After 1 hour of thinking and brainstrom this is the result: https://youtu.be/dzKSnuvwkYY

Now it's 00:51 AM and i need to sleep and wake up early tomorrow to work better

Good luck to those who will stay awake

Already having a difficult time coming up with something to fit the theme... We'll sleep on it for now, hopefully we'll dream of some good idea??

Good morning everyone! My alarm rang at 05:30 AM here (look at what you do to me… you cruel monsters) in germany even though the official event start was at 03:00 AM – but a man got to sleep. So now I start! I went shopping yesterday and got some energy drinks, frozen pizza, cereal and chewing gum which means that I’m off to a fucking (is it allowed to swear on this platform?) fantastic weekend! Good luck everyone – Anudin

Wow, it's always a bit disconcerting waking up in the morning in Germany to see other people well along the way with their game and already heading to sweet sleep after some busy hours.

Small World, not my favorite theme, but let's get crackin' :)

This is my 7th jam and I'm teaming up with an awesome group of devs to make a cooky fun game! :D

I am excited to be participating in this!

Not sure what else to say for now. Stay tuned :)

Hello! I'm an artist making my first real game WIth a friend. I wish all of you good luck and a fun time making your games! Hopefully you will enjoy the game me and my team are gonna make.

            Hugs and kisses 
                      Gabriel

We realized we aimed a little high here, well at least we realized on that fact fast and we are going to low the expectatives and will keep trying to finish it!

So, the deal is that you are limmited by the space you have. All you know is that you are in a underground bunker and that you take damage as soon as you get too far away from the light.

The good thing: you are a engineer! You can build light sources! The bad thing: energy and resources are limited by your environment. Use them wisely!

Image: http://puu.sh/vsbQS/b791325f68.png

Well, it came down to a choice between an epic goldfish battler and a city building puzzler. I went for the city builder, but part of me will always regret not building a boss battle against a beta fish...

I'm relatively happy with my concept, but I've never built a spatial puzzle like this before, so that should be interesting. Hopefully it turns out fun. It's worth a try at least.

Now, to sleep on my design decisions and wake up tomorrow with a great idea how to implement this concept.

Good night everyone.

I have an idea about a game that tries to show you that even small worlds are important, I don't know any details yet tho.

I decided to stream my progress for now, may take a few breaks from it, or even completely abandon it, but it seems that being watched keeps you motivated.

https://www.twitch.tv/punga3

For now I am doing basic graphics, tiles, and simple two-frame animation and later this morning I will be composing some music for it all.

I hope to have all this done maybe before 10 AM because I would like to get to coding by then.

Here is what I got so far:https://twitter.com/natyotaku98/status/855631246663307265 Health bar, and character jump, duck, walk and idle. :) WIP#2: https://twitter.com/natyotaku98/status/855671701371224065

WIP#3:https://twitter.com/natyotaku98/status/855909998853009408 WIP#4: Main Menu https://twitter.com/natyotaku98/status/856040051012235264

So I'm not sure what I wanna do for sure, but for now I've made a little thing where you are the god of your own small world. I'm thinking you'll be able to build things in it, but idk where the gameplay should come from. It's inhabited by this little guy named Jorne, maybe I'll do like an "Interactive Buddy" thing where you can build dangerous terrain around Jorne and send enemies at them? screenshot

https://github.com/heartles/ld38/releases/tag/v0.1-beta

At least I might be. The instructions are vague.

Yay, really stoked! Lets get started

Very first time joining Ludum Dare, excited!

http://imgur.com/a/zRi9h

I realized that I have to add something the player can interact with for this to be considered a 'game'...

Hello everyone, I just joined the compo now! Good luck for us all!

Yes! The excitement of moving out of college! Except that I must do this LD, because I enjoy suffering. So yeah, I'll make something during this weekend, while packing and moving my shit out of the dorm.

Wish me luck.

PROGRESS SO FAR: Player Movement-Done. simple AI that follows player-Done. Simple Particle Effects-Done. Lot More To Do. Hoping to finish in time;). Unlike last time where i had a huge idea that i could not finish.

6 AM in the Netherlands, great time to wake up and start making a game for the compo! Not really my favorite theme, but I should be able to come up with something nice... probably. For now my idea would be to make a god game/city builder (in a small world of course), but I see lots of people have the same idea too. So maybe I'll do something else, just not sure what. First time doing Ludum Dare, by the way, so I'm excited to see what I'll be able to create.

Unity and a 2d game. Or maybe not. :)

A short description of the idea (and the title card!)

http://crocojim18.tumblr.com/post/159850240138/42117-thing-a-day-1085-ludum-dare-38-today-is

I planned out my whole weekend to prepare for the jam. AKA: Spent zero time preparing!

Managed to come up with a game idea at dinner though! (very related) so that's nice.

Smash that follow button @Zambini845

Imgur Image Collection: http://imgur.com/a/tXDdB

Material for Bringing Twitch Cheers into UE4

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Destructible terrain, camera shake and bloom :D

https://twitter.com/theChief/status/855634854880399362

Have a pretty good idea for "A Small World" now. Going to sketch out some wireframes, and then get to coding in Defold.

Hope I can make something that runs.

It's not much yet, but I have a hello world live for my Small World entry. http://www.indiepig.com/games/LD38/

The game is running using a framework I wrote called AcornUI, in a little known language called Kotlin. The spermatozoa was created with a weighted mesh in Spine, so I can programmatically control its tail. That will hopefully give me more fluidity in animating turns and the like. The game itself will be pretty simple: fight for survival amongst your millions of brethren rivals. I don't plan on staying up late tonight, so I'll keep posting tomorrow!

Making a small game for a small world! :D

So my initial thoughts are to have the player start out in a traditional 2D space (platformer / top-down, unsure) and have colliding with an enemy enter a 3D space generated from their pixel art... probably too big an idea for 2 days, might keep trying to think of something more doable

A little late I suppose, I forgot that its customary to declare. I'll be doing the Jam so that I can rope my friends into helping a little. Its really about the experience after all.

I'll be using Unity and sfxr and....probably gimp.

Been improvising something, not really sure where its going at all! We'll see... http://imgur.com/xVQ519U (placeholder art warning, arooga arooga) You reveal more of a little world as you touch the darkness. Collect coins sometimes. Sometimes you find big squares. It has the rough shape of a game but its not there yet, we'll see if inspiration strikes after a bit of sleep!

First ludum dare! Wish me luck

Finally off work and bolstered by a crude idea, my work can begin.

My first Game Jam, hope it will be fun !

No good idea yet but I should find one soon.

A few hours in, I have a really good idea, going for a 2d rpg turn based game. Story based, probably with a good ending. However, It does seem quite ambitious, but I'm sure I can do it!

ADVICE:

Once the game mechanics are done and done properly, the story should fall in easy.

After spending 45 minutes trying to figure out what game I wanted to make, I finally got started coding. I'm going with a simple DOOM style FPS with hand painted 2D sprites for the enemies and items in the game. So far I have the map being read from a file and the walls, ceilings and floor are being generated. I'm having a hard time focusing now, so it's time to sleep. I'm excited to continue working on this bright and early in the morning.

http://i.imgur.com/IndZQxr.gifv

My first time participating! :D

I'm testing out an art style to see if I'll be able to stay consistent with it. :P

http://i.imgur.com/fYbgTkG.png

Let's go!

I'm gonna make an 'evil' one who wants to rule this small world. I'm talking about my cat, my master who named Doggy. Yes, you see it. Doggy.

My home is just a tiny room in this massive universe, but it's the whole world of Doggy. I can actually feel that she wants to rule this world every single day, by whatever method she can think of. I'm gonna give her this game humbly as a preset, making her the ruler of the world.

It's a small but unpeaceful world.:stuckouttongueclosedeyes:

Alright, it seems like making a round little planet game was a little too obvious, but I’ll stick to that idea anyway.

I want it to be an exploration based game with a day and night cycle of actual celestial bodies moving around the planet. You have to find items to explore further. Let’s see how far I can take this concept. I hope it’s not too ambitious for 48 hours.

First time jammer here, this will be fun!

Good Morning from Finland :)

What's the theme?

Let's go

http://ludumdare.com/compo/2017/04/21/progress-577/

My first Ludum Dare)

Yet another first timer, here goes nothing...

Not going for crazy innovative gameplay this time, trying a different angle :-)

http://imgur.com/tH1Vzfy

Got some stuff down. My idea looks great, hopefully I'm still energetic about it in the morning.

First time my friend and I are entering Ludum Dare and we're very excited!

6:40, just got out of the shower, and ready to start coding. I had an Alarm at 3:04 am to see the Theme, and already came up with a reasonable idea. It doesn't have to much art, so I should be good. But since this is my first ludumdare I can't judge if it will be doable. Let's hope for the best...

I'm in, and I'll be using a language I've never used before: Go. So I'm using a language I don't know, with an engine I don't know (I'll either use raylib-go or Ebiten, depending on which is easier to setup/use), and I've got a few other commitments this weekend...what could possibly go wrong?

Came up with a corny concept and a general idea of the game’s design. Time to sleep on it and think over it a little more.

So unfortunately I can't go all out on this, my first Ludum Dare, and I guess it's a good thing the theme is a small world. But I think one of the biggest things I want to push for in this is that there can be a lot to do in a small world.

10 Wonderful Tips For Surviving Ludum Dare, I hope you find it useful!! http://pointbleepstudios.net/posts/WonderfulTipsLD.md/

I'm in! But I'm definitely struggling with coming up with something unique for the theme. Hopefully will have a solid idea before going to bed tonight.

twitter account: https://twitter.com/doppelgunner

So the moment I read about the theme, I instantly had an idea, I used to play with my brother that our room was a city, and our toys where citizens. So I thought that the room, should be the map of the world, and then the different parts of it would be the puzzles/levels. Lets see how it goes!

http://imgur.com/euAzlXK

Alright, off to grab some food.

The first Ludum Dare where I didn’t plan out everything in detail but just rolled with it. Feels good!

Graphics are pretty much placeholders and most game mechanics are still missing. I want this to be about exploration, so let’s see what I’ll come up with.

After a few hours of floundering (ha!), I've finally come up with my idea.

So to a fish living in a fishbowl, the bowl is their whole world, right? What happens when the fish leaves the fishbowl?? What happens when the fish leaves the fishbowl via jetpack??

So that's my game. Fish gets a jetpack and leaves their tiny fishbowl to try to escape to the ocean.

So, another Ludum Dare is upon us. Haven't had much time to prepare for this one, mainly due to my job taking up all the available time.
But damn it if I'm not going to at least try to get something small done.

Been writing up a small framework over the course of the week, this time built around multiplayer as a core, so going to try and figure something out that can be played over the network.
Not going to have much free time during the weekend either, but hopefully I can spend at least ten hours on something.

The best of luck to all you other guys though, hopefully you'll end up with more time to build your masterpieces.

http://imgur.com/5NphZne

I've decided I'm gonna make some kind of physics puzzle game about balancing stuff on top of a tiny disc-shaped world. You play as a giant (normal-sized?) god, and you push stuff around on top of the disc to try and keep it from tipping over. Animals will reproduce, forests will grow, towns will spread. Mountains and stuff will get in your way when you're pushing.

Anyways, I got the basic movement stuff working and a proof-of-concept for the balance system.

http://i.imgur.com/jcQfUND.gif

Still working on the name.

things are going ok. Just ok im having some problems but im planning on doing a unique idea unlike some peoples 'fish bowl' or 'table' like ideas its going to be unique. Im hoping this isnt too much and I wont have it ready for the end of the Jam. Im doing the Jam not the Compo so we shall see.

watch the video in twitter:

https://twitter.com/doppelgunner/status/855648143970521088

Progress so far: speech fade out, scale out#ludumdare #LudumDare38 #LDJAM #unity3d #Unity pic.twitter.com/byOz9UgiFM

— doppelgunner (@doppelgunner) April 22, 2017

Have finished a couple of animations for the character as well as getting him to move around.

I recorded a .gif here.

After spending 3 hours contemplating not participating because we couldn't think of an idea for the theme we finally have progress :smile:

https://i.gyazo.com/6ad039fbcf91931b6ca5bfd6fea260b3.mp4

Things are starting to work!

We already have a little red planet. https://gfycat.com/WideAnimatedCowbird

First Ludum Dare for me and my teammate but we're chugging away at a fun little idea.

I'm excited to game jam with my friend Fennesz :)

Long story short, i had more ideas for "One tool, many uses" , but i can do with this theme too.

Yeah, I'm in.

Life is hard when you are a subatomic particle. In this game you are a subatomic particle. Your life is hard.

I've been playing a bit with this idea. I'm trying to incorporate the different mechanics I posted earlier into the game. Initially I'm adding a way to show the uncertainty of position. The faster you go the fainter you are.

Again, I'm not aiming to be physically correct at all :D

I don’t know what I am doing, but I am having fun so I guess I am doing it right? http://i.imgur.com/qtX4gX3.gif

This is my first ludum dare, so I'm excited. Basically, I'll make an RTS "God-mode-protect-ur-subjects-from-monsters" game. For me, even completing the game would be a big achievement.

Wooohooo!

LET'S MAKE SOME GEIMS!

After about 2 hours I've finally got my game idea - and what's more, I think I may even be able to finish the game in time!

A Small (Post-ApoC) World

You play as a military commander and have to save the world - a la missile command style. You can move the screen left and right and the world under you rotates. There will also be some small resource management like the Kingdoms games, sending drones out and getting people to do work.

Let's see how far I get this time ..

Good Luck!

Wow! My first LD has been exciting! So, I took the theme and decided on a small-scale space survival game with tower defense. Game work is so different when you know exactly what you're trying to do! It feels harder in a different way, and like it's doing more! Good luck and good night, everyone!

I've actually been in for a while, but I've only just noticed I'm supposed to do this!

Yet another first timer for Ludum Dare. Seems to be quite a lot of us...

...I've been in for a while.

Ready for this ludum dare ! Good luck all :)

This is sort of a test, starting now. Good luck everyone!

I'm in for the first time. Already lost a few hours due to time zones and will now lose another 4 hours because of work. But no excuses, It will be fun to see what I can get done. Will use Unity and Photoshop. Let's go.

Let's go!

...though I don't know if it'll be an actual game when I'm done. I'm hoping to get something working with Vulkan, but that means a lot of boiler-plate work before you can do any rendering - plus I'm flying from the US to the UK tomorrow.

Aiming to get a little animated/spinning planet, will see how much I get working graphically and then worry about gameplay.

Oh, and I'm using C#/Vulkan, with maybe some GIMP/bfxr/Abundant Music.

Good morning from London, UK. I've just woken up and I haven't finished my coffee yet, but I have started! Currently sat with a notepad brainstorming some ideas.

Seems like my game will be about Christopher Columbus. I think I am onto something here!

First Time Ludum Dare. Tools: Unity, May be Photoshop.

Weeee!

http://ludumdare.com/compo/2017/04/22/after-a-tumultuous-first-night-some-actual-progress/

Still can't upload gifs, so...

So, I remembered that the biggest problem I've had with doing an LD is that I cannot art. Seriously, my daughter asked to be the hero of my game and this is what I drew:

https://twitter.com/ViridianGames/status/855602622744711168/photo/1

But my daughter can art! She can art real good! So we're in together, doing the Jam!

It's 7 o'clock in Denmark and we just woke up. This time I'll be jamming with my girlfriend, which should be interesting. We dont really appreciate the theme, but I'm sure we'll find an interesting angle :).

Good luck out there!

The theme feels known :) I think I have an idea, and it might become a game. Here I go!