This is my first LD jam, I will be trying to make a game in 72 hours. Tools I use are Unity Bfxr Audacity Krita Blender I have never finished a game before, so planning to use this as a motivation to finish making a game. Good luck to everyone who is participating !
Because after you post 'I'm in' there's no backing out
4th Consecutive LD for me.
Nothing original for tools - Unity, Aseprite or Blender, Reaper for music.
Going to try and focus more on game design this time and not get too distracted with art/music. Even brought copies of 'The Art of Game Design' and 'A Theory of Fun', unfortunately haven't had time to actually read that much of them yet so hopefully just owning them will magically transform my games into being fun.
Nothing left to do but hope the theme doesn't suck too much. Good luck everyone
This is propably my fourth ludum dare. Even though i have almost a year of hiatus i thing i will try to build a game this year and stick with it.
Engine: Either Love2d or Unity2d depending on the theme Tools: Gimp Music: Don't know yet :P
Good luck to everyone and remember, may the best win!
S.N. : Maybe i defeat you all ... just kidding :P
So yeah, the event will start at 3AM where I live... So I will be working on it from tomorrow morning, which I lose a bit of time by doing, but also gaining sleep ^^. I also made the great decision to go out with friends tonight. RIP tomorrow, good luck everyone!
Here goes nothing. Going for the 48 hour challenge this weekend. Starting with just an empty window and a makefile.
Will be using Allegro5, with Sublime Text as my text editor.
Good luck everyone!
Just found this Vice article on Ludum Dare from 2015. Really interesting and good read.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd74x7/discovering-why-international-games-jam-ludum-dare-is-so-important-to-indie-developers-953
As the 40th Ludum Dare is just a few hours away I remember some questions I always get asked.
One is what can you do when your code/project gets screwed up?
In some cases it's just that some files or scenes can't be loaded anymore or that by mistake the files or code got overwritten and this is easy to prevent.
I prefer to use a remote or local source control system like git or svn. Also when you are the only one who works on the project! It really can save your progress.
Every time you make a change commit your work and you get a version you can revert to if something bad happens. It also makes it possible to check code or assets you have created before and are not there anymore.
So while you are waiting maybe think about using a source control system to backup your work. You can find some great tutorials on YouTube. Also I prefer tortoise explorer integrations when you are on windows.
I wish everyone a great Ludum Dare!
This is my first time and I have no idea what I'm doing. LETS GOOOOO!
Feeling ill and getting an early night but not going to break that streak! I am in and using Unreal Photoshop Garage Band Bfxr.net Beechams cold and flu medicine
Haven't voted or seen any themes this time around so will be a complete surprise to see the theme at 2am. I will.be posting here and to twitter under @xopsx
Goodnight and good luck everyone.
Sounds like fun and a good excuse to lose some sleep, so count me in!!! :D Theme launches at 3am here, and I don't intend to go to bed before it does, hoping to sleep on it.
Been a while since I’ve done a ludum dare, so I think I'm back again! Will most likely be building another NES game using the boilerplate code here: https://github.com/cppchriscpp/nes-c-boilerplate
I should also be able build on lessons from the last couple ludum dare (and BitBitJam!) games I made.
Additional tools:
Looking forward to another crazy weekend!
First time doing this, no idea what i'm doing but i'll try. Got Unity, Photoshop, Energy Drinks, Coffee, and Snacks Good Luck to everyone
It's my first time and have to work this weekend, but it'll be a fun challenge!
Well this is my first game jam so this should be fun. Good luck everyone!
Hello all.
This might be a bit late so shortly before the Jam starts.
Anyway, I would like to offer a premade Game Maker 1.4 project that has some useful features preconfigured to save you some time getting started.
https://github.com/Cerno-b/gamemakerstartupproject
These things are preconfigured: - generic title screen - game object that handles the main game loop (objgame) - abstracted keyboard handling and controller input (see scripts->input and objgame.steps function) - very basic mouse controls - debug text output that only shows in debug mode - change resolution via hotkeys (1x, 2x, fullscreen) - exit the game by pressing Esc - load and use a custom pixel art font
In the readme you will find some advice on deploying and hosting your game as well some info about making a time lapse video.
I might update the project in minor ways but I don't want to put too much into it that can be considered an actual game.
I'm in just another time. This event will be pretty interesting as I have social stuff on Sunday so I'll try to finish the mechanics on Saturday and spend any remaining time on polishing the game up.
All of us a wonderful weekend.
Tools - Godot - Krita - Blender - LMMS (just in case I'd do music for the first time)
im in a team now
Hi! I'm really happy to attempt my first LD! I'm going to do the "normal mode" LD, but in 48Hours. I think I'll go for a 2D game since I'm a programmer. I'll use:
Hey there LD community! We're glad to participate once more to the event! We don't really have a team name as of right now, but here's how we'll be making the game:
Lots of coffee, a mildly comfortable chair.
Hope most of you will stick around and manage to complete their entry in time! Have fun everyone!
I'm in for ld40 this will be my 4th time participating and it should be fun
my playerStats:
Good luck everyone!