meantime enjoy this screenshot of our post jam progress including features I will be probably be removing for the post jam release in order to get it out sooner.
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Okey, I get it. I am not qualified for the leaderboard, but can't you at least show me what were the average ratings. Like why wouldn't you?
Honestly, we were not ready for such high results. This is the highest we ever ranked!
At first, we were doubting Characteriser turned out too niche, unappealing and not that fun. But to our surprise, feedback we got was overwhelmingly positive and proved the complete opposite!
shoutout to everyone who took their time to share their impression and/or report bugs. We read every comment!
Huge thanks to everybody who played and rated our game :heart:
Hello fellow game makers, I’m looking for an artist who can make sprites, backgrounds, etc. I’m a programmer, and I already have a musician. If you are interested, my discord is shxdowCorey#5694