Ludum Dare 54 September 29–October 2, 2023

Dice...?

Thinking about making a lil' crokinole-chess-like dice-battler, a chaotic game of strategy and randomness where there's not much space on the board (or on your dice!). That's the plan anyway. For now, just getting up to speed with Godot.

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Next up I'll be working on, like, the actual core gameplay loop.

The Nameless Temple

My idea is to explore the dark recess of a nameless temple. Who knows what you'll find amidst the ancient tomb of the forgotten. I've managed to throw together a texture, fix a bunch of bugs in my game engine (should have done that earlier...), mouse movement, map layout engine. Now I just gotta draw the rest of the owl :owl:

Probably a good stopping point for the evening.

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World Map

Slowly fleshing out the world map!

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I'm in. It will be a Towerfall -esque platformer combat, in space.

Because of the wrap around, the space is, jk, limited. And, also SPACE. Space lasers, space rockets, UFOs, maybe twisted gravity.

  • As an engine, will use my vanilla js + webgl library, and only do Jam this time, no compo.
  • Asesprite - pixel graphics
  • Ldtk - Tile editor
  • Zzfx - SFX
  • SoundBox https://sb.bitsnbites.eu/ - music

AI will be the hardest part of this I think, but I try to keep it simple and dumb...

Tricky!

Godot 3 or 4?

Ships + Cells

Done for the day! I changed the visual theme from space and planets to cells. Tomorrow making the whole level and obstacles preview3.png

Here WE GOOO...LD54

Operation LD54 begins right now!!! This is gonna be my first Game with GODOT..(I doNT want Peace..I waNT Problems) Screenshot 2023-09-30 114014.png

A starting point

So I guess you can call it progress! After some finagling I decided if I wanted to get anything "done" I'd have to use the tools I know, and right now the tools I know are unity and company. So that's what I'm using. Please don't judge me too harshly :sweat_smile:

The idea is a limited location murder mystery game. I won't reveal much yet but this is where we're at so far!

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If that failed to load I've just got some walking pixel art guy heh..

Looks like the embed is failing. I hosted it on my own site because it was too big to upload straight here so I guess that has something to do with it

It's been a while...but I am back

It's been a long time since I have Jammed but I am here to get back into it! I have an idea, a cup of tea and a largely free weekend so am aiming for the 48hour event. Great to be here again! Good luck everyone.

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Argh, the theme sucks again (TM)

Anyhow, I've decided to go C64 again. I got inspired by a AI generated image. An astronaut is trapped outside the space station during a meteor rain. Avoid getting hit in the confined space, maybe even deflect some while the ones inside try to force the door. The background is still in its working stage, therefor the black holes are the places the color restrictions are not corrected yet.

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no context sketchbook #2

concluding my first day with some tiny creatures

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Good morning fellow Jammers

As usual, we european plebs are just waking up, watching all that progress 'muricans have done while we were dreaming hahaha.

Let's goo!!

calling it for day 1

progress day 1:

3pm - midnight

  • Theme Idea - done
  • Level Design - done
  • Player scripts - done
  • lighting - done

tomorrow is going to be focused on music, menus, and if I have time baddies / voice work.

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Join this time.

Finally, I have some free time to join LD this time. Got some idea, and finish it out. Let's go! :fist:

It's full of stars !!!

I guess I won't be the first to use this tweak, but my game will be called "Unlimited space".

Here is a link to a playable pre-pre-alpha version:

http://squarity.fr/#fetchezgithubgistdarkrecher/099fdc3c77980e90b3c89d2e26cde792/raw/unlimited-space.txt

For the moment, you can just move in the infinity of space, but you can go wherever you want. No limits !

You will play as a galactic taxi driver. Now it's time to add some customers.

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I'm in, but not thrilled about the theme

This is my eighth Ludum Dare, and I've already done "one room," "small world," and "running out of space." I'm getting the feeling that LDJam participants really hate the open world.

Well, nothing can be done. Let's go to brainstorm ideas for Limited Space. My first thought is the door from the Titanic, where was definitely not enough room for two. Or that I will try to convince the rest of my team that Folklore won in absolute numbers. :sweat_smile:

Extra format question

Hello, this is the first time I'm attending this jam - could someone tell me how does the extra format work? Do I have to opt in somewhere on my profile to have my entry taken as the "extra-format-one"? Or I'm free to upload the game when it's done?