It seems as though I can rate games now! I'll be going through the games I commented on (I wrote down my ratings for those games beforehand), and then I'll keep checking out more games to rate.

Also, I've released the OST to my team's entry, Terraform. You can get it here:

https://random-storykeeper.bandcamp.com/album/terraform-ost

You can check out the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/terraform . Consider leaving a rating and comment and chances are, I'll check out your game and leave a comment/rating (eventually). :)

In Polyorbis you will compete with red enemies to survive, the longer you survive the harder enemies become.

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

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/ld38-big-dreams

We had so much fun doing this Ludum Dare, and would love to hear some input! It's a platform shooter done in children's toys.

If anyone has games that I can play in a browser, I'd love to play them.

On another note, if you need a place to host, I can do that for the mean time.

And if you would like to try mine, here's the link. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/bound

Join Winston in a journey around the Tiny Galaxy destroying all life he comes across!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/world-destroyer

I've got a lot of comments, but I crave more :grimacing:. I'd also like ratings.

2ND ROUND.

As long as it is on web or windows and under 100 m. I will play it.

Check out my game also:

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

I use Ubuntu 16.04, comment your game that runs on Linux :smile:

Make sure you rate my brainfuck puzzle game HexCity

Happy that finally judging of my first Ludum Dare has started... Rate my game Island Guard. I will rate yours, provided it works on Windows. Thanks!

Hey all! I’m looking to try some of your games! Just comment below with a link (browser games only)!

I’ll try to give you some good feedback! :smile:

All I ask is that you consider checking out and rating my game too! It’s my first game jam game and our team was formed through Reddit :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/no-minor-task-party-of-a-lifetime

(I made a post about this before, and still going through those ones, but the downloadable ones were a bit of a hassle to set up)

I made a game about spiders: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/holy-shit-a-spider

Each time you click on the link, a spider somewhere is save from an evil human.

I'm a master of alliteration.

Comment your game on this post for me to rate it!

If you want to, you can also rate the game we made here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/retro-rabbit

Play my game and I'll play yours: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/lottery-you-judge-them-i-judge-you

Just put your game in the comment and Ill play and rate it as long as it's playable. Also please leave harsh comments on my game page so that I can improve.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=-X_mZQa6t1I

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/room-number

It's a puzzle based on room numbers in a room.

Hope you'll like it.

That's awesome! Here's the review! https://gamejamcurator.tumblr.com/post/160085835026/ludum-dare-38-dungeon-in-a-bottle

Here's the game! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/dungeon-in-a-bottle

Check out my second ludum dare entry, chip's planet defense! It's also my first game made in 3D, and despite having MANY flaws (ignore the character ;) ), i'm still proud of it. Our protagonist, chip, the chipmunk, is trying to save his planet from an alien space ship! Collect enough fuel to refuel your space ship! But beware the fire, trying to make it's way to your house https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/chips-planet-defense Thanks for taking the time to read this! :D

Now that ratings exist, Come play my demo of a game and rate/comment there so I can play yours too!

Play it here!!

Play my game Space Migrator here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-migrator

I've took a day off to play everyone's game, especially who commented and rated mine :)

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

Created in 24 hours!

Play and Rate

You can download the compiled version for Windows as well as the project with source code and assets at itch.io, and vote / leave feedback on the LD 38 project page.

Ludum Dare 38

For one reason or another I’ve never managed to participate in a Ludum Dare before this past weekend (LD 38). Planetary Garden was made under the compo rules (worked alone, created all new assets, finished within 48 hours of starting). However, I got a late start (3 PM Sat) and did not submit in time for the official deadline, so it’s technically a jam entry.

The theme was “a small world”, and I started riffing on various ideas for many connected small worlds: perhaps a platformer on a circular planet or mini golf where you switch worlds. These ideas didn’t quite jell or seemed out of scope considering compo rules, and incremental games have been on my mind as well, so I ended up going in that direction (tho Planetary Golf seems like it has legs, might revisit it in the future).

Art Style

Entering the compo means that you have to make all of your own art and audio (with some very limited exceptions for fonts and brushes/samples, etc… that are suitably transformed). I’m not a particularly good artist, so I went with a watercolor artistic style that let me leverage materials for most of the impact, and created the actual art as simple RGB masks (outer border, inner border/outline, and fill color). I wasn’t going for realism but just something evocative of watercolors, with variations in opacity and splotichiness generated by a couple of noise samples operating in screen space so it looks coherent across objects.

Final Thoughts

I'm pretty happy with the outcome, especially after a few 'ascensions' of playing. If I had more time it would have been nice to perhaps slowly zoom out or adjust the scale as plants are placed (so when there are few each is larger), as right now the art is tiny and the patterns aren't super evident until a lot are planted, but the current impl. still works well with it being a small world. I still need some more practice to tackle the compo again next time, especially RE: learning to do simple music tracks.

so far i tested 10 games(yeah europeans morning) but i am shocked. i found 3 games so far(in this 10) clearly made by a team but marked as compo(i did compo so i rate compos). i dont point out anybody cause i dont know if its mistake or not, but shouldnt happen.

pretty sad for me(missed most of my sleep for ld, could been easier if i would do "team compo").

Finally! * *Play my game "Song of Fungus" here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/song-of-fungus * Puzzle game about mushrooms! Can you beat the 15 levels??

I'll play your games too! Just let me know in the comment.

Hi Everyone!

This was my first Ludum Dare and a fantastic experience.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/sling-ship-search-for-a-small-world

Thoughts

I found coming up with the idea for the game was one of the most challenging parts, and would highly recommend looking at the finalist topics before hand and thinking up some ideas. I had actually started two separate games before settling on Sling Ship. I knew I wanted to push the boundaries of what I had done before (very little) and I had never used physics/ropes before.

I ran out of time before being able to implement a tutorial, or any way to convey the story, within the game. I've seen other submission that do this very well. I also would have loved a better UI, and have since considered removing the timer. Soon after I published I recognized that the sound was very loud as well.

I also spent most of Saturday night installing Android Studio so this game would work on mobile, and this cut into game development time. Would highly recommend sorting this out beforehand as well.

Developing a good learning curve was also difficult. I watched a couple of Twitch streamers play the game (https://www.twitch.tv/drazil100) and (https://www.twitch.tv/jenninexus) and saw them struggle to get past the second level. It's easy to forget that if you're the one designing the game (and practicing all the time) that people might not be as skilled right off the bat. Also, because there's so little instructions I can see where that would get frustrating. I also assumed (falsely) that people would gravitate toward a little higher difficulty, but now I'm not so sure. Perhaps some folks (myself included at times) just want to get in, play for a bit, and get out without being fussed with the challenge. We'll see what the Feedback looks like later this week.

Overall I really enjoyed the Jam, and would come back and do another. I feel proud of this game, and am hoping to flesh it out and eventually release it on the Google Play Store (once I get the appropriate assets, and incorporate feedback). I've been playing it all week, and once you get the hang of it, well, it becomes pretty addictive. I hope you all agree.

Feedback on this game is greatly appreciated (it's my first game, so would love both gameplay/technical suggestions)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/sling-ship-search-for-a-small-world

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

Thanks everyone!

It's finally here!

My game (Daydreaming Island): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/daydreaming-island

It's a short introspective story.

I want to play games too! Just put them in the comments section!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/protoware-planet

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/destruction-zone

Well, this is going to be interesting. This is my first LD, and I'm anxious to see how I do. As others have said, leave a link here if you check out my game and I'll return the favor.

Hey guys, @pov has turned on the ratings, time to start passing around that delicious feedback!

Don't know what to play? Check out LD Feedback Friends, which can show you random games or those most deserving of feedback.

Also, if you like open world exploration games, space sims, or collecting stuff, consider my game Blocknauts! You can catch it at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/blocknauts

K.R.A.B.S. is a local multiplayer game for two people. Do battle for control, become the biggest, defeat your opponent before time runs out!

Play it here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/k-r-a-b-s

Check out my game Pale Blue Dot to see how small our world really is.

Back off from earth and fly through the whole solar system.

Realize how tiny our planet is compared to the cosmos.

But beware of the asteroids!

Enjoy:upside_down:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/ld38-big-dreams

I realized our last plea for plays didn't have a screenshot. :P Anyway, come check out our little platform shooter and use nerf darts as jumping platforms, and use bouncy balls to obliterate armies! I'm heading to bed for the night, but leave your link below and I'll play yours too!

Hey it's me! Someone you've never heard of! I just made my first game! All rating are great even if they are bad.

This is my first Compo, and I'm looking forward to getting some feedback and playing everyone's games!

If you want to play my game, Seven Pillars, you can check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/seven-pillars.

Otherwise, comment a link to your game and I'll make sure to check it out!

Thanks again @pov! I'll be playing a bunch of games tomorrow!

Also if you want to play mine: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/s-p-a-c-e-c-h-u-n-k

If you love puzzles, city builders and pixel art - you should definitely check out our game: Memory:Leak

Hey all! As the rating system is finally up, we wanted to remind you that we exist, and our entry for LD38 is Quantum Catburetor. The game is a trippy, twin-stick bullet hell shmup. Grab your gamepad and play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/quantum-catburetor/

Gamepad highly recommended for the best experience! :cat:

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

If you haven't tried my game KeyPuppers yet please give it a go and rate it! If you already tried it, please rate it anyway :)

Force Of Nature is an island survival, where you play as a god who takes care of survivors. You cannot control the survivors so you need to manipulate the environment to make them do what you want.

Play Force of Nature now

Can't wait to try all of your games! After you have played&rated SkyWays be sure to leave your name/gamename in a Comment so that I can easily find your games.

YOUTUBE link: https://youtu.be/lUqoQTs4RFE

SkyWays is a game inspired by Skyroads with its own twist. Navigate the solar system and find new planets to take on their “Sky HighWays”. Fly into the planets’ rings to begin your stage.

P.S. Be sure to look at the planets map screenshot showing the location of each of the 4 planets!

GLHF:)

YOUTUBE link: https://youtu.be/lUqoQTs4RFE

Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B13g3FsdXQ4MUGp5anQzb20zams?usp=sharing

Yes! It's time to start scoring and rating games and I'm looking forward to a good day of playing everyone's stuff in the morning. I'm always one to rate games as Ludum Dare entries first, games second. I tend to opt for a more constructive approach in my ratings here than I do when reviewing mainsteam games because, to me, this is as much about learning and helping each other improve as anything else. To each his/her own, though - everybody's got their own style.

As for me, I've got some-bunny who'd love some ratings. Try my team's game, Breakout Bunny and see if you can help a rapidly growing rabbit escape his house. We've had some people get badly stuck in the 2nd room, so let me know if this is a problem and if enough people get stuck I'll put a short walk-through for that part on the game page.

Good luck to everyone!

Paper Jam is a completely hand-drawn platform game that takes place entirely inside a single piece of paper:

All graphics were created by hand on a physical page. This game was created with Phaser.js and a ton of paper and scribbling. The audio was created using Nanoloop on the GBA (music) and LSDJ on the original Gameboy (sfx). All you gotta do is find and destroy five targets in the levels, and not die. There’s a prize at the end for you.

Game page and links and things are all here, I'd love to know what you think! :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/paper-jam

Peace! :)

Why not take a nice stroll through a world where carrots and rabbits exist in harmony?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/its-a-small-world-1

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/new-clear-planet
Check it out at that link pls :D
Let me or @blackoptics8 know what you think :D, We are also on twitter as @shubshub11 or @voxeledphoton

Micro Grotto is a puzzle platformer based around the theme "Small World" for Ludum Dare 38. You play as a small cloaked featureless creature that has to traverse a set of 8 small rooms on a small island of stone filled with human objects that act as dangers to find the legend of the village.

Around 60 hours of development time. Would love to hear your opinions and see what you all think!

Check it out here! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$22935

You can download it on it's Itch.io page.

https://twitter.com/xnblank

https://xnblank.itch.io/

You can now go and check out "Alone Together" https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/alone-together

Or check out the development timelapse:

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

Welcome to the YoSILand!

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

Hey there, I hope you are able to play my game and give me some feedback. My game is a top-down shooter. Maybe a bit hard. You need a keyboard and a mouse to play the game.

My Game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/binary-glitch

Would be happy for every feedback and will check your games out too. :D

Help me! Last week a I speed three sleepless days on Ludum dare, with a lot of junk food and soft drinks. That makes my dormitory a garbage dump.

Now I found that I have some * terrible * roommates.

In my game you will control a puppet maid to beat the worms in my dormitory.

Play game

* https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/clean-the-dorm *

Controls

• WASD move
• Space jump
• LeftMouseButton attack
• RightMouseButton block

Screenshots

Ps

This is the first time I take part in Ludum Dare.

Check out In Good Hands: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/in-good-hands

Web Browser, Windows, Mac, and Linux support!

Leave a link to your game in the comments of this post and I will play it and rate it! Have fun!

I'm just here to shill for Rogue Basement. :-)

As many as people are on this planet? Or more? Only one way to find out!

Vote here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/marbleverse

Hi, Now you can play and review my game

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/little-wild-invasion

Thank you!

"You thought, you made a game, and end the LD? You are wrong. Now you are going to write a game for me and hack the ludum dare site! Muha ha ha!"

Vote here!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/trapped-robot

My first Ludum Dare game ever, hope you guys like it.

Hey guys wan't some feedback on my game. This is my first ludum dare so any feedback is welcome. Here's my game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/warpys-world

vote for DLTW! any feedback is welcome!

vote here! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/dltw-dont-let-them-win

I just woke up and because today is May first we here in good old germany dont have to go to work (its a holiday). So what am I going to do with the time I got? I could play some Bloodborne or Mass Effect. Or I could just play hundreds of different games here on Ludum Dare. I think I will stay with that. If you want to check my game out:

4-Hours

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/4-hours

If you want me to play your game leave a comment under my game. I am most likely to find it there.

Just woke up to see that there is rating going on. Time to play some more new games, and rate some favorites! Be sure to check out our game Murder Mitosis, an arena game for 1-4 players (Yes, there's AI in there!)

We have already gotten some very positive and helpful feedback these last few days. Thanks a lot to all those who have already played it, and thank you for going to play and rate it right now! :wink:

Rate Murder Mitosis: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/murder-mitosis

Follow us on Twitter and on YouTube

Here's my game. Since I had the monday off, I did the jam instead of the compo this time, and the extra day helped alot.

I used Unreal Engine 4 this time, and had a great experience with it. I used ZBrush for all the 3D assets, and used their tools for automatic retopology and uvs, so that helped speed things up a bit. Still, making the main character and rigging her took the entire first day.

I'm super happy with how the game turned out, and how much I was able to get in to the game. I hope you like it, and feel free to leave comments.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/the-world-outside

You can now rate my game : Zeus VS Moles

:zap: On the Zeus's planet, a tragic event takes place: a moles invasion. Help this god to beat all these pests.:zap:

:arrowright:PLAY AND RATE:arrowleft:

Haven't seen a single person play my game so far, so I'm glad that the voting has started.

Come and take a try if you wish.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/the-inner-lock

Looking forward to trying out some really unique game ideas!

Hopefully the comments on Myrddin won't be too harsh...

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

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

It's a great day when you wake up and see that the ratings are working! I am excited to try everyones games (or as many as humanly possible!) In the mean time try out our game, FREEDUMB, we had a great time making it and we know you will have a great time trying it out! If you do try our game please leave a comment so i can return the favor :)

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

The Making Of...

The article goes into pitfalls and mechanics of the game and how we overcame some of the technical issues. It turns out there may be a reason that shrinking is not a common mechanic.

Check it out on medium (5 min read) - https://medium.com/@Raudaschl/making-shrink-ludum-dare-38-b16de8865765

TL;DR

Or just play the game here — https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/shrink-1

Thanks everyone!

Earth Invaders

Made for LD38

Welcome to Planet Earth. Since humanity ruined everything in the universe, waves of meteorites are coming towards us! Defend the world by destroying the meteorites. You don't want to get our small world too small, do you? :wink:

Rate it here!

Try it out! ^^

My first time doing Ludum Dare all on my own! Gotta say, it was pretty fun making every single part of my game.

I think it turned out pretty fun actually! And my programmer art turned out less horrible than I expected :)

Please let me know what you think! I'll try and rate everyone back:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/the-world-at-your-feet

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

Play & Vote for our game * --> Here <-- *

Thanks for all the awesome feedback so far!

Murder 38 - Episode 0: A Small World

Join our detectives as they solve a grizzly murder in tonight’s episode of Murder 38.

Point and click your way through this humorous tale of mystery and coincidence.

Use the police computer, look for clues and interview people! All presented in a state of the art cinematic style that blurs the line between games and big budget televison dramas.

We both killed ourselves making this in time. There may be a couple bugs or typos but we’ll polish those bits after Ludum Dare as well as adding additional things we didn’t have time to add. Have fun.

*Voice acting may be questionable

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

Now that ratings are live, we'd be glad to see some of you playing the game and leave feedback. Of course we'll return the favor :smile:

Rate Naughty Gnomes here

Once again, we present Retro Rabbit, a game where you try to plug holes and eat carrots!

The link can be found here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/retro-rabbit

Leave a link to your game in the comments section and we will definitely play it and review it as well :)

Why isn't there a ratings button at the buttom of my game event.

Game Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/statera

Play it here

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

Spermicorn Story

Spermicorn was born different, he lives inside a llama who has no idea he's going to change his species forever.

Help him spread his special feature!

The crazy run

You must run with a million of others like you, but you are special! Use your sparky horn to make room for yourself but watch out for the slowing areas. Move and hit sideways while goin' with the flow.

The sacred egg room

If you are good enough, you will be allowed to the sacred egg room, our second gameplay. Here is where you have the chance to prove your stubborness. What are those motivational phrases telling you? Believe in yourself and make your way through the egg!

This was our first jam, the submitted game is just the beginning, we are working to make it better! Thank you for playing and reviewing it!!

This was our first game jam ever and we would love to hear your feedback and ratings. Is there another way of getting people to try the game other than to repost this?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/the-last-acorns

Post a screenshot of the wave you got to. Record holder here is Wave 18.

This was my first attempt at a game jam ever. I had a great time participating, fingers crossed that shows!

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

Hello world!

This time we've made a game for bad guys. You control a super cute germ covered by colorful jelly (yes, we're sure it's for bad guys, don't be distracted by cuteness :grin:).

It's a super resistent germ which has to survive inside a human body. Of course it would try to kill you (you're an evil germ, don't forget it), but you have 4 colorful and powerful skills:

• Green: Throw a sticky jelly to the walls around you. Then, press left or right arrow to stick yourself to the wall.
• Blue: Throw a projectile to kill enemies.
• Purple: Make a quick dash forward.
• Yellow: Throw yellow jelly on the ground to jump higher.

You would have to fight some body soldiers too. Don't forget you're inside a human body and he doesn't like you. You would be able to fight the cute colorful lymphocytes attacking them but if you're wise, you will learn to disguise yourself to pass unnoticed without wasting jelly. You can avoid your enemies if you have the same color as them!

Remember: Jelly is Life. If you waste all your jelly... GAME OVER

The Game

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/jelly-germ

Now you can destroy planets on your browser! Or keep them alive. But let's be honest, who would want to keep them alive?

https://mindtricks.itch.io/my-little-planet-html5-

First time participating in ludum dare, that was an amazing experience! Check out pilgrim visiting this awesome link and leave a feedback. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/pilgrim

Play A Perfectly Lovely Expedition

Play Pip Sweep

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I finally added the cover image to my game Little Mouse Planet. Who wants to play it? Runs in browser, so no installation necessary.

LD compo submission: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/little-mouse-planet

DESPITE WHAT MOST WOULD SAY

Check it out here!

All assets are original with the exception of aggressively stolen audio! See above link for details!

10 compo games tested so far! That'll have to be all for a while. The quality both of the ideas and the execution of them seems to be high this time, or I might just have been lucky so far :-)

Unfortunately it is an annoyance that there's no sorting and compo/jam categorization on the main site.. There also seems to be more games than usual that have accidentally ended up in the Compo-section that don't seem to be able to switch to the Jam-section post-contents...

Keeping my fingers crossed that the voting-sorting algorithm gets implemented on ldjam.com soon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DTdtOU3SX4

We didn't make video from 1st day because of tech problems, but 2nd day was awesome. Sometimes I think that my knees looks like my head :P

Yep, don't forget to play and rate our game. Come on, barbarian

Voting season has begun!! Since most of the EU is on holidays today there's no excuse to not play :stuckouttongueclosedeyes:

Beware The Idiots is my first entry in LD and I'm sure it won't be the last. Enjoy!!

Yas! The voting is finally here. I would really appreciate if you would like to give some of your time, and rate my game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/the-world-is-flat

Hi, we're Demy and @fedoccio and we made this small Catstagram themed game about the Instagram cat's routine.

The beginning

The whole thing started from the couple pieces of paper and the animation of the body. Both of us were not so well with Unity and had to figure out lots of things in process.

If you want to take it easier, make it 2D. But if you want the Nightmare mode, go Isometric.

The whole game looks quite 2D, but wait, how does this fluffy ball goes around the chair?

Well, that's because it's actually 3D.

Did it bring more troubles? Well, yes and no. First of all, I already had a game with the isometric view and the character going around the objects. But I made it from scratch without any game engine on pure AS and it was pretty laggy (see my profile -> Previous games -> Room Chaos Monster).

Unity3D made it way easier and I didn't have to think about tons of stuff.

But there were the side effects too: I had to spend the whole Sunday morning in panic "because I broke the game" and trying to figure out how to organize the room walls in my super alternative coordiantes system. Thankfully, couple hours later it worked out.

If it looks stupid but works it ain't stupid

That's all about the room scene, comment if you have any questions and don't forget to play and rate our game: Caturday is today

Love you all, meow :cat:

We are looking forward to read your reviews. :grin:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ilWTOb63Q4

Download (windows) : http://mojogamejam.com/uploadedfiles/archives/1493076261FloraisonBUILD_01.zip

well, rating has now begun. Go nuts, since most of us are free today! If you dont know what to play, check this out! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/infinite-planet Shameless Self-promotion

In parallel to illustrating the environment for Den, we had to make little frightened animated men. As we never did pixel art animations in such a short time, we rapidly realized that our habitual creation tools weren't adapted to produce quick rough sprite animations. A quick search lead us to Piskel, a browser-desktop-opensource-freedom app that is probably an obvious tool for a lot of you, but were a amazing discovery for us.

Onion skin, layers, realtime preview, shortcuts, auto color palette, local saves and all-featured imports/exports. It took us a few minutes to embrace it.

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The men animations are 32x32 pixels, in 8 colors. There is three runcycles, an idle, a fall, a fall reception, a cornered idle, a shouted when cornered reaction, a standing up and taping code.

Two tips were used for the runcycle : the arms were separate layers, allowing three quick variations onto one base. And taking advantage of the limited details, only the half of a run cycle is made : the character always use its left foot. It creates a pretty much fluid cycle for 5 frames :)

The implementation were pretty straightforward. Every states are based on a few inputs (mainly velocity, vertical velocity and desired velocity), the runcycles are switched using a randomized parameter on an enter state of a StateMachineBehavior. The run animation speed is connected to the character velocity, which is slightly randomized for every character.

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We often duplicated frames in Piskel in order to have a direct control on the animation structure and rhythm. As a result, the files contains multiple data that could have been stripped away. It wouldn't be the most efficient way to make the spritesheets, but in these time conditions and with the microscopic weight of the animations, doing that way allowed us to integrate the animations in one click, without any retouching in Unity.

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For the head bang animation, for simplification's sake we choose not to animate the recoil by hand but to tween directly the head position, using parametrical animations driven by AnimationCurves. Some missing time for debugging led us to some spectacular dismemberments possibilities in the release.

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• Den : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/den
• Postmortem :
  • #1 : about themes and lack of game designers
  • #2 : environment and ambiance
  • #4 : the beast, the music and the sound effects
  • #5 : Development

It's time... to play other games! This Ludum Dare I made Ionnect, a chemistry themed puzzle game in 48 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lABx4JAAdas

Play it here!

Hey fellow gamedevs,

We are a team of four German students (Faithcaio (@faithcaio), pschichtel (@pschichtel), jQnas (@jqnas), and Rahtainka (@rahtainka)) and we name ourselves Banana4Life.

We have developed the game Where is mommy for the fifth ludum dare we took part in.

I personally think it's our best entry so far.

• The game is playable and we noticed no bugs so far
• We all met up at one place and were really productive
• We have decided to take part only as a core team (4 persons) and have done more and a better game than the last time with 7 persons
• We slept a reasonable amount of time (and weren’t completely destroyed after the weekend)
• We used Unity with Git this time instead of Unity Collab
• We had even time left at the end and it was all very relaxed
• We had a lot of fun

• We had some problems with the movement controller

• I think we could improve our streaming setup (this time we had some troubles with our streaming server and had no webcam and no microphone)

In our team I'm responsible for the music and the sound and my goals were to create the right mood with the background music and sounds and to write and record my second self written song. I think the first goal I well fulfilled and the self written song for the credits I wrote and record in the last five hours. So for this amount of time it has become good. I am very proud of the heartbeat sound which I have made myself completely.

Until the next Ludum Dare I would like to make more music to get more practice with Logic X Pro and recording stuff. Because I have noticed that I get better with every Ludum Dare but only deal with it during the gamejam and I think more practice can never hurt.

I hoped you liked our short writeup.

If you are curious now, you can play our game "Where is mommy?": https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$23106

or listen to my music: https://soundcloud.com/rahtainka

We would love to get feedback from you!

Greetings,

Team Banana4Life | Rahtainka

P.S.: For the self written song you have to finish the game. It isn't on soundcloud yet :wink:

If you have a few minutes you can check out my game.

I am happy that I finished my 2nd LD

PLAY

If you have some spare time, give Murder Mitosis a try. I would really appreciate it :heart_eyes:.

It's my first Ludum Dare and my first game.

Project Page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/murder-mitosis

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Hey you!:) I would be really happy if you find 5 minutes to check out my game I made for my first LD compo <3

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

Play our game here

Protect your population from asteroids and help them launch some rockets!

Thanks to everyone that plays this game and leaves some feedback!

Let me introduce you a game I've made during the compo.

The Last Haven is a fast-paced action platformer filled with jetpacks and laser rifles. It is set in a far future, where the Earth is inhabitable, and the last branches of the humankind fight against each other for scarce supplies.

Fight alongside your teammates and protect your station at all cost!

Hello guys, it's judging time!

In my game, The Robot's Trial, you are a little robot girl who can find and equip various modules such as a jetpack, a magnet or a grappling hook. Use them to find clever ways to escape Scraps Island, the prison for malfunctioning robots!

Go play it here!

Don´t forget to rate and comment!

Play!

We appreciate feedback to improve the gameplay :smile: