https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dance-farm-monster

Hey guys! We've set a target of playing and rating 100+ games and we wish that you would play ours as well. We are good in responding to feedback. So play, rate and comment on our game and we'll do the same for yours.

LET'S BEGIN! Our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/numbness

We finally fixed the outline effect in our WebGL build \o/

Come try our game!

I do return the favour.

Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/123

Ever wanted to play a mixture of an RPG and shmup that's too fast for its own good?

No?

oh

ok, I'll just leave this here though

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/perpetual-quest <<<<<<

;)

For the second post I want to talk about something I probably shouldn't talk about, because little details are best left alone for the players to discover. However I think it's the one thing I enjoyed doing the most. So I do want to talk about the time I spent on mixing animations, tweaking shaders and fine-tuning sound effects. Some of you might call this immersion.

I started off with making a GameBoy prop in Blender, which I wanted to make the gap between the 3D and 2D worlds a bit more tangible (if that makes sense for a virtual game). To strengthen this feeling I wanted it to give a feel like you are actually holding it.

For me this boiled down to 3 things: 1. Audio from the GameBoy should be affected by the surrounding sounds (i.e. reverberation). The same goes for the actual click sound from the buttons. 2. When I'm playing a handheld I always tilt it in the direction I'm pushing in hopes I will go faster. (Which of course it wont'.) So I needed to add a few procedural animations to make it almost look like you really hold it in your hands. 3. The screen should look more authentic, easiest done using shaders.

I looked for some public domain button click sounds, and booted GarageBand to generate some chippy sounds. I used Reaper to clean and cut my effects. Reverberation in Unity is easy, which is just a simple add object click. (I never used it before though)

Animating the GameBoy was fun to. In Unity you can play multiple animations at once and have them be evened out. Pretty simple, but very effective. I made animations for jump and left and right, as well as some idling. All combined it felt pretty awesome to me.

The last one is not entirely done. A GameBoy has some pixel ghosting, the effect that pixels will not go off instantly but you can still see the effects from a few frames back. This is something I implemented as I thought it was the most interesting for me to make. I also wanted to add a grid, since there is a noticeable gap between pixels on the GameBoy screen. Also the pixels are a bit noisy, both things I didn't add. (But should have been as easy as multiplying the screen texture with a noisy grid pattern.) I did add some screen glare, however it had to reduce it for game-play reasons (you have to stand in specific places to solve puzzles, and I didn't have time to tweak all lights.)

I will (again, please don't be mad) post this image, because It shows all the (visual) things I described.

In hindsight I should have spend my time on another detail: implementing more variation in the blocks. I already made the art assets, but just didn't feel like doing more array checks. But I did these details mainly to relax, so I guess it was a good decision to leave them. But I might still do that just for the heck of it.

Click here to check out the experiment.

Check the first post on Ideation here.

After many tests, we finally found our way online. so please can you try it? we want to know if he works everywhere and what you think of him. and we will try your game too of course

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/gazbuster!

The amount of feedback and quality suggestions if overwhelming. Thanks everyone who has give Magic and Machines a play/rating. I really appreciate it! If you have not played it yet feel free to give it a play! It's short, less than 5 minutes. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/magic-and-machines

Hello jammers,

My game still need some voting. If you are kind enough to play it and let a comment, I'll check out yours this evening as soon as I come back from work!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/jean-micheng-vs-goblins

Thanks!

I'm having fun creating some concept arts with my game, so I'll try to post some of them here for you guys! :D

(Yes, It's a zombie apocalypse Tennis game) Of course, you can play them here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tennis-z-a-zombie-apocalypse-tennis-game

:D

If you're exhausted and you crave a slower, atmospheric, eerie, oniric (or so I'm told! - LD folks were really kind to me with their sophisticated adjectives) meditative experience (but with 3d platforming and blinking around!) that's a little rough around the edges, I have exactly what the doctor ordered:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/fallen-leaves

Consider taking it for a spin!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to say that I love this community! This was me and my brother's first ludem dare and the feedback we've been getting has been unexpectedly very positive!

If you haven't already, come check out our game: a tower defense rhythm game!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/music-make-me-shoot-my-gun

If you leave a comment here or on my game, Ill be sure to check yours out and leave feedback as well after work!

... help us with our adventure! Collaborate with other jammers in this textbased MMO story adventure to create our own (very, very) unique adventure.

Click to go to Story Collabs) )

You'll find the compo entry in its entirety at Story Collabs

Share a link of your game in the comments, I'll make sure to give it a go!

Hey guys! I am currently streaming and will be doing so for quite some time! Come post your entry on the form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-S4dOU-TIT8QoeW2mdz-lJTKVfjkHe6KYf2z7wStYfA) and I will play, rate and review it!

https://www.twitch.tv/jeepzor

We've made a live wallpaper of the menu of our game for Wallpaper Engine!

And if you haven't seen it yet, here's our game!

It is a Labyrinth Turn-Based game made in 72 hours, the concept of this game was to mix up the old arcade labyrinth genre (like Wizard of Wor, Pacman) with a modern Turn-Based genre, in a inclusive and new ways, not just following the old limitations but trying to make something innovative and fun. L I N K

and test our game

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/heaven-and-earth

Can you handle this game?

I've watched a lot of people play my game and every one of them got unnerved and a bit freaked out by it. Think you are brave enough to handle it?

Play Captain Bauldy's Fun House here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/captain-bauldys-fun-house

Review Snippets

I had to play till the end and the ending is superb

Damn, that was intense

Wow taht was awesome!

Absolutely great work you have done with this one

Good Luck!

If you rate and review, I'll do the same for your game. Thanks in advance and have fun with Captain Bauldy! 😈

How about both at the same time?

Well... I've got something for you. Introducing, my wonderfully frustrating...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJuy7-m2F6g

Honest Dan's Trout!

Play on PC version in order to compete for a highscore in this retro arcade genre clash!

[entry page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/honest-dans-trout]

Just got a new personal best while playing solo: 1062 points!

Can you beat that? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/duality (there's a web version)

It would have been nice with some stated goals in the game so that people have something to aim for. Lets say that if you reach 750 points you've beaten it on Easy, reach 1000 points and you've beaten it on Medium and at 1250 points you've beaten it on Hard. Only when playing solo though.

So, looks like I've beaten it on Normal difficulty. Next up: Hard!