I'm exited to see what this one has in store! https://www.twitch.tv/truc_e/

I can wait for the start of my second Ludum Dare. I'm am so excited to have the chance to compete with everyone. Good luck to everyone and have a good Ludum Dare.

I will be going live for my ludum dare 43 game on my youtube channel :b: eter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEI15DsafXk

Will be doing LD43 Jam, using Unity, probably Aseprite for art. Looking forward to seeing what everyone makes!

First time solo in a Ludum Dare. I hope to finish the game at time, let's see what happen. The next one sure i will do better.

Hi Guys, just letting you all know that I'm gonna be streaming development of my entry! Tech I'm using:

Phaser 2 CE Typescript Sublime Text Pyxel Edit Google Chrome

If you're not too busy making your own games, I'd love to hang with you over at https://twitch.tv/Aurailus See you soon - Aurailus

time to pray the theme isnt garbage lol

Here we go!

HP Lovecraft once said, "The oldest and strongest of human emotions is fear... and the oldest and strongest fear, is fear of not having any cool ideas". deep imo

Hopefully I can juggle this and school! We will see. Can't wait to see what others come up with!

And I'm only good at programming :ghost:

Ayyy lets do this! www.twitch.tv/nastyoldwizard

not as nervous as a was the last times i competed thankfully

Will try to focus somewhat on having an actual plot instead of using mostly just the game name to explain what's supposed to be happening

Hey Guys, my name is Ben and I'm gonna be streaming this Ludum Dare! I'm entering the compo.

Tech i'm using: - Phaser CE - Typescript - Sublime Text - Gimp - Pyxel Edit

I'll be streaming my development live as well, come say hi at https://twitch.tv/Aurailus !

-Aurailus

Lets GO!

I thought I was like 3 hours late because I switched my computer to 24 hour time, but I'm not! So now I guess I'm just anticipating the start in 3 minutes like everybody else.

After only 4 months into Unity dev, I will give a shot in my first jam ! My 2 objectives : submit a finished game and have a lot of fun !

Good luck all !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEI15DsafXk

This will be my 3rd Dare! This time I'm going to be doing this with my family! Should be fun!

just putting this here https://www.twitch.tv/trashcan_hero

Frist game jam that I will participate in! Also probably first "real" game that I will do! Good luck everyone and have fun!

3rd game jam for me and my friends. I'm so hyped!

Time to lose my sleep for the next few days.

And I'm going to be using:

The unreal engine piskel . . . . and I don't know what I'm going to be using from there. . . .

Welp there are 30 seconds left til it begins so good luck everyone

Nah mates Im underage not tryna get caught by the police. But we are gonna feel that mega LD high. Anyways Ill be using lwjgl, paint.net, and maybe bosca ceoil.

Streaming live on Twitch

Excited for this one. Most likely going to be using Unity, and maybe Tilemancer which is a sweet tool I recently discovered, if I'm doing 2D stuff.

And, new cozy setup!

I'll be streaming all my development again! Had a blast last time. https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames

Feel free to stop by and say hi! Looking forward to playing all your games after the compo is over!

Bring on the sacrifices!!!

It is 2am UK time, I am awake, logged in and the theme for Ludum Dare 43 is: Sacrifices must be made.

I will be using

Unreal Garage Band Photoshop Audacity a steady supply of Tea and Biscuits.

I also turned my house into a JAM SITE so that two good friends of mine could jam too. Three solo entries coming from one household! :D

Best of luck everyone!

Stoked for theme, happy to be here, good luck to all of you out there... Ill be streaming for my first time, hope to see you there!!!!! https://www.twitch.tv/acuriosity eeeeeeeeeek XD

I have no idea about what to do, but I'm ready to be a game developer!!!!!! :muscle: Good luck :v:

I actually forgot that this was happening this weekend!

But my setup is gonna be the same that it has been for the past 3 jams:

Engine: Unity

Art: GIMP

SEs and Music: BoscaCeol and Audacity

Good luck everyone!

This is my first time I'm participating in Ludum Dare, and I'm quite excited to see if I had the potential to make a finished game within a weekend.

(something)

Good luck!

... is a theme that encompasses all things because there can be no story engine without hardship or sacrifice, seems like a very broad church.

Seems like a good theme this time around.

Good luck everyone

2nd LDjam here, good luck to all! Sacrafices must be made . . . hmmm . . . time to brainhurricane!

Good luck to everyone participating!

sac·ri·fice /ˈsakrəˌfīs/Submit noun 1. an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure. "they offer sacrifices to the spirits" synonyms: ritual slaughter, offering, oblation, immolation "the sacrifice of animals" verb 1. offer or kill as a religious sacrifice. "the goat was sacrificed at the shrine" synonyms: offer up, immolate, slaughter "two goats were sacrificed"

That sounds so "jam". Right now I'm sacrifizing hours of sleep to get this started xD

Haven't thought of a good idea yet. Suggestions always welcome, cause if I don't think of something reasonably quickly I got dejected and give up entirely.

oloolololol

What do you mean by "after JSON data of the JSON data"?

NOT the theme I expected ... anyway, it's time to work! however, any tell me how to submit my game here ? there's just 'Need to finalize details' in the hosing guide page!!!

I could really use some help if you have any general ideas or anything to spare :(

Looks like I'm in again. I'm thinking cubes for everything this time around... Good luck everyone!

Can't wait to get started

Stream going live now at https://www.twitch.tv/frenchie144.

Let's make this together!

Come and support us! https://twitch.tv/kakious

Sooo... I'm sitting here and actually have lot's of stuff to do for university, but hey : Sacrifices must be made

I have no idea where to start with this theme :scream:

We will be using Piskel, Bosca Ceoil and Bfxr!

Follow our progress @ https://github.com/PongoEngine/LudemDare43 I hope everyone is as stoked as we are and good luck to everyone!

I already have an idea and it should be easy to implement, but I think I can pull it out in 48 hours.

It gives room for so much! I have a preety good idea of what I'm going to do, how are you guys?

It is no sacrifice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrLkTZrPZA4

Ld starts at 4am for me. But, checking the theme is a sacrifice I can make.... Sacrificing just a bit of sleep....

Something always seems to get in the way, or I forget about it, but this time I think I'm going to do Ludum Dare. I have been messing with NESmaker since it came out in August, and I think it would be the perfect tool for me to make my first Ludum Dare entry. After all, what is an NES game but a collection of sacrifices?

Here's the perfect music video for inspiration on the theme of sacrifice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6j7mUxGz20

Love the theme! Have a great jam everyone!

This is my first compo and 5th Ludum Dare participation.

My previous LD jam entries are available here - http://ludumdare.com/compo/author/lebrokholic/

My Github repository for this entry is - https://github.com/timazhum/ludumdare43

Finally, going to develop a game after a long-long break. Wish me good luck!

But I'll make it work

There are many things you can do with this theme which is great

The word "Sacrifice" made me think about magic hmm...

I have come up with some ideas:

• You can make an amount of health and make sure that if a player uses any attacks they will lose health like Nicromancer Magic

• Or Make it as Energy like on a spaceship and it stops moving of you don't have any left

• Others

I think it would be interesting to ge with the spaceshipt idea and make it so you have to balance moving around and shooting and to not use all of your energy

I'll use unity and gimp, maybe blender. I'll stream tomorrow

I really want to finish a game this time. Using löve, some libraries, Tiled, Krita, not sure about sounds yet.

Think I have a solid and fun idea going - starting prototyping now :smiley: Will post screenshots soon!

Enjoy the jam ya'll! :sunglasses:

But I'll make it work

So LD starts at 4 am here, couldn't sleep so i've already been up for almost 24 hours, still came up with an idea so this gonna be fun, i'll probably pass out by noon but hey at least i get to pass out doing the thing i love. Good luck to everybody! <3

Hi everyone! This is my first ludum dare. Wish you all good luck!

I'm seeing everyone telling thath loved the theme and have a bunch of ideas already, but I don't feel it... This theme doesn't inspire me at all, is anyone out there that's struggling with it too?

Well, I hope to get something and participate this time. Good luck for those who already have an ideia of what to do, and even more luck for those who can't think in anything like me.

This is my second ludum dare, competing in 41 but missing 42, so in a little bit a live stream will be going up on my twitch, bengle15. You can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/bengle15

Bad news: I still don't know how I'll incorporate the theme into it. Eh, better start working, I'll worry about that later!

I don't know what to pursue!

Ready to work.

So the bigger the in-game sacrifice, the better it fits the theme. As developer we are to make the player offer up something of value.

This is not the same as making a purchase or trade. Meaning that the offering may exceed the minimum requirement but receive no compensation for doing so.

I came up with this so far. I feel like that's enough to start coding and thinking up assets.

Coherency (how this brainstorming process works)

Round 1

• Sacrifices Must Be Made
• Creation
• Destruction
• Releasing the Burden
• Heavy Weight
• Throwing

• Low Gravity

• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Creation ✅

• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Destruction ✅
• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Releasing the Burden ✅
• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Heavy Weight ✅
• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Throwing ✅
• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Low Gravity ❌
• Creation : Destruction ✅
• Creation : Releasing the Burden ✅
• Creation : Heavy Weight ✅
• Creation : Throwing ❌
• Creation : Low Gravity ❌
• Destruction : Releasing the Burden ✅
• Destruction : Heavy Weight ✅
• Destruction : Throwing ✅
• Destruction : Low Gravity ❌
• Releasing the Burden : Heavy Weight ✅
• Releasing the Burden : Throwing ✅
• Releasing the Burden : Low Gravity ✅
• Heavy Weight : Throwing ✅
• Heavy Weight : Low Gravity ✅
• Throwing : Low Gravity ✅

Round 2

• Sacrifices Must Be Made
• Creation
• Destruction
• Releasing the Burden
• Heavy Weight

• Strength

• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Strength ✅

• Creation : Strength ✅
• Destruction : Strength ✅
• Releasing the Burden : Strength ✅
• Heavy Weight : Strength ✅

Round 3

• Sacrifices Must Be Made
• Creation
• Destruction
• Releasing the Burden
• Heavy Weight
• Strength

• Vampire

• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Vampire ✅

• Creation : Vampire ✅
• Destruction : Vampire ✅
• Releasing the Burden : Vampire ❌
• Heavy Weight : Vampire ❌
• Strength : Vampire ✅

Round 4

• Sacrifices Must Be Made
• Creation
• Destruction
• Releasing the Burden
• Life-Steal
• Strength

• Vampire

• Sacrifices Must Be Made : Vampire ✅

• Creation : Vampire ✅
• Destruction : Vampire ✅
• Releasing the Burden : Vampire ✅
• Life-Steal : Vampire ✅
• Strength : Vampire ✅
• Life-Steal : Sacrifices Must Be Made ✅
• Life-Steal : Creation ✅
• Life-Steal : Destruction ✅
• Life-Steal : Releasing the Burden ✅

In this game you are the vampire "Vee", who builds a village, draining its worst/weakest inhabitants to grow more powerful, in turn letting you build structures with cooler/heavier/harder-to-work materials.

I won't detail the gameplay very much for the jam, so the villagers will probably just wander around mindlessly and not really react, and I might not get to titles and a proper game flow. My priority is just to get some interactions in and give my tools a test-case. And it's a good use of the Vee character, who has been gestating in various notes and sketches for over a year now.

I don't really know, in the GGJ we have diversifiers which helps you to polish the concept.

🙃🙃🙃

Going to do a sort of trick-taking card game about Maids called Sacrifices Must Be Maid

So this jam's theme is interesting, but at the same time, a bit abstract to build a game on.

What I'm thinking is maybe have an exploration-based game where you enter a cave or a manor with plenty of resources, but you have to make tradeoffs (maybe give up a few items, or some health?) in order to keep going, and to eventually, escape.

It's a bit of a stretch, but the theme surprised me a bit, so I'm still in brainstorming mode here.

Guys, is this theme about self-sacrifice? or could it also be about sacrificing other people for their own benefit?

hmmmm

One hour into ludumdare and I'm feelin confident. Thankfully the theme fits into my game idea so I could just start chugging away at art!

My game is called Gossip. It's a game about sacrificing your friends to get to the one you love

In my first hour I made a capsule man in a chair, as well as a cute speech bubble.

I'm in!

This is my 4th Ludum Dare. It's a little hard to believe... This time, I'll try to make a game that feels 'cozy.' Wish me luck!

I got through the planning and was about to start a project when I remembered I won't have the time to participate this time, but I wish I did. Best of luck to all the people who do have the time!

I have come up with an amazing idea about Victorian England and a particular fiction novel...

"#LUDUM43HBcompo Things are going well. No gameplay or story decided on yet, but all my base-building is going without hitches. I should have an idea for the theme really soon."

More on my Twitter, also called Hindbodes. No idea suggestions please! I want to come up with a really good one all by myself.

Now time for some sleep ,have now been up for close to 24 Hours.

We just found the Gameplay and now let's start the prod! :video_game: :grinning: Have fun everyone! :D With @Delhaize

in a team with @mourstar during this and yea we in pain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVDOh5H32Qc

Idea One:

God Game. You're a god, leading/protecting a small country. You need your people to build temples and fight in wars, but you also need to sacrifice them to power your Acts Of God. Probably too on the nose

Idea Two:

Platformer. You're a parent leading your family to safety, but every time you would have been killed by a trap or enemy, one of your children takes the hit in your place. Too dark?

Idea Three:

Top-Down 2D. Exploring a dungeon, but sometimes to open a door you must activate a button by leaving a weapon behind holding it down. But if you run out of ammo you can run back to the previous area and pick up an older weapon (but now what? Go back to town and buy more equipment and try to get a little farther?). And maybe to pick up an item in a treasure room, you have to leave something behind to take its place (Raiders of the Lost Arc style). Could end up with very slow progression after a while.

Idea Four:

Sim. You're managing humanity's first great experimental space-station, when a calamity annihilate's Earth. No more resource rockets are coming, and you don't have enough food/water/energy to keep the station running at full capacity anymore. You have to choose which sections to power down, and which (if any) research projects to continue providing resources for. Wait, isn't this just Frostpunk in space?

Idea Five:

Story. Choose your own adventure style. Given several options, make your choice. Some choices require you to give something up, or for others to make sacrifices. Can you get to the good ending? IS there a good ending?! My writer friends would choose this option.

A worrying amount have to do with bombs

Here's some relevant games/mechanics that come to mind:

• Lemmings - a puzzle game about trying to get dozens of creatures to the level exit by sometimes sacrificing some of them

• Nidhogg - a competitive fencing game about getting to be eaten by a giant worm

• Life Goes On: Done to Death - a puzzle game about dying, respawning and using your previous dead body to proceed

• Burnout - Crash Mode, a gamemode where you crash a car into a busy intersection for points

• Star Control 2 - a game where you're the captain of a massive spaceship with hundreds of crew members. they act as your healthbar in space battles.

• Killstreak bonuses

• Strategy games in general

There's also the narrative theme of death itself but idk how I'd make that into a game https://youtu.be/cZYNADOHhVY

Finally got the concept for my game, what an amazing feeling. I really like the theme even though it's a bit generic. So now it's time to get started. Good luck everyone!

I have an idea!

You are in a fantasy city overtaken by evil doers (and you are one of them) that ships in sacrifices to plant them and then harvest the organs and bake them or sell. Basically, a more f*cked up version of Harvest Moon.

:)

We're a first time group so we don't have any existing code ready (like fools we decided to make it on the spot), but it seems to be going well. We chose an idea focusing on slimes and the quest for treasure: all true adventurers sacrifice slimes to get what they want, right? Our concept slime:

We're working on our sprites now, and after this tileset is finished, its the end of the first night for us.

I was really hoping to not get this theme but I'll try to make it work. I have basically no ideas and I am sitting on a blank GameMaker: Studio Project wondering what it could be. Wish me some luck!