Firstly, a HUGE thanks to everybody who's tried and/or rated my game, Quadrilateral Damage, so far. It's been a really motivating and exciting week for me. Usually when I release games, I don't get any responses, but from a game made in under 48 hours I've gotten some really great feedback! :D

Secondly, though, is that I've been continuing work on it. The new version I have decided to call "Super Quadrilateral Damage", and will bring a whole host of new features to the game, including more enemy types, bosses, playable characters with unique stats, weapons and abilities, stat boosts, a Boss Rush mode and more!

For now I've decided to share with you all some of the progress I've made so far since the initial release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVaKFxw5xeQ

Keep in mind that alot of the features shown are work-in-progress, but if you have any thoughts, please let me know (and be as brutal as you want xD). I really want to make Super Quadrilateral Damage as good as it can be, and only with good feedback can that be done.

Cheers, Jack (aka TheMadPangolin :D)

I haven’t had time to rate games and my game currently has almost double the amount of rates than I have rated. I want to catch up :D I already rated all entries from my part 1 post and I need more :D Leave you’re entries in the comments (I prefer Web builds but also download builds are okay), I’ll rate all of them :)

Meanwhile if you’re interested to get drunk while doing parkour please check mine out :) Thanks!

->>> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/dont-get-drunk <<<-

Alright, so this was my first time participating in the Ludum Dare, or any game jam for that matter.

Here's the link for my entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/infected-pong

I made a game called "Infected Pong", and it is exactly what it sounds like: Pong + Viruses.

My girlfriend came up with the idea of having a game where your computer is infected with viruses and you have to deal with that somehow. I really liked that idea, but I wanted something more, something more challenging! So I thought about adding a game of Pong in the background!

So I started off by designing the main idea which was to have viruses to pop up in the screen. A simple coroutine did the trick to simulate that. You just had to click a cross button in the top to get rid of it, simple stuff. Then, I went ahead and implemented Pong playing in the background, which was simple because I made Pong to practice a few days earlier, so the code was fresh on my mind.

I felt like the game was a bit tedious as it was so I wanted to add some sort of anti-virus that would contain upgrades to help the player. This was a bit more tricky because I had trouble thinking in what upgrades I wanted to implement. Eventually I came up with 4 simple upgrades and I figured that that would do.

So that was all the logic done! On to the graphics and sounds.

I wanted to simulate a windows UI, so I made the little hills with the sun as the background and created the "Anadma" (Which is another game that I made), "Waterfox" and "Folder" shortcuts so that it actually felt like its own computer.

I think this is when I stopped for Day1.

For Day2, I didn't have much left to do, so I polished some physics, added 2 other types of Viruses, added some more graphics and made the music and sound effects, which I'm quite proud of.

It was tons of fun! There's a reason for why experienced developers recommend game jams for beginners. It helps you with dealing with stress and deadlines, you'll have a theme to get an idea so you don't get stuck in that process, you meet lots and lots of people who can make incredible games and are willing to rate yours in the process!

It's an amazing experience and I do recommend it to all the beginners, even if you don't feel all that confident!

I speak about this and more in my blog entry, check it out if you're interested! http://philltalksabout.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/dev-journal-1.html

Hi there, So it's saturday, I had BBQ and I'm quite drunk. Have some spare time now to play some games! Please, link them here.

Cheers!

Our game is called SpaceBallz and we'd love feedback, so we'll do our best to rate and comment the game of everyone who rates and comments ours.
Play and rate now!

Available for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Has anyone this LudumDare made an online Multiplayer game? I always remember they were really quite interesting and I want to try one out this time.

Hi everyone, It's my first time here and I just updated my little game "The Ol' Flower Shop"

Sometimes "healthy pickups" were rendered invisible and you could lose without knowing why... well, not anymore! (I think)

Hope you enjoy it and any feedback is welcome!

You can play it here: https://kwyjibo.itch.io/the-ol-flower-shop

And I also uploaded it to gamejolt (if you don't like itch.io) https://gamejolt.com/games/theoldflower_shop/301673

All right! Here's our game including a post jam download. We had fun making it! Hope you like it!

Power and Reaction

And if you can't beat it (it's short and has an ending), then try the post jam version, which is the same but a little easier with all the tweaks and improvements!

GET EYEBALLS

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/all-day-i-dream-about-eyeballs

While it might have some bugs, it also has some weed. The kind you don't want.

Play and rate here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/weedcontrol

Cheers ;)

The explorer. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-explorer It's a fun minimalistic game with tough mouse-only controls. You can't cancel your moves! The levels are procedurally generated, but the beginning stays the same always.

Featuring:

• ### BUGS WHEN WRESTLING -### STRANGE GRAVITY

Red enemies kill you when you touch them. Green enemies don't kill you immediately, but they push you in the void. Gameplay GIF:

https://static.jam.vg/raw/51a/8/z/afc9.gif

I need more harsh critiques! Rip this game to shreds and give me some feedback. ^_^

Thanks in advance!:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/crystallone-false-stars

We appreciate all of you giving us such great feedback! Please keep it coming, because we want to keep working on the game and would love your input!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/infernus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu0JLk6vb4

I would appreciate feedback, criticism, ideas, things to add to make it more playable and appealing.

Link to the game : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/apparently-im-a-detective

Thanks for all your votes, there is a bug fixed web build up now on itchio:

Play it here!

Game page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/matchys-kooky-cookies

5 Minute Reviews Here!

Greedy Eddy promises that you will have a great fun in breaking and searching through randomly generated endless cave. Play : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/greedy-eddy Reduce your infection , Keep your health balanced , Raise your score high , Collect powerful eggs.

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

Hello, here's a quick video about our experience in the LD40 jam. https://youtu.be/Tow7a-_f9u4