Hey, so I want to keep a score board for my game, where people will be able to view their score v's all the other players.

Anyone have or know of a Leaderboard website that I can use for this? I don't really want to write my own, but I will if I have to.

Still brainstorming ideas, we're not going to sleep :)

With the theme now out, I can finally determine the epic ending to the story I've started in NaNoRenO 2024. The theme of summoning, the cog, and the background of the title screen will all have in-story significances. Plus, I've come up with the final title.

We really enjoyed the more chill deadline of extra; but didn't see any reference to extra when creating our game entry. Is Extra still a thing? (ref: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/test-node/celebrating-20-years-of-ludum-dare-on-april-1st)

Sunnoning is the theme?

I was expecting "Mutation" or "Fishing" :<

The good news is that I have a great idea for this theme (I think). The bad news is that I have to ditch the base code I was prepping for the 2D platformer and start from scratch. But that's OK. It'll be worth it!

We’re still brainstorming ideas, not going to sleep :)

Ok, hear me out.

A deckbuilding game. You have 4 resources: lifes, coins, diamonds and points.

You also have a hand of cards. You can play a card for its effect for free. You can also summon the card by paying its cost, which makes the card leave your deck, but it will do its effect automatically every turn or so.

There will be progressively stronger monsters getting into your deck with effect that remove your life. You can defeat those with an effect of a card, or banish them for a cost of coins and diamonds, earning you points.

You can get new cards into your deck by paying coins.

I can see myself putting a prototype together in 3 hours or so, then will see whether it is worth pursuing.

I was having trouble concepting stuff that sounded fun when looking at the full list of votable prompts, but given just one of them, I actually came up with something I think might be decently fun to play and make pretty quickly. And it's light on the controls and animations too.

I might end up having to learn how to SFX in 1 hour, but I'll do my best to put out something playable for my first attempt here. Looking forward to maybe making this a regular thing for myself.

just some funny screenshots i've got so far

I'm taking this Ludum Dare in particular to test if I can make a game using the engine I'm working on for my commercial game.

The engine is pretty barebones still but should support everything I need: 2D sprites, audio, scenes, collisions, input.

This will also require me to keep the scope extra small.

Repository: https://github.com/jesusmgg/summoning-ld55

Draw symbols on a runestone to summon slimes for a fight.

We're so excited to get things started, peeps 🔥🔥🔥

We're aiming to build an awesome Narrative RPG by the end of the jam. How's that for a plan?

For some reason, I keep getting strong Super Smash Bros vibes from the theme - but I won't be doing a fighting game. Let's see how this goes!

First model textured! :smiley: