Here is the most repeated words in all your comments ! Thank you again for all the feedbacks, it really motivate me to continue this game !

Feel free to check the game if you wish :v:

Play Overflow

Hello, another round of playing/rating games on stream, come to https://www.twitch.tv/siraeron and submit me your game!

also do not forget to check out my entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/warehouse-madness

... and it would seem that he liked our jump mechanic !!

If you wanna try, follow the link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/the-heros-incredible-chronicles

Be the strongest in the gym before it closes. But, be careful, your opponents will do anything to harm you. Even use to violence.

:video_game: LD Entry Page

:computer: Play now on PC and Mac!

:robot: Play now on Android!

Leave your links down to the comments below and I will rate them!

It would be nice if you rated my game too! Thanks! Link to my game!.

I'm around 14/20 votes, I'd love some more people playing this, I'll rate yours of course! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$101422

Can you make it to the getaway car before it leaves??

Game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/box-it-1

I planned to add more boxes, but did not have time. Maybe you check my game and give me some ideas?

Ladies and gentlemen we are organizing a competition on XORN: The Fallen God to see your best player skills!

To thank you for your participation, the game of the best players will be evaluated and commented by each member of our team!

To do this, nothing's easier! Put a picture of your best score in the comments of our game page here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/xorn-the-fallen-god

We remind you that XORN is available on Windows, macOS, Linux and webGL!

The results will be published in our newsfeed next monday! Good luck to everyone!!!

Come try and rate our entry ! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/my-system-is-getting-hacked

Usually when making a game I try to stay away from having to draw anything because it's not what I'm best at. However with Bunker Down I wanted to challenge myself so I decided to try my hand at pixel art. All things considered I think it came out pretty well, there are things I'd like to improve such as the game end screens. That said the visuals are clear and emotive so I am happy with what we produced.

Check out our game here and let me know what endings you get:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/bunker-down

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

Thanks to all those who reviewed our game and we are glad that you had fun. We are still short 5 reviews from getting 20. So if anyone is interested in having a fun time and compete against our other players, please rate and review our game:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/whats-for-dinner

We are contemplating on making a released version with more features so your feedback is highly appreciated.

https://i.gyazo.com/359809e3b3c27bc67925b220ea5875e9.gif

You like Games that are full of Minigames? Well check this out!!

Link to the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/running-out-of-space-26

Hi LD Jammers! I would like you to submit your game here. I will be streaming your LD42 on Youtube and Twitch today at 11am pacific time! Since I will be playing your games live I need them to be HTML5 so I don't spend a bunch of time installing. Hope to see you in the stream and I can't wait to play your games!

YouTube

Twitch

The games I will be playing and the order in which I will be playing them

While you are linking your game feel free to play rate and comment on my

HTML5 Game Tetroids Here

Feedback from other game developers is what it is all about!

Thanks everyone for the ratings ! Make sure to try out our little horror game if you haven't already! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/loneliness

Also don't hesitate to share your games here :)

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

Seriously though. Not clickbait. In Eviction Evader, you get to do just that! Help Dave keep his land away from those pesky developers! Play here!

Just wanted to say thanks to all those that tried 'We Need Space!', I'm very grateful to have recieved this many ratings, why you ask? Take a look at my previous Ludum Dare entries, this is the first one I put effort in to, the first one to be accepted and enjoyed, and more than anything, a reminder to myself that I can do it if I put my mind to it.

Not checked it out yet? Here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/we-need-space

As a thanks, I'll play every submission you drop in the comments of this post! :grin:

A new and easier version of Shrinkle has been uploaded, however, you can still test your skills in the older versions! Game Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/shrinkle This level is easier now!

Both Shozou and yourbr0ther were kinda enough to play our game on their stream. Why not give it a try yourself: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spaced-out/

https://youtu.be/ObYswM07_FQ https://youtu.be/IcJGK026Olc

Thanks to all streamers who played our game and gave us good tips to improve the game !

If you want me to playtest your Ludum Dare game on my Twitch stream, submit it here.

The stream will start in a few minutes.

I will play games in the order they are submitted (I will play games submitted today first) and I'll prioritize games whose developers are currently in the chat.

Hey everyone :) I'd like to present my submission : No Destination !

It is a science-fiction management game where you have to maintain an increasingly smaller spacecraft... And fend off asteroids with your laser cannon !!

Here's the link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/no-destination

I would be honored if you played, rated or/and left me some feedback :) I do return the favor !! Have a nice day ~

This post inspired by @noah-beckman question about how made the minimap in this game

So, let's start answering

First of all, the game zone is the matrix of tiles [N+2,N+2], where N - is dungeon size, so it makes easier to create level map. After the generation of dungeon I use loop [0..N+1,0..N+1] to create a level texture [N+2,N+2] pixels, which will be used later. Blue pixels shows walls and white - free space. Also I create a black fog of war texture with same size.

Next, the step-by-step explanation of map creation called every frame: 1. Copy level texture created earlier 2. Loop [0..N+1,0..N+1] to add info about exit and gas locations 3. Add the location of the player by transforming the coords with Mathf.Round function 4. Apply the changes for level texture copy 5. Loop [0..N+1,0..N+1] and calculate the distance between pixel and player coords. If it less than 5, set current pixel on fog or war texture to blank 6. Apply the changes for fog of war texture 7. Create blank texture [N+2,N+2] pixels 8. Loop [0..N+1,0..N+1] to fill created texture with combinig info of two previous textures. If fog of war pixel is black, add the black pixel, otherwise add the pixel from level with objects texture 9. Apply changes and transform to sprite 10. Show the sprite in UI

The image below represents how it works in game:

If you want to play the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/alchemist-dungeon

P.S: if the game got the 50 rating I'll post the explanation of dungeon generation algorithm

Web version!) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/anstorm

Come hang out with us =)

http://twitch.tv/slympixel

Join the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/arjendesign/

Submit your game here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1smwU7Ju9ZdzWyMcJ4VVDHcDINhebZlKXaloOJ9Vc0/edit#gid=0

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

and I will do my best to play and rate/leave detailed feedback before I head to bed for the night. I've played so many great games this week that I otherwise might have skipped or not noticed thanks to people sharing their games with me. If you'd like me to take a look at your game please drop a link below and I'll get right onto it.

If you'd like to return the favour and check out our game you can do so here.

Now note that this was my first jam (and second ever game published), so I can't say I've managed my time really that well :). I hope you will find it pretty interesting, though :D.

Also, in the timezone I am in, the jam started and ended at 1 AM (submission time until 2AM, theoretically, but we all know what happened).

By the way, the colors sadly don't match from one image to another, so you will have to look closely. This data was taken from RescueTime, a time-tracking software.

Day 1: As you can see I did not really code that much (Studio64 is the IDE), and I wasted some time on the web.

Day 2: Instead of sleeping at night, I took some time and played SA-MP (San Andreas Multiplayer) with my friends (who were not in the jam). Also, I didn't really focus that much during the day, because as you can see it has a lot of Reddit and YouTube through it.

Day 3: PANIC MODE. 100% focused during the day. So focused, actually, that I forgot to drink water. This didn't really end up well, since I got a pretty bad headache, but even then I didn't stop.

Day 3.1: Still in panic mode. One interesting thing that you may notice is that between 1-2 AM (submission time ended at 2AM) I was still programming. This was due some pretty bad time planning (as you've seen in the previous images) and I still had pretty important things to do. Now, after 2AM I stopped working (besides fixes in the following days), because I did not want to cheat, even though the game was not feature complete (if there is such a thing). However, it was playable, and this is what matters.

And here is the end result. I am actually very happy with how the game turned out, despite a lot of poor planning :). I'd appreciate if you would give some feedback on it. I have enough ratings (>40), but more feedback can't ever hurt :D.

Well, when you encounter a pathogen that duplicates from your wastes, that is what happens.

Come and try Globulator! :)

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

Well after the jam i was thinking... A lot of people liked my game but they are getting torchered by many bugs in the game.i was thinking if people want to have my game as a full realease with more levels and better boss fight and of course less bugs.will you download it?(for free?)because currently im free in time and im getting a lot of good comment!let me know Here is my game!check it out! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/the-red-pixel

Why not try CLAUSTRO, an entirely unique game! It's the only 8bit-monochrome-2D-topdown-3rd-person-HTML-arcade-crossword-puzzle you've ever seen! Probably.

Legal notice: Blinkenlights does not take responsibility for repetitive viewing of Blinkenlights commercials. 8bit-monochrome-2D-topdown-3rd-person-HTML-arcade-crossword-puzzle is not a Blinkenlights trademark and may be freely used. Marketing is serious. Sometimes.

My compo game Leaving Room is now playable on mobile devices. The mobile friendly version is available on itch.io, while the original 48h version is here.

Although it is a WebGL game, it is still not easy for porting. I implemented this game in rust and a half-done engine by myself. All the rust code were compiled to JavaScript (asm.js) to run in browser. I needed to modify some engine code and adjust the layout for touch screen.

Mobile OSes have some limitations. I feel PC has a better gaming experience for my game.

Except for rust and emscripten compilation toolchains, other tools are:

• inkscape (for image creation)
• LMMS with GeneralUser GS (for background music)
• atom

Hope you enjoy my storytelling puzzle game!

Control 3 bots in this "almost a RTS" game ! We have almost 20 ratings! Play it and rate it with any amount of stars!

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

If you want me to check out your game or just a game for Ludum Dare, post the link in the replies/comments of this post, I will try to play as many of them as possible.

Also I would love for you guys to check out and rate the game we made for Ludum Dare: Box Bonanza, https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/box-bonanza

After a week full of hard work our programmer finally has time to play and rate some games, which he's been looking forward to since the end of the submission day! Which games should he play? Post your gems in the comments!

Also, if you have some spare time or just run out of games to play and rate, try out our very own Captain Graphite here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/captain-graphite

I get really good feedback in this short time. There are people saying "Go publish it on steam". So im working on it currently. If you want something extra in it, leave a comment :smile:

If you want to play it, here is the link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/gunning-out-of-space

If you are short in ratings (<20 ratings), leave the link down below I could play and rate for your game during dinner time. Otherwise if your game has enough ratings but you want honest feedback, also leave them down in the comment section. I will check them out during dinner time.

You can check out my game, or not, Ive had enough ratings to be ranked, just want more people to play and leave feedback or suggestions: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/space-invasion

Ahoy! Have you tried my game Blow the Hen Down? No?!? Damn Landlubber... ya should run to play it before the hens finish! :chicken: :bomb: :boom:

:chicken: PLAY NOW :bomb:

So I made a word cloud of my feedback on my game, as everyone does every year.

Try and rate the game yourself: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/ice-n-fice

My record is round 5, but I'm sure you can do better! Here's the link to the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/flood-of-pirates

"Running out of RAM" is a clicker wanna be game for C64. People, who played it, say it's a nice sim game. Either works for me. :smile:

It's a C64 game entirely written in BASIC V2, where you are a student with your first development job: program a video collection management software for your father's friend. You need to write code, debug, sleep and more. Need some money? Why don't sell some cracked games to your friends?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/running-out-of-ram-an-80s-basic-programming-simulator-for-c64

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

This is the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/32d-1

Hello guys! Can you test and rate our game? Please give us your feedback to better the game!

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

Uploaded the sourcecode of our submission to github: https://github.com/No-Hashtag/Castle-Defenders in love with three.js and typescript play at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/castle-defenders/

need some webgames to rate! comment down below <3

The game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/32d-1

Hey, I've just finished assembling trailer for my game! (it took me faar longer then i expected)

Check it out! https://youtu.be/ZJje87LgVaw

I wasn't super happy with this game, people seem to like it (or just trying to be polite, idk). One thing that everyone seems to agree on is that the main mechanic of navigating through the maze with the help of sounds is quite interesting. While I like it, I regret that I wasn't fast enough to implement an alternative accessibility option. And some low-res textures would be nice as well. Would you like to try it out? I'm very interested in the feedback!

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

Oh and also, I do this thing where I tweet about the games I play: https://twitter.com/game0wer/status/1029464753444401152

Send me a link to your game and I will try as well!

I’m streaming LD42 games:) Send me links to your games! Language - Russian

https://www.twitch.tv/aleksey_evdokimov

Our entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/pop-it

It's always interesting to see how a rough prototype transforms into a polished game during the jam. You just add a bit of this and a bit of that and voilà!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Pure gamedev magic.

POLYARNIK — Submission Page

Hey everyone this is my first ludum dare game and I would love to get some more reviews and opinions on the game. Im really pleased with how it went. I would love to here opinions as I intend to compete again next event and would appreciate some feedback. Thanks. vDovah.

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

After almost a week of testing, everyone's computer might be running out of space... 😏

Hence why we released a Webgl version of our game, now playable in browser! :heart_eyes:

You can play EXHAUSTLANDS on our Itch.io page: Sandgardeners

Also, if you liked (or not) the game, feel free to leave a comment on our LD entry!

Happy playing everyone, have fun with all these games!

Thank you all for playing and rating our game!😍😍 We are grateful for all comments we received, feels nice to have accomplished a quality game like this in just 72h. Since Ludum dare ended we have also added real A* for the enemies and bullet collision to the game giving it a more tactical feel. This patched version is going live right after the results have been posted, so stay tuned! We may also find the time to create a few more maps that uses the new mechanics to the fullest until then. 🤗🤗

For those that have yet to play our amazing wave shooter: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/gravedigger-a-final-stand-1

What else do you feel is missing from the full release? Please let us know!

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

Hey there!

We recently reached 20+ votes. Glad you enjoyed our little crowdies.

We've made a little update to improve the WebGL version, it should be smoother between 3rd and 4th cycle. We've also reduced diseases propagation speed + add alternative controls for trackpad users.

A big thank you to => @bungalow @gord10ahmet @kyllax @mustiman @fluffy-kaeloky @dantho95 @sachay @andy-d @mgoadric @red-pill @blobo @reuh @balance686 @pixeljerry @uncannyvalley for their constructive feedbacks. Go check out theirs games.

And if you want to play with these little crowdies, you can join us here => https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/crowdy-planet

Happy crowding! o_O

Arche-san

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/cosmic-collapse

Gonna be honest: "Running out of space" was not a theme that immediately stirred the muse. All things considered, though, Cosmic Collapse turned out much better than I was expecting: the game was fully implemented to my satisfaction, and it ended up (accidentally) fitting the theme as well!

When first confronted with the theme, my mind immediately went to strategy games: "you're stuck on a shrinking landmass, trying to gather as many resources as fast as possible before you run out of room." I considered a couple of variants on this before I realized I was probably better off not trying to make something as complicated as a strategy game; however, thinking about the theme itself, a punny approach came to mind: I could make a game involving running, and set it in space. Hence the concept for Cosmic Collapse. Funnily enough, it ended up fitting the theme anyway, as you're always running out of breathing room: the ships taper off, giving you less room to maneuver, and the wall of annihilation dogging your footsteps approaches faster and faster, giving you less room for error.

I drew most of my art assets before I actually started coding; most notably, I got the "ship breaking up" effect implemented before any of the actual gameplay. (I know, I know, serious "cart before the horse" here, but the better my games look, the more motivated I feel working on them.) All the art was done in Aseprite; the spaceman, however, was also animated using Spine, an awesome program for making puppet-style 2D animations. Sound effects were created using Bfxr and Audacity, and the music loop was made with Bosca Ceoil. I tried to keep the sound effects and music on the quiet side so they would have impact without being annoying; I've had a bad habit in the past of making games with really annoying in-your-face sound, so I decided to err on the side of caution this time.

One funny bug that had me stumped for a couple hours involved the player suddenly failing to collide with objects for no apparent reason. When I tracked down the source of the glitch, I couldn't believe how dumb I'd been: my collision routine was checking whether collidable objects were between the player's last frame position and their current frame position, but the way the player's movement math worked out, if you were running at top speed and then teleported, the player would effectively start running between objects. Fixing it was a simple matter of changing a "<" to a "<=".

Between a theme I wasn't feeling, procrastination, and an overall lack of energy, I was worried that Cosmic Collapse would end up another "playable but not really finished" project of mine, but I'd call the end product one of my better and more polished Ludum Dare entries to date. My own high score is around 800, but I invite you to smash it into the dirt. ;)

i'm happy to have finished the score system in the nick of time, so that people (like YOU) can post their highscore! I'd say my first game jam is a success!! here's my score: LavEscapeScore.png if the image doesn't load, my score is 442m ;)

I'm getting close to 60 ratings, maybe you could help me out? If you leave a constructive comment under my game, I will go and rate yours in return!

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

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/last-land-heroes

Last Land Heroes is a survival game, You have to claim the land to keep it from falling into darkness. However Many foes (Slimes) take away the claim causing loss of land.

Don't fall to your doom, Kill the enemies and don't Die! Things do get progressively harder!

Oh and there's many class to unlock!

Here's my latest score to beat!

(already got some ridiculous scores, apparently its oon the easy side)

Ctrl screenshot is only in Windows version (also 8 key at any time)

Play here(https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/last-land-heroes)

Hope you like it!

Well Unfortunaly my accese to twitch got eliminated!i cant open the app!well maybe its something to do with sensoration but i used a couple of vpns and it doesnt work 😭 A guy on my game posted about a twitch streamer who played my game and i really wanted to watch it!but i cant! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/the-red-pixel I really wanted to see some reactions on my game but it seems like that i cant!because i cant find any kind of LD livestreamer on youtube So If any of you guys know a LD stream on youtube please comment them Or if any of you guys are youtubers please comment your link i would follow you so i can see your vids,and if you played any of ludum dare games please let me know!i like reactions! Good Luck🍀

Check out our video of us rating some games! https://youtu.be/vuUp1EYEiuA

boy do I have the game for you!!

try taskmaster 2000!!! :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/taskmaster-2000

Every wanted to drive a forklift? Now is your chance! Even if you never wanted to, you should try it immediatly. It's fun!

Play and rate Forkin' It Up now!

You can now play Too Many Harlots in your browser!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/too-many-harlots

Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to play, rate and leave feedback for my first solo jam. I'm currently working on a post-jam version to add in a few of the originally intended features that were missed due to time constraints. It'll be fun to compare the two builds when the next build is ready! :smiley:

If you want to play and leave feedback, or rate the game, you can find it here.

We didn't really had any time to let you guys hear of our game, That's because we're in another game jam so I hope you all feel free to try out our game "SpaceLab 42" and Give us Feedback about the game and we hope you like it!

Watch the Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYeJgZbytU

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

i noticed that lot of games here are only playble in 64 bit sys. non for web non for 32bit. when i want to play someones game than i need to comment on his game that's not looks good. i have 32 bit system and its really time consuming to do that ..

*I just want to say that its better to build also for 32bit or even web build can be fine *

Thanks for your support and your feedback !

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/born-to-jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=6RZVVxE9W5E

what the title says

https://www.twitch.tv/tiger_j

Join our stream and send us links to your games!

https://www.twitch.tv/sokolova_sveta

Our entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/pop-it!

"Nooooo!" That's the name of the game

evil robots from some other dimension.
The robots try to kill you by cutting the surface

special ability to cut into their energy beam

Noooooo!

play the game here =)

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

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

Hello again! My girlfriend (who helped play test my submission) is streaming now once again at https://www.twitch.tv/pilorekt for day 3 of her three day Ludum Dare stream.

If you'd like her to playtest your game, head on over and submit a link to your game to add it to the queue. Type “!submit” in twitch chat to submit, and “!queue” to see what’s up next!

Sadly I’m traveling right now so I won’t be able to play or rate alongside her this time, but I’ll try to catch up on the queue later!

It's Friday, finally I can sit down for a moment. I've just finished porting our game for HTML5. Now it's time to play and rate other games :) Check at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/dodgeball or https://j-riple.itch.io/dodghell

Too many people complain about us about they can't figure out how our game work at first sight. Or It's too hard.

So I think we need a little academy. In a fun way.

If you still don't play our entry yet. So you can try it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/pervertica-ccg-1

Still sad about we can do this in time for submission.

Because we have some falling stars for you. ;) Check it out. Where Stars Belong

It's really relaxing atmospheric game.

Do i have to wait until the "play+rate games" period ends?

Hello there :)

I'd like to test games with lot of mood, games involving saving lives or games with island and boats. I'm searching for some inspiration and nice calm moments :)

Here is a list of examples, that are my favorite mood games form this LD42 :

Where Stars Belong

A really nice mood game on the feelings and the relation you could have with your dark thoughts.

Corrupt Space

Nice spooky ambiance !

The Heros Incredible Chronicles

Really funny one, just play it. You'll go on a epic journey !

Lighthouse

The mood in this one is also really great and it has a boat haha.

Hiding Spot

Nice charming puzzle with a calm and moody music

Dementia

Super nice graphics and charming story..

Cyber Janitor

Nice ambiance game where you are a robot, alone in ship cleaning it.

_________

Also if you haven't check out my game, here it is :v: Test it, and give me what you think about it :smile:

Play Overflow

We create a trailer for our game...because why not? (and because it's somewhat cool)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9IOXSkgBI

Link to the game : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/birdbird-cant-fly !

Another Ludum Dare, another Post-Mortem.  This one is about the recent Ludum Dare 42 events and the development of my game Johnny's Flipbook Space Adventure.

The Days Up To Theme Announcement

I was looking forward to LD42 for months, until about a week before the start. For some reason, I was not hit with the normal excitement, and decided that it may be time to take a break... after all, I did 5 LDs in a row and I am currently working on my pet project. I decided to press on and go through voting for themes.

Honestly, I wasn't a fan of most of the themes to make the finals and when the theme was announced, I decided that its probably a good idea to take a break. Even though I was "out", I was still thinking of a game, and about 6 hours later my game just came to me and I was in! At this time it was well after midnight so I decided to go get some rest and start early the next morning. By the time I got started, I was over 12 hours behind, but I was determined to ramp up and get to work.

Day 1

Day 1 for me was actually Day 2 of Ludum Dare. I decided for the theme I was going to use hand drawn images and animate them in a flip book style.  I used Adobe Photoshop Sketch (which I never used before) on my iPad to draw 5 images for each sprite, and animate them in a loop. It came out very nice.

I scanned some graph paper as a background image. I also scanned a piece of paper that I tore a hole into. Originally, this was going to be used when the player's ship shoots an alien ship... I wanted the hole to appear at the spot where the alien ship was destroyed, but this was becoming quite a challenge. There was a lot of overlap with other holes and existing alien ships, and that was causing a lot of physics issues that I just could not work around. It also made the game a bit frustrating to play.

I decided instead to "tear" a hole in the paper between levels. That seem to work and made game play fun and challenging.

By the end of the day, I had a pretty solid space shooter with some audio in place. Since I was pretty far into development at this point, I decided to call it for the day, and pick it up again the next day.

Day 2

It's not Sunday 8:00am EST. There is 10 hours of Ludum Dare left, but I was in a good position. I completed the audio, using Audacity and Adobe Audition (another tool I never used before) to make my voice more child-like, created the title screen, and back story, and after a bit of play-testing, it was time to submit.

What Went Well

• Normally, it is a bit of a task to come up with something I want to develop and is fun to play. This time, the game idea just came to me so easily. This was a game I really wanted to make! That was an incredible motivator.
• During development, I actually learned how to use 2 applications I never used before (Adobe Audition and Adobe Photoshop Sketch). I'm not a pro with them, but they are 2 more tools in the tool belt.
• I made all the audio with my voice, and it was fun!

What Could Have Gone Better

• I'm not really sure... this is a tough one. My original ideal of ripping holes when alien ships were destroyed was costing me a lot of time. Same with my lack of enthusiasm during the start. I did turn these into positives and I think it helped me create a game I really enjoyed programming and playing.

On a serious note, we'd love for you to check out our game.

After Ludum Dare 41, our group had tossed around the idea of trying a serious topic for our next this game. When the theme for LD42 was announced, we brainstormed for hours, finally deciding on "running out of space in your mind," which we felt was a good, yet simplified description of dementia.

We decided on a graphic novel, trying to focus on an overall experience that would accurately portray the effects of Alzheimer's on a family. We researched the horrible diseases that cause dementia and drew from our own group's experiences. Throughout our development cycle, we worked with the cousin of one of team members, who had worked as a nurse and spent a lot of time with dementia patients.

We felt this game would be very high risk/high reward, with a pretty heavy burden to "get it right." We believe we were able to meet the challenge, and present our game in a way that is accurate, moving, and an overall unique experience.

@carystringfield did an absolutely amazing job on the art, @mister-kweh somehow managed to write five unique and immersive songs that fit perfectly with the mood, @sbx5 created the animations and effects that really brought the scenes to life, and @kovakomes programmed the entire game, tying our pieces together and presenting the story in an incredible framework.

I wrote the story, and I really am blessed to have such an amazing group to work with.

I really hope you can feel the passion and emotion we were trying to accomplish with our game.

Some reviews we've received so far (thank you to everyone who has played our game):

"Oh cool now I’m sad."

"Wow. Absolutely shed a tear for me. Couldn’t help it."

"...this was so emotional and raw"

"This game totally slayed me!"

"I cried SOOOOOOO MUCHHHHHH"

"That was heartbreaking to go through. That’s all I can say, really"

"Well, that hit hard. Can’t say I wasn’t warned though."

"Brilliant, bringing this kind of experience and story to an event like Ludum Dare is is truely amazing. Thank you so much."

"… this game has practically left me speechless."

"...while there’re always lots of gems in the game jams, games that people just have to see are still pretty rare. Yours is like that though."

"WOW. Just… wow. Thanks for sharing that."

Thank you everyone for your support, and if you haven't checked out our game yet, we hope you do.

Ok, now I've done something stupid =)

Ludum Dare 42 was my 7th consecutive LD and for the first time I couldn't spend much time making a game. I was returning from a vacation with my wife and kids and since I knew the theme I could use the kids drawing kits and sketch out an idea of a game to fit the theme. I then had about 8 hours of actual "computer time" to make everything. I was quite happy with the result considering the little time I had for this event and I actually found the game fun to play myself which is a bonus =)

Well then. Now to the stupid thing. I have been making assets and games for many years but I have never released a mobile game. I decided to make my Ludum Dare 42 game "Parking Spaces" my first official Mobile game release so over the last 7 nights, after my dayjob and after the kids have gone to sleep, I am doing a post-jam version of this game that should be release-worthy by 1st September. I am going for polished game-play, improved artwork, 8 track music soundtrack. I have no idea if I'll make it but I'll give it my best shot. I've just finished all the artwork I need (16 vehicles), road tiles, title artwork, mobile button icons etc. I've also got 2 of the 8 tracks composed and I'm going for a 1950s inspired modern chip style to fit the low poly artwork.

Here's what I've got so far (the song is actually 4+ minutes, but this is just a short extract from the new menu scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0HlmQmCKcQ

I will continue to compose the remaining music in parallel of developing the game. The mechanic is up and running already and I'm making it more robust to support unlockable parking lots with different challenges.

Here's what my LD game looked like 6 days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvrs-i2zIX0

...and here was my original sketch on the boat:

Wonder how this will pan out =)

Heya! We reached the 20+ Votes, thanks everyone for playing, voting, and giving feedback! If you haven't tried yet, give it a try, the Goo will surely give you a thrill ;)

Link to game

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

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

Hey everyone! Stream day 4 of LDJAM games! I've gotten through 125 amazing games so far, I've got 30 or so left on the queue. Feel free to submit your games with this google form: https://goo.gl/forms/eOHifNpeqalYTLy52 I will be playing them all and provide timestamps for the vods that are created if you can't be around when they are streamed!

My stream is going live here: https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/dat-der-sidescrulluh-game

My first compo but second LD. It was definitely a challenge learning how to time manage. With the next challenge I will definitely be better equipped! Please rate my game and be as constructive as possible!

Light Towers is a fast paced puzzle game that will get you addicted! Its my Compo entry for this LD and Id appreciate if you try it out. You can play in browser and its a short game (intended for mobile) so it wont take long. Tell me what you think or just try it and leave. Thanks!

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

I want to say thank you to those that tried out my game and gave me some valuable feedback. I know it's too much to expect a complex board game in 48 hours but I think I did very well for usually sticking to 2D action games. The positive and negative feedback have both been very useful for helping me plan the future work of this project.

I do have plans to make this a fully finished game and I have been coding regularly since the end of the compo. A few key critiques were that there wasn't a lot of interaction for the player and that the game would be better if it had an NPC AI to fill in for lack of actual players.

I redesigned the UI to make it more appealing based on some advice from those that played.

I also have redesigned the combat system and plan to make it less linear with branching paths. Instead of a flat attack value you get assigned a number of dice of varying size. I'm taking my love for fantasy tabletop and kind of merging it with a Mario Party styled board game.

Please feel free to let me know if this sounds like something you would play with friends locally, over the internet, on mobile, or even on tabletop if it was made physical. I also would love to hear any ideas for features to include.

All in title : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/space-intruder

Come play my entry for the compo!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/brick-by-brick

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/deadly-confines

Love y'all

Kingdoms Fall Jam Entry

Check out our 17th Ludum Dare game, Kingdoms Fall. It's a turn-based strategy game where the game board crumbles underfoot.

Recruit your army with 4 different unit types, spread across the land to claim territory, battle your rival kingdom, and claim their castle ::european_castle:: before you run of space.

The attack and defense stats of a unit are bolstered by the units around them, so place your units strategically to overwhelm the enemy forces!

The team is quite happy with how this entry turned out and we hope you'll enjoy it! Our older jam games are available on the web at Lando Systems

If you haven't played and rated it, you should definitely go do it!

I fixed a bug that caused you to click through the buttons.

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

I hope your all enjoying Ludum Dare!

Oh and i also left some cheats in :)

Hey!

Stuck on a business trip with only my company laptop. I can not run any downloaded binaries on the laptop so can only play webGL games.

Please post your games in the comments so I can play, rate and review them!

If you feel like also playing my game, I'd be of course very happy if you do, but don't feel any obligation :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/pyramidion

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

Thank you for all your feedback :hearts: I am now working this weekend on an HTML5 version of the game! Hopefully there tomorrow 😊 The desktop version will still be the best experience! ✌️

To my fellow programmers out there, how dirty do you let your code get over the course of a jam? Obviously there's enormous time pressure. But my sense is that at least on the first day, if you don't put a little thought into the organization of your code, you're going to wind up with a terrible bug the second day that's going to eat up way too much of your productivity. For that reason when I'm writing my code, in the moment, I try to make it as clean and understandable as possible. If I come across something that should be majorly refactored, I usually don't, but when it comes to the little things that pop up while I'm writing the code, I try to do a good job making my intentions clear so if I have to go back the next day, I don't get lost and mess everything up.

What has your experience with code cleanliness during game jams been? Has really dirty code come back to haunt you?

Speaking of dirty code, consider checking out my game about dirty old men. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/camp-snuggle

Check it out!

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