I have been summoned.

Now that the theme is done it's time to sleep a night over it and let the brain work! See you tomorrow!

I HOPED FOR "IT SPREADS"

Get ready for a pile of games about summoning a bunch of zombies or whatever to fight for you or smth.

Hello everyone! It's great to see so many creative minds come together to compete and share their passion for game development. Best of luck to you all and may your games be a blast to play!

As it's 4 am right now, time to sleep and let that passive brain magic work! And the theme sounds pretty magical for me, so I am excited to brainstorm the ideas tomorrow.

It's going to be a jam for me, so I have around 3 days. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. And the main objective tomorrow is to come up with the game concept, game design and decide on an engine - and, of course, start writing and drawing! :)

How is everyone finding the theme? Can't wait to check out all the different takes on it in a few days time! <3

In the past couple years, since my sons have been born, my wife and I've started to grow an appreciation for simpler games, more focused and casual games.

Not, mind you, mobile shovel ware where you match things in order to, I don't know, organize your house or whatever

I'm talking about things like Stardew Valley. Things like Animal Crossing.

And so, in an effort to give back to the meta-genre that has given us so much pleasure and relaxation over the past few years, I would like to contribute my own cozy game to the world.

This will be a pretty big departure for me. I'm pretty good at the sort of tangible aspects of game development. I can write a physics system with the best of them. What I don't have a lot of experience with is abstract play.

So I will be stepping outside of my comfort zone for this Jam. I don't think I'm going to have time to make my own assets for this, but fortunately Kenny has lots of fantastic assets for making cozy games.

Now I just have to figure out how to make a cozy game about summoning.

Good luck to everybody!

Thanks to everyone for voting and I hope you guys have an inspired Ludum Dare weekend!! <3

Lets go!

8th Ludum Dare.

Second Ludum Dare using Godot.

First Ludum Dare using my Steam Deck as my Game Dev machine.

Check how I use the Steam Deck for Game Dev if You are interested https://youtu.be/POg8f8xvyg?si=yF3mtCmWvZjfp-0

As usual, the theme sucks - looking forward to play and rate your games. :dvd:

Instead of developing a game that you don't enjoy, just don't stick to the theme and create something that is fun.

Alright, I bailed on ld54, but I'm gonna give it another go! Summoning is a decent enough theme to make mechanics around; I'll be using javascript for a browser game aand maybe i'll even add sound this time. no promises on graphics tho XD Good luck everyone, I can't wait to see what you make!

Hello everyone!

We are proud to announce that CL🤡WNWORKS is back once again for more WILD Ludum Dare action.

THE TEAM

THE PLAN

THE TOOLS

How many boring one-word themes are we going to have to suffer through before y'all dictionary-lovers go back to Itch.io?

"It spreads" wasn't great, but at least it sounded like a classic good LD theme...

:weary:

It just had to be one of those themes where there are only a couple real ways to interpret it....

Hope it works out! Write anything into a magic notebook and it'll pop up in front of you!

We're brainstorming ideas and creating mechanics, we're not going to sleep :)

Usually I'm taking too much time selecting the right idea and when I do there's little time left to make it, and then I get carried away anyway. This time I decided that I either come up with something sweet in a hour or I'll pass.

But for whatever reason "Summoning" instantly clicked.

Hopefully I'll be able to make a finished and polished game in time. And this time I'll be doing it 100% solo too :)

I wish good luck to everyone and happy game making! Can't wait to see your games ^_^

Yours, XpMonster