4th time as first time hardcore. - Wife is informed - Monday i took a day off - Food plan stands - Backup power and internet organized

lets doooooHOOO this!

wish you all a lot of fun in LD#40

For the 6th time, (5th solo) I. AM. IN!

As usual I will do the 48h. This time I will try out Godot instead of using libGDX or my custom engine. Lets see how it goes!

I have decided to take part in the Ludum Dare 40 , as i have saw the last couple and they look really fun. Was thinking about doing it solo but i thought it would also be a good teamwork building exercise so as our studio we will do this one! This is our first Ludum Dare and we are all looking forward to it :)

This is my first time to take part in a Game Jam event.Althrough I'm not quite sure whether I can make a playable game done in such short time, I will try my best.

My toolset is going to be:

Game Engine : Love2D Drawing Tool : Krita Music and SFX : Sunvox, Audacity

Alright, #40 shall be our fourth trial by fire! This time it's gonna be with added difficulty due to @Mindhead having only one day and a half worth of time to spend on the graphics. It's gonna be a real test of prioritization, project scoping and planning with me being at the helm, that's for sure.

Good luck with LD #40, everyone! I'm definitely gonna need it.

• @Devastus | https://twitter.com/devastus
• @Mindhead | https://twitter.com/NikoFinsk

• Unity 2017 - with a bare set of personally made plugins
• Reaper & buncha VSTis (audio)
• Blender & Maya (if 3D)
• Photoshop & PyxelEdit(if 2D)
• SourceTree for Git stuff
• Lots of coffee

I'm gonna try and keep pre-made helper tools to a minimum, but I might have to break my habit of doing every single thing from scratch since I'm already gonna be neck deep in piss with work regardless :P

I can't dedicate the whole weekend, but that's never stopped me before.

Personal goal: make something with completely novel gameplay rather than just doing something I've done before with changes to suit the theme.

Theme always sucks.

I havent actually done that :P Just modified the page.

My first Ludum Dare, very excited. I will go with C++, hope everything goes well.

Good luck, everyone!

(My personal) Christmas is finally here.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to participate in the last LD.

The more I'm excited for THIS ONE!

Let's hop on that hype train, walk to the dining car, buy some energy drinks and let's start working!

Have fun everyone! :)

I made up a tiny script to add keyboard controls to the slaughter if anyone is interested.

Just copy the script into the console when on the slaughter page. Uses Z for yes, X for no, and K for flag. You can change the keys by changing the variable declarations, of course.

```javascript var yesKey = "z" var noKey = "x" var flagKey = "k"

document.addEventListener("keypress",function(e){ if (e.key == yesKey){ document.querySelector("button.-green").click() } if (e.key == noKey){ document.querySelector("button.-red").click() } if(e.key == flagKey){ document.querySelector("button.-tiny").click() } })

```

A friend and I will be participating in LD 40! The last one we completed together was LD 37 but we tried (and failed) at LDs 36 and 38. Anyway, very excited to work on this and excited to see the games!

Oh, and we'll be using Game Maker Studio, GIMP, and Reason to make the game.

Back in Ludum Dare 34, I made a game called Gyra that I felt was one of my most polished Ludum Dare entires yet. So I made it available on the App Store, if you want to try it out. :slight_smile:

Play on both iPhone and iPad for free, no ads or in-app purchases!

:iphone: Download Gyra on the App Store

Hey!! This is going to be my first time doing Ludum Dare, I hope everyone has the best of luck and we can all make something great!!

I'm in for the third time :) If you are using Unity, you can check some of my scripts: http://theflyingkeyboard.net/tag/unity/ Have fun and good luck ;)

This is going to by my first Ludum Dare and the same can be said for my friends: Thomas288 & Marakusu. Best of luck to all participants.

11 days till the X hour! U ready guys? Our team is warming up the engines, getting the food ready and collecting sleep!

If you don't remember who we are, check our games here below!!

LD32 #261: SleepOver

LD34 #435: Garbage Run

LD37 #90: Booking Mama

LD38 #106: Llama's World

Can't wait to start!

Here is for hoping for a great theme this time around!

There have been some good themes in the past, but also some pretty bad ones imo! Everyone is free to vote after their own will, but here is my opinion on what makes a theme good and bad. I know the theme can be used as much of little as you want and be interpreted however you want, but I still feel it's important to have good themes. Hopefully some food for thought when you're slaugthering!

What a bad theme is? * Too restrictive - shouldn't kill creativity and make all games the same * Too open/abstract - Doesn't actually say anything, might as well not have a theme * Memes/ForTehLulz - Usually not good inspirations for games. People put down a lot of energy, let's not make it for 1.5 seconds of smirking on a newsfeed * Game-mechanic or style centered - It's not fun to rate games if they are all built on the same mechanic or all look the same * A long sentence - A theme shouldn't be a light novel, one or two words to describe it should be enough to keep it open

What a good theme is? * Restrictive enough to challenge the mind in making something fun out of it * Open enough to many interpretations

Comment if you have any other good points to consider or don't agree at all :)

Anyway, happy slaugthering!

Also I got through the whole slaughter for the first time - the statistics pie really helped to keep motivation.

The most interesting theme I encountered was "cold". It's a simple suggestion which immediately brings pictures to my mind and is flexible to create a variety of themes and topics dependending on the angle you go at it. You can look at it from the survival standpoint, the thematics of coldrelated events like the often mentioned Christmas or the sheer feeling of being cold.

And as a bonus there never has been a similar theme for ludum dare. There were just a handful of similar suggestions like "ice" or "arctic" but all in all cold was unique, so I hope it get's a chance against the big and often repeated topics.

Speaking of! The big three I noticed:

If you suggested "something, something color!" - than I gave your suggestion a go ahead.

If you suggested "something, something time!" - than I slaughtered your suggestion.

If you suggested "something, something audio!" - than I slaughtered your suggestion.

Also there was the topic of an imaginative sport, which I came around after a while. My Topics where "Mechanical Monstrosities", "Fix Your Game" and... I honestly forgot the third one.

Oh well, what was your favorite suggestion, that wasn't one of your own?

I have a lot of homework to do but I assume I can do a pretty good graphical game in less than 48H hours. So yeah, if there is no problem i should be in, for the second time !

New to the site, never done a Ludum Dare before so this'll be a first. I've been so casual for so long, and it's going to become quickly clear that years of dabbling with RPG Maker have gotten me no coding skill, no artistic ability, and no musical talent... plus I'm not real good with RPG Maker in the first place.

But, this is the second-best time to get started. It's about time.

Where does this even appear?