So I finally decided to do an addition to my generic face animation script that I use on every single game jam game. I've had this addition in mind for quite some while now but never really sacrificed the time to do it during an actual jam.

The addition is what I call derpiness variable for blinking and it adds a slight randomized delay to each eye blink timing.

Which do you prefer?

Hey Ludum Dare fellows!

We are super happy to discover that we reached a 100 downloads for our game PATH on itch.io :)

But while there's a time to be happy, there's also a time to vote for other people, and we're a bit late on that part! Just drop the link of your page in the comments, and we'll rate as many of them as we can, in the timeframe and with the low bandwidth that we have... :)

And if you ever want to learn more about our game, here you go: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/path-a-game-of-life

Our game is now downloadable for windows, linux and Mac os, check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/the-money-hole

Hi there!

I made was finnaly able to make a HTML5 build of my game! It's a top-down shooter, where you have to shoot your way out of an experimental facility. But be aware, after each room you cleared, you have to choose one out of two super power, and they cost your own HP!

Check it out here: https://cpx3.itch.io/frozen-yoghurt

I'm already so proud of this! 50 downloads actually is a huge deal for me, as this is my first game jam and also my first game altogether released to the public! I'm happy to have participated in this!

Check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/roboxery

Did you know?

In Knit Worth, when you poke at Granny's synapses inside her head, they make a small squish! sound.

That sound was created by squirting mashed banana out of a small hole in a plastic bag!

Witness the fruits of our labor by prodding around Gam Gam's noggin yourself!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/knit-worth

Gattocorno Production is back with a brand new videogame! A Deity lives thanks to its faithful followers, Its power depends on their number! Challenge other Supreme Entities and beat your opponents to death using your believers as ammunitions! Steal other Gods' followers by throwing your proselytes at them, but be careful, do not remain without disciples, your very existence depends on them!

Please Note: the game is best played with xbox controllers!

Xbox Controllers + Left stick: Movement + A: Dash + X: Shoot

wArshippers Game Page

Windows build download

Thanks to the awesome support we received, we've just added keyboard support so you can try and rate it!

You can find keyboard controllers here :)

Keyboard Controllers (player 1)

Arrows: Movement

T: Dash

R: Shoot

Keyboard Controllers (player 2)

W/A/S/D: Movement

N: Dash

M: Shoot

Hope you all like wArshippers!

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Gameplay

Play as a superhero, and make a choice

Hey, I'm sick of seing peoples games that are popular, so here:

Play this

Here are some screenchots:

Since this time we focused more on story than usual, we made a playthrough video for the folks who aren't that much into 2D Platformers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wesBcsyUas

Postmortem: It was the first time we made a platformer in Unity and because of weird physics behaviour, we decided to code the movement and collision of the platformer with a simple raycast system. This turned out to be a little bit more complicated than we thought and a few bugs crept into the game.

Sadly the animations are are bit buggy sometimes and the backgrounds for 2 levels are missing but apart from that, we managed it to finish the game in time.

We decided to make a postjam version of the game, with all bugs fixed and all assets placed. We will upload it as soon as it's ready.

If you are interested, you can play and rate our game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/lousy-life-lessons

If you're one of next five people who rate my game, I'll make sure to check yours! :smiley:

-> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/obsessed

I hope you are all doing great!

I have pretty exciting news; but first of all, let me thanks every single one who gave me feedback about the game!

I received a lot of critics on dialogue speed, not being able to restart the game and resurrection price in the game. Lucky, every single change is this patch is basically a few digits changed in values of the game, like speed and price.

Either way, here's the quick patch note:

• Gameover screen is faster.
• Upgrades are cheaper.
• Shopkeeper's dialogue is faster.
• Spawn time is faster.
• You can restart the game.
• Enemies reset attack timer after dash encounter.
• Camera correctly looks at the player if he falls from the map.
• Game starts in fullscreen.
• Samurai's icon should look sharper.

You can play Heartaker and give me more suggestions right here!~

Thank ya!

We tried to make a fun, replayable game for this Ludum Dare (our first Ludum) and we are quite happy with the results. What would you change?

You can Invert the controls in the options menu, or just before starting to play.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/devaluation

Also, post your high score down below :dollar: :dollar:

Linux build also available (needs testing) :pray:

Game: Clunky Bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mtG_4f635A

Hell's Reef let you navigate through Hell to bring back a close one.

It's about autodestruction and melancholy, but I hope you will figure that for yourself by playing it :)

Hi everyone! We made a game inspired by Rhythm Heaven and Sekiro! It is a very challenging experience that captures the feeling of those two games.

YOU CAN PLAY IT AND RATE IT HERE: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/catiro

We're a web based game dev team interested in seeing what other people are doing in the realm of web :) . (especially if you're also using DartLang for your games)

Comment here with your game link for us to get a nice queue going of games we're going to look over :)

And feel free to check out our own web game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/mahou-shoujo-monster-promised-fate

Hi all. After hibernating and recovering from the weekend, I thought I'd share a little process art stuff. For many of us, this was our first point and click adventure game, and we also had several artists trying to align to a single style, so there was a lot of visual planning to get to our final result. Please give us a play so we can get enough votes to receive a rating, thank you!

After coming up with the idea of a robot with draining battery life (and then the plot that he finds another robot that he needs to power), we explored those characters, which allowed one artist to get started on that.

Then we spent a lot of time planning the levels. Here are some quick wireframes to validate the concept, defining some of the interactions and asking ourselves, well, would this be fun?

The next day, a couple of us fleshed out a game flow, using a wall and lots of post-its. This gave us all our points of interaction, the level and object design needed to accomplish that, logic for the battery draining, and all the points of dialogue. This mess was translated into two digital bulleted lits: for all the dialogue, and to define MVP functionality (which of course was still way too big, haha, lesson for next time).

Then we did a moodboard of other games and ideas that inspired us; we found games with a pixel density we liked, some drab color examples, and researched old operating system design. This allowed us to divide and conquer for the next two days, between the map and object art, characters, cut-scenes, logo, and UI.

Here is what we ended up with!

You can see all the art by playing the game here. Either way, thanks for any feedback :slight_smile: :v:

get started!

They main challenge I faced for this Ludum Dare was animating Zoltan's cats. You see cats doing all the things cat do and I wanted them to look as real as possible. I've never done anything like this before and I'm so happy I did!

I'm a programmer, but the two Ludum Dare I've done so far I decided to challenge me with graphics: I wasn't even sure this could be done properly in such a short time. So here is are a little series on my process, for those of you that would like to start making their own graphics.

This is not the right way or the only way to do it, but it worked! I was able to draw quickly with a good tradeoff between speed and quality.

You can find any kind of stock animation around, but making your own graphics is so satisfying and makes your game unique. So here is how you can do. Of course basic drawing skills are needed but not so crucial in my opinion, because even the strangest wobbly traced character will work well if it's animated right.

First of all if you are serious about animation, grab this book.

It is the bible, you won't probably need anything else. There are also great videos of it you can find on YouTube. The first and most important move you want to animate is walk. Turns out that walk cycles will be also the most difficult animation you will make, so start with it and everything will be easier after :) Bipeds walks are different from 4 leg walks, but they all have the so called "contact positions" that is when each foot touches the ground. A good way to start is to draw the contact position for each foot and then draw the position between the two, called "passing position". The more frames you add the smoother your animation will be. An easy way to do this is getting an already made sprite sheet and studying it.

Trace on it! There's nothing wrong. This way you'll get familiar with the movement you are drawing.

For Zoltan I picked an old picture of animation studies that shows a rotoscope of cats and dogs jumping. In the early days of animation they would film everything to study the movements this way. And this is what you can do, even with a YouTube video.

Thanks for reading this and I really hope that if there's an animator in you it will come out for a future jam! ;)