As much as I wanted Ludum Dare 42 to be my first one, I had an interview that I needed to prepare for that forced me to drop out. Hopefully the timing on this one is much better for me and there won't be a scheduling conflict, and might be able to actually participate.

My theme suggestions are: - Control anything but the protagonist - You are the final boss - Stay out of sight

This will be my second Ludum Dare and I am really excited!

Previous attempt I used my own little 2D game framework. However this time around I will be using an engine created in C# that makes use of this framework.

Can't wait, let's have some fun!

Not long ago I wrote an answer to a post on Quora how to become more efficient making games in Unity and one of the key advice I decided to give was to participate in Ludum Dare. This applies to making games in any engine, and from scratch, it just happened to be a response to a Unity question this time.

I want to share the parts of what I find so powerful, useful, and fun with Ludum Dare in specific. This is aimed at the compo part of Ludum Dare but most points are valid for the Jam as well.

Time framing - You only have 48 hours to do everything so you can only spend so much time on each task.

Avoid Scope Creep - You won’t be able to let the scope creep where you spend a lot of time on details you didn’t have in mind to begin with - this lets you focus on making a complete game.

Multi-Disciplines - Since you have to do everything yourself you spend time on all elements that make up a game. This allows you to improve your skills in each area but you also learn what takes time and what it entails to create and implement mechanics, graphics, and sound.

Repetition - If you participate in multiple events over the year it lets you repeat this process of making a game over and over again. Implementing game states, game loops, and game logic helps you to cement the knowledge and figure out what works well and what does not.

Post-Mortems - When I have made a game in Ludum Dare, I write a post-mortem about the experience and go through what went well and what went wrong. I also read other post mortems (since there are 2–3000 other people making a game the same weekend) and you can learn a lot from that too.

Finish(!) something - It’s all too easy to prototype games and then dive into a project with great ambition which may take years to complete. You can easily lose yourself in such projects which both affects your motivation and your ability to follow through to a finished product.

Learn what takes time - By doing game jams you will find out that when you have what may feel like a “nearly complete game” and you estimate you are about 80% finished, you are more like 20% finished in reality. In the prototype you may have implemented the core mechanics, but transitioning between game states, resetting levels and objects, implementing the menu system, creating enough levels and figuring out good level progression (or story), implementing tutorials, doing play testing, and polishing the final product takes a lot more time than you may think.

I have participated in the 7 most recent Ludum Dares and when I got started I haven't been able to stop. It's just too much fun and too powerful of a tool to learn. My games so far have been:

LD42 - Parking Spaces

LD41 - Golf N' Grenades

Narrated "making of" Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DmQ1kcYHM

LD40 - Robby & Coppy

Narrated "making of" timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXS9gZ671sY

LD39 - Robot Power

Narrated "making of" timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCYn3dQX_4

LD38 - Planetary Remains

"Making of" Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc0YHI3KqMc

LD37 - Space Junk

"Making of" Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUAVqYFoueg

LD36 - Ancient Tech to Return

"Making of" Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VNQiAZPdvE

You can play these games and download the projects on my itch.io page: https://imphenzia.itch.io/

Hope you manage to find the time and motivation to participate in Ludum Dare 43. Take care everyone and make sure to practice your main tools a few days/weeks before the event begins :)

During the past experience of Ludum Dare, one thing keeps confusing me is how to communicate between game objects "elegantly" in Unity. Since I am not a full time professional game dev, I really like to know what are the widely used proper way to handle this.

Several methods I've used before:

1. Tight coupling referencing (either using Find, GetComponent, or drag and drop in Editor)
2. Delegate (never used during a jam though as everything is build up quickly)
3. Having a GameManager handle most logic, while entities mainly contains data only and have a reference to that global GameManager

Would like to hear your thoughts

So....I just learned I have a local game showcase that I need to go to on Sunday during the Jam. This, on top of the fact that I'll be responsible for the first day of organizing our local real-world meeting. Needless to say, I'm not looking forward to a more-time-constrained-than-usual schedule.

Question to all of you: how do you deal with interventions in the middle of a game jam? I do plan on going by Jam rules this time (as I usually do), so working in a team is a potential option.

First of all, I'm in for my fourth jam. Last jam, me and a friend met on this site and we worked as a team. I did all the programming and he did all the graphics. This year we want to find someone to do sound design! This doesn't necessarily mean you must be fantastic at it, but if you have any experience working with sound let me know! It's also good if you know how to model or code, but we really want someone to be focused on sound/music.

If you are interested in joining our team as a programmer or modeler/artist, the more the merrier, leave a message down below! (It helps if you write your discord username and code so we can chat to there).

Good Luck all, Ryfi

cough cough This is a sneak peak of what we made together last time, imagine if we had a bigger team (and a dedicated sound designer)

This is my first ludem dare and im happy to participate, I hope to have a good time!

I'm going to try Ludum Dare for the first time!

I plan to have make a sort of framework prior to the start of the jam / compo and it's over here

(Opting to just use SDL2)

I'll be using C++ with: - SDL2 ( with the SDL2image and SDL2mixer extensions ).

The little framework is just going to be able to render 2D graphics and a simple GUI ( no layout system. ), and uses a state machine primarily.

To my knowledge this is within the rules.

Good luck to anyone who participates and hopefully I have a memorable experience.

Geta Game Jam 6 is just one month away!

• Make a game either individually or in a team
• Cast a vote for which theme you want to be selected
• Share your progress with our wonderful discord community

Interested? Come and join!

This will be my second Ludum Dare since starting with 40. Had a lot changing in my life for a while so I've had to sit a few out. Looking forward to getting back into it, hopefully for the next few as well.

I'll be using mostly the same tools as last time. Unity, Piskel, Blender, beepbox.co and Audacity. I'd like to move to a different engine but I won't have time to learn a new one beforehand. Maybe for 44. I will probably only use Blender lightly since I anticipate going 2d again but we'll see.

My goals are similar as well. I'm going to continue to practice planning and maintaining manageable scope. I won't have as much time on Monday to continue working so I will have to take making the Compo more seriously this time. Here's hoping for a theme compatible with minimalism.

glhf

Hello, my name is Deemoo, I am new to game development as a whole... I hope to join, be more familiar with the community and develop my skills, I will be participating in my first game jam, Ludum Dare 43! I will be using Unity, Photoshop and Bosca ceoil! Have fun!

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Hi! So excited to join Ludum Dare for the first time. It's me (David, the cofounder) and a couple of our friends who will be jamming all weekend.

What are the thoughts of VR in Ludum Dare? It's what we know best, so figured I'd ask :)

Theme suggestions:

Breakfast! Because that pancake emoji post... Food Fights! Earthworms...

Mouthless Games's tip for LD43: Embrace your weirdness!

Working on a big project and lots of school. Hopefully I have time?

I'm in I guess?

Game Engine: Unity3D or Custom Java Engine or LWJGL

Art: Blender, AE, Paint.net, Gimp, MagickaVoxel, my intuos tablet

Music: Piano, Piano #2, Launchpad, FL or Ableton

Sound: BFXR or the like, prob AE or Audacity too

Best of luck to all!

Reminders!

-Drink Water

-Eat (nice foods?

-Blink

-Take a break if need be (Or power ONNN!)

-Have Fun!

-Do your best!

-Plan it out!

Ludum Dare 41 was bad for me. My string of blatant mistakes that I weeks later figured out how to fix immediately were something that got to me during the challenge, and ultimately resulted in me shunning the upload stage. The game is complete and working now, but during April I totally fexxed it. Ludum Dare 42 was something I take a bit of pride in, but that was me working with a team, and none of my own code.

This time, not only will I be working by myself for maximum shares in glory, but whatever game I make, fixed or broken, is going to get uploaded. Though I anticipate that all catastrophic bugs will be gone by the end anyway. The only thing that can stop the next Hindbodes LD game from coming out is some kind of complete failure to act in the contest, like my house burning down or something.

My biggest hope is that we get a good theme. I'm employing rules as to how I vote this time, making for maximum Use-This-Specific-Mechanic-I-Came-Up-With genocide. I control the game I make, not the garbage.

Can't wait for my 3rd LDJam! Also, I recently published a souped up version of my LD42 entry. You can play it for free here if you want: https://ghostgoats.itch.io/frankskitchen

Can't wait to see what you all make!

The Jammin'! team join Ludum for the third time ! We will be 6 : - 2 developpers - 1 integrator - 2 graphists - 1 sound designer And we are proud to respect parity in our team.

And we will use theses tools : - Godot engine - Photoshop CC - After Effect - Garage Band - A local gitlab server for versionning - Pizzas

Can't wait to start :)

I've been obsessed with making Ren'Py (great game framework for Visual Novels) run directly in the web browser, to target them lazy players who can't be bothered d/ling our games :stuckouttongueclosedeyes:

I'm getting there: https://renpy.beuc.net/

I hope to have it ready to face LD43.

Feedback and words of love/hate appreciated.

I'm back for LD once again!

Tools I'll be using: - Unity (Game Engine) - VoxelCode (Voxel Editor/Modeling) Made this one myself - Blender (Animations) - Gimp (Sprite and photo work) - Audacity (Sound design) - GIF Brewery 3 (GIFs) - GarageBand (Music, if I have the time :laughing: )

I'd also like to announce that I recently published my first app on the App Store! This game was not made for LD, but I took some parts of one of my LD games and modded it quite a bit to make this one! I'd be thrilled if you would check it out and let me know what you think!

Math Drop (Currently not available for Android), presents a fun way for students to build addition, multiplication, and exponent skills in math. It aims to give players multiple ways to solve problems, the same way that any math problem can be solved multiple ways. Please try it out and let me know what you think!