My mind is utterly blown. I am in the Top 30 in the Fun category and Top 40-50 in others. I am actually proud, happy, and excited for future Ludum Dares. I hope to join you all in April! But for now, thank you all for playing and rating the game.
PEACE!
I spent way too long getting this out, so here we are.
They're obviously not great scores, but I can definitely understand why.
Overall: A pretty low score, though a serviceable point average. (I, as most people should, use my point averages as my general basis on whether or not it's a good category.) Many people complained of absurdly high difficulty, though it was good otherwise. I completely agree. A post jam version is just about done with better balancing of the light loss and a ranged weapon.
Fun: Only slightly lower than Overall, in both score and point average. Again, people enjoyed it, but found it frustrating and thus didn't have as good of a time.
Innovation: A ~~score~~ point average I'm actually pretty proud of. My idea seemed pretty common, but apparently it hasn't been used very often. I'm glad it worked out, it's one I'm not sure I can top any time soon.
Theme: My highest score and point average. I like that I didn't have to tell people the theme connection, even people who didn't even read my page knew how I implemented the theme. This is a feeling I really want to duplicate in my future entries.
Graphics: One that I'm not particularly proud of. The graphics definitely needed some work, though the fact that you couldn't see the graphics most of the time probably didn't help.
Audio: Another lower point average. My 2nd highest score, however, probably because most people don't do any audio. It could've been better, some minor volume tweaks would've gone a long way.
Mood: A pretty solid point average. If you look at my post-mortem (which I'm not going to link because if you care you can search for it), you'll see that I felt like the music really helps convey the spooky nature of the low visibility. While I still agree with that statement, I also feel that the darker colors and general low saturation helped as well.
All things considered, a pretty solid entry, and I look forward to the next one already.
Just wanted to write that my game with ludum dare 42 was released in Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/966010/Anstorm/
Almost there! I've been hard at work putting some fiendishly difficult challenge levels into Colors of Your World. Here's a taste of one of the hardest screens!
This will all be going in soon in the next update -- stay tuned!
Hey all! After LD43 ended, we decided that we will continue working on Fire Swept. So to start off, I redesigned the whole world and wrote a whole bunch of new code. And Ryan has composed some new music! The new game is still a while off but I thought I would show you a video I made of the new Fire Swept!
This video was created using in-game footage with Cinemachine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOOm6c25Ods
If you want to check out the old Fire Swept submitted to LD43, it's here. Play Fire Swept from LD43
Mulletman and the Molemen was my LD38 COMPO entry.
We have to create a game for a school project and just uploaded our first, very early demo project on itch. We would appreciate all the feedback we could get, so you can test the game here: https://jiri-one.itch.io/pieters-epic
This website amazed me. There aren't any people that want you to get a cancer(at least I think so) and there aren't any bots but I found this comment under my post
There was a guy named karen888 that leaved this weird comment. I checked his account and he didn't have any games, any posts and he also didn't have a description.
I checked that website in a incognito page and I was shocked and I was laughing.
He was promoting a Indonesian gambling website. He posted comments like that on other posts. He wasn't a bot, because messages were different from each other. You will never know what weird stuff is gonna happen in life...
We made some progress behind the scenes, but there's also some new stuff to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpZJ4i3OyE
Read the whole update here: https://the-omicron-directive.manakeep.com/news/articles/core-ideas-are-taking-shape
Now that the ratings have been revealed for Ludum Dare #43, I've written up a detailed postmortem dev blog post about how it all went! It includes the exciting story of how I came to make a game full of unicorns and rainbows for the theme "sacrifices must be made," along with other topics such as:
This was my second Ludum Dare, and once again I had a blast participating. Congrats to everyone else who finished and submitted a game, and I'm already looking forward to the next one!
After a poor performance in LD40 I decided to learn how to design better levels. Caen is the fruit of this effort. A short (~30mins) puzzle game with increasingly hard levels and a small story.
You can play it for free here
https://seancode.itch.io/caen
With almost two months passed since the last LD, some of you might miss jamming already... Well, good news, the 5nd edition of the Alakajam! starts soon!
If you're free on February 22-24th, you might be interested in joining our community for a week-end of jamming:
Our last jam back in December was quite competitive, ending with 79 entries! We hope to see you there :smiley:
Hey folks! I would like to share with you today Lamparina, the game I created for the Global Game Jam 2019 ;)
Everything within the range of light, gains life. Everything else, turns to stone.
Lamparina is a top-down puzzle game, where you open magic doors by adjusting the projection of light and solving enigmatic challenges!
And you can play it right here! :D https://lukbebalduke.itch.io/lamparina
Jam Version
WIP - Redesign Version
I don't know if you all remember, but YoYo Games, the creators of GameMaker, used to have a website called sandbox.yoyogames.com. It's dead, of course, but I remembered an old game I really liked.
It was called In A Dungeon. I recently went looked for it and found it on Gamejolt. The game had inspired me through those days and kinda kept me going through making these games. So I left a message for him on there.
I don't know if he'll ever see it, but I hope he knows that he had at least one fan. Please consider playing this game show your support for him :)
https://gamejolt.com/games/in-a-dungeon/1044
A game under 8 hours!
Made a quick post-mortem about my 8 hour long game jam.
The theme was "8 hours, 8 colours", and in the end, it was heavily inspired by Robinett's Adventure.
Hope you enjoy :smiley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GVrkaDBeEo
If you liked it, check out my LD42 and LD41 post-mortems as well, thanks :slight_smile:
Post-mortem playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-QHc6VUZXPd5HnkWb0oyNI5ZL9dgG12z
We(ieyfo#3416 & Dr Zachary Smith#9260) host the Ludum Dare discord with over 2100 members and growing lots of great people and a wonderful community. Theme voting and suggestions will be handled through the Ludum Dare server.
The discord was made back in LD36 about 2 years ago. This event was created to fill the gap between Ludum dare's given they have switch to 2 times a year. So we will host 2 a year also to supplement this. You can find more info on the Discord as well as entering by submitting a theme.
Its a 48 hour event and the theme suggestion/voting will go on this month.
Discord Invite: https://discord.gg/ghPFMna Itch.io Event Page: https://itch.io/jam/discord-jam1