I’m in for the 4th time!

I have used different libraries and programming languages each time I have entered, and this will be no exception. This time I will make a browser based game using:

• Coffeescript
• GIMP
• Reason
• Tiled
• maybe some rendering lib like pixi.js

and perhaps something more…

Good luck to everyone!

So, yeah — I’m in.

This is going to be my first Ludum Dare (yippi!), but I have participated in five GMC Jams (a 72-hour jam exclusively for GameMaker games) before. Actually, the reason I decided to do my first LD this weekend, is that I missed the last GMC Jam. (I was in the UK on vacation)

Sooo…. I’ll probably do the compo (48-hours), because I won’t have much time on Monday, anyway (school) and if my game’s not even close to “done” or “playable”, I’ll get an extra day! (you can do like that, right? )

If you’ve read this post carefully, you’ll probably have guessed I’m gonna use GameMaker. More precisely, GameMaker: Studio. I’ll only compile for Windows — the only other export I can use is for Mac, but you need a Mac computer to complete the build process, which I don’t have.

Other tools I’m likely to use are:

• Aseprite (for not-so-very-good pixel art)
• CGmusic (procedurally generated music)
• BFXR (blip and blops)
• Some particles designer for GameMaker (I want to use more particles than usually this jam, because I’ve rarely used them in games before)

I have no idea what libraries or scripts I’ll use. Probably, I won’t use any at all.

Tags: 2D, 48hcompo, gamemaker, im in, LD30

Hey 😉

i already joined the last two one, in the last one i was better than before, so hopefully there is an improvment again

Tools :

Language : Java

IDE : Eclipse

Framework : libGDX or LWJGL -> depends on my idea

Art : Paint.NET

Music : sfxr / abundant-music

If it’ll be a tiled map, my tiled map editor : http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-51/?action=preview&uid=29666

GL HF!

~Frank

There is now a nice overview of all my gamedev resources available on my site!

http://www.tinyworlds.org/game-development.html

Hi there.

I’m new to LD.  #30 will be my first LD, first game jam, and first video game competition ever!  Just started officially making games back in April 2014.

I’d like a little help understanding the content creation rules:  can I use free, public domain audio samples?

• “All game code and content must be created within the 48 hours.”  — Got it!  Every audio/visual element is cooked up fresh!  I always fit my audio to the game.
• “Photos and recordings you make of people or things are acceptable content, just you must acquire them during the competition.”  — No problem.  I don’t think this one will apply to me, but I can use a mic for sounds and a camera for photos or videos if I for some reason needed something like that.
• “Fonts, drum loops, drum samples, and sampled instruments are allowed IF you have the legal right to use them.” — This one sounds like it should answer my question, but seems to speak to text and music without being pointedly inclusive of sound effects.  Typically, my sounds are based on pre-existing samples of either instruments or real world noises that I then process until it’s more exactly what I’m wanting for the game.

My hope is that I can use freely available, public domain audio samples and that customizing those sounds further will only make the practice even more acceptable.  But I’d really love to know before I begin that I’m working within the scope of the rules.

Looking forward to joining everyone this weekend!

– Drew

Drew Van Camp
DLV Games | Lexington, KY
http://drewvancamp.com

This blog post is just me declaring my codebase.
I’m going to be using this library I made.

With my friend Jan, we will be participating in Ludum Dare for the first time. I am responsible of the graphics and he is programming. We are planning to work from 9 AM to 5 PM for three days starting from Saturday morning. You will be able to watch our development process live at my Twitch channel here. Theme is not chosen yet but these are what we decided on:

– Unity 3D as the game engine

– C# as the programming language

– Hand drawn vector art and animations for the graphics

– Mobile or PC as the platform (if mobile also a Web version)

We are developing games for almost a year together and hoping to produce something awesome for this Ludum Dare.

Good luck everyone!

I took a break and didn’t participate in the past few compos but this one is the one! This time I’m going to make a thing! And play more games, because I didn’t do enough of that last couple of times.

I’ll be using LÖVE, along with standard programs like GIMP, etc.

Here’s hoping I’m more successful this time around!

Currently i’m looking for kick-ass team member(s).
To introduce myself. I’m Roy 24 years old. currently studying Game Technology and Producing at Saxion University of Applied Science (3rd year). My portfolio can be found here www.therrato.com

For this Ludum Dare I would love to work with some new people. Are you able to keep your polygons on a low count and texture your models by your self, then you might be the person I’m looking for. Do you compose your own audio and sounds than I might be looking for you as well.
For 2D, can you work in more than one style so we can go for something fitting to the theme than I might be looking for you as well.

I don’t have a specific idea of what to create yet since the theme is still unknown but I am able to make a mobile version or a Kinect game. So if you guys or girls are up for that, then let me know.
If you are interested hit me up with your portfolio on here or on skype.
Tools at my disposal:
Kinect (v1)
xbox 360 Controller
3 android devices
1 iphone (3gs)
Unity 3D with Microsoft visual Studio.

skype: therrato
portfolio: therrato.com

I’m in and I will use Impact (HTML5 / JavaScript) again!

The day before LD would be a bad time to try out the Unity 4.6 beta right?

Also here’s a photo of my battlestation:

Can’t wait LD30, and good luck to all.

Tags: beta, deskphoto, unity

Hi! My name is Josh Alcorn (@ewitsjosh) and I’m in, or at least I’ll try to be in. I work 2 8 hour shifts over the weekend so my game won’t really be a #LD48 game, more like a #LD32 game, if that’s a thing. I’ll be using Unity 4.5.3f3 along with Photoshop for art, bfxr for sounds, and Reason 6.something for music! Wish me luck!

Our two-man team is ready for the Jam!

• Language: C#
• Engine: Unity3D
• IDE: Visual Studio 2013
• Graphics: GIMP, Wings 3D
• Music: energyXT, cgMusic
• SFX: Leshy SFMaker

Hello again.

I forgot to mention that I will use:

https://gist.github.com/Knowlege/d9ddfdc64fd0f965f841 as base for my game,

probably tiledtmxloader (not tmx as I wrote before),

fake music generator for music,

GameJolt for submitting my game

and maybe gimp for art.

Unfortunately, this LD is the same weekend as a race I’m doing on Saturday, as well as a day of volunteering I’ll be doing for most of the day sunday. This means I’m losing about…. 5 hours on Saturday and another 9 hours on Sunday. I was never very fast in previous LD events either, so losing that time is pretty devastating 😛

But that’s not going to stop me from staying up Friday to participate in some of the excitement, as well as at least getting something down on paper to maybe make later. I’m also planning on streaming when I am at my desk and actually working. I tried it last time and my friends seemed to enjoy peeking in on me throughout the weekend, so I figured I would keep it going.

Anyway, with all of that out of the way, let me get to my tools. Oh, I forgot to mention. I’m going to try for the compo but with losing so much time, I may try to finish on Monday. But of course, I’m seeing friends on Monday since it’s my last week at home before I leave for university 😛 What a perfectly busy weekend. Okay, tools:

Language: Java, mostly likely. Over the past month I’ve been learning SFML with C++, but I don’t think I’m quite ready to get started using that, especially with my additional time constraints.
IDE: Eclipse because who doesn’t love Eclipse?
Graphics: Photoshop, probably.
Audio: Bfxr since I’ve never been very good with sound or music. If I can find the time, I’ll try doing random things at the end, but who knows. For the most part, nobody should expect any sound in my game 😛
Platform: Mac
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/josephroquedev

Well, that’s it! Good luck to everybody this weekend, I’ll see you all again tomorrow night!

Okay. Name’s Morgan Brown. 13-years-old. Second Ludum Dare. Let’s do it.

Engine: Unity3D (for the sake of being generic :P)
Language: Javascript
Graphics: Paint.NET / Blender
Sound: SFXR

And… That should be it.

Hey all!

Just a quick note to say that I’m planning to have a go at LD #30 over the weekend. This will be my second LD after participating in #28.

I will be primarily using GameMaker: Studio Pro with a (hopefully working) HTML5 export. The usual team of content generators and GIMP will be used for visuals and sound, but I may try my hand at using some vector graphics (swfmill), which would be new for me. I may borrow from my own code libraries (simple collision scripts and such) but all code will be my own.

I’m quite rusty and I don’t know if I’ll be able to use all of the 48 hours like last time, so it should be interesting! Good luck all!

-Evan “SketchyGalore” Good

Just a quick note: with my immense joy, I will be partecipating in LD30!

This is my 5th consecutive ludum dare and I’m starting to really enjoy it. Hopefully I’ll be able to learn a lot like I usually do and have heaps of fun!

Some quick list of the tools I’ll be using:

• Language/Framework: JS/HTML5, for prototyping goodness and instat portability
• Graphics: the insuperable Inkscape for vector and Paint.NET for raster
• Sound and music: bxfr for sfx, REAPER or milkytracker for music (IF I’ve got the time for it)
• IDE: emacs because it’s just awesome
• Drink of choice: water because being sleepy makes me creative
• Hours of sleep: not as much as my body needs, not as little as the game requires

Sooo, yeah. Here we are. Good luck to everyone, and have fun!

Tags: emacs, html5, inkscape, javacript

I’m going to be using base code for the Compo so I’m sharing it.

It’s not much but it saves me like an hour or so.

http://chezpaingames.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/the-pain-engine/

or

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sp0vb7dq0cq0j2m/PainEnginev3.zip?dl=0

It uses Java and libGDX.