So you think one theme just isn’t enough, huh?
Well then, how about a nice game of Theme Bingo?

The rules are simple: when making your game for Ludum Dare, you not only execute whatever theme wins in the final round; you also somehow include the other themes from the card presented above, so that themes used overall form a row, column or diagonal from the big, 9-fields wide square. The side themes don’t need to be followed strongly; as long as they’re alluded to somewhere (and aren’t all listed in one place without any relevance to the game), it counts. If you aren’t feeling *that* confident, you might want to use only the green, 5-fields wide square instead.
(if you plan to play the theme bingo, please let me know; I’ll prioritise your game when playing)

It can also work the other (and likely easier) way – when playing other games, you can try to spot alternate themes usages and check if they collectively form a row, column or diagonal (or a few of these).

Let the randomness commence~!

I’m currently stuck in engine limbo, balancing the pros and cons of each set of tools. I’ll be giving HaxeFlixel a go this time around, though.

Development

FlashDevelop, Haxe, and HaxeFlixel. If nothing seems to be going my way after a few hours, I’ll probably end up rolling my own framework on top of OpenFL.

Graphics

GIMP.

Sounds

Renoise, maybe BFXR in a pinch. WinLAME for transcoding.

I’m in, again. Me and my friend didn’t quite complete our game Wino last time (But its continuing devlog can be found here: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40349.0)

He won’t be participating this time due to other responsibilities, though.

P.S: I’ve got a trick up my sleeve I might be unveiling tomorrow.

assuming I dont need to work 30 hours this weekend like last LD, too lazy to repost but using same tools/engine as my last few LD entries.

Having missed the past Ludum Dare, i feel it is necessary to compete in this one to make up for it.

My Tools will be:

Programming / Engine: Unity 4.55 
Art / GFX: Photoshop / Inkscape / Illustrator
Music: FL Studio

I am normally a Java + LibGDX developer so this will be a first in terms of using Unity in a Game Jam!
Definitely still learning Unity and will be learning my way around the editor quite well over the weekend hopefully!

Good luck to all!

2nd ludum dare.

Engine – Unity

Code – Visual Studio

Art – Photoshop/Illustrator

Sound – SFXR

Models – Blender

Music – IOS Garageband

Super excited to be back at it after a year!

What am I going to use????? I don’t know… never enough time to prepare…

Haxe+HaxeFlixel OR Love2D OR melon.js

(probably)

Then the normal assortment of tools:

bfxr/sfxr, audacity, gimp, inkscape, mapeditor, vim and/or sublime, and whatever else I feel like!

Good luck, have fun!

Oh god. ☃ is winning.

On the one hand… 4000 vaguely Christmassy looking games set snowy world could get a bit exhausting to play.

On the other hand…. well…. I’ve have been coding up a particle engine for Three.JS as part of my own game library. I was even saying I hoped I’d have an excuse to use a load of particle effects… You want snow? I can do snow. You want one hundred thousand snows? I can give you a million snows*.

☃ means ☃, yes, but ☃ is also my density.  Please, vote ☃and make my particle based dreams come true**.

* You may only experience 10,000 snows though, depending on your computer

** Please do not vote for ☃. I will waste a day and a half doing snow effects and then remember I’m meant to be making a game at the very last minute…. again.

Never participated in a competition like this, but I am stoked for sure!

Also was not aware if I had to say I was participating or not. So here is a post.

I am in!

Using Monkey-X again, Fireworks for graphics, autotracker.py for music this time, probably bfxr.net for sounds.

Winter is coming,
the goose is getting fat.
Put another penny in the snow-man’s hat.

Then run, run for your life!

I’m in!

yay!

This will be my first attempt at the Ludum Daré 😉 I’m writing (almost) everything from scratch in Haskell. I have some stub game code to start from that includes opengl bindings, windowing, keyboard, mouse and joystick control. All of that amounts to me being able to control a sprite of a grim reaper using my joystick:

In my toolchain I’m using vim for editing, ghc for compilation, hdevtools for quick error checking, steeloverseer for file watching / automatic recomp, and photoshop for image editing. If all goes well I should have a very minimal game without sound by the end of the weekend. Let’s hope!

Tags: schell

This is my first time getting into a Game Jam like this, and gamedev in general. But since I have a clear weekend, I really have no reason not to join and give it a try.

Going with Flashdevelop using HaxeFlixel. Good luck to everyone!

I’m in for my third Ludum Dare! Compo is the way to go.

This will likely be the final one I use the toolset I used for the last two for – I figure after that I need to move up to something more advanced. Construct 2 is nice, so I may just end up extending it somehow, but it does have somewhat low limits. Definitely have been having fun with Haskell (and managed to write a mixed synchronous/asynchronous game loop with a bit of monadism), so that might be used next time. Next next time.

That snowman.

Hi there Ludum Dare Community!
We are Hellforge – three guys who are new to the ludum dare jam and we cant wait to start!

 Tools we are using:

+ Coffee, RedBull, green tea
+ Pen & Paper
+ Engine – Phaser or Unity
+ Art – Mieshief, Krita, Photoshop, Blender
+ Sound – Hank-NOIZE

We are very exited for this – young, strong and good looking as we are*, we don’t hesitate to make a lot of failure, new experiences, impressions and friends here at ludum dare it will be fun, challenging and sure awkward at some point – but all we do, we do it for the love and the art of making games.

We will stream our process at twitch.tv/hellforgestream at the weekend (GMT)
Its all about the ludum and the dare – and the damn snowman…

Thanks for the read and a happy jam to everyone, take care!

☃

*sure we are good looking! Check the stream if you dont belive it >:)

Tags: hellforge, Ludum Dare, SpreadTheLove

Hi!

I’m  a composer and i’m looking for a team for LD 31! I can write original music for your game and i can write fast.

Currently i’m mostly scoring for real instruments but i can also write computer music.

First and second track were written for a computer. First one is some crazy jazz tune created with a limited set of samples.

Second is quick chiptune-ish and is a good example of what i can write in tight schedule.

Third one is a Vst rendition of a piece written for real instruments. In this case: Synth, Alto saxophone, Clarinet, Contrabassoon, Piccolo Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Electric Organ, Glockenspiel, Piano, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass and Drums. I’m undergraduating in composition and its a good example of some different stuff that i can write!

Fourth one is a big piece also written for a real string orchestra, so it’s not on my profile, it’s only on this playlist. I don’t wat to share it because i’m planning a real recording!

Also, ffith one is some funky-heavy-fusion with lots of stuff.

You can contact me at

[email protected] /* */

Let me know if you have any interesest and show me some of your work

Back in 2011 we three brothers – Aaron (@fu86), Jonas and Ruben (@rubenmueller) – were jamming for the very first time with Ludum Dare and had a heck lot of fun. Time went by, life happened and now – 3 years later – we are back in the game (pun intended) again!

With more programming- and designing-experience in our bag and the deep desire to craft a finished jam-game, we can’t wait to get started tomorrow. We’ll join together at Ruben’s house and jam the whole weekend.

We already decided on using CanvasQuery by the awesome Przemysław Sikorski (Rezoner) – Aaron already set up a very nice programming base, packed with jQuery, CanvasQuery, CoffeeScript, a cool browser-syncronisation and tied it all together with gulp.

That’s it for the tech-mambo-jumbo and our short “WE ARE IN”-post – cheers to all jamming peers!