LD 40 December 1–4, 2017

Ludum Dare Music

Hello all teams and producers! My name is Chris and I'm a reporter from gamemusic.pl - the biggest polish site about music from games! I want to ask you for music from Your LD games. Please link mi in comments tracks from your games (Youtube links or soundcloud) I will choose the best and put in my article with details about your games! Cheers! Let's promote us!

People☻

Came in to say hi to everyone. Waiting for another game jam to participate in. Improved and prepared for new challenges. I hope each one of you has great time meanwhile.

Best GIF Recorder?

What GIF recorders do you use? I'm trying to find a good one but my file sizes always end up massive. Any ideas?

GDC meetup?

Hey folks! I wont be at the Game Developers Conference this year, but a number of folks have reached out to me asking about a meetup. So if you are attend GDC, let folks know in the comments below, and discuss what you want to do. If you come to a decision, let me know and I'll update this post and the Twitter feed with details.

Game jam 40 hours

I’m participating in the 40 hours game jam hosted by @wylarel on itch.io

Now I know it sounds like a copy of ludum dare and it is however it happens in two days and is a fun game jam to do while you wait for ludum dare to happen

Brownie Cove Express

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Hello everyone, after LD40, our jam game Between Stations have been very well received. It has been a great motivation for us in the making of a related (but different) video game, untitled Brownie Cove Express.

Brownie Cove Express is an upcoming interactive narrative game about trains, snow, ghosts, and memories.

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

We are currently looking for testers! Visit the site to find out more.

We hope you'll enjoy this little piece of a game and we'll see in 44 days <3

Sand Gardeners

Full-HD! Doctor Who Season 11 Episode 1 Watch Online

Full-HD! Doctor Who Season 11 Episode 1 Watch Online. This is very anticipated episode to watch for this time, Doctor Who season 11 episode 1. In a South Yorkshire city, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan and Graham O’Brien are about to have their lives changed forever, as a mysterious woman, unable to remember her own name, falls from the night sky. Officially titled well enough as The Woman Who Fell to Earth, and here’s why you need to watch for it.

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More about this episode, In Sheffield, Ryan Sinclair accidentally calls an alien pod to the planet, leading to a strange being attacking his grandmother Grace and step-grandfather Graham. He and traffic officer Yasmin Khan attempt to stop it when the newly regenerated Doctor falls out of the sky and sees it flee.

Investigating the strangeness, the five discover a second alien is tracking a local construction worker as a hunting game. The Doctor manages to rework the alien’s systems, causing it to flee home, but Grace is killed in the fight against it. After Grace’s funeral, the Doctor reworks one of the alien’s escape teleporters to find the TARDIS. She bids goodbye to Ryan, Yas, and Graham, but accidentally teleports all four of them into deep space.

Have a perfect day to start watch about it after all fans, Doctor Who season 11 episode 1. The eleventh series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who premiered on 7 October 2018, and will consist of ten episodes.

The series is the first to be led by Chris Chibnall as head writer and executive producer, alongside executive producers Matt Strevens and Sam Hoyle, after Steven Moffat and Brian Minchin stepped down after the tenth series. This series is the eleventh to air following the programme’s revival in 2005, and is the thirty-seventh season overall.

It also marks the beginning of the third production era of the revived series, following Russell T. Davies’ run from 2005–2010, and Moffat’s from 2010–2017. The eleventh series broadcasts on Sundays, a first in the programme’s history, after regular episodes of the revived era have previously been broadcast on Saturdays.

The series introduces Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, the most recent incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in her TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside.

The series also introduces Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gill as the Doctor’s newest companions, Graham O’Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan, respectively. Filming for the series, which is set to include a Christmas special, commenced in November 2017 and concluded in August 2018.

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Comments

Adam17
12. Dec 2018 · 10:52 UTC
Thanks, that was very interesting! Such details in the articles are very much needed.

Streaming Games and Game Jam entries tonight

TL;DR; game jam/indie dev open mic night I play the games and give feedback everyone hangs out in chat.

Hey everyone! TigerJ here after not participating in any LDs since LD27 I was recently called out by a buddy of mine who talked me into Movie Game Jam over on itch. Since then I have started a twitch channel, and I am hosting a show where game devs and game jam participants can hang out together while I play their games (finished or not) and give feedback.

If you have a game you would like played or want just to hang out feel free to come by this evening (5 pm eastern time – 2 am) I will be streaming for a large window to accommodate many international devs.

Thanks so much! Keep making games! (I will be in the next LD with an entry)

https://www.twitch.tv/tiger_j

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carlm21
05. Apr 2018 · 09:44 UTC
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To Do List BETA

Hello everybody! I've just finished developing my short horror game, TO DO LIST. I published the demo version in past 3 weeks ago and the beta version is out now! I hope you guys can test this game and give me some feedback on it. Download it here: https://epicblank.itch.io/to-do-list

Discord chat?

Is there a discord or similar chat for ludum dare?

Meta Game Jam (March 17-31) starts in 5 days - over 250 signups so far!

Hey LD jammers!

I'm hosting the Meta Game Jam from March 17-31, where you create a game about games (or a game that breaks the fourth wall)!

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There'll also be ~$100 in game prizes! :video_game:

PLUS we've organised >30 YouTubers and streamers to play your entries and give you great feedback!

Join Meta Game Jam ->

You can also join our Game Jammer Discord community and follow MetaGameJam!

I'm in!

This time instead of using Unity I've created my own game engine to use. This is a first time not using Unity so I'm curious how this will play out! The engine is written in C# and can be cross compiled to Javascript for playing in the browser, exciting stuff!

Stuff I'll be using: * My 'Juicebox' Engine * Aseprite / Paint.net * Visual Studio 2017 * Audacity / BFXR * Coffee machine

This will be my 13th consecutive Ludum Dare, and I'll be participating in the compo this time. Best of luck to everyone!

Confirming self-inclusion

Hey It's me Cyman. I'm doing this with my guy @Yecats. I'm doing this for the 4th time in a row, look at me go.

Tools I'm using

  • Love2d + Lua + Atom + some custom base code
  • A Novation Circuit and/or Ableton Live Lite

Yecats' arsenal:

  • Paint.net. exclusively. I think he might brush his teeth with it.

PSA: "Control the environment, not the player" and similar themes are terrible, don't vote for them.

I'm in I guess

Unfortunately I won't have all weekand 'cause I'll be out for most of Saturday. I'm going to use Unity but I don't want to make another arcade game. A puzzle game sounds sweet.

I'll try to post progress on my Twitter (@dubgron)

I'm In! (and TIPS)

With this being my 11th round of Ludum Dare, I'm starting to feel a bit like a veteran. My friend, who will be joining in to help me with audio and some general design, will be doing his 6th.

Without much further ado, here are two tips I've learned will help you get the most out of your jam this weekend.

1 << Keep your game little. I'm sure you've heard this by now, but it will seriously help you out. Literally everything you'll want to do will take longer than you might have thought it would. You very much want to leave room for polish.

2 << Publish to HTML. This way, everyone who's a lazy bum will still play your game, since they won't have to download it. I personally always have the game built for HTML, and there are about 10 times more plays in the browser than there are downloads.

The I'm In Post

So I'm in again for LD41 and really looking forward to it. This'll be my 8th LD!

I figured I'd approach this LD a little differently than how I normally would, and instead of thinking about ideas for each of the possible themes beforehand and then waiting for the theme announcement - I'm going to come up three or four different game ideas whose scope fits a weekend's work (the Compo) - and then shoehorn one of those ideas into the theme when its announced.

This isn't ideally what I would want, but I'm hoping it'll save me some precious hours tomorrow morning when I'd normally be struggling to come up with an idea.

I'll be using the Eclipse for Java dev with LWJGL.

Good luck to all

LDJ #40 Team post-mortem + IN

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Hi there fellow jamers !

We are slowly awakening from our respective slumbers and reforming the team on our communication platforms (bless Discord guys, really). Some of us don't know if we'll be able to participate to LD#41, so our team has gained two new members. @Dyzzyd was working with Salty Corp for the last LDJ. You can follow them here [https://twitter.com/SaltyCorp] if you're interested in their work and their submission for the LD#41. You can also play their cool LD#40 game Beware the Slime here [https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/beware-the-slime] ! . He and Amalia (if she's available) will be working on the graphics and animation. Our second new member, @vrarr is a student programmer, good friends with Neodan. He'll be helping Neodan with the code, while Hippunk will be supporting them and taking charge of GD with Adrien.

Some members in the team have taken some time to reflect on our experience on LD#40.

-> @desdemone says : "I've personally loved to see everyone sweat during these 3 hard days. I was so proud of everyone's work at the end of it it was crazy. That being said, I really think we need to work more on communication and exchange with other jamers, and it really needs to come from everyone on the team. Taking some time after the jam can be hard I know, especially for the team working directly on the game. It's quite tiring to stay active after the three intensive days of work. However I really do thing we need to post more about our experience, to share the games we liked, to comment on other people's work. I know it felt extremely rewarding to see that people cared enough about our work to comment on it, post some advice or just say they liked or disliked what we'd been doing. I think I'll be asking more about other member's experiences during and after the jam. Above all, we ABSOLUTELY must remember this jam is international. Not everyone here has our stupid azerty keybord. CONTROLS, folks, I don't even know how we forgot this... Peace out :) "

-> @neodan says : "As a whole, it was a good experience for a first time, although I was quite out of it at the beginning. I realised that without a game deisgner to redirect the team when we turn away from the simplicity path it can be very hard to know where you're going and where to stop. I also think that spending an entire day brainstorming about the theme and the objectives of the game is very time consuming, and that maybe we should avoid it if we can. In any case, I really liked getting involved in this jam as a group, and with as less telecoms as possible, because they are time consuming too. Also, it was way more pleasant to be crammed into a little apartment ;) "

-> @hippunk says : "It's been a really fun way to meet cool people, gain experience and play a lot of games. It's really hard to rate those when you know the others have been working their souls off for 72h. I think the most disappointing part of our LD#40 submission was that it wasn't funny AT ALL. So we'll try to keep that in mind for the next one !"

-> @remysicality says : "Working on the sound design of a video game has been one of my ambitions for a very long time. Seeing it happening was really satisfying. It has been enriching and fun, and I'm glad to be participating to it again !"

So as you may have guessed, we're in for the LD#41 which starts tomorrow morning. Have fun guys, and good luck :D

Platypus Corp, https://twitter.com/PlatypusCorp

Twitch Stream

As per the usual I will be streaming this Ludum Dare at https://www.twitch.tv/gnarlynarwhal7/. I'm not expecting anyone to watch, but thought I would post anyways.