Itch: Buddy Jam

Buddy Jam 2 is Jan 1 - 31

Buddy Jam 3 is Feb 1 - 28

Community: Discord​ link

I invite you all to participate in Buddy Jam - grab a buddy, make a game.

Buddy Jam is a sharing of knowledge and experience, leading new people into game development - in the form of a collaborative game jam!

The jam is an opportunity to share the love, joy, magic, excitement, frustration, creativity, and labor of game development. Because so many people want to make games including you, and you could be the difference that helps someone make their first game.*

Inspired by:

• Hanging out with my uncle and watching him code away on his projects when I was a kid.
• Making games with my older brother Gabe when I was new to game development.
• Indie Game the Movie; Specifically the game development relationship between Phil Fish and his Father. (Phil would make drawings in Kid Pix on the Apple II, and his Dad would make video games out of them)

*Buddy jam is not limited to duos, teams are allowed, it's not limited to first timers either. "Experience" is on a spectrum too. Your buddy/buddies might be artists or musicians without coding knowledge; that's fine.

The intention of Buddy jam is to make something possible for people, that would not be possible by themselves.

I have been working hard over the last month to improve my game and I have finally finished! The game is officially completed. Please check it out if you have time!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/finally-finished

I wish you Happy holidays. This year was a good dev year - i participate on all ludum dares and released a big game for Android.

Also i am very proud of my LD43 game and want to invite you to play my jam version here.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/hyper-skater.

I Plan to Make a full game out of it next year so stay tuned.

the link is https://discord.gg/yhGruD. please do not spam and use for a good use

We make games to be played,
that's just what we do.
I've made this to be played,
and enjoyed by you.

I hope that you like it,
its short but its sweet.
And if you could review it,
well that would be neat!

So Lend me your ears, eyes, and hands for a while.
Play this small game, and don't forget to smile.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/shepherd-sacrifice

Its been quite a while since I posted here...So now I am looking for a final feedback of my game if anyone is interested. It will help me to develop this game further. Also, a big thanks to everyone who already gave their precious feedback...

Play here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/friends-or-food

Play the updated version now (Web)

There Will Come Soft Rains is a game about the harsh realities of dealing with climate change as the leader of an important nation.

I found some time over the holidays to put together a post-jam release. I expect another release tomorrow with a few more scenarios just to round things out.

Besides a few visual modifications and an extended background track, there are two big changes to this version:

1. The addition of hints. Now you have some insight into what a decision might possibly effect. Hints are currently disabled by default.

2. Stats have been reworked. Population has been dropped in favor of Industry. Instead of managing your population level, you just have to make sure your nation's industries stay afloat. All scenarios have been rebalanced around this change.

Please take a minute to play a round or two and let me know if you think hints should be on by default instead.

I just need one more rating on my game to get to 20.

Leave some feedback on my game or drop a comment here and I'll play your game when I have some time to spare. I'll prioritize games in the danger zone. :smiley:

Doesn't that sound fun!?

Check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/just-delete-them

Need 10 scores...

https://youtu.be/RPGL4K5W5Lg

Rate if you like, need 5 more ratings still!

Play as a warrior fighting to protect an ancient altar attacked by hordes of goblin warriors, assassins & brutes! Sacrifice your own life and stamina to the gods in order to hold the enemies back a little longer.

How many waves can you last?

Play the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/superesse-sum-sacrificium

Hello

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates the 12 days of Christmas. Hope you are all having a blast this time of year.

We will be doing a post mortem on our LD43 game and then we will be streaming your games! Join us at https://www.twitch.tv/cyberlightgames

Last time I shared some analytics data for the first 30 players of our game, and we tried to learn how people played our game. This time I've brought the data collection back, and ran everything through a spread sheet... here are the first 61 players:

Totals

• Total Players: 61 players
• Shortest Play Time: 19 seconds
• Longest Play Time: 48 minutes
• Average Play Time: 13 minutes
• Total Play Time: 13 hours
• Players That Won: 19 players (31.15%)

Play Time

How long did it take players to get through the game.

Time Until Giving Up

The average playtime does not really give us the complete picture of when players stop playing, here is a histogram that highlights us dropout "windows." It seems players don't give up around 13 minutes, they drop out in less than 5 minutes, and the longer they play, the less likely they are to leave.

Time Until Winning

Same as above, but looking at how long before a player wins.

Day Of Week

A fun chart trying to see if there is any day of the week that correlates with longer play times, it seems constant (no effect) within the margins of error.

Time Of Day

Like the Day Of Week chart, but for times of day, to look for any insights we would need to control for when our team rated games too (times are Eastern Standard Time :: UTC-05:00).

Player Dropout

Where in the game did players dropout.

Join The Dataset

If you want to become an entry on our spreadsheet, you can play the game here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tVb5VbO2QA

It took a while to make the game as I envisioned at first, but I'm proud of how it came out in the end.

You can play the game here: Fallen Girl

Merry Christmas everyone! If you still haven't tried our game, feel free to give it a try! :smiley:

We're live now streaming YOUR games at https://twitch.tv/cyberlightgames Come join us in chat and share your game with the world!

Come Play & Enjoy !! ;)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/break-a-leg