Really looking forward to participating in the jam this time around; I’ve actually taken an afternoon to get something done with the tools I plan to use, thus sidestepping the compilation headaches I normally get around five hours in.
(Admittedly, the tool in question is GameMaker, but baby steps.)
Well after a decently timed knee injury that is going to prevent me from skiing next weekend, I decided
Ludum Dare #28 will be a great way to spend the weekend.
This will be my second Ludum Dare. And with a segue to the list of things everyone does:
This will be my 5th LD event, and I’m as excited as ever. As always, my goal is to improve upon my previous overall score. However, it’s going to be a lot tougher since I did pretty well in the last event. I’m ready to get down to business:
Tools:
Assuming I use C2, I’ll use my own starter file. It contains:
Best of luck to everyone! I assume once LD28 is complete, I’ll receive my 5 timers club jacket in the mail.
I’m in for my fifth Ludum Dare! 
Some of you guys already know me from the irc channel or have perhaps seen one of my games.
For those of you who don’t know who I am:
I am a 17.5 year old long haired metalhead / crazy person that enjoys developing games and making music.
I have been programming for about 2 years and playing guitar for nearly 10 years.
From LD24 on I have never missed a Ludum Dare event and I am not planning on stopping that tradition!
Tools of the trade:
System specs:
I’m in!
I’ll be jamming with my lovely girlfriend that will be doing the art, this time I’ll be both doing the art and programming Hope we can complete something.
I’m using maya, unity (C#) and photoshop, she’s using modo and photoshop.
For Mini Ludum Dare 47 I decided to recreate my first complete game, Untitled using Construct 2 and thus html5.
– It wasn’t planned, It was the end of Thanksgiving week and I happened to check this website. I liked the theme so I decided to go for it knowing that I would have less time.
– Its a rather complicated game, and I wanted to keep the Leaderboards the same. I lost a good chunk of time on generating the levels, in the same way. I think I redid it 3 times during the weekend.
– Scoring is complicated, I was in the process of adding it during the weekend, but ran out of time. That more or less left the game in a non-game state. Mostly its complicated because I wanted your score to be calculated on the website, so its sent in variables and then calculated there. But it also has to be displayed in game, so I calculate it there as well.
-Collisions When I imported my sprites to Construct 2 the collision mask that was generated was a mess, it has some really weird things going on so that look time to fix (but it works good now)
– Construct 2 worked great, other than the collisions I had no problems with it.
– html5 I feel is a better platform for this type of Art game, its much faster and easier to get at than downloading a client.
– I will be finishing the html5 version at some point, but right now I’m not sure when as its getting into Finals week.
Tags: post-mortem, postmortem
Here we are in another December and another Ludum Dare. It is one of the things I look forward to this time of year. I have a few things that will pull me away for a bit on both Saturday and Sunday, but I still hope to finish.
If you download a lot of Windows games, you might want to check out my SmartUnzip utility for intelligently unzipping entries during the review phase. Hmm … it might work on Linux and Mac with Mono, but I haven’t tried it yet…
I’m really excited for this Ludum Dare. I took some gamedev classes this semester, so I’m ready to put what I’ve learned to the test.
Tools:
Framework: Unity
IDE: Visual Studio 2013
Sounds: BFXR and possibly Audacity
Modeling: Blender
2D Art: Paint).net
Livestream: http://www.twitch.tv/pwnedu46 with OBS
Music: Spotify
Version Control: Git (github: https://github.com/pwnedu46)
Other stuff: Trello, OneNote
This will only be the second game I’ve made in Unity, so I’m prepared to switch to Python with the pygame library if necessary. If I do have to switch, I might be using a homemade library for tile-based games.
Like I’ve got anything better to do.
Unity, FL Studio, & assorted super-expensive Adobe/Autodesk products.
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#INDIEGOD
Tags: Dark Acre, INDIEGOD, Jack Nilssen
This will be my 8th time participating in Ludum Dare in a row. My goal as always is to create a game that is different but improved from the last one, as well as to pick a political and or social issue to explore inside of a video game wrapper.
I may lose some time to studying for a Final that I have on the following Monday. But it should work out.
I’ll be using:
Construct 2
bfxr
Photoshop
python music generator
I may use a highscore table script on my website (source code is in one of my past entries)
This will be my first LD. I had planned on doing it before, but school always got in the way.
Here is what I’ll be using:
Language: Lua
Libraries: LÖVE and the HardonCollider library
Art: GIMP
Sound: sfxr
World Editor: Tiled, assuming a tile-based game makes sense for the theme
I’m really excited! Best of luck everyone!
this won’t be my first ld that I attempt, but I will follow through this time! The themes look great, I can’t wait to start!
I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be using, definitely construct 2, but not sure other than that. I need to do some research!
I’ve participated in Ludum Dare, two times and both times didn’t go to well. First time I used Java and didn’t finish on time. Second time was last Ludum Dare with Unity and made an incomplete game. Now this time I am going on the low road with the jam to practice my newly learned XNA. This should be good. 😀
I will be participating for the second time.
Last time, I fucked up bad because I had no engine to work with, I simply used MonoGame and C# and wasted 90% of my 48 hours working on the game engine.
The result was… Well, there was not any result. It was simply an engine will basic features. I wasted too much time on pixel art and engine and that the bottom line.
This time, I will probably try to go for more simplistic graphics, and I will make a quick engine which I will make public on github right before the competition starts.
Code:
Language: Java (cross compatibility, ditching C# this time around)
Libraries: LibGdx
Tools:
IDE: Eclipse
Graphics: Graphicsgale, Photoshop and Paint.net
Sounds: BFXR
Musics: Sunvox if I have time, but if not, crappy music generated with Autotracker-c
Timelapse tool: Chronolapse
I will livestream during the whole time at http://www.twitch.tv/theoxysoft/
Its my first Ludum Dare(Well my first gamejam/game ever) i hope for it to be a learning experience. An extremely stressfull, aggravating learning experience. I’ll be doing the programming and art while a friend of mine does the music. Can’t wait to get the theme and get to work. Any veterans got any advice for a rookie?
Tools:
Game Maker
Photoshop
Illistrator
Fruity Loops
My Brain
This is my second time participating in this awesome challenge. Last time my goal was to finish something and I succeeded! This time I have the same goal but hopefully I can produce something better than last time.
I was planning to use java to get around the nasty porting problems but didn’t have time to prepare properly.
What i will use:
OS: Ubuntu 13.10
Language: C++
Editor: Eclipse
Libraries: http://www.sfml-dev.org/
Graphics: Gimp
Sound: http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
Music: http://www.abundant-music.com/ or something similar.
Version control: https://github.com/
I will probably use the same spotify playlist as last time:
It’s awesome
Good luck everybody!
I’m in for LD28, will be using Unity, specifically the new 2D tools.