Ludum Dare 55 April 13–16, 2024

Our art resources feature captivating visual effects

The member in charge of art has created some incredibly amusing characters. "This is a fish that is constantly crying, living in a body of water formed by its own tears. Its tears have formed the smallest lake in the world."

cc20240416052134.jpg This character is so funny, so we decided to feature it on the cover. If anyone likes this character, please let me know

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Finished 4 hours early! (But secretly 20 hours late)

I did it! I have a cute horror RPG for the Gameboy Color that didn't exist 3 days ago. I'd originally planned to submit it for the compo, but I was a bit naive in making a bit too much game in a tool I haven't used before (GB Studio is great by the way.)

Stringing together the turn based combat in an engine that's not really made for it was a good challenge, and I'm super proud of how polished it all feels.

As a bit of a bonus, I've even got it running on actual hardware! IMGem6774.jpg IMG/em6777.jpg

Super happy with how it's come out, though I definitely sacrificed sleep in exchange for quality.

I need to make an itch page and then get some sleep.

Done

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Phew, what a weekend. First I'm stuck in a creative hole with no proper ideas on the theme.
Then I get sick and lose most of the Jam time.
I still managed to get a playable game released though, which is great. Unfortunately, while possible to play from start to end, the game is far from where I wanted it to be. Since had to stop due to sickness for almost a day and actually don't feel too great now either, alot of stuff is missing. The dungeons are bland, unit types are not balanced at all and the game is more like a prototype. Dang, it doesn't even have music.
Either way, I'm glad I still got it into a presentable state, so have a look at it. And should you like the concept, please comment and I might pick it up again in a few days to get it where I wanted it to be.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/demonic-dominion

Post your games for me to play tomorrow!

Jam is nearly over, it's getting late where I'm at so I'm heading to bed. Hope you all had an awesome weekend of making games, I certainly had a lot of fun putting my game together. I ran out of time to add music and sounds, but at least I eventually managed to get all the game mechanics done in time.

I'm really looking forward to playing and rating a bunch of games every day for the next few weeks until the event ends, so to make sure I don't miss yours, please drop a link in the comments to this post and I'll play it as soon as I have some time! If you'd like to also play and rate my game that would be cool, but I'm not requiring you to if you'd rather not.

I'm on linux, and unity browser games don't always work for me in firefox, so I'll prioritise anything that isn't unity engine that runs in my browser. If you've got a Pico-8 game (one of us! one of us!) then please also let me know if it's on splore - I'd love to be able to play it on my RGB30 in all it's high definition pixelated glory.


My game if you're interested. (you can play it in your browser)

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mew mew

Our programmers are still debugging non-stop, while the cat is warming itself by the computer's heat sink. dd20240416052952.jpg 小猫拯救世界!

Day 1 versus Day 3....

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Looks like some progress was made! Done with the game now, off to play what everyone else cooked :)

Issues with images and builds

Is it just me or the builds and images are not working properly on the game pages?

I can't get the build to work or the images to show :(

Deployed!

Yeay we finsihed our game! :slight_smile: Screenshot from 2024-04-15 23-35-08.png

RELEASE THE...Kobold Pets?

Kobold Pet Shop is GO! You can check it out if you want a hopefully good time.

https://ldj.am/$390396

Screenshot 2024-04-15 155116.png Look above at the beautiful art.

Had a blast using Dragon Ruby Game Engine again and going back and forth with my artist @tristan-doell at the speed of lightning. I can only say great things about working with the engine, every time I use it I keep being amazed at how smooth of a framework it is to build small games on/in.

We had the main game up and working early, so I took some of my time to make a composed music track for the game too. Got to learn how to use LMMS. Have to say I loved it, I grew up in Fruity Loops composing land so having this open source tool is a real treat! I am certainly open to making more kobold music in the future.

Anyway, we are going to wind down and relax. To everyone still jamming, we will be cheering you on! YOU GOT THIS!!

Just Finished!

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Just finished our game, Samuel, the Summoning Squirrel: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/samuel-the-summoning-squirrel

It was fun to work on with Sirzer and hope you guys get to try it!

Didn't get to put in all of the ideas we had, but the game overall was fine. We wanted to add more summons and an upgrade system. These changes would have made the game a lot more strategic.

show our art creation

The programmer swallowed by Slime, dead still insist on writing code, what a great spirit, come on! I hope it's done before the countdown q2.jpg

Literally Lamo When I Saw This

Nitsune Haku.jpg Nitsune Haku2.jpg Suggested Hatsune Miku ,and things went way beyond by expectations.Now I can't help laughing at every glance of it. Goooooooood job, artworkers.(╹▽╹)

Wonky game embedding on the LD page?

While we are finally done (yay!), I'm wondering: the LD Embedding guide calls for a strict 948x533 solution - but following this, we still get scroll bars and a not quite fitting embed. :(

Does anyone have a suggestion for us?

Anyway, if you want to brush up on your occult sigil painting skills, feel free to check our game out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/paintamonium

Almost done!

Been working hard with my friends @shoppncart, @orbitaldot, and @chemicalsushi. We are almost done with our first finished game!

I learned a lot from it this weekend, here is mouse town. image.png

pellegrino,,

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made a short vn, hope you enjoy

link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/the-great-pellegrino

Its the end ! (for me)

Tadaa, Be the Cat Litch !!

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some avancement in graphics but dont have a lot of time, lots of abandoned ideas. Gonna work again on after some weeks of sleep. link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/death-kingdom

Good lucks everyone !

first solo jam finished

what a doozy of a time! super enjoyable enjoyable learning experience. made a little melodramatic game / music trailer to celebrate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNmm0If76Lw

Title Screen

Just done with the graphics of the title screen.

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Now to add buttons...