Deals! Here is this LD’s list of offers, bargains and other things.

Development

• PlayCanvas – 3D Collaborative HTML5 game dev platform – Get a 12 month Pro account, worth $180, for free if you submit a game to Ludum Dare using the PlayCanvas development platform. Email support@playcanvas.com with your username and a link to your finished game.
• GameCreator – Drag and Drop Web Game Creator – Access to most features including full analytics during Ludum Dare weekend and the 3 weeks of voting. Use the promo code: Ludumdare30 after registration.
• Loom SDK Turbo – Mobile Game Development Suite with Live Code and Asset Editing – Create an Account on loomsdk.com, then send an e-mail to Ben and ask about the Ludum Dare Promo to get 12 Months of Turbo for FREE.
• CraftStudio – Cooperative Game Making Platform – Free Weekend for Ludum Dare! Get access to all the premium features for Ludum Dare 30!

Content Creation

• Pixexix Pro – Projection Painting Tool – Get Pixexix Pro for 50% off ($15).
• Pickle Editor – Sprite and Animation Editor – 25% off (Reg $24.99) with coupon code LD30. Click here to add to cart.
• Pixel Maker PRO – Pixel Art Painting Tool for Android – Get Pixel Maker PRO for 50% off ($1.99).

Unity Asset Store

• Point Click Placement Tool – Paint Objects on to a Scene [Video] – Free for Ludum Dare 30 (Reg: $5)
• cInput – Runtime Control Remapping – 70% off.
• TCG Maker – Trading Card Game Making Kit – 50% off. Contact author for discount.

Game Maker Asset Store

• mmap mini maps – Mini maps – $1.99 for Ludum Dare 30 (Reg: $4.99) [ Docs, Demo ]

If you’d like to submit your own deal, you can post details and a link in the comments below, or send me an e-mail. Keep in mind I don’t have a lot of time, but if you need a confirmation or just to ping me once it’s posted, go ahead and mail me. When I have a chance I’ll add it to the list.

Also it MUST be relevant to what we do here (i.e. make games).

Ok guys im hosting a Game Jam on GameJolt.com, basically you have 1 week to make a game based on the theme. We are looking for some themes so if you have any shoot me an email at justinr345@comcast.net.

The link to said jam is: http://jams.gamejolt.io/oneweekchallange

Here it is! Polished, with original music and more levels than we first planned, Space Diplomacy goes touch! Available in the App Store (FREE)!

Download me! For FREE!

Hey I was wondering if anyone has some advice for me. I have wanted to make games for the longest time but have never really managed to make anything. I have plenty of crazy ideas. I am a pretty good coder. I have a friend who makes great art and i can make okay placeholder art. For some reason I can never manage to actually make a my own game. Either it goes on for a while and i lose interest/the idea starts to seem really bad, the game works partially and then it hits some sort of road block, or I just cant manage to organize everything well enough to get the game made. I was hoping that at least one of the indie develops who does ludum dares could point me in the right direction with some of their advice. Any advice would be great and if I ever manage to make a game I will ensure it is available to the entire community.

So i made a tutorial on haw to use the Game and graphics classes in my game engine/api. Remember: i your using my game engine you can open a window with graphics and eminence customization in 5 lines of code.
http://youtu.be/lw54KH_8bZE

Can I enter a game based on an IP which is now in the Public Domain? Like if I wanted to make The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the game?

After having some issues with clones of my Ludum Dare Game Ballkeeper (#9 Fun, #12 Overall) I’m now very happy to announce that it’s now available for iPad, iPod and iPod touch. Check out the Trailer:

Download it for free on the App Store.

If you like it follow @playballkeeper on Twitter, tell your friends and share the hell out of it! More game modes to come …

Hi, I must ask you something (I have been trying to solve this for weeks).

Does anyone know how to make a multiplayer camera (that will follow you) on standard unity networking???

I have tried every google page I could find and… nothing!

Please help me!!!

P.S  I use C#

Ladies and gentlemen, in time for the next Ludum Dare compo, I bring to you: jfxr! It’s a browser-based tool to quickly generate sound effects for your games.

Give it a try here – simply click the preset buttons on the left repeatedly to come up with new sounds. If you got something you like, fine-tune it with the many available options. Or if you know exactly what you’re going for, you can start from scratch, that is, the Default preset.

Jfxr should work in any recent version of Chrome and Firefox. Opera and MSIE users are out of luck because I can’t be bothered to test on those, and mobile devices might be a bit slow.

As you can probably tell, jfxr was heavily inspired by bfxr, but jfxr was designed to be more powerful yet more intuitive to use. It presents you with graphs of the most important parameters, so you can see what effects your edits have, and what modifications you need to do to achieve a particular result. I also find that jfxr’s randomized presets produce more useful output than bfxr’s.

I would love it if you would try it out! Please send any feedback my way via the issue tracker, or just comment on this post. Also, the source is fully open and should be fairly hackable (though I still need to clean it up a bit). Tip: you can easily share sound effects with others by clicking the Link button!

Tags: audio, jfxr, sfx, sound, tools

For this Ludum Dare, I think I’ll go for a team!

What I can do:

Normally I ask people what they want done, Instead of what I can do, But I’ll write this anyway

• Code (GameMaker/ENIGMA GML)
• Music (soundcloud.com/oranebeast)
• SFX
• Graphics, Very terrible, But never the less they are graphics.
• Design. (The ideas man. I can think with my brain at a mastery level)
• Video Creation (Create some videos for people to see wtf your game is)
• Team Spirit!
• Odd Jobs (Y’know the types)
• Level Design (Not very well, But still level design)
• Other stuff I haven’t listed.

I feel I work well in a team, But my Timzone sometimes mess’ things up, (UTC+12)

I suggest you check out my creations in my profile menu.

So if you need me, Comment. Preferably close to my timezones, But you dont have to be.

sys.exit(“orane out”)

Box Fight! is an upcoming game that will continue to grow over the years and is currently in…

Hey guys, great game over here that is looking for a community to help it thrive, taking fan ideas maybe implementing a doctor who class soon? hmm idk anyways there are links to submit ideas for classes on the home page of the wiki maybe one of you would like to make a difference in the game? credit is given for those who give ideas. Doctor who class could teleport to a random x & y maybe?, supernatural class could be only class with a shotgun, or maybe a sherlock class that has sherlocky abilities lol you guys get the idea.

This is the game i will be publishing for the october challenge that ludum put out btw guys 😀

Tags: ld48, love2d, october challege

As you can see by the title i’me in!

here a list of stuff I will be using (or trying to use):

Language: java, its good easy and i’me used to it.

IDE: NetBeans IDE, alot of people use eclipse SDK but:

1. NetBeans is the official java IDE
2. it can be installed with two mouse clicks

Game Engine: c4 Lazy Lib 2D, has tuns of customization and greatly improves java game dev. Also its made made by me

Graphics : paint.NET

arduino: jfxr

Thats pretty much it!!

Looking at some past LD’s, the I’m In posts probably won’t start naturally for several more days. I’m going to see if that’s because a lot of people don’t start visiting the website until close to LD or because they’d rather write their post when there are other people writing theirs by seeing if this post triggers an early start for the flow of “I’m in”s. It’s not a perfect experiment, but we’ll see what happens.

Anyway, this is my, what? Eighth LD? Wow, it is. I’ve participated in every single LD since #23, I wouldn’t miss one for anything. Almost. I guess I’d miss one for a million dollars, or for immortality, as long as it comes with eternal youth and health and a guarantee that humans won’t blow themselves up and leave me all alone. But I’m probably not going to be offered either of those things in the next 20 days.

Here are the tools I’ll be using:

• Platform: Haxe with OpenFL yet again! I just don’t see how anything could be better. I like the language, it runs well on all of the platforms I export to and a lot of ones I don’t, and it’s got good libraries. Such as…
• Engine: HaxePunk. HaxePunk has served me excellently in the past, and I’m actually making Spanner in the Works, my first large-scale game, with it, which has vector graphics. Go figure!
• Sprite editor: Aseprite. Buy the $10 version. The only reason I didn’t is because I’m a cheapskate. You don’t want to be like me, do you?
• Tilesetting: GoTile. I made this one! Whoopee! It’s totally free and stuff. Go get it, it’s sort of like AutoTileGen if it had been made in 2 days.
• Text editor: Sublime Text 2. You know, this list is starting to look suspiciously… identical… to the one I posted last Ludum Dare.
• Timelapse: gLapse again. But this time, I’ll turn the quality up higher. My last timelapse looked, well, disgusting. Because that’s what JPEG artifacts look like! Disgusting! Blech.
• Streaming: Not doing it this time. Nope.
• Sound: jfxr, made by our own Frozen Fractal and announced in the post right before this one! Let’s give him a round of applause for bringing us the third generation of Ludum Dare low-tech sound synthesizer software that really blows away both of the previous ones. Oh, and I’ll also possibly use Audacity. And maybe even LMMS, if I’m feeling bold.

So, best of luck to everyone! I don’t expect to get another medal (certainly not another gold one), but I do expect this to be a lot of fun, because that’s what prior experience would suggest. I’ll have to start going to bed at midnight and getting up at 8 a.m. by then, though, because going to bed at 1:30 a.m. and getting up at 11 won’t work for several reasons. So, let’s all make some games! (In 20 days.) Wahoo!

Tags: im in

The usual stuff- Java, Eclipse, some MSPaint and some GIMP. I’ll try to use JFXR as well (refer to a couple of posts before this one).

Now that that’s out of the way, a question- what happened to LD29? I mean, it still hasn’t showed up in the Recent Events box, and I can’t find the results page anymore.

This will be my 2nd time attempting LD, last time (LD #29), I had gotten sick to the point of me laying in bed for 4 weeks.

I’ll be using:

Engine: Gamemaker, I’m quite new to game-dev, so I’ll use game-maker ;), fast and powerfull.
Programming-language: GML (Gamemaker language).
Sound: sfxr.
Music: If I get to it, FL Studio or something.
Graphics: Gimp/Paint.net
Vitamines: Loads, so I won’t be sick, AGAIN.

Have fun all, good luck. And make some games!

GREETINGS FRIENDS,

SO IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER FANTASTIC LUDUMDARE, AND I’M HAPPY TO INFORM YOU ALL THAT I WILL BE JOINING IN ONCE AGAIN

I’VE BEEN PLAYING AROUND WITH UNITY3D A BIT LATELY SO THAT IS WHAT I’M GOING TO BE RUNNING WITH THIS TIME, HOPEFULLY IT’LL LET ME ITERATE A BIT QUICKER!

HOPEFULLY THE THEME WILL BE CAPITAL LETTERS!

THANKS

Hey everyone!

Last LD was a very positive experience for me since that was my first one. This’ll be my second one and I hope everything goes well on there.

Tools which I used in the last one didn’t disappoint me and they all worked surprisingly well on there. So, here we go.. These are the tools I’ll be using now:

1. Engine: Game Maker:Studio
2. Language: GML
3. Sprite Editing: Paint.NET, Adobe Photoshop
4. Audio: SFXR
5. Music: FamiTracker (worked very well last time)

So that’s about it. I hope you’re all in a good mood for this one and I wish luck and patience to everyone!

Going to try and use some boilerplate code to try and not get distracted by feature creep and the likes of it. I might go full monochrome with this one. We’ll see.

WE’LL SEE.

Another season, another ludum dare. This will be the fourth time I enter ( alas, the title ), so I expect to come last as usual. I have made many friends through ludum dare, and even some enemies ( looking at you 0creds 😀 ).

Language: Java

IDE: Eclipse

Libs: LWJGL and some custom stuff I’ll post closer to the time.

GFX: Paint.NET & Photoshop if needed.

SFX: SFXR as usual.

Other: OBS when streaming to Twitch.

I look forward to the coming weeks immensely. Good luck and have fun everybody.