Come hang out and watch me break your games https://www.twitch.tv/nufflee !

If you didn’t sign up yet, make sure to do so here: https://goo.gl/forms/SyIoqbIqiST8zCS43 .

We were pretty stoked to have Alpha Beta Gamer review our little entry. He even made a little playthrough to help explain WTF is going on :smile:

Read his take here...

https://www.alphabetagamer.com/boxing-surgery-simulator-2000-game-jam-build/

and get your grubby little gloves on it here...

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/boxing-surgery-simulator-2000

You wake up suddenly in the middle of the night in your room after a nightmare… But are you really awake? This room seems pretty hostile in the dark. You have to find your way to the light.

Theme : Horror game for children
Graphics : Voxel
Almost all sound effects : with our mouths
Developers : 3 Master of computer science students
Tools & languages : Unity, MagicaVoxel, C#

Before to check out the solution, try our game :p https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/a-kids-nightmare

Let's play : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-reDZYzXmE

P.S : Will you find the hidden teddy bear? OoO

The Fat Man and the Sea has global leaderboards! Currently @wheffle holds the top slot with a score of 5370, higher than my own of 4700! :laughing:
Can you dethrone him?
Not only that but it's got some good reviews so far too (thanks to everyone who played!).

Thank you for your reviews! We've reached the 20 minimal number but we'd really like to get as much feedback as possible, and maybe see if it's worth developing the game further!

You can check our project page here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/shady-cards

Also feel free to comment this post if you want to review Shady Cards, so we can review your game in return :)

Cheers

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/race-out-of-hell-1

Idle shooter still need some votes.

Try it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/idle-shooter

ok so it's maybe time to write a small post mortem on my submission.

Design

The idea was to do a small top down shooter and mix it with a Idle game mechanic where you upgrade things to a ridiculous extent. This is a solid and safe base and I think it was too safe. The idle game mechanic is nice but working mainly for the money you get. If the balancing was too weak at the beginning the game was immediately less fun and if it was getting crazy with tons of bullet on screen it became confusing so I ended up with only few possible upgrade and gold being the main one that goes in crazy town.

At the beginning of the project I had much more enemy on screen which was quite fun too unreadable and hard when the game found its art style.

Art

Art is definitively not my thing and I think this is something work on for the next LD especially by trying to find a more simplistic art style. Overall I'm still happy with some elements (especially the cactus) but the main character is definitively a bit underwhelming. Just look at him:

For the animation I again avoided to have keyframe animations. A thing I should really try out also for the next LD. I try to make animations mainly using easing functions which work I think quite well for many things. Except of course for the main character that was unfortunately too static.

Code

I am using WakaTime to track my time which is always kind of interesting. For this Ludum Dare I work around 18 hours on my code which is much more than my previous project. This is bizarre to me since I feel the code was more straightforward and simple. The summary showed that I worked a lot on the upgrade and I think it might be because a lot of the balancing was done there.

One of the bad idea was to start the jam by creating a new system to handle entities. This is usually a bad idea to implement tools for a jam but while I lost some time it inspired me to create a new system in the next few days. The idea is registering entities with a list of class or descriptors. But the core idea is to have a simple but flexible query system similar to jQuery. So it would easy for example to get all entities in a zone of the game world that are one fire and not the player ("zone-2-3 on_fire -player"). It was really helpful on this project to get easily all the bullets that are flying without maintaining different arrays like I was doing in the past.

Anyways, thanks for reading and send your games in the comments if you want me to play them.

@NicMagnier

Hey all!

I know we should have done it sooner but we have finally made a MAC build of our LD41 entry! Any feedback would be incredible! We hope you enjoy it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx8gdt76U7s

LD41 page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/beet-farmer

For LD42, the theme should be "Logging In".

You could for example make a game about composing a blog post within a very narrow time window between logging in to a website and being automatically logged out due to a bug or glitch of some kind. This would be the mini game within the larger game, which is to find and fix this bug so that log in sessions are preserved and persistent.

Dating clicker needs another 5 Votes to hit 20!!
Thanks to everybody who already played :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dating-clicker

I'm about 1/4 of the way done rating all the games from the comments section on my game!

There was a lot more than I expected.

If you leave a comment after rating my game I'll be sure to check yours out too!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/super-slime-slasher-ultra

WARNING - This is for you!

Heyy there guys, you must check this game out! You wont regret 😍! You'll enjoy the prepared soundtrack 🎶 from our digital composer Márcia Carvalho and all the concept and art made from scratch in just 2-3 days by me (André Silva) and Pedro Fortes 💪!

We would like to hear from YOUUU 👇!!

Please come give it a try. In our last update we made an WebGL build for it and even simplified our UI, together with fixing many bugs we had since it was published 😋!

Visit our game's website on https://estacaomarte.itch.io/puzzle-invasion and dont forget to give a RATE and COMMENT, we are happy to check out your games tooo!

THE "Puzzllerrs" are coming and ...

All the fun is happening here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/puzzle-invasion

Acid needs ratings!

Hello guys, so we really need the ratings. And since this is our first game, it's very important for us to know how we are doing.

Thank you all who will rate our game and please don't hesitate to share your game in the comments, we will love to play your game as well!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/acid

Finally had time to put time-lapse of my ld entry up on youtube. If you are interested, then go and check it out :)

https://youtu.be/Bvf-93_c9eA

Hey all!

I'm with Tech Valley Game Space (TVGS), a diversity-focused game community in the New York Capital Region. Every Ludum Dare, along with having a real-world jam meeting, we stream Ludum Dare games during the rating period! Our first stream is tomorrow at 8:00 PM EST!

If you'd like us to stream, give feedback, and rate your games, submit it at the form below: goo.gl/forms/zQAhArQG3Lfp2imS2

We'll be live-streaming at twitch.tv/techvalleygamespace. Games will be played on a first come, first serve basis; but if you're on the chat, we'll play your game first! If you'd like to know our review style, a previous recording of our livestream is available below: https://youtu.be/ti2zBlE7Ov8

Hey everyone! Work's out early today so I have a few hours to play more of your games here: https://www.twitch.tv/flightyfelon

If you want to submit your games to the queue go here: https://goo.gl/forms/47nU7JaRpZ85QL8j1 Remember you have to be there for me to play your game :)

Also, if you want to skip the queue there are instructions on the Twitch Stream description. ;P

Hello it's weekend! That means we play and rate games for 48 hours! So don't forget to play my compo game Dancemazing here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dance-for-your-life Don't forget to vote and leave a comment so i can check out your game too! Thanks!

Here are some more games in need of ratings. Again, I can’t make you, but you should prioritize rating games with less than 20 ratings. as usual, they can all be found here (duh): https://ldjam.com/games/danger/all

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/burger-boy

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sky-serpent-paint

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/rpg-clicker

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/follow-the-light

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/pinboy-an-rpg-pinball-game

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/fatty-boy-run

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/chrono-blaster

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/space-pong-invaders

as with the last post, if your game has less than 20 ratings, feel free to post it in the comments.

My game is currently at 17.57 ratings, once it gets past 20, I won’t include it in these lists (which I will do every day) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/zumaster

Rogue Ball https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/rogue-ball by @ctran13 👊