It has been a week since LD44 and I have been playing and rating games all week long. I've been having a blast playing various types of card games, shooters, platformers and more! You guys rock.

My own game has been getting warm receptions from the people who have taken the time to rate it, thank you. It has made my week how friendly people have been.

When the theme was announced my stomach dropped. I did not like the theme at all, but after a cup of coffee and ruminating over it a bit I came up with the idea that a player could "spend" their life and then play it out. It is a simple concept which lacks a few things I thought would be pretty essential in being a good ludum dare game. It had no action, no flashy graphics or anything like that, but it would be a game so I set out to make my event driven life game.

One trick with ludum dare is scoping correctly. If you choose too many features you will end up missing the deadline and if you have too few you'll be done way before target and have nothing to do (missing out on the fun of a gamejam for perhaps a day). I have lots of experience deeming how long it takes me to implement various features (not in gaming tho) so I booted up trello and started planning. After the two days, taking care to get enough sleep and food, I ended up with my game (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/life-path).

Well, I'm gonna stop my rambling now :P I'm gonna go play some more games. See ya next LD.

See how far you can make it in this shoot'em up where your ammo costs you your own life.

This is a game that I made with some friends for whom it was their first gamejam experience, and it was a blast ^^ it'd mean a lot for us if you tried our game! Play and rate it here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/bloodcoin#/

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/slime-life-for-life

let's shoot TicTacs! steal the life from your enemies and use that to buy useful upgrade to gain more lifepower

NOW with bugfixes!

This was an odd jam for me. Since the change to twice a year I have been a little bummed out as one of the weekends chosen is the weekend of nearly my entire family's birthdays.. so that meant I couldn't take part in the 48 hour challenge. But not wanting to break my streak of 18 Ludum Dare games back to back, I found two spare hours over the weekend and made this

https://youtu.be/FN7PdPuxjrE

It's more of an offering than a serious submission and as it was only 2 hours to make, I am happy that it is at least functional.

See you all in December when I WILL be hitting the compo with vengeance!

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

We were making a list of enemies we need for Big Fascinating Mutants, and I called general enemies with different guns 'minions'. Because I thought to make a lot of them during the fight. And our artists suggested making them bananas which have coveralls and glasses of minions on. And the team fell in love with them from the first sight.

You won't get it at the first try and that's ok

The clock was ticking. The first morning of jam had passed and I had nothing done, only wobbly sketches of cats. Then I discovered the beauty of guide layers :) I sketched over my first sketches trying to make them better and they did get better! I do this in blue pencil because the next step is to trace the final outline. Don't try to get the final drawing immediately!

This was my error during the last jam. I thought it would have been quicker to draw directly my character outline, but then I spent ages erasing and redrawing making a mess and loosing precious time.

This time instead I started by sketching the basic position on legs and tails (again, keep your reference at end, even in a layer behind with 50% opacity if it make you feel more confident). After these quick blue cats I created a new layer over each one and started to draw the real thing. It was a lot easier!

A word about tools:

I recommend to use a pen obviously, but you don't need a very expensive tablet. This is a common misconception. People think that they can't draw well with a tablet because theirs isn't good enough. The thing is: drawing like this has nothing to do with drawing on paper. you HAVE to practice a little and get the hang of it. And once you excercised you can get good results even with a cheap tablet.

Same for brushes: there is no special brush of smoothing option that can work magic (well you could use a little smoothing to get slickers lines).

I like to use a pencil effect brush for sketches (something with a bit of transparency), but then for the final sketch I use the simpler harder brush you can find, without any dynamics or transparency. This is because when you animate, you want your lines to stay the same thickness all the time or else the result will be wobbly.

Want to see cats doing all their things? Try out Zoltan!

And if you are a pro animator, I WOULD LOVE to have your feedback!

Come play Enemy Of The State, the soviet Hotline Miami styled game!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/enemy-of-the-state

Waiting for your feedbacks, thank you!!!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/les-pattesthe-legs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEaYybE82KU

Come to say hi to https://www.twitch.tv/siraeron, another day of playtesting your ludum dare 44 entries!

Due to personal circumstances, I haven't been able to play anyone else's games yet, or publicise my own beyond the initial "it's done!" post. But I'm dealing with those circumstances, and it's time to do some reviewing.

Feel free to check out my own entry, 15 Minutes To Live: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/15-minutes-to-live

Well, Sword of Hearts is full of them!

Enjoy 10 awesome levels of a challenging yet fun platformer, and see if you can escape the castle you were trapped in! 🏃🏰

Play and rate here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/ballsy-escape

After not being able to play and rate yesterday, due to work, I have some games queued to check out!

Take a look at Roboxery

https://youtu.be/SCC3W4h-u-E

This is my entry for the 44th LudumDare - a procedural SuperHexagon clone without any sprite, physics or prefab because of the theme which I understand this way your life is CONcurrency. Take a look at the main page and try it if you dare. Also I would like to promote this cool project, offering for the best five players a free key of my previous game which is available on Steam - Theorem. The contest runs until LD results. Try if you dare :)

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

PS : if you rate my game, don't forget to write a comment - this way I can rate yours too ++

It’s been some time since our games are possible to evaluate, each of us wants to judge the games of others and wants his game to be evaluated.

That is why today I am creating this post, knowing that our games do not always appear as high as we would like, that anyone who wants to be sure that his game will be evaluated, could leave the link in the comment under this post.

Our team promise that we will evaluate and try to leave a valuable feedback under as many games as we can play, especially I would like to see the comments of those creators whose games have not yet reached 20 ratings.

It’s good to help each other, that’s why I also have a request for you to judge the games left in the comments and if you have some time, rate the game of our team.

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

Game Link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/robooto

The team decided to keep working on more updates for Blood and goods, expect new classes, enemies, items and room types soon!

Do you have any suggestion for an update ? Tell us in our Discord channel!

If you haven't played the game yet... DO IT NOW!

Try out our game here please!