Hey Ho,
Have you guys ever wanted to steer a minecart in a cavern while being bombarded by arrows, magic and bodies? Well then this might be a game for you.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dungeon-drifter
I made this game during the LD Compo time and would like to share it with all of you! Feedback is highly appreciated. Love you guys and see you again in August!
I had a hard time last week and miss a lot of voting time. ~~I will play and feedback games of at least the first 20 commentators under my game.~~ * Big thank you, ludumers! I got all reviews that I needed. *
If you have a low amount of rates, it will be very usefull because "Smart" sorting is not default now and there is not another stable possibility to get 20 rates in a time.
Let's help each other, guys!
While the play rating goes on (and probably for a considerable time after that) you can download the soundtrack from my timelapse video as MP3 files here: https://goo.gl/qTTtHC (61.7MB - free download)
The music is retro/chip inspired but with a modern vibe. I am greatly influenced by music from the C64, Amiga and Demo Scene eras which is a period I dream back to and probably glorify more than I should :)
The package contains 9 tracks with a total duration of 27 minutes and 31 seconds:
If you enjoy the music, I have 10 hours of music available on my web site as well (imphenzia.com)
Here is the timelapse of my LD41 entry which also features the music: https://youtu.be/zOSlkF98v8I
If you like the Black Jack card game and you enjoy car racing games, please checkout this awesome game I wrote. Every hand you win will increase your F1 car speed and try to win the AI in this thrilling 10 Lap race.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/black-jack-racing
:city_sunset: Check out this combination of a city builder and an artillery game.
:construction: Use your Gun for building construction :construction:
Meteors :comet::comet::comet: are falling from the skies, creating rubbish and destroying buildings. But when hitting a Meteor Scoop, they provide ore needed for construction.
:nightwithstars: Clean up, construct, teleport the gun and observe the life of a rainy futuristic city.
Play in Browser: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/ballistic-skylines
We are at 1:08:03 in the video.
Thanks @PhilStrahl for playing and the good feedback.
If anyone else is interested in playing Elite Beat Zombygons you can Here
I hope you enjoy the experience me and my friend created. Share your screenshots full of loving pairs!
Here is the link for the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/blindly-loving
Cheers everyone.
After rating a few games right after the event ended, I only got time to rate again today. All seemed well as I slowly climbed up the board until the default sorting switched to DANGER and basically kicked me off.
danger depicted in-game (labeled)
If you want to help me get closer to the danger zone, you can play my Match-3/Tower Defense game here. I'll keep rating :)
Hey, if you have published an HTML5 version of your game it might be worth checking to make sure the audio still plays. Google released a new version of Chrome yesterday that has broken any game that launches when it loads (including mine, we're still fixing it.)
According to this article, it seems that if you include a button on the page that launches your game, rather than it playing automatically, it should work fine.
So if you've been following my reviews you might have picked up on the fact that I have a very special place in my heart of hearts for chill as hell gaming experiences. Bloom is one of those games. Its a hybrid game mixing elements from Civilization, a platonic dating sim, with a kind of inherited-trait twist and a certain Catan-esque look. I love it. You lead your tribe in forging friendships and alliances with the other tribes, sharing resources and breeding settlers to have physical features that appeal to as many of the other tribes as possible. And you just... get along. This game was calm and engaging and I'm always after relaxing experiences like it! Funny story: when I was a wee kid my Dad used to play Civilization 3 and go absolutely ballistic when the game didn't go as expected (my old man is so bad at all games its so sad) and it sort of ingrained an instinctive, immediate dislike of any game even remotely resembling it. For Bloom's ability to placate years of childhood trauma and deliver a great experience, it gets a big, therapist-approved A+.
Check out @luckyfeathers and @welshfireman 's entry here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/$77069
This new version includes: - Minor game play improvements - Lots of Bug Fixes - New level - Level Editor - Improved menu - Level Modifications - And possibly More!
Some Hype Pictures:
LEVEL EDITOR:
NEW LEVEL:
DEFEAT THE RED KING:
We are working on a 2 Player mode where both players can compete for their best times in Haiti Kitty. I made a quick sketch of a possible Cook for Team B. What do you think? Should I continue work in that direction?
Hello, jammers! As many of you already know, we had a real-world meeting here at Tech Valley Game Space in Troy, NY, USA, and we wanted to share what was created in the area. We're a bit late on listing these games out, but if you happen to have the time, feel free to browse through them and let the respective creators know what you think!
On a side-note, I personally will getting serious on rating games tomorrow. If you have any suggestions, please let me know! I'll prioritize on those who commented and rated my game first.
Do some research, see what happens.
What do get when you blend obstacle-avoiding action with text-based dating?
The answer is Undertale. This game is completely different.
Type the text shown for each part of the promo. Take as much time as you need and then press the “Talk Smack!” button. For each segment of the promo, half-credit is given for capitalization mistakes, and no credit is given if there are any other mistakes. If you get enough credit, more than half of the credits possible, after finishing the promo, you will get a good ending for the promo, and otherwise you will get worse endings. Finish all 4 promos to go to the credits and complete the game!
Paintsmack! Combat painting with Ross Bob. NOW WITH CREATIVE MODE!
Grab your paint and tap “A” to do happy little brushes against the canvas. Do your best to finish the painting before all the happy little critters steal away with your paint or the time runs out. Take a picture of your masterpiece afterwards and share it with the world!
This game is a top-down, turn-based, fighter. The game as an experiment and opportunity to learn C++ and the SFML library. Unfortunately, the best fighter elements weren’t added, but the mechanics are written down in the README.md.
Being the Ludum Dare after Valentine’s Day, it seemed like the perfect time to work on a 2 player cooperative game for gamers to enjoy with their significant others. But, given the theme, what genre could we combine with cooperative play to make a truly romantic experience that would bring couples together the world over? The answer was clear: QWOP. In Salty Scuttle, each player controls one leg of a crab who is trying to migrate to their new home for the new season. Try to help them go as far as possible without flipping them over onto their back!
Hey all! Yet another post-compo update post. I started the compo about 16 hours late, so there were a lot of gaps, in the compo game, but I got far enough (and had enough fun!) that I wanted to keep improving. If you haven't tried the compo version and want to rate it, make sure to check out and rate the original version first. Frogs vs. Cats is a text-adventure platformer that is backwards from many of the other delightful text-adventure mashups I've seen (see below for more on that!), in that you control the frog around the platform in order to drive the text-adventure, which is spelled out in the sky above you, rather than controlling the game via text. Here's a little preview - the hopping gives it a bit of an original Prince of Persia feel, I think:
Once you've rated the compo version (or decided not to rate it!), if you want to play something at least a little more polished, I've piled up enough little improvements (54 commits worth!) to post an update, I think. I've actually locked the doors, refined the controls, added a title screen with directions, fleshed out the levels, added more sounds, refined the text dialog and interactions, and of course squashed a few bugs. Check it out over on the PICO-8 BBS.
Many thanks to the commenters who have left much helpful feedback in the comments so far, especially @antti-haavikko for the detailed run-down that led directly to several of the improvements! Sidenote, I highly recommend their game Binary Blocks, it's incredibly polished and a lot of fun.
And on that note, a shout-out to a couple other text-adventure based games I've seen and loved: Birdy is a delightful little puzzle-platformer with the text elements well-integrated into the game: the more advanced moves are longer and harder to type, and a key element of the challenge is typing them out in time - it's challenging, adorable, and a lot of fun.
AeroWrit is a very different take - a text-adventure flight simulator! It's very well done, the tutorial is top-notch and guides you through the commands very well, and the game itself is a fun little find-the-rings game, that makes very good use of the text-adventure component in a way that works really well and makes it a lot of fun.
If you have other text-adventure mashups, post them below - I'd love to try them out! And keep an eye out for a future post, I'm gonna get back to my game and actually make the "vs" in the title mean something :smile:
The file size of my game is 100 mb, so finally having a web version means more people can play my game.
Also I just created an itch.io because web versions in gamejolt is not that good.
Visit: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/gender-circle
Hey everyone!
We at Geta are hosting a new game jam that will be between June 9th and June 12th!
This jam can be a great opportunity to practice before Ludum Dare 42!
The theme is TEN SECONDS, and you are encouraged to interpret it however you like.
Can't wait to see what you all make! :D
Wow! The first day of tha last voting-week is over in a few hours!
Thanks for all your feedback on CornWars so far. You did not yet leave your feedback on our Farming-Shooter-Game? I want to invite you to do so now :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/ld41-1
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/ld41-1
You're running out of time! Play our game now!!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/super-slime-slasher-ultra
We're returning the favor by rating every game belonging to people who comment on ours, so drop by and leave us a comment and rating and we'll help you out too!
Love,
Sebastian Scaini & the Super Slime Slasher Ultra team.
Take a look at Confessional game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/confessional
I know that this topic might have been discussed in the past but..
In my opinion, the grade filter shouldn't exist. It just allow the games with a lot of ratings get more.
To be honest, when I first joined Ludum Dare last year, most of the games I rated was the games I found interesting by using the grade filter. Right now I still sometimes use that filter to find some interesting games but I still kind of worry that they deprive the attention of other possibly more deserving games with less ratings, especially with newcomers.
But that is just my opinion, I still think that the existence of that filter have a good purpose.
And also I noticed that there's no dedicated section to the games who like entered the top 10 ranking in each category. Last time I saw something like that was in LD 39 and its just like in a notepad something. They obviously deserve better
We hope that our players enjoyed playing Type 'n Run. 🙂
Furthermore, we would like to share with you guys an overview of our level layout:
For a high-resolution image, just Right-click it and select Save As.
:icecream: Serve all the ice creams you can ! :smile: :icecream: :apple: :icecream: :grapes: :icecream: :lemon:
Hey guys! Come and play!
We need votes to reach the 20 points required to get the final score of our game! We need as much feedbacks as possible!
Leave a comment and we'll also rate your game to thank you!
LOVE YOU GUYS <3
Our game has received 16 ratings, but to our dismay the system has already switched to the Danger filter. We planned to do the ratings in the 2nd and 3rd week, but that plan is now ruined. Generally, if we understand correctly, raters no longer have an incentive to rate, because it will not increase their game's rank. We knew the same thing happened during LD40, but it was only in the last 2-3 days, not the whole week! It's possible to switch the game sorting manually, but if LD40 is any indication, raters do not seem to do this very often. There must be a lot of people with this problem! We are unhappy that this happened without a proper announcement, so there was no way to plan for this.
Our game is "Frogger: the Jigsaw"
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/frogger-the-jigsaw
Also check out our search engine (under development):
http://tmtg.nl/ld41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRYex30jF_4
I'm a regular game dev streamer on Twitch, and will be running one final stream playing and rating LD41 games! The stream will take place during the 4 hours leading up to the rating deadline (21:00GMT / 16:00 EST). The stream will start approximately 17:00 GMTST (12:00 EST) on Tuesday 15th , if you want a notification when I go live feel free to follow me on Twitch.
Please read the rules at the top of the submission spreadsheet. One of the most important rules is: If you are not in chat when I try to play your game, you will be removed from the list and need to resubmit. This may seem a harsh rule, but I stand by it - no exceptions sorry. I want to give feedback to those who are viewing the stream, and I want those waiting in line to be able to predict roughly when their game will be played - without those who missed their turn cutting back into the queue repeatedly.
DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR GAME VIA COMMENTS IN THIS THREAD - USE THE LINKS BELOW TO THE SIGN UP FORM.
I will play the game and write feedback on stream, but I do my star ratings off screen as I don't want to influence anyone else's decisions on a game.
SIGN UP FORM: https://goo.gl/forms/Ik58l8EdBnVWpqIM2
QUEUE: https://goo.gl/idu7QU
TWITCH CHANNEL: https://www.twitch.tv/honestdangames
My LD41 entry is Honest Dan's Trout if you were interested in trying it out.
Congratulations all LD41 champions for taking part and unleashing your creativity!
Previously: Part 4: Staying Sane During A Jam
Some of our titles, such as Artax for Ludum Dare 39, have a lot of animation work. Some have less. As it turns out, Wreckless Rally is one of the latter. The car sprites are rotated by means of @daanvanyperen's mystical programming magic, and exist of just two frames where there's a very bare-bones lighting shift on the tires. The advantage is that this gives me a lot of time for environment sprites, but I do want to keep up my animation practice this jam.
Ah, great! Here's a good opportunity to animate, albeit a short one. What will add some game juice is a sexy effect to make successful combos pop. I have a look at a Bejeweled video on YouTube at 25% playback speed, and see that they briefly enlarge the sprites before shrinking them down. I decide to add an additional flash effect, and we have a nice dynamic scoring effect.
The oil slick sprite I made doesn't really pop off the screen enough. We do want the plays to notice them, so I set out to make them more noticeable. I start with my original unmoving sprite, which is a simple dark grey with a subtle colourful oily outline and ripple shapes.
A simple shine animation, where a bright line passes across the sprite, should do the trick. There are various ways to execute this - you can add a secondary glimmer shooting across after the main glimmer, or have the glimmer shoot back across the oil slick, for instance. I decide to keep it simple, as we are on day 3 of the jam already, and there's more polishing to be done.
Now to add some oily colours to it. I choose green, blue and purple - like the outline I had put on the sprite originally, but much lighter. You can add yellows and reds to oil as well (anything goes, really), but I do not want to overdo it.
Hmm, it still just looks like a plain line moving across the sprite. So I have the effect spread out across the outline a little, and also hit the little drops that splattered outside of the main slick.
Much better, it adds a lot more life to a simple dark stain on the tarmac already.
And finally, the last thing we need is some starting lights, to get things going. I start with a giant 16-light setup like in Formula 1 at first, but then simplify this down to a basic four light red-to-green count. The big setup is probably not clear enough to players unfamiliar with Formula 1, after all.
That about concludes my art process postmortem blog posts. As I said at the start, the animations this jam are few and simple, but I am glad there was something to animate - gotta keep practicing! Looking back now, I don't have too many regrets regarding the graphics. I kind of messed up on the dirt tiles a little, deciding to start with only a vertical border between it and the tarmac, and then awkwardly adding diagonal borders separately from vertical borders which don't line up that well. But it's subtle and I felt I could get away with it.
And with that we reach the end. I hope you've enjoyed these blog posts, and that they might help you in your own process in the future. Thanks for reading!
Check it out! I made a little browser/visualization project for the different genre combos for LD41!
It's a neat way to explore all the different ideas and combinations people had. There were a lot of games entered, so I could use your help tagging games, so if you like this please tag a few games and hopefully we can get the whole set of them categorized! Feedback is welcome, and let me know on twitter (@joeld42) if your game is miscategorized and I'll fix it. Thanks!
UPDATE! Added a SEARCH feature so you can find your game! Go tag your entry!
First Ludum Dare and we did something crazy with building a VR Game for Android. The problem is that only few people could try our game, because not everyone owns a cardboard compatible vr headset. So if you do, please check it out and rate our game. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/wrongpriorities
At the time of the Ludum Dare we simply didn't have any time to make a trailer for our game Run for Love but now we have one :D https://youtu.be/uvfHUWeHhMM
Hey guys can anyone tell me how do you come up with a great game idea ? :)
as with the last post, if your game has less than 20 ratings, feel free to post it in the comments.
My game finally has enough votes, but a lot of games still don’t. Among those are:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/frogger-the-jigsaw
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/brains-of-racing
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/starting-our-jam-project-horror-rythm-game
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchsver
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/a-title-for-a-game
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/fifty-card-crawl
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/royal-heights-battleroyalplateformer
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/legendary-alien-race
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/granddad-approves
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/firun
as always, they can all be found at https://ldjam.com/games/danger/all and https://ldjam.com/games/zero/all
Please show your support to all the games you can by helping them reach enough votes for a score.
Do you like football and Surival Horror? Check my entry! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/football-horror
You are playing football game, when accidentally zombie apocalypse happend! You need to survive as long as you can, while scoring goals, and hitting zombies with the ball.
Survive all the waves, and score as much points as you can!
https://youtu.be/9XARagAztdM
I'm so thankful for your feedback! Still extremely interested in your impressions and stories cause they are so unique and this is just awesome. Feel free to share and discuss!
The first part contains some early concepts and arts that didn't make it to the final game.
This gamejam changed a lot for me personally and I wrote about it in the second part.
Imagine you can't see the maze...
Imagine a big black screen.
But it's a game ?
YES.
Try it : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/maze-in-dark
challenge yourself! Try to destroy all enemies and score 8200 points
You can play it in your browser Or download it to your computer (windows) have fun
play the game here =) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/crazy-cube
Hello fellow jammers! We all hope you had a great time working on a game for Ludum Dare 41. Our jam game this year was titled "The not-so Correct Platformer." It was a blast creating it! We were super excited once we finished, and we are even more excited to announce that we are taking this project forwards officially under a new name: PixDoom. We're adding new bosses, re-making old ones, improving the platforming, and generally pouring much more polish into it. It will be a new experience for us as we have never released a full game before, but that's part of the fun of it!
Unfortunately, this means that we will no longer be developing post jam versions. We will release our final post jam version on the 31st, and then we will be moving on to the fulltime development of PixDoom as a paid release. We're going to be releasing under our brand new publisher name: Koala Squad! If you want to follow us and our development on PixDoom and our other games, check us out at koalasquad.wordpress.com. Cheers!
link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/yum-some
I can't praise this game highly enough. I'm a huge sucker for a well-executed creep factor and Woodsy just does a great job with very difficult art driven elements- like mood and humor and ambiance and tension... I could go on. The pixel art is stylish and unique looking and the monsters are certainly creepy and scary but also very well designed and individualized. The writing in this is fresh and a little sardonic but natural feeling and that really lends itself to the overall tone of the game and the implementation of this jam's theme. This game also describes my idea neighborhood. I give this game 5 friendly cryptids out of 5.
Check out @ghodan @moawko and @ninjaropes entry here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/woodsy
It's the final sprint and the emotional rollercoaster of my first jam spins uncontrollably! After 140 ratings and feedback comments vs 69 rates recieved it's time to call for some ratings.
All previous feedbacks are being applied to the post jam version for you to try but the game's essence haven't changed. NEW helping arrow for easy mode! Get used to this FRESH game mechanics with ease!
Any comments are welcome and with it you'll recieve a thankfull rate and comment in return. Challenge your strategy skills in TACTICAL HYDRA!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tactical-hydra
Definitely I'll continue with this game. More space monsters and android version to come!
Feel like running your very own restaurant? Putting together customer orders by running around collecting food items? If so, how about checking out my game Order Up! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/order-up Thanks!!!
I've been really busy since Ludum Dare 41 ended, but I've managed to update my game The Royale We so it actually works with keyboard and mouse. I also made some gameplay changes and added Hi-Scores.
It's a mix of battle royale and arcade Hi-Score. Run around grabbing coinz while everyone kills everyone else. When you die, turn into a ghost and possess another person so you can keep collecting coinz. You are ALWAYS the last one left standing.
You can check the code out here: https://github.com/arnodick/royalewe
We <3 all of you that have rated so far!
We're really, really close to hitting 200 ratings! Can you help us pass this milestone?
Now that the filter is on danger, no one is rating my game even though I have coolness, it would be awesome if you could check it out :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/magneto-de-liquidus
And... How about Puzz Snake? Have you tried it?
I would really love to see someone playing my game, but my problem is when I recommend my game to streamers I can't watch it because of my extremely slow internet connection. I always hope that the stream will be availabe after it streamed but most of the time its not.
I would really appreciate to see someone playing my game.
Play and give any new idea about my game of FPS+Platformer. What things that can be improved and how can I make it good for mobile. Thank You
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/numbness
In our game - Fear of Silence, we want to mix horror and rhythm games! We thought that this would be an interesting mix of genres, because it's quite absurd!! And we decided to make a cool atmosphere by choosing the theme of the level of the entrance of the house from the post-Soviet space!
As we think the atmosphere at us turned out, but in two days we did not manage to realize much that wanted! These are some elements of the horror, like screamers, monsters, etc.
The rhythm elements of the game we sketched pretty fast, it turned out to be acceptable, but we would not have had time to do something more cool, since we did not have experience in such types of games unfortunately! Rhythm set is very complex, so it is difficult to move, but we've added the ability to disable the rhythm of the game, so that players can simply evaluate the level of the atmosphere!
We hope you will appreciate our game on advantage!
Link - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/fear-of-silence
I've been hugely involved in working on StarPath this time around; I loved the idea of it, but I had a hell of a time with the contest because of Big Issues With Work that started even before Ludum Dare began. Plus my old collision and geometry code didn't prove... quite up to task.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/space-telepath-war
I've put a "Post Ish Jam" Version here that's resembling more of what I wanted. SPACE, SHIFT, and WASD/arrows: http://gwbloom.com/dev/games/ludum/ludum41.1/
I'm still updating it, mostly been bugfixing and trying to wrangle the mechanics to give better content... as mentioned below.
Losing half the Ludum Dare weekend kind of killed my chances, unfortunately. But additionally I've had to do (and redo) the geometry code for this... a lot. To give you an idea, I have only added the Checkpoints, the tutorial "Jumping" character, and a better level "deployment" system. Everything else has been debugging. Almost all of it involving a whole new collision type I've never dealt with before, "Rays". I thought I had code to handle this... boy was I wrong.
Don't bother about voting. I'm mostly interested in comments anyway! :) I'm not completely happy with the mechanics; if you have the same color as a laser, why push the box? Why interact when you can build, or teleport? This has been my other challenge here (beyond geometry code). There's fun potential here, but I have to think mechanics more.
And fix the bloody ray/path collisions. Gr...
Oh come on!
A lot of people requested a WebGL build of our game so it has now been uploaded! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/iocus-navis
Hey guys!
There is not much time! We need votes to get a score for our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/gimgumho!
Please play and rate our game! We'll also rate your game if you leave a comment!
Try this game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/soccer-fight
We had finally some time to plan updates and expansion for our ENTRY
At this moment we are working on the Menu and we are polishing our current play-able level (we have first drafts of new vehicles)
Next stop will be design of new levels. We have already few ideas in hand and on the paper but if you would have any suggestion, feel free to share your thoughts with us.
And if you haven't played our game yet, come and try it ;) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/jing-jang-delivery-co
Do you want to be a knight fighting mischievous enemies? 👺⚔️🤺
If you want to slay some monsters while making pairs, this is your game.
With a Web version so you can play it without downloads! :smile:
I love playing all the games it's really fun. if you haven't checked out my game, I would love if you did. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/demons-in-the-nfl
Hello guys, my game is a few rattings to reach 20. I would love if you guys could check it out.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hyper-simox-3000
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/the-royale-we
if you add your game try to make it to the stream for us to play it.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/text-gen-platformer
Thanks for all your feedback about our submission CornWars LD!
We decided to take the project one step further and make a real game out of it. If you did not rate our game yet feel free to visit our submission and do so:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/ld41-1
The image links to our kiuckstarter campaign!
Ships with no captain has arrived in ya dock!
We need ya help, cabin boy. Go to you harbor and fetch some cannon fodda (fishes). Throw it all against those freshwatah’ sailers!!
We recommend downloading the game if you want to feel the freshness of the sea, Arr!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/fish-ships
Shuffle Climbers - Will you ever reach the top?
Thank you all for the more than 100 ratings and the feedback you gifted us with! 😊
Also, returning players will find some neat fixes and value tweaks that make the gameplay more dynamic! (you can already see it in the GIF! :wink:).
Play it in browser here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/shuffle-climber
These are the current best times and commands performances on our game Type 'n Jump:
User @eToThePi-i finished our game with in 01:37.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQm0YF_mSE
User @lexi finished our game with in 01:42.
Users @bernardex and nlemmer finished our game in 02:08.
User @lexi finished our game with 70 commands.
User @eToThePi-i finished our game with 71 commands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buR87qDIWwI
User nlemmer finished our game with 74 commands.
LD41 brought with it a very strange theme; and with it, some very strange games.
My game is one of those games.
I give you...
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/interdenominational-brows
I was inspired from the keynote by @philstrahl to really Push myself this Ludum Dare!
After I heard what the theme was, I sat with my teammate @thunderawesome on Google Hangouts more perplexed than ever. It took us nearly 2 hours to wrap our heads around this idea. After joking and sharing buckets of terrible (and equally awesome) ideas, we decided to get prototyping.
This game was so many things before it became what it did and by the end I was more happy it was playable than anything.
After submitting, I wasn't really expecting anything. Maybe someone would get lost along the way to a game they had meant to play and accidentally played mine? (My expectation were very low)
I was surprised when I found the very opposite! In fact, quite a few people had tried it and had some really nice things to say, along with some extremely valid feedback! I felt like, they didn't see the game for what it was as much as they saw the game how I saw it: what it could be!
Seriously, I had NO IDEA how amazing and supportive this community was. From the bottom of my strange, discolored and smelly mess of a heart..
Thank you :]
Hey!
As part of Team Gromel, I worked on Realm Of The Hero. It's a (not so much) JRPG/Dating simulator.
https://team-gromel.itch.io/realm-of-the-hero
Feel free to play & rate it!
https://youtu.be/p6Ght4LCQfc
Hello everyone !
We were very happy to participate for this Ludum Dare where the theme was very interesting. We were a bit sceptical at the beginning when the theme was announced because of the many possibilities we could find combining two genre. We had so many ideas and proceeded by elimination to find something that would be cool to make and to play. That's how The Fishing was born (thank you The Shining).
For that game we wanted to play the little worm that the fisherman throws to catch some fishes. So once he throw the worm, you take control of him and explore the depth of this...lake...sea...whatever, lets call it "the shining water" and well, you want to break free. So all along the adventure, your quest is to get rid of that rod (and optionally gather all gems for fun only).
When creating the level, we wanted at first to make a "level 1 - level 2 etc..." but interestingly, the tool we used to create them was too slow and tedious to handle (each tile corner needed to be placed by hand, sides too etc.) So we decided to make one and only level where you just go deeper and deeper. And that turned exceptionally well ! I mean we were happy with it :) Unfortunately, we didn't acknowledge that there was a built-in tilemap tool in unity. And therefore it would have saved us so much time if we did know that. The free asset was perfect and handy, but placing them each one of them manually took a long time to do. And the more we put blocks, the more my pc started to melt, you get the picture.
So you have a safe zone at the top of the level, and more you go deeper, more it becoms darker and more tense. That is how we wanted this to happen, and we were happy of the result.
I did 6 different fishes in pixel art, each of them have a swimming animation and a frame where they have the mouth open. We wanted to give each fish a different behavior to surprise you during the game, only the shark and the purple fish have the same behaviour. - the purple fish: When you enter his vinicity he pauses, open his mouth and start to follow you until he reaches you - the Shark: Same behavior as the purple fish - the nose fish: This fish stops, open his mouth and speed to the last position you were - Baloon fish: This fish is the least scarier and he just "puffs" when you get too close to him - Skull fish: This one doesn't pause, he goes in a limited straight line very fast. If you are too close you are good to start again - Lantern fish: It actually open his mouth but doesn't mouth, he waits until you pass above him... and strike like a thunder ! (We are very proud of this one)
It was a great weekend and we are very happy to have participated. In its current state, our game is the original gam jam version. We didn't do a post-jam one because we try as much as we can to make it bug-free and we are very satisfied with what we came up. We had a lot of fun making it, we had a lot of fun playing your games too. This is our first ludum dare (we are 2) and we would be very pleased to participate as much as we can :) And hopefully see you all around too (with newcomers!)
Thank you for this wonderful Jam.
Have a nice day !
Hey! It's time for us to thank everyone for the awesome feedback we received! The ratings and reviews were really helpful, and we learned a lot during this jam. We only need a few more votes left until we hit the 50 mark, so if you are interested in a story-based, weird detective game, here is your chance:
Hello guys ! We need you to have the last marks on our game ! It's remaining just a few days so.. We would like to be ranked to see our level for our first game jam ! So let's go playing Gazbuster ! And we are going to rate your games too ! Have fun and thank you !
Reminder : You are a toxic gas which is trying to escape the hospital where it appeared. You'll need to be responsive to reach the 7th floor to escape ! Be carefull, you can kill humans on your road, but be carefull, you're not immortal. Good luck ! :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/gazbuster
Have you ever wondered how your (love) life would have played out had you been born a manticore? Did you always want to have a harem full of cute and terrifying monsters? Us too! And now finally the answer to all these questions is here.
"Rose-Coloured Dungeon Life", a game that has you romancing monsters instead of killing them. (We mean that. No killing monsters neccessary.) Instead you slaughter humans (they deserve it), get to know up to four unique partners (could it be there is a secret fifth one? naaaah.) and save the dungeon. We know you love to be the knight in shining armor. (Though you may die some times. Use WaifuMode for more waifu and less shining.)
Ludum Dare 41 have almost passed, I think now is the perfect time for a post-mortem.
To the last minute (and even 4 hours after) my participation wasn't certain because there was an exam to pass that started a half an hour after the theme was announced. Nonetheless, I was too excited about the upcoming LD and couldn't resist picking the theme before going to the university. The theme was completely unexpected (the first thought was like "Really, Ludum Dare, REALLY???"). Then I came to the university and discussed the theme with my groupmates who came up with a handful of ideas, from completely stupid or impossible to complete in 72 hours to pretty acceptable ones. As I passed the exam, I took @komnotmr and after a lazy brainstorm session, we finally came up with an idea for the game: a platformer, controlled from a command line. It was a somewhat difficult choice because there are not many people who find typing-based games fun and I had no idea if such a combination will be playable. But I decided to take the risk and began coding (unfortunately, @komnotmr couldn't join me this time).
...and Ludum Dare is a great opportunity to do it! This is what I got from the LD41:
Boink!
For me Ludum Dare is a full spectre of emotions, from despair ("No way I can do it in the time this short.") to overwhelming excitement ("Holy crap, I did it!"). And the pleasant bonus in the end of it are a game to be proud of and a pile of awesome games to play and rate.
The next time I want to take part in the compo and use something different to Phaser, more low-level stuff like PIXI with Matter or even some sort of C. For now, I just want to relax and play some more games. =)
Thanks for reaching this line!
P.S.: for everyone who left their feedback for my game: thank you very much, guys and gals! You are the greatest power of Ludum Dare! And special thanks to @jupiter-hadley and @philstrahl: watching someone playing my game is not only a pleasure, but a rare kind of feedback, the most valuable one, I guess.
Hey, we made a small video to cover some methods how to get more ratings on your Ludum Dare entry :)
https://youtu.be/DFedoor36Ls
We released a post jam version of our game Super Soup Slicer. It now more resembles the idea we initially thought of, but couldn't fully implement because of the little time (surprise, surprise). The most important improvements are:
as with the last post, if your game has less than 20 ratings, feel free to post it in the comments.
My game finally has enough votes, but a lot of games still don’t. Among those are:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/super-happy-curling
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/bouncebot-doorquest
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/super-match-walker
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/shadow-puppets-dms-revenge
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hack-turn
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/incredungeoneer
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/a-gentlemans-shooter
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hate-2d-horror-game
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/after-common-era
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/run-farmer
as always, they can all be found at https://ldjam.com/games/danger/all and https://ldjam.com/games/zero/all
Please show your support to all the games you can by helping them reach enough votes for a score.
Please check it out! It contains Gif's, I promise!
https://anankino.wordpress.com/2018/05/10/tour-de-france-legstrong-post-mortem/
Not interested? Just play the game and enjoy! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tour-de-france-legstrong
Just in case you want to, here is the link
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/text-card-action-game
And if you choose to, thanks.
I saw this other day, and I wanted to do for my game too.
If you haven't played Confessional yet, give a chance! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/confessional
Try to destroy all enemies and score 8200 points
You can play it in your browser Or download it to your computer (windows) have fun
play the game here =) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/crazy-cube
I'll be rating and feedbacking games this evening. If you need/want more ratings to your games feel free to leave a link at the comments.
I'll be at the danger zone meanwhile.
You can return the favor at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tactical-hydra =O)
I played this game early on and the only reason I hesitated on a 'review' was because I wasn't entirely sure how to word my reaction. Whether the developer intended it or not, there's a stark poignancy going on here that elicited a real reaction from me and I was very excited to think about its potential. Inherently neutral game mechanic or possible vehicle for a much deeper meaning aside, the game quickly established an insidious tone right out of the gate that could easily couple with any number of wider reaching motifs. Again, I think the potential to link this to overarching themes of injustice could make this a super powerful game serving up capital A art. But all that aside, what IS here is a great mechanic that can swing into dark humor or harsh metaphor (or both?) and I'm impressed with the mood and versatility that's come out of a Jam game- scratch that- a COMPO game. For delivering a solid mechanic that really plays off two themes with a lovely bit of sardonic crunch, this game gets 5 concealed assailants culling the weak from the herd out of 5.
Check out @kromeboy 's entry here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/the-long-walk
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/seadogs-working-title
You are a pirate aboard a ship, responsible for keeping the boat spick and span. Cleaning is hard work, but you have a secret. Use magic to clean faster, but don’t let your fellow crew members see your powers or else you will become shark bait.
[Control / Gameplay] Use WASD to move “E” to manually interact “SPACE” to use magic “ESC” to quit game move around the pirate ship reloading cannons, try and do it before the captain gets mad, also use your secret magic powers to make your life easier and instantly accomplish a task.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/seadogs-working-title
You may ask how are these themes incompatible? Well, there is pirates, stealth, magic, and chores. You decide!
Comment your high scores below!
We recently put a crap load of work into a post jam version of our first Ludum Dare game it has been quite a success so we decided to create this in thanks for the support! 😁
PLEASE PLAY AND COMMENT: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/platscii
The New Version Includes: - Minor game play improvements - Lots of Bug Fixes - New level - Level Editor - Improved menu - Level Modifications - And possibly More!
REMEMBER: You can make level, click export, copy the text and paste it in the comments of PlatSCII for a chance to get it featured on our page as well as a shout out to your game!
Some Pictures:
Level Editor:
New Level:
Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/yum-some
I did a short write up on the audio that went into Super Slime Slasher Ultra for anyone who is interested.
I also want to publicly announce that if SSSU places top 10 in any Ludum Dare category that I will be releasing a rap re-mix version of the soundtrack under the moniker Rupert the Rhyme Smasher Ultra. You've been warned.
Play here if you haven't already!
Visit: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/gender-circle
I've posted this list before, but it's been a few days and we're getting closer to the end of the rating period.
This is the list of all the multiplayer games I've found, but this time ::dramatic hand gesture:: I'm highlighting ones that aren't currently at 20 votes yet. The games in the 20-25 range are possibly also not at 20 in specific categories, so I've separated them out too. (If your game is >25 but you need some category love, let me know and I'll move you to that list.)
Also, if you want me add any games I missed or make any corrections to the list, let me know in the comments.
Oh, and they are all local games unless otherwise specified.
I like comparing my ratings over time, and I just need 1 more in the "Humor" category to get to 20! Any help would be appreciated!
Now that the LD41 play+rate is almost over, I want to thank to all of you who play and rate my game, all the feedback have been wonderful, I got a lot of notes of things to improve. Thanks!
If you haven't played yet, you can do it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/think-before-escape
And now, some gifs 😜
I'll toss this up one last time. I did a fair shake at trying to work with something, but I never got the whole game together in time! Long story. But Jeremy Ouillette did a short but good music clip!
So now I’ve put a “Post Ish Jam” Version here that’s resembling more of what I wanted. You hold SPACE or SHIFT, and WASD/arrows, to move: http://gwbloom.com/dev/games/ludum/ludum41.1/
I’m still updating it, mostly been bugfixing, adding sequences, and trying to wrangle the mechanics...
I’m not completely happy with how I'm playing with the mechanics; if you have the same color as a laser, why push the box? Why interact when you can build, or teleport? This has been my other challenge here (beyond geometry code). There’s fun potential here, but I have to think mechanics more.
What do people think? How would you combine these mechanics? - teleportation, wall building? color immunity and pushing blocks?
The original entry is here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/space-telepath-war
Shield!
When push comes to shove
So far I've * tweaked the dash controls * added a shield required on dash that destroy a bunch of projectiles when it's used up * the players get shoved away when dashed into (as opposed to just pushed) * nicer death/rally end animation * more stuff
* I welcome any suggestions.*
Short on votes? Want some feedback? Want to someone experiences your game live on stream?
I'm a regular game dev streamer on Twitch, and will be running one final stream playing and rating LD41 games! The stream will take place during the 4 hours leading up to the rating deadline (21:00GMT / 16:00 EST). The stream will start approximately 17:00 GMTST (12:00 EST) on Tuesday 15th , if you want a notification when I go live feel free to follow me on Twitch.
Please read the rules at the top of the submission spreadsheet. One of the most important rules is: If you are not in chat when I try to play your game, you will be removed from the list and need to resubmit. This may seem a harsh rule, but I stand by it - no exceptions sorry. I want to give feedback to those who are viewing the stream, and I want those waiting in line to be able to predict roughly when their game will be played - without those who missed their turn cutting back into the queue repeatedly.
DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR GAME VIA COMMENTS IN THIS THREAD - USE THE LINKS BELOW TO THE SIGN UP FORM.
I will play the game and write feedback on stream, but I do my star ratings off screen as I don't want to influence anyone else's decisions on a game.
SIGN UP FORM: https://goo.gl/forms/Ik58l8EdBnVWpqIM2
QUEUE: https://goo.gl/idu7QU
TWITCH CHANNEL: https://www.twitch.tv/honestdangames
My LD41 entry is Honest Dan's Trout if you were interested in trying it out.
Congratulations all LD41 champions for taking part and unleashing your creativity!
This is my highest score so far (on easy mode) :). I would be really curious about yours. I know the weapons and signatures seem unnecessary in the beginning. But if you don't use them to actively hunt down asteroids, but as life savers when you can't dodge anymore, they get pretty useful in the later game.
Another tip: Don't use every space station on the way. This costs a lot of scrap.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/astropuzz
I uploaded a simple gameplay to show the mechanics.. if you think it's too chaotic, it's supposed to be!! Have you ever heard of a stadium where everybody stays in silence?? :)
Game link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/soccer-fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cFwgwQkl8Q
Click here to play Puzz Snake! :D