I feel bad for missing the last one!

GLHF! ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ♡

Here's my loadout:

• :motor_scooter: Construct 2
• :art: Paint.NET
• :runner: Aseprite
• :musical_score: FL Studio

I'm pumped! :fire:

Good luck to everyone. I hope to make a simpler game this time (probably not)

Please, I know everyone has an opinion but I really want something that has multiple meanings and will give lots of different games. Tunnels, strange machines, fishing, digging, and cartography all will be the same games with only a few outliers. And "Single Use" is very close to "You only get one" which has already been done as a theme.

I think all the other themes have very good variety and I hope they win. Let's do it

That's right folks, it's time for that thing that some people love and some people really could care less about -- the theme poll!

This is totally just for fun and accuracy is not guaranteed, but why not cast your votes anyway?
You can only vote once and you can't change it, so wait until you feel solid about your choices.

VOTE HERE

In advance of the jam, I've released 3 new Python modules for game development workflows. All of these are aimed at making it easy to automate the ingestion of assets into your engine. Of course they work seamlessly with a Python workflow, but the output is designed to be agnostic enough to fit into any engine.

aseprite-reader is a module for reading and rendering Aseprite files. I use it to automate my art workflow so that I don't have to manually export anything.

sprak is a sprite packer that generates texture atlases from PNG and Aseprite files. It outputs a PNG atlas and JSON file with information on the packed sprites.

bont is a ttf-to-bitmap-font generator. Very similar to sprak, but for text.

These tools save me a ton of time when iterating on my game projects. Feel free to check them out, or steal bits and pieces of them for your own workflows!

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I ended up missing the last Ludum Dare and I’m so excited I’m able to catch this one. Really liking the some of the themes so far! Here are the themes I voted for ^^^

This is going to be my first ludum dare, really looking forward to it.

I know the jam ends on monday, but I was wondering when the last hour of judgement is become upon us.?

No folklore for this time, maybe next time !

First: none of my +1 votes made it into the final round. Looking to the final round themes there are only just 2 that would be ok for me.

But as we learned as usual: you can make any game based on any theme if you want! So thats no excuse haha.

Second my setup: - :paintbrush: Aseprite - :musicalscore: Beepbox or FL Studio - :sound: Bfxr mostly - :videogame: ?

So as you noticed - game engine is missing. Normally i used Unity everytime and also first planned with it. But this time i think about to use a new engine for this jam and it might be Defold or GoDot.

So here is the conflict of unspoken "Game Jam" rules. As all jammers know there is this rule:

1# Don't use a new game engine on a game jam that you never really used before

BUT..

There is another tip often heard by people say:

If you want to learn game dev/a new game engine, participate in jams.

Both things are true - it depends on the goal you want to achieve. - If the goal is to win a jam or to get a good ranking you need to make a good game. For this you should use a setup you already know. - If the goal is to get familiar with a new tool or engine and force yourself to use this - a game jam is a good idea to do.

I remembered my fist Ludum Dare (LD39) and before that i used Unity but not as much and focused before. The gamejam forces you to focus on it and that is great as you learn how stuff works in this toolset. My first game was not the best - far away from it. But it was the experience that i can make a game with this tool.

So thats the lesson for now: Get into your mind what is your goal for the Game Jam you want to reach.

Happy jamming.

It's Ludum Dare! I guess the release date will have to be pushed back to make way for all the awesome games that will be made this weekend. And I'm going to join in with the fun and try to make something solo (not sure if I'll compo or jam yet, will depend on the theme).

Anyone else planning on jamming with Pico-8 this time?

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Have fun jamming!

When trying to sign up, it says you can ask a friend for an invite code, but as someone with an account already I can't find a place where I can generate a code. Is that a thing that's possible, or do you just need to find one on social media?

There were just so many good choices this time. Each one could be a very good theme!

...and look who made it to the finals...

No matter which theme is chosen I am looking forward to Ludum Dare 55!!