We officially stop development. For now. We simply ran out of time and had to stop.

What we learned:

We learned this the hard way. We just planned too much content and then we didn't manage to implement all of it, leaving us with a game that screams "unfinished" in every corner. Our goal next time will be to focus on simple, yet fun gameplay.

This is also something important. We kind of worked on everything when we felt like it, leaving everything partly finished.

Just... don't stay up for 50 hours straight. It doesn't work.

We are going to upload the unfinished version to the jam. Keep in mind that it had almost three times as much content planned. Overall, it was a great project with alot of fun, we just ran out of time :smile:

(check it out on the new site)

make your own small world in WORLD Paint!

play on itch.io
download for windows
download source

for ludum dare 38, my friend and i created a world painting toy in gamemaker:studio! they made the objects and backgrounds, and i made the UI, all the code, and the music!

the sound FX are from WarioWare: DIY

click and drag objects to build your world, and click the arrows to change the background!

planned (post-mortem) features:

• QR code world saving/loading
• filters
• more backgrounds

have fun!!

screenshots:

Be a robot in a little planet, running away from aliens! Try it out downloading in: https://mattizinho.itch.io/planetary-robot

Game link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$17577

After 2 Compos I finally decided to do a jam - and the kind and talented damagefilter was insane enough to join me. 68 hours and 95 commits later we are finally done with our little creation Small Worlds - Universe Balancing Bureau and we couldn't be happier!

Sounds and shadows, we are almost done.

Already published my game 'FUEL' as a downloadable for windows, but now added a web player version! Feel free to check it out at

https://kdizzle87.itch.io/fuel-web-player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuhS6Nl-Sdg&feature=youtu.be So, uh, basically, you're the blue crystal and you're trying to kill all the red crystals because they're red. You can grab the green crosses to heal.

The game is currently available as a HTML5 WebGL app here. Windows/Mac/Linux builds will be added later. Hope you enjoy it!

Just uploaded the game!

• Entry page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$25605
• Play it: http://renatopp.com/games/small-board
• Post-mortem: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/small-board/development-of-small-board

Do you like travel and kicking things? Then try Luggage Robber.

Our first game, for our first Ludum Dare. Hope you like it ;)

Download Game: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvhj2qmgj8q29lp/My%20Angry%20Little%20Planet.rar?dl=0 Download Source Code: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kolkdt219h2tdzm/My%20Little%20Angry%20Planet%20Source%20Code.zip?dl=0

Opt-outs: Audio/Music

3 hours left, some finishing touches and we are ready to publish. This was the first jam of us and the first time working together as a team. It really worked out and we hope to start a new project together as soon as possible! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUFAnRjNa8

SMANT WORLD is a beautifully placeholdered 48h game about the life of a Queen ant during a happy expedition in a tree full of little berries.

A 3D Incremental game in an "open world" or at least as open as we could make it ^^

Press Space/Enter to pick up berries, go inside the cube and press it again to drop them and earn food to hire ants that work for you!

How far can you get?

Meet 5 Different kind of ants! The Worker ant, The Army ant, the Drone, and the ludicuous Bridge Brigade!

Come play and let us know your best score!!!

I submitted my little jam entry about two brothers trying to find a new home :) Click here to view the game

Find resources in order to survive and escape the island you're trapped on. Let us know your final time! :D

Download starts immediately

Jar download Requires java

I noticed a terrible issue with the controls. I've fixed it now and will reupload the game shortly. Glad I decided to build eary :')

So we are almost complete, last things we gotta do is add the menus, a sound and some descriptions and it should be all good to go. I will discuss more in the post mortem, but its quite a short game, as a number of the puzzles were cut. This game won't die after the Jam, though, so keep watching for updates.

Due to continued lack of time for this LD my game has too much left to do for it to be in a releasable state before the end, so I've decided to call it a day. There is always next time!

Looking forward to trying out the games.

Almost there almost there

First time doing LD here, hopefully it goes well. Only a few hours left :open_mouth:

For my first game jam, this was extremely fun! You can find my rhythm game here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planet-energico And I hope you all enjoy it! Good luck to everyone else who enters!

Exit.. Space Left

is out! Play it till the end... the best part probably :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/exit-space-left

Looks like our asteroid tower defense thing won't be submitted. We bit off more than we could chew with this one and ran out of motivation before the end. Usually a successful game jam project will have a tipping point where you realise the game is coming together and is actually fun and cool. Unfortunately this moment never came for us, since it took too long to get the basics working.

Also, don't do 2D isometric games for a game jam, they're too much of pain to both draw and code.

RIP for now 'Assault on Deimos'. Perhaps we'll finish it off later, I spent too long drawing that asteroid to waste it.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planetdefense

Sorry about that little snag, the game is now playable again!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/keypuppers

So, I still have lots to do and probably won't be able to finish on time, but I'll keep on working...

Here is what I got so far:

https://gfycat.com/FarflungSeveralArcticwolf

I wish I knew how to embed these gifs... Anyway!

The character shoots and shields and jumps and double jumps! Yey!

This is our final entry for LD38, lots of fun, lots of work, very tired, but we are very happy with the result! There are a lot of bugs and we could not implement final boss and many other mechanics, but that was worth it! Hope you like DR. ZORONGO! @zorongo @trini-hc Gameplay gif: https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohze1wdgPiB2w2Vlm/giphy.gif

Enjoy this shit!

It's released into the wild! :)

Enjoy, and let us know what you think!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/kenbor

Yourselves is a puzzle platformer in which your past actions and selves will hinder or further your goals.

More info and download link at : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$26365

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khu6sw7hQMc

We have 9 levels!

Finally we are done. Check it out here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/insekter
Now Zzz.

Even in the tiniest of worlds a poop with a PhD can triumph.

Link/Devlog: http://gamejolt.com/games/drzorongo/251424

Trini Hato: Artist/3D Modeling/Development - https://twitter.com/trinihc

Alejandro Martín - Sound/Music

Iván Moreno: 3D Modeling/Animation/Development - https://twitter.com/ivamorlor

Andrés Rodero: Programming/Development - https://twitter.com/LordPelos // https://twitter.com/aisttirgames (in english)

Made for the #LudumDareGameJam38 #LD38 #LDJAM

...

Those who knew

what was going on here

must make way for

those who know little.

And less than little.

And finally as little as nothing.

In the grass that has overgrown

causes and effects,

someone must be stretched out

blade of grass in his mouth

gazing at the clouds.

__Extrait of BY Wislawa Szymborska

Concept

We want to try to represent two spaces or "worlds" within the interaction of the video game;

The first one is the world of the "text"; If we get a text (like the fiction), the text can create a small world (space) in which the player can play, transform, or compose the words in the same time, to create some new texts, like the stream of consciousness.

The second one is about the world of the hero or protagonist himself in the video game. The tasks we make, the difficult levels that we can figure it out, this fictional world, which means nothings for us, but everything for the protagonist; The game world is belonged to the protagonist or the player? The interaction between the player's subjectivity and the avatar of the Text, which has a interesting force in it.

"Who's the author? " Asked by Michel Foucault.

“Who's the player?” Asking by us.

Control:

W A S D TO MOVE; HOLD THE LEFT BUTTON OF MOUSE TO FIRE;

Group Member

Game Designer: YE Zitao;

Programmer: Kurisu L; art^9 ; Ahikz L;

Art: YE Zitao, Check Pi;

QA: Check Pi;

Tools: ​Unity 5.6; Bxfr; Magicavoxel;

Ludum Dare 39...

Cooperation in distance；​

Link

itch.io : yzitao.itch.io/the-end-and-the-begining （source code）;

We'll update the new version; (/▽╲)

Worked on a lot since the last post so I figured I'd upload a quick post. @cayleblucas worked on our amazing UI:

I also finished making the enemies... They now wander around aimlessly, chase and attack the player. You can kill them with your pickaxe too.

[ X ] Combat system

[ X ] Mining system

[ X ] Crafting system

[ X ] A small world

We're almost there, hoping to upload within the next hour... Just testing and setting everything up!

...

After two weekend days and one after work afternoon our team is finally done... It was a great experience to participate on our first LD JAM and we're looking forward to next one :smile:

And here it is!

Game page

Download page

I have finally finished. How I managed to make a game with an illness, school work and exams crammed in between I will never know. I am not completely happy with the game itself. Not all of the gameplay elements that I wanted were implemented and there are more than a few bugs. But hey, that's Ludum Dare right?

Due to the fact that it is late and I have school tomorrow, I had to rush a quick description, but I will update it asap. If you want to check out my project (I am going to refrain from calling it a game), you can check it out at: https://pixelformedstudios.itch.io/a-very-small-planet or at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$16019

Time for sleep Zzz

Hi!

We've updated Astromike! Now he really crashed his ship, and not a placeholder cube :smile:

Here's a sneak preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30id6bcWQk

Itch.io Page with downloadable links: https://mikea15.itch.io/astromike

Hope you like it!

Using those final hours to try and get some sort of polish. AAaaaaa

I completed my first Ludum Dare project on time and it works :grin: - good luck everyone :slight_smile:

It is done !

After 3 days of hard work my second LD-Game is finished. Can´t wit to get your feedback!

• Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-VDEA8LFgb8dC1JQXpZcUlqREk

Description

This is a top-down fast-paced puzzle game with a bit of a story arc. You’re a guy trying to avoid the evergrowing darkness and complete each level / part of life as fast as possible.

Behind the scenes

Ok so here is my group’s entry for LD38. I originally started with another friend who had to bail out after we had modeled all 3d assets for the game. Infuriated, I decided I’m gonna make a game on my own then. Changing from Unity to GameMaker, I figured out my skills would be adequate enough to create something. I found out later that I’d need some help from my brothers and decided I’m gonna replace the old friends with my bros as my new team members. The soundscape is the only part of the game that we did not create ourselves. Everything is credited according to CC rules in the credits though. I digressed from the theme a bit, but I still claim the game is about a small world, since the world of the protagonist is shrinking step by step and he’s fighting against that change.

The .exe download file for Windows

Tags: walls closing darkness mental puzzle action topdown pixelart mom dad beard highscore light small world depression shrinking

It's hard to hide when the world appears small! Help G'zilla on the journey to find the perfect hiding place!

This is a side-scrolling platform shooter sort of deal, where you have to avoid search helicopters and tackle military strikes once you're detected!

::CONTROLLS - A and D to move left and right. - W and S to hide behind obstacles. - SPACE to jump. - LEFT MOUSE to shoot laser. - RIGHT MOUSE to shoot fire. - ESC to close app.

::HINTS - The higher your heat, the more enemies will spawn once you're detected! - Heat will rise higher if you use much fire, try to pass obstacles by jumping! - Shooting search helicopters generates heat, try hiding instead!

::DOWNLOAD LINK - Windows: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kizdki67zqw3l9i/RogueZilla.exe?dl=0

And that concludes my first Ludum Dare! :D It's been fun, but seeing as I have to get up to go to work soon I better catch some shuteye.

Good night!

Play our game in:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$18182

So 3 hours ago I came home from school to find out that my pc just wont start for some reason! And now I have an almost finished game with only a pause menu to make and a reward system to finish on the pc that I can't turn on... I needed like an hour maybe for that and then I could have just crunched out the levels... But because it wont start I guess my first Ludum dare entry will have to be in 4 months 😏

Cutting it close! 3 hours left, we need 3 more coding puzzles and an ending scene! w/@paste0x78 #trustmeitfitsthetheme

We would like to have finished, but we decided on an idea that was too large for the allotted timeframe. In the end, I learned a lot about working in a team (and leading one at that), as well as learning how difficult it can be to really create a game, especially if you think too big. It was fun and an awesome learning experience, but sadly, we're withdrawing from the jam.

Our entry is up!

I'm quite happy - I think we've managed a decent attempt at a match 3. Also the code isn't as complete a mess as is usually the case with our jam entries, so we could take this project and run with it to get something published for the first time.

did not have too much time this weekend (real life... yuk) but i got something done!

enjoy SGFactory

Suds of War has now been submitted. Feel free to take a look at it here.

This is my second attempt at LD38, and I've got to say, I really like how it turned out!

You control a tiny circle in a small planet, that is constantly shrinking. You have to kill some enemies for the world to grow a bit, but when you do, the world shrinks faster. You can play the game here. Have fun!

Here's a gif of the whole game. It's too big for the website to handle, so you'll have to go to the link yourself. :shrug:

Here is my personal Post-Mortem about our game. - You can find it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$20912

The theme was kind of "meh" so .... yeah. At the beginning I liked our game idea. In the middle I hated it absolutly and today, on the last day I had a positive feeling. I learned a lot, I had a lot of "practice" in creating pixelart stuff. And the game IDEA was really good in my head.

But at the end we had to cut off a lot of ideas. So there is just the real main mechanic in the game. We had a few graphical issues do deal with, but we didnt get into it. So there're graphical glitches in the game which is frustrating. But yeah ... There is the finished game with his main mechanic. Which means everything is ok at the end.

What was good: - timemanagment - finalized the main gameplay feature idea really quick - (for us) content creation was good and fast - there is music in there :D - teamwork was fantastic (as always I want to say) - we gained a lot of new experience

What went wrong: - inital game idea was to big / to much - underestimated the bunch of graphical content - graphical quality in general - there is no sound-effect :(

Overall: - we have to gain more experience about graphics overall (pixelart / shader stuff / button creation / maybe modelling etc.) - there're some topics in Unity to learn more about - that was the wrong type of game for us. We need more "german-typical" games :D - leveltransitions - next time we want some soundeffects in the game - hopefully a better theme (lol - why is he hoping for something like that :'D ) - get into particle-effects in Unity

And the main-overall-point-thingy-thing: Ludum Dare is always a bunch of fun. See you next time :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$25583

That is all.

Was able to get a little update pushed out that put in a bit more content (two more disaster types) and of course a few tweaks. The game is far from perfect, it's amazing how quickly things get very complicated when you go down the simulation route (even a silly simulation). I'm just happy it turned out to be playable at all!

Check out the game

I submitted my little jam entry about two brothers trying to find a new home

Click here to view the game (over on LDJam.com)

Our project is done. Game Page here

Thanks for @veksell fairy graphics and @lewislepton magic music

It is finally finished! Yayyy! And of course with minimal bug testing... :stuckouttonguewinkingeye:

*The game can be downloaded here: https://ebbasuke.itch.io/carcinogenocide *

I'm pretty pleased with the art, and the game runs pretty ok. We'll probably try to get a web-version to work as well, and fix some minor bugs, if we have the energy.

I spent this day mostly painting the main menu illustration (above), it took about eight hours. Then I did some UI art and made a death animation for the player character (though it doesn't show that well). Oh! I also made some sound effects, but not all of them made it to the game. :cry:

But, I'm glad we finished the game without big stress. :relaxed:

Our LudumDare38 submission is finished and ready to play. Check it out!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$26179

Check it out and have some fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWbaFaPGXA

It would be cool if you'd stop by! :) https://www.twitch.tv/pixel_maniacs

I'm finally done :D https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$15463

Link to my game: https://kyrv19.itch.io/orbitz

We decided to make a multiplayer game again... silly but fun. "Squadaloo World Cup"

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$21034

I finally finished my game. You can find it here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$20251

It was interesting, my first own game is done. I hope you'll enjoy it !

Thanks for the event :D

And I'm asking for help, because I can't figure it out in this mental state. I posted about it here: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1344984/linerendered-raycast-not-matching-over-distance.html

What's going on? Why are my lines and rays not matching up?

(or at least save the link somewhere so you can play and rate it once judging starts)

My game "Planet Q" is finished and uploaded at this link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planet-q Please enjoy and if you play it, don't forget to come back after judging starts to give a rating! I worked really hard (and by really hard I mean kinda hard) on this project and am hoping to get as positive a response as my previous games, although I feel like this game may have fallen a bit short. It is fun (according to my amazing play testers: my parents :clap: ) but I feel like it might be just a little bit all over the place. I didn't organize my ideas thoroughly enough so I ended up making the world first, then trying to figure out a genre, then actually building the dialogue and puzzles, and then the end of the game. I didn't really decide on the tone of my game until near the end, so it might seem a little off. Tell me what you think, though. I enjoyed making it no matter how it turned out, and I think the controls are certainly more approvable than those of my first two games (and maybe the one previous to this). Kinda sad that it's over, as usual. To be honest, I could do game jams every weekend and not get tired of it for at least a couple months.

Published WOOOOOOO!!!

So tired!

Hi guys!! Here is Asterorush, a mashup between PONG and GRAVITATIONAL ATTRACTION. Play as a planet, and try to score by using gravitational pull in order to send an asteroid in the opposite camp!

You can play it with a friend or alone against our super AI! We'll try to update it ASAP!! Now zzzzz!!

Congrats to everyone!

PLAY IT NOW ( -> you can check controls on OUR PAGE)

WEB VERSION

WINDOWS VERSION

So excited!

Check it - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/les-petites-planetes

the game is almost ready

My Ludum Dare 38 submission is ready to play! Check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/micro-versus

I was only able to spend about 24 hours on it over the last couple of days. Despite the time constraints I'm pretty happy with how it turned out -- although it is a very short game and it would have been nice to create more levels, types of enemies, and that sort of stuff to flesh it out more. Hopefully I'll have less going on during the next one.

Phew! Finally saying I'm done. It's been my first LD and I've had so much fun (even if I wasn't able to put in my 100%, god damn exams) I achieved more than I ever imagined though and had a load of fun learning the Pico-8 engine, which I highly recommend to new game developers.

Check out my LD game page and play it over on the Pico-8 site

Well this certainly was an experience! Made a fun little runner game!

Smiley's big adventure!

-> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$23150

I finished it last night, and posted Last night. Was my first jam ever, hope you guys like it. But I'm new to the site so I think this is how to get it to show on the main page. How do I get pictures to show?

Got a WebGL version up now, picture uploader isn't working for me sadly.

WebGL :

http://www.littleraingames.com/WebGL/LudumDare38Compo_Bound-WebGL/index.html

My Game:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$18119

Pictures:

https://s13.postimg.org/uqc3js3c7/ld38-bound_firstlevel.png

https://s13.postimg.org/i7vi376cn/ld38-bound.png

https://s13.postimg.org/4fh37kfl3/ld38-bound_circlekid.png

https://s13.postimg.org/izy62eajr/ld38-bound_deathstar.png

https://s13.postimg.org/etdbn2axz/ld38-bound_gameover.png

https://s13.postimg.org/g9ou57duv/ld38-boundMainMenu.png

https://s13.postimg.org/trvqhhq07/ld38-boundMainMenu-difficulty.png

https://s13.postimg.org/fll1jdlgn/ld38-bound_UI.png

Superbugs is a puzzle game, set in the small world of microscopic viruses. It's simple to play - drag and drop coloured drugs onto a grid of cells to treat the viruses. Some viruses are tougher than others and need a combination of two drugs, but be careful not to expose any cell to all three drugs!

Check the game out at ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$16885 - there's a web version, along with downloads for Windows, MacOS and Linux. This is our first attempt at a game jam, so we'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions :-)

Just finished off my first Ludum Dare and had a heap of fun and learned a lot. Didn't quite make it to what I wanted the game to be but I'm happy that I got it this far and to a state which it could be considered done.

It's a puzzle game where you must nurture a planet into life by adding elements from astroids which you can either crash into the planet or fling them away.

Play and read more here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/they-dance-with-asteroids

Well, here goes, this is my first LD! Making a game this quickly is pretty tough, turns out. Having to cut a lot of corners to make sure I have something playable ready in 2 hours.

Derived from AngryTool's gradient generator

Our game is now 'published!' :tada:

Play it online now!!

(Ouch, it's midnight.) I've got my awesome american/canadian friends to continue to add levels to WRAP right up until the deadline in two hours, so you may want to wait until that time to play/judge it, but whatever.

The game is on Github: https://github.com/coolandgood/game
Anyone is welcome to suggest changes, give feedback, etc. Hell, make a level using Tiled if you want!

I am finally done (well not done, so much more could be done...) but, it is time to submit the game to your judgement ^^ ~~how do I into knowing how to link to the game~~ ah, here it is: - Game entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$17502 - Play on itch.io: https://littledaimon.itch.io/shepherdsaga