Even though the university semester is in full swing and there is probably millions of other things I should be doing, I am going to make a game for Ludum Dare 27!

I will be looking to compete in the jam since I won’t have much time to work on the first day of LD and I am really just aiming to have something complete by the end of it.

I will be using:

• Unity3D – but look for more of a 2D game
• GIMP/Inkscape – whichever is needed for the occasion
• BFXR
• OBS – for streaming my progress on my Twitch.tv channel which is http://www.twitch.tv/timmahh91

I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with and if I find time in the week following LD27 I will probably try and stream me playing some of the games people come up with!

Good luck everyone!

Tags: bfxr, GIMP, inkscape, OBS, unity3d

Although I do not particularly like most of the themes in the final round, I will be making something game-ish for this LD.

Maybe it’s going to be a game on why 10 Seconds of Alchemy, even in an Alternative Reality without any Connections to the real world are ever the source of Corruption and Darkness. When Death is Useful and Evil vs Evil it seems like a Glitch in the system for the Hunted of the Lifecycle or maybe for the Machines, I wonder? In a Multi-layered world or Parallel Worlds its always the same Replication of Space (I like space) and Strange Power-ups but whether Surveillance or Survival, in the end You must leave it behind.

I think I might be getting in the mood for LD now

Tools: Unity3D, depending on the style probably some 3DSmax or Cinema4D and Photoshop stuff and maybe a little NanoStudio for the sounds.

As always, best of luck to everyone & have fun!

David

Tags: LD #27

Hi,

In his keynote, David S. Gallant said that everybody could participate to Ludum Dare. So I’m in.
As a french student, my english is very bad, I apologize. And as a french procrastinator, I didn’t learn programming.

“But why do you participate to Ludum Dare french procrastinator ?”

Because I know how to use Twine ! Twine is a tool that allows you to create interactive stories. Yes, like Choose Your Own Adventure Book.
So, for my First Ludum Dare, I’ll use :

• Twine
• Word, because most of my game will be text
• Maybe GraphicsGale or Pyxel Edit because Pixel Art is cool
• My Dictionary because my English is very bad

I’m in, I think.

Here we are, on the brink of the most amazing weekend (apart from other LD’s this year). Here’s some of my previous LD work: LD23 | LD26 and another game I made this year.

Tools of my trade: (same as previous times)

Code and Distribution

• Python 2.7 and pygame
• Some old code, that barely works as a whole, but has some cool things in there that I’ve been using since LD24 (which failed for completely other reasons!)
• Sublime Text 2 + cmd.exe (+Ubuntu laptop for Linux testing)
• A cool pygame2exe.py script (you can find it in the source of my previous games)
• Dropbox for… “version control”. Nah, I just throw a bunch of code together and it works.

Stuff someone calls art

• GraphicsGale Free Edition for the ultimate pixelation of wonderful art.
• GIMP (provided useful last time with image effects and the like)

What you are going to hear

• Possibly my own voice, where needed
• BFXR
• FL Studio 11 demo version (hardcore mode, no project files, one sitting. P.S. no BSOD please)
• Audacity
• GreaseMonkey’s autotracker.py (sick beatz)

Utilities

• Chronolapse for my timelapsing needs.
• Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) for streaming it all!

That’s pretty much it. I’ll be sitting on the IRC channel and streaming most of the event.

Good luck everyone, and remember to have fun!

Once more unto the… game jam we go! I have entered many of these, and once again I will not be able to resist the lure of trying to hit that wonderful little nugget of a game I strive to achieve in 48 hours and don’t quite manage.

I will be using Flixel, and also I may add in Photon Storm’s Flixel Power Tools, in the case that they might help me achieve some things more easily. We’ll see. I have no idea what I’ll make until I see the theme.

GL HF!

I had two unlucky failures in last LDs, but now I’m determined to succeed. Will be using my own engine (http://code.google.com/p/quibble/source/checkout) or Unity if I decide to do something 3d. I’m also considering learning something new, like Haxe, libtcod or rot.js, but it’s probably wiser to stay away from new stuff. Did I mention that I want to make a roguelike? It will depend on theme tough, not a roguelike is also possibility if I come up with a good idea.

I’m shamefully late to enter Ludum Dare, that is to say I really should have entered one ages ago. But here I am either way!

Depending on what I come up with I’m split between Unity and XNA/Monogame, steering towards the former though I haven’t really had much practice in it as of yet, so this should be interesting. I may end up streaming some of it on my Twitch.tv channel (http://twitch.tv/cueball61).

Of course this does rely on me coming up with an idea for the theme.

Will be participating this round as well. I’ll be using html5/javavascript compo. Sxfr for sounds, if there will be any.

Me, miss a Ludum Dare? Of course not, I’m in for this one!

The tools I’ll be using are:

Design

• A big whiteboard, with lots of space for scrawling ideas on
• The try-it-and-see method

Coding

• GameMaker: Studio
• or Unity3D
• or C++ & SDL

(Gonna wait and see the theme and my design, and choose an appropriate toolchain)

Graphics

• Corel Paint Shop
• Blender 3D

Sound

• Audacity (Sound Effects, recorded using a cheap microphone and whatever I can find that sounds about right)

Time-lining

Not doing any elaborate time-lapse or streaming or anything like that.  Instead, I’ll just be making the odd post on Twitter, Facebook, here, and on the project page at https://server.kaldev-games.co.uk/projects/ld27

Good luck everybody, and have fun!!

So, my Nexus S has departed.

I was walking to school and may or may not have been overcloking on a custom ROM and hang my phone, In an attempt to pull it back I ripped the battery out and now it doesn’t work
So I have bough a @degrees Smart Touch aka an Enspire C8660 aka the cheapest phone available in my country.(at 40USD it might even be the cheapest in the world)

It probably wont be worth using this to port but a friend is letting me use his atrix 2 and ill be getting a Nexus 4 shortly.

Other then that I also forgot to pay my website bill, OOPS :/. But thats sorted now and my website has been revamped with a new word press install 😀 so go cheak it out
nicholasparry.geek.nz
And on top of that my code for Flash Builder Premium 4.7 is here and I have an ipad for the weekend 😀
So I should be sweet 😀

After april’s Ludum Dare, I’m in again !

This time, I’ll be using Html 5 canvas and Javascript, it will be my first time so I hope this won’t be a fail xD
I’ll also use Paint tool Sai and for the rest, I’ll see on the moment !

I can’t wait for it to begin, gonna get a great warm up with Baptême du jeu as I’ll be at the greatest world gathering 8D (==> THERE http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/07/31/ludum-dare-27-montpellier-france-gathering/)

Wish good luck to all of you, and see you for the Theme Announcement (please, not 10 seconds, it’s the only one i can’t find any idea DD8)

Nangie ♥

I think I will use this code base instead. It’s not quite as complete as the last one I posted but its code is much cleaner, less headaches.

Here it is.

Hello!

This will be my first Ludum Dare. I’ve been too afraid of failure before now! I’ll be using C#/XNA Visual Studio Express 2010 for development, Paint.NET for graphics, bfxr/sfxr for sound effects, Audacity + drum machine for music, and Mountain Dew/5-hour Energy and Pizza for energy. Good luck everyone! I’m excited!

Mostly I’m like “why am I doing this why am I doing this” and the other half of me is like “what the hell else are you going to do this weekend you’re taking a break from your VN anyways” so here goes.

Yeah. I can do this. I’ve done games before. Quickie game jams even. I got this. I totally got this.

Tools at my disposal:

Game engine: Unity 3D and a personally-customized 1st-person character controller which is a WIP and I may or may not use. Or Ren’Py if I chicken out.

Graphics: Maya 2013, Pixelmator, Photoshop, wasted art school money

Sound: Garageband (Mac & iPad), CFXR

LET’S GET DIGGING

First time here. Will take part if nothing comes up in the next couple of days. Something might.

I don’t expect much from myself, but if I could get some nice prototype working, that’d be fine by me.

Language : Java

IDE : Eclipse

No libraries. Was thinking of using some code from an old project, but it’d save me an hour at most, so won’t bother.

Sound  : sfxr or bfxr.

Music : Probably no time for that.

Art : Paint.net.

Looks like I’m stuck working this weekend now, so jm going to be at a severe disadvantage here. I’ll be losing 20 hours due to work. Not to mention that I probably need to sleep since I’m required to operate heavy machinery like my car to get to work. Bah. I’m still in though. I might be able to finish something.

Same toolkit as last.  Might have added a class or two.  Click here to download it.

Click here to download my LD27 toolkit.

This time around I’ll be using Monogame, so targetting Windows users primarily.

I think I’ll be sticking to 2D this time, last time I went 3D and it was just a bit more effort that it was worth I think.

I’ll be using:

• Visual Studio 2012 (Dark theme, of course)
• Monogame
• Photoshop
• Maybe Tiled for creating 2D tilemaps, if I need to create them
• Probably going to use iNudge for the music, captured with Audacity (since you can’t export from it directly).

I want to keep the concept super simple and focus on atmosphere and polish this time around, and hopefully score higher than my previous entries.

Can’t wait!

We’re almost at the dawn of another Ludum Dare! As a result I have question:

Does anyone like text adventures?

Text Adventures?

Because I do, and I’m planning to write one for LD27.

I want to know if:

1. you’ll be prepared to play it
2. you think it is possible to write an interesting text adventure (in two days)
3. you think text adventures are still a viable genre

Answers in the comments please!

Tags: if, interactive fiction, poll, text adventure

Hey,

I’m really excited. This is my first game jam ever.

Looking forward for this.

I’m going to use sfml 2.0 and c++ and chronolapse.

I’ll probably embarrass myself with my non-existent art skill, but it will be fun 😀