I see a lot of games for LD that are way to long. With so many games to go through and rate unless your game is really really good most people arn't going to stick around for 30 minutes. I'd say a good length is around 5 minutes. That way most people will be able to get though it without it taking too much time. Even if you want to make it longer and have enough time to make it so that in the first 5 minutes people will understand your game enough to rate it fairly. It's kind of annoying when you have to play for 10 minutes to even get full use of the games main mechanic. I hope this is helpful because I feel like it would be good for both making and rating games.

Entry statement

This is my first game jam so don't expect me to blow your minds, but I'm excited for the chance to create something and become involved in such a neat community. Planning on using Godot, Aseprite, SFXR.

I am going to enter. Fact.

Trying some new tools this time! GameMaker for game making, Ableton for musique. Sticking to old tools for the rest: Aseprite for graphics, BFXR for sound effects.

Good luck jammers!

I'm in! But with a twist, this time with a team!

@Moski will be handling the virtual pencils, @jmm will be jmming some grooves, and I'll be the code monkey.

As for the tools, Unity, VS and UniRx are confirmed, the rest will depend on the game!

With a team and a new goal!

Regards!

Back for a second round of Ludum Dare, armed with Paint.NET, Sibelius, poor time-management skills, and a mediocre understanding of Python.

Goals for this Ludum Dare: - Make a more complex game (perhaps not mechanically, but more varied would be nice) - Do more sprite work and more than one animation - Go ham on music, and have some sound effects - Break top 100 in two or more categories

Time to get no sleep and spend 48 hours ironing out bugs!

Prep work progress going well.

1) gitlab.com repository created

2) new Unity project created

3) added 'must have' Asset Store packages:

• Post Processing stack
• Cinemachine
• Procore bundle
• Google2U
• Rewired

4) added my shared library (service manager, UI system, etc)

5) all of the above pushed up to Git, LFS configured for common file types

6) Unity Cloud Build configured & ran successful test build

All ready!

If I learned one thing from LD38, my first game jam ever, it's that I should rapidly prototype and test that my game is actually, you know, fun. If I learned two things, the other is that I do best when I eat well. But I also don't want to spend a bunch of time cooking. Enter the crock pot.

Good, easy, and cheap food that I can have ready when I need it. That's why it's my early vote for my most important tool. That or Unity.

Best of luck to all the participants!

\o/ Sup, "Jammers", while waiting for the ludum dare 39 to start, I made a Beautiful & Colorful Color Palette for my game, but since I'm feeling nice today I decided to share it with you..

Hope you guys like it! :fingerscrossed: