Old ludum darer reporting for duty after a long break.

My tools: * Graphics - Gimp, Blender * Audio - FL Studio, BFXR * Engine - Unity 2018.2 * Videos - OBS * Ideas - Coffee + sleep-deprived-brain

Have fun everyone!

Some recent themes:

•Running out of power
•Running out of space
•Running out of good theme ideas

Hoping to get some good ideas, just about to brainstorm up some thoughts on this theme. Well, good luck to all!

Tools (I guess) Unity Photoshop Mix-craft 8 home

Setup is ready to rock!!

LD keeps crapping out, but I’m glad everyone’s here and excited! The theme definitely wasn’t my top 10, but at least it wasn’t You’re The Final Boss 🤷‍♀️

Even though I've been working in games for a while, this is my first jam. It's kind of scary, but I hope to be able to do something interesting (and be able to finish it!). My intention is to do something with Unity.

Good luck everyone on your projects!

I predict Lots of "running animations" against a space background and play's on the Battle Royale format. Surprise me people! don't go for the obvious! :)

I'm going to stream most of the LDJam on my twitch channel so please check it out.

I'm in for the challenge ! Live streaming my 12th Ludumdare right now on Twitch

Feel free to check it out here: AvekvistSeffra on Twitch

Access to viewing our design document: ShelfLife Design Document

Instead of using the theme in a quote-unquote "creative" way, I decided to focus on making a simple game that combines the things I know I can do well, and fit it into the theme in the best way I can muster.

In Courier Panic!, you're a delivery driver on a basic shift. You'll start with a list of stops to make in your area, and you'll get a time limit to finish them. As you deliver things and get paid for them, pickup requests appear. Pick up parcels and add them to your run for more money, but pay attention to your time limit.

The theme comes into play in two ways. One, your truck's inventory is limited, and new pickups appear all the time, of varying distance and value. You'll have to plan out which ones to take and how many to deal with at once. Two, you lack space in the sense that you lack time to get to every delivery you want to make.

I like this idea as more than just a jam entry, so I may keep working on it after things are done. We'll see what happens, and if I even get to a finished state here...

Hiya everyone! I'm writing this while creating my project. Before the Jam started, I had already kind of gotten ideas for the several themes that were in the final voting, and the one that was chosen is one of my favourite ideas. So, the idea I had for "Running out of space" was Data themed, concretly how a virus or the user decides to do a scheduled deletion of the system and you play as a file who wants to escape from the deletion by traveling to several points from the computer until reaching a safe spot. I'm gonna be taking some visual inspiration from some games I like, such as Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded, Sly Cooper (the Bentley hacking segments). Probably my biggest challenge will be how to generate the labyrinths and I will need to do some extra research while I'm at it.

Now i'll be heading to sleep (I'm in Spain and it's midnight here) and early in the morning i'll get setup! Good luck everyone and remember to have fun!

Had awful toothache whole week, turns out my teeth died ... without any reason ... X-Ray and dental check showed nothing, but root canal therapy had to be performed ... now one of my teeth is left wide open, so I'm basically not allowed to eat, and have to take 4-5 painkillers every day to bare the pain ... BUT I'M IN!

I was waiting for this weekend for like a month, took 2 days off work, so I won't let some naughty tooth take my weekend away from me :)

Regarding the theme, it's not the worst I've seen, if I recall correctly I voted +1 for this one.

I wish all of you a productive weekend and can't wait to see your games :)

PS: Maybe this amount of painkillers will give me some extra creativity :)

If anyone wants it:

Space Gun

Fight against enemies using a weapon that utilizes the surrounding area as ammunition. Sacrifice chunks of the terrain/level/map in order to shoot at enemies.

Make sure to make every shot count or else. . .

You could find yourself standing on nothing

or turn it into a puzzle game or something idc

I have some ideas for this theme but I'm trying to be more creative with it. Going to take some time to think about it while I get my environment set up and see if anything jumps out at me!

Look at our workspaces!

After being mad at theme and watching my friends harrys stream i just wrote bunch of momental ideas and i think i got idea, You have to complete puzzles to get coffee while entire world is collapsing :D

LudumDare42 Theme - Running out of space

Brainstorm

Game Ideas

Interpreting space as a theme

• 3D Space
• Mental Space
• 2D space
• Outer Space
• Inner Space (i.e internal imagination)
• Space game?
• Terrority

Game Ideas

• Stuck in a cave - collapsing -Space game? -Escaping getting crushed by a world that shrinks
• Being in a virtual Brain that has a virus?*

Setting

• In someone’s mind
• In outer space
• In a fictional fantasy world
• In a robots brain*

Nano

Objective

You are a nanobot and you must escape each area of a robots brain as it shuts down due to a virus which has taken over, escape the maze of the robots brain and get to the end.

Game Mechanics

• Player has to move through environments which auto destruct after a variable time limit
• Enemies - viruses that can kill you
• Find your way through maze
• Interact with switches / doors / platforms etc?
• 3rd person / 1st person switch ? * maybe
• Number of areas - 4

Tools to use

• Unreal Engine?*
• Twine
• Superpowers?
• Blender
• GIMP

So after some brainstorming with cool ideas, my teammate and me are going for a good night of sleep to be fresh and ready for tomorrow. Good luck to everyone starting to work now, hear from you tomorrow !

Pretty cool with the theme. Going to make something in Unity, my first time trying to complete something with the engine. GraphicsGale for sprites and SunVox for music (if time allows).

I'm thinking the setting of the game will be something related to global warming (a likely subject for many games I imagine). Some mechanics I've been thinking about fit well w/that. Just hope I can learn Unity fast enough!