Hey guys I finally decided to stream myself playing and rating the awesome games youve made over the weekend! I loved getting in touch with the people who make games, so I cant wait to get going with you guys!

https://www.twitch.tv/twinghosts

Come to see a fumbling brit stumble on his own words while reviewing you game at @ https://www.twitch.tv/devio ! Come to say hi in chat! And if you could, It would mean the world to me if you could follow, So close to the big 50! Type !request in chat to find out how to get your game played!

Hey, I'll be playing and rating some web games, if anyone wants their game played, reply with the link and I'll be happy to check them out :D

If you wanna check out my game in return here it is

My wife wanted to play it so I made an Android version with a slightly larger UI, it works pretty well with touch controls!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/going-up

• Tap lift to select it
• Tap guest to send them to open lift
• Use lift controls on right to program floors and open/close doors
• Tap icons on left to move camera to another floor

Loyalty to the State Intensifies!

*Feedback was received voluntarily and the government of Best Korea did not sponsor this game.

Hey guys, check it out: we have managed to release an epic sandbox platformer about one man's struggle versus the system in a smartly generated nigh endless upwards-facing dungeon! Space Ltd. the huge megacorporation has taken over minds of normal people and YOU are the only one who can possibly bring it down!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/break-the-system

• Test your wits trying to find a way to outsmart the system and free your friends from being possessed by it.
• Find a way to climb up the Space Ltd. office building and confront the guards and turrets.
• Break your usual environment, escape the limits of reality and overcome the hard drive space the server that hosts this cruel game.

However, this is not an easy task: the first floor of the office building has restricted access to the upper floors, so you will have to find a way to get this access, perhaps, by committing a crime. For the greater good!

You can pick up items, throw stuff, shoot people, carry around the company's papers and mostly do whatever your imagination allows in order to achieve the goal. Try out everything, and DO NOT GIVE UP! We believe in you!

Good luck ^_^ (you're gonna need it)

Another stream tonight, probably around 2200 UK time. It's been fun playing your games. If you'd like me to stream your game, please rate/comment mine, link here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/red-square

I'm working through the comments from the top down.I'll rate and post feedback with the gameplay video of your game the next day. Thanks, I've really enjoyed doing this so far!

Previous streams: (games also in live chat)

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297624571

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297339046

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297336881

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297325479

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/296991095

Today a friend drew this because he liked the game.

Im so hyped by this because somebody drew a picture based on my game (i dont care that it was a friend)

Thanks guys, my game has over 20 ratings in nearly all categories, If you want to try it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/ice-n-fice

Shoot skeletons that only disappear when they are put to rest in the grave.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/death-remains

Post the link to your game in the comments below and I will rate and review them.

Hi guys! I didn't have time to play your games yet, but I intend to. The first games I will evaluate will be those that it's creators evaluated my game, I promisse!

Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/a-d-rollspace

If you want, you can post your game and we'll play and rate it, because we are really bored! :DD

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/space-runner-2048

So I spent some time making this gameplay trailer for our game so that people can see what they're getting into before playing (since our game is on the larger side). What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=empbLG9TyZU

You can play our game here

I rated games and my own game was always somewhere up there. And than suddenly i got put down where hardly nobody could find it. Why?

C'mon guys, we all want our games played ^^. So post your game in the comments and i'll try them ! You can still try our game here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/hells-kitchen

All this you can do in our topdown roguelite game, in a wasteland full of trash and hungry monsters. We hope you check it out! :)

Awesome! I can finally go back to working on my non-game jam games! This has been a great first experience with the Ludum Dare, and I hope I can participate in many more. For those who haven't checked out my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/scrap-yard-is-complete

Thanks to everyone who rated, and to any of those who continue to rate my game!

Here, following the comments that were made about the game "Prog-Jet vs Guardians", I was able to fix the three gameplay and user interface errors.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/prog-jet-vs-guardians

Here is a short demonstration of the game.

https://youtu.be/Hi23_Nz6bOU

Please play and rate my game. There is an WebGL version in the description. I'll make the same for your entries! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/placeholder-1

Play on web: https://rudimentary-escapism.itch.io/cyber-janitor

Rate: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/cyber-janitor

Did you know? You can test "Hello Ground" directly on your internet browser without having to download anything!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/hello-ground

Have fun :)

Check out our game Space Balls! A platformer where you go in and out of space, and use gravity to your advantage to overcome obstacles

Play it here: https://shafournee.itch.io/spaceballs

Rate it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/space-balls

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/my-system-is-getting-hacked

We give you a helicopter, private and safe islands and the chance to saves small persons from melting icebergs, what are you waiting for!https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spldj42

I'm playing LD42 games on stream! Submit yours in chat with !submit https://www.twitch.tv/lumpytouch

but this is the answer to the most common questin :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/pre-alpha-build

https://youtu.be/CwqTd4QpuJE

Come try the game:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/out-of-space-3

If you have some extra time: I would really appriciate a comment on mine https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/stop-climate-change

I was gonna do this on the minimum but one my friends crashed and i didnt have much time so i just commented thank you's on my game So here we go Thanks to everyone who has voted so far and the flow seems to be stopped,i wouldnt have thought that on my first ever entry i would get 45 rating!thats just a dream achived for me!lets tick that out of the list.im not that type of talko so thanks again everyone on the comments These are the people that commented and i could see their names,sorry if you rated and i didnt see you,go comment now if you didnt before👇 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/the-red-pixel So these people are the ones who have been a saving angel for me and sent me to the minimum rating so shout out to them and go check out their games as well they all made awsome games @jegus9 @pyjamaboy @pamoy @tontonpizza(lolito on discord) @smiley @mike-inprinciple @pixelshorts @pixelformedstudios @lisa @powlow-paolo @yamifive @yohann-geoffroy @eugene-opryshko @flashviper @laytanl @infertur @drludos @fireslash @sachay @shinysteel @namnam @ceasar @bigjigglyproductions @arche-san Go check out these peoples games they are awsome and really helped me get on with my game they cheered me up and proved me the unprovable Thanks alot guys i love you comments from negative to posutive,and i hope you are having a fantastic ludum dare Aldo check out my game i will rate your games if you comment! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/the-red-pixel Good Luck🍀

So I've decided to record a new gif :s

You can check the game at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/running-from-space

We made a game inspired by Carmageddon, GTA and L4D.

(You're a scientist fighting football hooligans)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4TW63h9jQ

Please try it out! :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/bloody-hooligans

Game Page:https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/pats-pack/

And the theme is…

Saturday, 00:00 (12AM for you weirdos using this kind of time system).
While ldjam.com is offline because a gazillion people want to know the theme, I jump on Twitter and see it: “Running out of space”. Alone in my home, I'm on Discord with my teammates Kokonaught and Noojsan.

Quickly we have an idea we like: the story of a bodybuilder living in a tiny appartment whose life gets harder and harder while he gets bigger and bigger. Gameplaywise it would have been a game with fast paced minigames, kind of like WarioWare.
To keep things open we're still discussing other ideas, one of which is about people living on floating island and being forced to throw stuff overboard to prevent them from sinking.

After some discussions we decided to go with this second idea. The first one, heavily relying on a large number of minigames to be fun, seemed less jam-oriented.

It is now 02:00 (AM) and I go to sleep in order to get to work early in the morning.

The doubt

I get up around 07:00 (AM) and start building the foundations for our game: an isometric map with tiles disappearing, a character being able to move around and to grab and throw things around.
A little while after my lunch, my teammates are back at work with me (we're in two different time zones so our sleep cycles were offset). Once we're back together something terrible happens: the doubt comes in. It doesn't matter how long we think about it, we can't seem to find something fun and enjoyable to do with this game idea…

So we're back to square one (please do not pass go, do not collect $200). It's the middle of my saturday afternoon and we don't have anything really started. Everything's alright.

Come a couple of hours of despair and discouragement.

A revelation

Saturday, 16:00 (yes, it's 4PM).
A new game idea has appeared! Let's say we make a 2D racing game, kind of a tribute to Micro Machines, where the available space on the track reduces during the race. Wouldn't it be cool? Wouldn't it lead to something fun and enjoyable? Yes?

Let's do it then!

Starting up is not that complicated. I'm quickly programming the car movements, nothing too fancy. Every Godot Engine developer out there already know what I'm using as a placeholder for the car.

In the meantime my coworkers are doing their magic and crafting the first assets.
As a joke, we're saying the music should be some old school techno makina. All of whom have played the game know what is going to happen with that.

We decided that the track was being continuously destroyed by bombs every car is dropping while moving. During the evening we're setting up the autotiling system handling holes made in the ground by those bombs.
When I'm going to sleep, the basic mechanics and controls are setup. Two days to go.

Sunday is going to be chill

When I get up after a good night's sleep, I'm welcomed on Discord by a cool mockup of what the game is going to look like. I'm making a quick post with that before getting back to work.

Our Sunday isn't really that interesting. I'm setting up some more things: making the car fall off in holes, prepping some multiplayer controls and camera, etc.
Graphics and music are getting done quickly. Noojsan is experimenting with adding some middle eastern instruments to the music to give it somewhat of a desert vibe, and we make a list of sound effects we'll need.
I also take some time to explain how the animation are working in the engine thanks to a lot of screenshot looking like this:

During the evening, we also decided we needed to find a name. Unlike every other game we've made, we agreed on a name faster than ever. Here's a complete transcription of the discussion:

Kokonaught: Do you have any name ideas?
paulloz: Hum, for now it's called Micro Bombs
paulloz: but it sucks
Kokonaught: I don't know, it needs the word blast
Kokonaught: Like
paulloz: TRACKBLASTERS
Kokonaught: yeah
Kokonaught: sold

With that out of the way, I can work on other things like making our pause menu and some screen transitions. Those screen transitions are done with a simple shader reading a black to white gradient from a PNG file. It's really easy and quick to do and can add a lot of personality to a game.

It is the end of day two. Before I go to sleep I explain to Kokonaught how to use the tilemaps in the engine so he can create some tracks if he has time. Once again the explanation is backed with a lot of screenshots.

Dawn of the final day

My final LDJam day begins with a big package of OGG files: all of the audio files are here and it's time to plug them into the game.

I still have two big things to do: connecting the tracks to one another with a track end screen in between, and making a track selection menu. After that it's going to be polishing time and, if possible, we might add some more stuff.

The screen at the end of each track is pretty straightforward: we're using the same screen as the pause menu and just switching its content.

The selection menu is totally different but not that elaborated. I need to make a quick shader so the background texture scrolls indefinitely, a grid with all the tracks and connect some input events so we switch to the right scene. Done!

What haven't I done yet? Right! A title screen. It's easy as hell, I'll wait until the assets are done.
We need to display a timer during the race. Also, it might be a cool idea to add a Tut Tut Tuuuuuut at the beginning of the races like in any other racing games! Let's do both of those things.

Side note: that's probably the moment we should have thought of adding a visual marker for the finish line.

Wait!
We need to add a shadow to the car!
And the music is too loud in comparison to the sound effects, set it to -6dB!
We have some props to add to the tracks!
The title screen is done, we need to put the assets in the game!

It is the last stretch and I'm now juggling with two artists wanting to refine their work as long as they can.
I can do that. We can do that!
In the meantime we're adding props to the tracks so they don't look and feel boring, obviously.

It is done

M I D N I G H T !
We've gone through the last couple of hours like they were minutes, my heart is pounding at around 300bpm but it's over. And I think we've done a pretty good job. At least, I'm happy with what we did. That's far from always the case.

We're uploading the final build on itch.io, making screenshots and writing a game description while ldjam.com is now imploding and will soon turn into ashes.

First thing I notice once Trackblaster is submitted and the final stress has gone away: as usual I don't want to sleep right now, but at least this time it is not 03:00 yet. Thanks for this time change, I hope it'll stay like that.
What can I extract from LDJam this time? It might not be a good idea to really start your game once more than half a day already passed by. However I'm glad we did not stick with an idea we barely liked just because of the time. And however long or short the jam is, you always can size your game project so it fits the time you have.
I'm happy with what we've made, that's not something I say after each jam. And I'm probably going to work on it to release a true version in a near future.

If you've read this far, thank you very much. Please try out and rate TrackBlasters, it'll make us very happy.

Thanks to all the awesome people who tested and reviewed our game Comfort Zone. It's a very personal game and somewhat of a scary topic to take on for a gamejam, because it's a topic we wanted to handle in a way that does it justice and that can be hard in 3 days. We're really glad that so many people felt that the portrayal was fitting.

Hello Ludum Darlings,

I tried my game on Android and it works pretty well, download worm.apk or play it on the web if you like. It's a simple game about sorting files and destroying malware (worms) that spreads on your desktop:

Also playing your games (Web, Linux or Android)

As soon as I can, I would like to play and rate other games. If your game supports Web, Linux or Android I will check it out. :smiley:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/dementia

So many games in this contest, which many simply did not even notice. I decided to make a list of my most favorite games in the LD 42, which were not given proper attention (in my opinion)

1. Feed us

Awesome art style and music!

This game does not have enough attention for sure!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/feed-us

1. Check out NOOR

The game fits perfectly into the theme of the competition. Excellent athmosphere and graphics!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/noor

1. LETTERBOX

This game perfectly copes with the theme of the contest. I fell in love with the graphics of the game and a mix of platforming and puzzles)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/letterbox

I hope that you'll like these games. If you find something interesting that doesn't have enough attention, send it here)

Sorry for my English, it's not my native language)

Play Vita Magicae - Web

Leave a link in the description and I'll take some time to play your game, rate you, and leave you some written feedback during the week. I've seen so many great games doing this that I might have missed otherwise.

If you'd like to return the favour you can find our game here.

Apple has approved my game for release on the App Store. This makes it far easier to to play!

If you have an iPhone, you can download the game here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spaceio/id1426355727

Or find more info here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spaceio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zD6PZJYJvg

The 80's is back in this oldskool vector style game!

After entering last Ludum Dare with a team of 3 people from cMonkeys, i decided to enter this time alone. This was mainly because the other 2 didn't had time and personally i knew i was have little time myself also and i did not wanted to let others time by not putting enough time in.

I had to work the whole weekend so i had to try to squeeze in time between work and sleep:

*Work Shedule: * - Day 1: 6.5 hours - Day 2: 5 hours - Day 3: 6 hours

I knew i had to keep things simple as this so i decided to go for simple art, there i'm by far no artist. After a short brainstorm i decided to take on the vector style approach because i knew i could pull off graphics for this, a nice glow shader made it look even quiet nice.

*What went good: * - Decided on a idea quick and did not change much from the original idea. - Managed to get 'art' and sounds/music done real quick without losing too much time over it. - The actual gameplay code was done quick also

*What went bad: * - To be honest,not much... Most of the 'bad' stuff is just stuff i did not had time to implement like having more powerups, having 2 player local multiplayer, having a online leaderboard, and more polish. - I found out a 'game breaking bug' after 1 day because of some rushed control code that went wrong. This bug only happened for people who turns vsync off on their videocards (i think). Some people reported this and i was able to fix this bug and upload the bugfix.

So... i'm happy with the result, especially because i had so little time to complete this. Please try the game and post your personal record here or on the games comments.

I want to thank everyone, for playing my game. Here is link to the game if you want to try it and leave comment :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/treasure-hunter

Help Poiskaï to escape from Pabo through the wonderful kingdom of Dumpotopia !

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/dumpotopia

Hello :) If you're the kind of person that loves moody games and moral decisions I'm sure you'll enjoy our work! :) We put our hearts into it

We're only 5 votes away to get a rating... we need your help to get there !

I will be glad to test your game too

Find our game here :

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/another-day

Thank you so much ! :)

Thank you all for your comments on our game Running Out Of Spice. Your support goes directly to our heart, and gives us a big motivation boost for our bigger games !

Thanks again ! And stay spicyyyyy ! :D

It's 0:30 a.m. and it's perfect time to play some LD games!

Our game is here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/pop-it

Hello everyone, If you need ratings, please send me a direct link in the comments of this post. Also, it would be cool if you could check out my entry in exchange I am close to 40 ratings so maybe we can get them complete!!

Here is my devlog explaining how i made my game : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/overflow/overflow-devlog-1

It explains brefily the steps

Starting from that :

To that :

Happy game dev everybody and please share your games if you want some constructive feedbacks :v:

I've rated 15 or so games, and I don't think i've handed a single 5 star out yet.

Last LD was basically the same, only a few extremely innovative or amazing games got a 5 star from me.

How lenient are you guys with your games?

I have a free day tomorrow and will play and rate as many as I can. Add your links

In Ludum Dare Simulator 2019, you can relive all your 'favourite' moments from the world's greatest Game Jam, but with even less energy to spare!

If you're interested, check it out here! <3 (I'm having a great time playing all your awesome games, leave a link comment if you made something cool :sunglasses:)

What’s the best place for a demon to be, other than a bullet hell?

Try out Demonic Digestion, now finally bug-free!!

Play as a yokai and survive as long as you can to the dangerous consequences of your hunger. Defeat the bigger demons and gather resources, unlock items, customize your appearance!

Download it for win, mac & linux here: [https://flaming-moka.itch.io/demonic-digestion]

Im getting close to 40 ratings, maybe you could help me out? If you leave a constructive comment under my game, I will go and rate yours in return!

Some players I'm sure skip the instructions and we kind of ran out of time on making one of our core mechanics really intuitive. Since we can't make changes for 20 days I figured the least I can do is write a quick post in case anyone does look for an explanation.

What is a portal brick? A portal returns your ship back to the hangar and opens up the upgrade/select ship menu again.

Returning to the hangar allows your ship to unload all the space men you pick up which gives you points and money. Your ship has a limited capacity of spacemen it can carry so you have to return to the hangar via a portal frequently.

With that money you collect you can upgrade your ships by clicking the green arrows next to their stats.

So if you don't figure out the concept of the portal then you are missing out on a lot of the game!

How do I open a portal? If you run into the portal brick your ship crashes and explodes. It has to be opened first.

To open a portal you have to bounce your balls off it three times. This can be the same ball deflected back at it or three different balls.

Lasers have no effect on portals.

After three bounces the portal open animation starts. The portal isn't "open" until that animation finishes (I did that on purpose...probably a bit too harsh, hehe)

• Jam Page
• Itch Page

I'm seeing a lot of games similar to mine getting a lot of comments and ratings and I really want to know what they're doing to get noticed? I hate spamming, begging for views, and that stupid "rating-for-rating" thing some people do, but I feel like they aren't doing that. How do I get noticed?

Thank you everyone for pushing our game past 20 votes on the categories we entered! We love the feedback and insights that have been given.

If you happened to miss our game, be sure to check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacebreaker

good luck to every one and their game!

Check yourself!

play the game here =)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/nooooo

It feels really good to have over 20 ratings on every category for my first LD, thank you guys so much!:) Please feel free to link me your game here and let me know about them! I wanna play it!!

We just got our 20 ratings on Blockstep ! Thank you so much ! If you missed it, check it out now, it's a 1v1 game that plays with controllers. You have to block your opponent by building on your construction site :)

Also feel free to put your game in the description if you too need ratings :)

You can try it here.

Hello everybody!

We would like to thanks everyone for rating our game, we've reached our 20 received ratings.

And by the way we would like to share with you the first post-jam update of our game fixing many bugs.
Future updates (especially for our AI) are planned.

Don't hesitate to try our game.
Play against a friend for territory and throw bombs at each other!

YOU DONT NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE GAME, JUST CLICK AND PLAY :)

You are a renomed T.I. professional, and you face off this situation: Welcome to a OS that are infested with virus, and its up to you to exterminate it by instaling the best anti-virus in the whole world, The DAIBU Anti-Virus. But keep an eye in popups, because they consume too much RAM memory.

• We use a claustrofobic space and annoying ads to simulate the running out of space sensation.
• And of course, the lack of memory RAM that you have
• Use the mouse to play the game
• Runs directly in your browser

STAFF - @johnnydalvi - @Ziovoxxer

TOOLS - Unity - Gimp - Audacity

SCREENSHOTS

YOU CAN TRY IT HERE - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/doorsos-ram-simulator

Thanks for voting, I reached the 20 votes :) If you didn't try my game yet, come check it out here ! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/space-intruder

The fight for ram has started!

The objective in ChromeSmasher is to prevent the chromes from reaching your ram. If the chromes do reach the ram well don’t worry you will need a couple more to get to the ram before its GAME OVER.

Downloads and Links HTML5(web) https://mexzter.itch.io/chromesmasher

The fight for ram has started!

The objective in ChromeSmasher is to prevent the chromes from reaching your ram. If the chromes do reach the ram well don’t worry you will need a couple more to get to the ram before its GAME OVER.

Downloads and Links HTML5(web) https://mexzter.itch.io/chromesmasher

Hey! We still need more feedback and ratings for our games!
It's a Web plateformer game about dodging obstacle with a bit of absurd humour!

Our game is here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/birdbird-cant-fly

Hey everyone! 😃 We're just missing 1 rating on the audio, we put a lot of hours into just that part.. If you like atmoshperic, chill, feely music and wanna help you can test our game here! Thank youuu 😊 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/another-day

Would like to thank everyone of you who played our Game "Another Day"! Your feedbacks have been great and heartwarming, it means the world to us!

I drew an arcade of my game based on a polaroid. Check it out now ! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/block-jumper-1/

I'm so happy to see a lot of people using blender. It's so nice for making all types of graphics, 2d, 3d... The levels for my compo entry were a breeze to put together and made for a nice effect. In fact all the game graphics were made in blender!

Hi! My game is 0.5 ratings away from a final ranking, so if you want some nostalgia, try Play here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/screen-saver

I wanted to highlight some of the other games that I've played this Ludum Dare and some of my favorites so far. There used to be a lot more of people talking about other people's games that they were excited about and I want to bring that back! I don't want to be preachy or be on a soap box, but I think that it leads to a better and healthier community. So I figured I would start!

Some of my favorites so far:

Crystalmancer by Crowno (@crowno)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/crystalmancer

Crystalmancer has a simple concept but is a ton of fun. Attacking enemies with your wand leaves crystals behind that you can't cross unless you take out your hammer to hit them, which is tough to do in the thick of battle. It has some great Gameboy graphics and sound, and the ability to swap the palette with a button press. Solid all around entry!

Detox by FiloGC (@filogc)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/detox

Detox is a simple game with a simple concept. Just stop the skull and crossbones thingies from falling into the thingie on the bottom of the screen while letting through the other thingies. Check out the high score board. Either people are really talented and the multipliers really add up quick, people found a way to hack the leaderboard, or people have WAAY to much time on their hands :smile:

Plenty of Junk by Verbante (@verbante)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/plenty-of-junk

I'm a big fan of crazy physics games and this one is certainly that. Move through the junkyard collecting food to survive (spolier alert, you won't). Then, when you get tired of that, try to abuse the physics engine to launch yourself completely out of the arena. I've never done it, but I've gotten darn close!

Encumbered by DanGraf (@dangraf) , and impbox (@impbox)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/encumbered-deckbuilding-inventory-action

I love deckbuilding games and this one is super unique. The cards you have are actually sitting in the playing field you are running around in. I'm not exactly sure how, but somehow I broken my own cards and they became useless. Awesome graphics and presentation and music so beautiful it became too distracting so the developer muted it (just kidding. There is no sound). This one plays at a fixed size, so if you can't see some of the board you have to increase your resolution or change the scale and layout options (in Windows 10) to see everything. Solid and a lot of fun.

Did you know you can see a list of the games you've already rated?

Just click on the Ludum Dare 42 link on the top of the site and then click the Me button. It is a great way to be able to go back and replay or promote the games you really enjoyed! If you have a game that you loved and think I should play let me know in the comments, or even better, make your own "best of" post.

This has been a great jam everyone. Thanks for participating!

Thank you to everyone that rated mine and If you have a web game that needs feedback or a rating, comment them below.

In this story rich mystery, Diane’s daughter has gone missing, and they’ve found her phone on the side of the freeway. It’s a race against time, battery, and memory to search for clues about her disappearance, while discovering the intricacies and difficulties of a young life in personal crisis.

Hope you enjoy and let us know what you think!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/l-an-interactive-mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVl0f4VTz9U

I've been participating in the Ludum Dare since the 39th edition. With one Jam entry, one time when I had unfortunately given up on my work and two Compo entries - this is the second time I do it and the first time I do record my work, which is something that I've been wanting to do for a long time.

My last compo game, Dream Roamers, was kind of an improvisational game. It had a procedural generation system... which was a pretty big hack itself, but you know, the CPU is technically a rock that we tricked into thinking, so why worry about some minor hacks? Anyway, the game I released was an ode to the likes of The Binding Of Isaac and Monolith, which presumably I'd be able to execute better than my platformer for the Ludum Dare 39, Burning Low, which was... not very satisfying from my part.

But this time, I took another shot at the platformer style, and this post will try to explain what went through my head while I was doing what you see above in the video.

• First steps

It started with a little brainstorm I had while I was at the bus coming home. Running out of space... why not outer space? Why not make an alien race take over all the planets known to them and have nothing more to explore, and dig a portal to a parallel dimension? So, what are they going to find there? Cthulhu? Or... pans and blenders and food mixers? One thing I like about the idea of brainstorming is that sometimes, "why?" isn't the right question to be asked. Try "why not?" instead, and if you can't come up with a good answer to that, well, you're on the right track.

So I got home, what was the plan, if there's any? Build the player character, the jump mechanics, try to make sure the jump isn't too floaty because that's definitely a problem for me... worry about the art later. Making the graphics is what I hate the most. As for the mechanics, the intention was to create something that resembles Metal Slug or Cuphead (which is a game that I've been playing lately and it's fantastic). Shoot and run. For someone that's spending the day playing >20 jam games, simple mechanics are better.

So, number 1: don't ask why, ask why not. Number 2: always think of the player experience, it's them who are going to tell if the game is good or not.

• The enemies

My first idea for an enemy was the food mixer. The god damn food mixer... it may not seem so in the video because the time span is too short, but it was a hell of a hard thing to draw. Those metal parts... ugh. You never know how hard it is to draw a food mixer until you actually go and try to do it. In the end, it was a little bit crooked, but that did it.

From this point on, I started making the art before the mechanics of the enemies themselves, because you know, what can be worse than the freaking food mixer? The blender was pretty easy, and all it did was throw pieces of food randomly up (which later proved to be pretty OP and I had to nerf it after some player feedback). The pan was something that I did before, all it does is throw bullets at the player.

• Level design

That's when Godot came in big into play. Designing a level using the TileMap node isn't just easy, but it's just... pleasing. You're able to literally paint your way through the level, and it all went well. The Light2D added some pretty good effects (as there were many of them in convenient places, they became checkpoints for the level later). One little "game over" screen sending the player to their last checkpoint and we were good to go. Time for my favorite part of the development:

• The music

Even when I'm sleep deprived and tired of looking at Godot's editor all day, composing music brings me to a whole new level of joy. There is something about finding a good chord progression and making a melody over it which makes it all worth it. And this time, I decide to go for what's been the most successful in my past games, the metal-like piano/organ melodies. One song for the intro part and another for the level were just enough. I had planned to make a different song for the boss fight, but 48 hours isn't a lot of time and I didn't want to strain myself too much.

Between the songs, I was able to get an incredible amount of 6 hours of sleep!

• The intro and a surprise boss battle

Ok, I thought the idea to deliberately omit the skip button for my 45-second intro and joke about it would be well accepted by the players as an expression of good humor and art. It turns out, people hated it. What can I do? You win some, you lose some. Also only one person seemed to get that sneaky Borderlands 2 reference. Sigh... still, a little animation and a pixelated planets background made it all prettier and we were good to go.

That was when I realized I actually had plenty of time left, which is something that doesn't usually happen at the compo. So again, why not add a toaster which rolls at the player and bounces and throws slices of breads and... I was pretty heated, so everything went better than expected.

• Final thoughts

I may not have delivered a game as good as my project had promised, maybe because of technical issues or because I deliberately made bad decisions. But that happens to just about everyone, and either from our own experience or reading player feedback, we're all learning. Today I released a post-compo edition solving issues that I saw players complaining about the most (the skip button, checkpoints that got you stuck into walls, etc.), and it might still get some more updates, depending on how much free time I have left.

But after all, as I said, it's the players who decide if the game is good or not. So, let the ratings speak for themselves, and I hope I make it to the top 100 games again. For everyone reading this, I hope I'm able to give you a good time with my game, and I'm looking forward to see more of what you have to show.

Stack Master is a stack stacking game, make as many points as you can, come and test Hardcore mode where only the strong survive, we did our best, we hope you have fun.

Stack Master é um jogo de empilhar coisas, faça o maximo de pontos que conseguir, venha testar o modo Hardcore onde só os fortes sobrevivem, fizemos nosso melhor esperamos que se divirtem.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/stack-master

I played an awesome little game and noticed it hasn't been rated nearly enough. GO PLAY IT! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/goblin-up-loot (can you beat my score?)

...because we've just released a bugfix build, which fixes several bugs, including the one which made it impossible to score 100% on the level! In this game running out of space is a good thing. See if you can make full use of every available parking place in the lot. Check the game out here

Do you want to toast some zombies? Do it here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/underground-trip

Hey guys time for another round of livestreaming your games! Join on in and lets have a good time playing your games :)

https://www.twitch.tv/twinghosts

• On behalf of the whole team, Thank you all for all the feedback and going out of your way to play our game! We're working on a post-LD version with a few bug fixes and minor balance changes.

• If you think you can collect your parts and get off the planet the fastest send us your best recorded time and we'll feature you on the main page in a few days. Cheers!

If you're just now playing it let us know what you think and tell us about your game!

Dave needs your help! Those pesky developers around him want his land and will do anything to get it. Dave had worked too hard for his land to give it up. Help him stop demolition workers, lawyers, and trucks from taking his land with the help of scarecrows, farm animals and some good ol’ manure. Help Dave evade eviction in Eviction Evader!

Play here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/eviction-evader

Check out the video here: https://clips.twitch.tv/EagerDarlingLadiesDAESuppy

Check it out for yourself : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/bunny-bazooka

Leave a comment, and i'll check yours too :D.

Many thanks to everyone who left feedback on BB.

Please check out Bullet Farmer: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/bullet-farmer

Get them here

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/duty-madness https://youtu.be/CJbF6C76Vrc

(Sorry for the gfycat links, ldjam.com doesn't support GIFs over 4 MB)

Gfycat 1

Gfycat 2

my first proper submission for Ludum Dare

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/head-space if you leave a comment on my game and a rating i will leave a rating and comment on your game

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/reverse

This time, my goal was to do some audio game design! By reading all of your feedback, it seems that I managed to get there! :v: if you are a bit intrigued, please take a look at the link above! :smile: Congratulations everyone! 🎊

Looking for an opportunity to help a 'special particle' reach its full potential? Look no Further!

Apply Within!: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/data-runner

Your roommate is participating in Ludum Dare, but he's a slob so he just tosses his food on the floor. Your sanity can't take the loss of clean space in your home, so you have to pick up after him. How much garbage can you clean up before you go insane from the mess?

Play Ludum Dare to Be Messy!

Ice Blocked! A tale of lost love.

Getting some great suggestions and feedback from those who have played already.

Would love for you to come play and have your say as well - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/ice-blocked

Leave a comment and we will check out your game as well.

https://youtu.be/HBpIw7Jd5OU

Hey guys! If you're looking for another game to rate and want something without much keyboard action, check out my compo entry, I Saw Him Today, a short but emotional psychological game.

LD Page ♦ Itch.io Page ♦ GameJolt Page

If you record a Let's Play of it, please link it here or on one of the pages and/or tag @ MikomiGames on Twitter so I can share it!

Are you tired of not falling off a decaying brick platform into an infinite void? Well boy do we have news for you.

Our game has so many falling bricks that not even flex tape can hold it together. If you dont feel like falling into the void, then still play our game. For those whod rather stay alive, our game provides a fun, fast-paced challenge.

Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/sticky-fingers

Thanks to everyone for around 20 ratings in each category, plus commented feedback and, of course, post-submission-day bug reports :confounded:

You can rate and download the game here -

Cluster is a very old hard drive (its maximum storage capacity is 10 GB), but very insightful. Tired of the constant abuses of its owner, by the large number of files downloaded, a rebellion begins in which you can help him to comply with it. Delete each and every one of the downloaded files, before these become hidden in the folders.

Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/cluster

For this Ludum Dare, the team and I decided to just have fun with it. There were so many things that didn't make sense. Setting - Kitchen; Player with bunny hat! Giant slipper Gun. Wild animations. It was funny when someone adds something, another member would go, "that doesn't make any sense!" and then another member goes, "it doesn't have to be, it's just a game". So the crazy feature ends up being in the game.

I hope you guys enjoy our game as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Enjoy the Game Here

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/ludum-dare-game-work-title

Since just barely finishing the jam on monday night I've been meaning to make a post to share my game, Vogon Constructors Ltd. I struggled with the theme initially, due to it being the sort that was more prescribing mechanics than offering prompt. But I had also wanted to tie in a little Hitchhikers Guide reference in honour of it being LD42, which is where the idea came about.

In VCL, you play as the Vogon Constructor Fleet and must destroy planets to make way for Hyperspace Bypasses. However, each planet is also producing resources; and the Bypasses themselves can only be between populated systems, so the idea was to be sacrificing systems in an ever shrinking "space" of usable nodes.

I was going to tackle this as a team but it ended up being just me. It turned out well, all things considered (I had social commitments and work, so it was far from a full burn). Please give it a go! It's probably not well balanced, but destroying the planets is fun.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/vogon-constructors-ltd

Used lots of freebies and extras to support this! - Fungus, for dialogs, is free and awesome: http://fungusgames.com/ - Space textures: https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/ - Planet texture generator: http://www.texturesforplanets.com/index.shtml - Unify Community - various others