The last days of voting is upon us and we would love to hear more of your feedback! We currently have plans set in place to develop the application for the iOS and the Android platform with additional functionality in place.
Rate us here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/retro-rabbit
Also, if you would like to hear feedback from us, leave us a comment and we'll be sure to take a look at your submission as well :)
This is really tiny, but very well executed. The developer did a great job and I highly recommend just messing with it for a couple minutes and dropping them a line: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/picotroid
Hey everyone. After a lot of efforts I finally got enough votes on my game, thanks to the community. But as we are in the final moments of voting, I would request you all to just once try out my game if you haven't and give your reviews about it. This is my first LD, so every review seems precious to me 😅
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/last-breath
Thanks a lot everyone.
Hi developers, I'm inviting you to play and review my game
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/little-wild-invasion
Thank you! :)
Chalk Run is really well built, with a fantastic character controller, and a slick, well tested concept. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/chalk-run
Why not release that desire with some Island fps?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/destructo-island
Hey guys! Please check our game on and give us a rate.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/chick-and-giant
Since it's our first jam, we sincerly hope to see the final result that comes to this game. Please give us rate. Thank you!
Hi folks,
just found a little entry in danger to not make it to 20 votes, but it deserves it! Try out this addictive, well crafted 3D puzzle game and try to get those 100 Stardusts :smile:
LD Page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/stellar-twist
Hope you like it as much as i do :smile:
The main objective of the game is to keep an ecosystem in equilibrium using GUN, LIGHTNING and METEOR.
So basically there is 3 species in the game which is the Slimes, Rabbits and the Rhinos. If one of the three species’s became extinct then it’s game over.
Comment down your game and I will play it and rate it.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/statera
Enjoy difficult games? Check out the updated version of ATLANTIS!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/atlantis
We'd love your feedback!
Hi fellow jammers. This is my first time participating Ludum Dare and I have enjoyed it so far!
We had trouble with the theme and even had to change the idea in the middle of the jam. We ended up making "Jar of Life"
The idea of the game is to try to make the ecosystem inside the jar last as long as possible. We aimed for relaxing nature like atmosphere. We hope to continue the game maybe in the future in to mobile version.
Please rate it and keep making those games! Very inspiring!
Could someone please provide a link or explain how the scoring works? This is my first LD and I don't really know all the classic and smart stuff. Also, it says "you need 20 votes per category to get a score". Does that mean I need 20 votes in every category? If someone should please explain this, highly appreciated.
hey guyzz ... i think this might be the last chance to get some more ratings .... so please do give your reviews and ratings ... as this was my first ld game .. your reviews may help me i future to create more proper games.
And i also knw that there are still many game how havent got 20 ratings yet .. so guyzz do comment your game link and i will surely rate them asap.
Do try my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/sunken-mystery
it's been a real enjoyment partecipating this edition of ludum dare
even more entertaining was to read and see people loving the game so much
these are some gameplays of my game I've found out on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekGMbpHGKUE my game gameplay starts at 31:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MoYhEe29H0 this might have had some problem with chrome version and webGl cause it plays without all the effects (pixellation, shirt colors etc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4f2GbMf9VQ this was very funny cause he put a lot of efforts in it and finally manage to win the cup!
if you haven't already PLAY IT NOW! and leave a rate and a comment if you like
I won't get a chance to play any more games now before the competition ends, so I just wanted to say a massive THANK YOU! to everyone who played 'Fuel' and gave me such invaluable feedback, and another thank you to everyone who participated; I have had an absolute blast playing so many fun, innovative and exciting games this LD.
Well done everyone!!
Last chance to rate if anyone wants to check out Fuel at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/fuel
Thanks again everyone!
I enjoyed making my 2nd entry to LD and I hope you enjoy it when you play it! I'm short of ratings, please play my game!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/strategic-survival
Hi guys ! I would be sooo grateful if some of you could give me some rates (and maybe feedback for the more courageous of you) in order to make Escapist! have a score.
As it is my first Jam (alone, and as a dev), I think it could be great to know what final score I can get with this little game :)
Cheers ! Quack Quack
Few weeks ago, I again participated in Ludum Dare and yet again in a team. There were actually three of us and we created the game in 72 hours for 'Compo' category. Some time passed and it is finally time to write a post-mortem.
Before going further, I'd like to point everyone out to the game and a walk-through video for it. The game is still available at:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/run-u-fool
And you can view the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrDnc1dAq_c
Let me start with short overview of how it went, for me this was actually already 4th Ludum Dare if I'm not mistaken, and 2nd Ludum Dare in a team. The routine is fairly similar each time, we spend afternoon of the Friday discussing what could be made for each possible theme (as in Europe the time theme is shown is during our night hours), then going for sleep as we start working on the game early in the morning.
Originally we have planned a game with small planet or planets, but as we saw multiple people going for the same topic on Twitter, we decided to go different way. The concept originally was based on world getting smaller, while the player's goal was to run away to reach the next level, ultimately reaching another world and saving himself.
Separating tasks between each other, while giving others insight every now and then. It all ended up so well, that everyone of us knew what we're doing and what we're going to do. The idea behind the game was a lot more simple compared to our previous Ludum Dare, where the game we mapped on theme was quite complex.
Also having an in-game tutorial this time was definitely a plus. It gave a player perfect idea of how to progress through game, we haven't received any feedback in sense that: players had no idea what to do. Which is definitely a success.
Technical execution of the game. I'm quite proud to what we have created technically within those 72 hours, as all art assets - models, textures, shaders & effects were done in that time frame. I even decided to put few selected effects as appendix into this "post mortem" to explain how we did it to other fellow participants.
As each competition, time planning. No matter how hard you try - it will always go wrong. While all of us were mostly free on Saturday and Sunday, I was the only one finishing the game on Monday (with help of one another guy, who helped me with some final testing). The rest of the team had to be at work, and I took few hours off, to wrap everything up.
Main menu. That part of the game is definitely the one that is the least complete, with just few text-buttons to start levels. Nothing really interesting goes on there, and sadly we had no time to think off and create some art for it. Yet, it serves its purpose and has all the functionality we needed.
Build for website (e.g. WebGL). I already knew that browser builds are slow, after all I've worked with browser rendering through WebGL in past as a job. That was about 3 or maybe 4 years back. That was on a custom-built engine (mainly for rendering) which was faster than Unity in comparison ... since then browsers didn't really move a lot. They are still way too slow to compete with desktop based applications (even the ones running on .NET beat them in order of magnitudes of speed). The solution? Reduced effects, reduced physics, shatters have about 1/10th of objects and it is still several times slower compared to desktop build on the same machine (and I'm talking about testing rigs with Ryzen 1700 + Radeon Rx 480 or Core i7 + GeForce 1070 ... on neither of those it was smooth in WebGL build).
Those were few of my basic points. All in all, I really enjoyed Ludum Dare and hopefully I'll participate also in the next one. It may be as a team, or solo. Which is still unknown, as the next one happens during the summer and I fear that some of us might be out for holiday at the time.
For those of you, who participated in Ludum Dare or are generally interested in what few effects we put out - with little details and/or description, please read the following sections. For the rest, I hope you enjoyed the game, and feel free to share any thoughts you have about the game (or anything you have in mind).
Once we came up with and idea of the game, it was obvious we need some kind of blocking feature in the way. Such item was a force field. The first model I created was a gate to hold force field, as I was against just putting up a plane with some effect. The basic model looks like this:
Which followed by adding materials, by adding color, metallic and roughness I achieved the final effect for gate that holds the force field:
Now the final effect, done by simply rolling multiple textures one over another - changing intensity and using some random rolled texture as offset. The final animation is in there, although in my opinion it can't be noticed unless somebody really looks at the force field. The last part was lighting itself, which is done with multiple point lights to simulate the effect of area lighting from the actual force field. The final look:
And also a video of effect in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5fe1u-x7E0
As the development of the game progressed on, we realized, that the player can go through the levels without too much effort. So the idea was to block his progress through the game somehow. I spent some time adding some rigid body objects, but those were not enough to block the player.
You can literally go around, or just knock them. Which brought me to the idea, what about some chains that would slow you down. The chains had to react based on the physics of course, and as objects have mass - when you push them it will slow down your speed. But visually they have to behave as 'rope'.
At this point there was no time to write some advanced 'rope physics' from scratch with a lot of parameters. So I've settled with simple idea, use few rings in chain as a rigid body and add hinge joints in between the nodes. The result was this:
And here it is in action, I was surprised how good it looks in movement - so I didn't really touch it anymore. It did its purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9EmuW-ACsw
Once our idea for the game was settled, I noted that we do need to have some special effect for floor falling apart. The idea behind everything was to use a 'Voronoi shatter' technique to break down the floor. So I've prepared whole floor model and the one with dozens of objects in which floor shatters.
First idea was to just let it 'explode' downwards, but it didn't look really good. What we did in the end is, that once floor tile was determined to be destroyed, the whole object got disabled, while shatter one was enabled. Each single voronoi cell had rigid body assigned, but without gravity applied and kinematic flag set to true. Along with that we added a random timeout at which the cell gravity was re-enabled and stopped being kinematic only.
By cleverly playing with parameters we ended up with acceptable animation looking like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tme4Ayndul4
