I'm a habitual version control user and I was working with an existing codebase, so throughout the jam I was using Git. Most of the usual benefits of and reasons to use version control don't apply during a jam, but what I found incredibly useful was that by making commits as time went by (even at kinda arbitrary points), I got small diffs of the last few hours progress. It helped with small things like removing dead comments and excessive debug logging, which kept things more comfortable when the heat went up!

Did you use version control? Were you alone, or in a team?

Here's how my frantic last minutes looked ^-^

Have you joined the eight edition of Geta Game Jam?

-> Make a game in three days, either alone or in a team.

-> Participate in theme voting to help decide the final theme!

-> Become a part of our Discord community!

-> Share your progress with others!

-> Challenge yourself by tackling the new hardmode challenge

We'd love to have you challenge yourself and further test your skills before Ludum Dare 45!

Interested? Join the jam today!

Thanks SO much to everyone for the kind words and patience with our bugs! Your test plays have helped us continue to refine this 48 hour (exhausting) effort!! Still a ways to go...but wanted to announce that we now have a web player version posted here:

https://zoneoutapps.itch.io/current-ce

Still having the random issue where your Battery Bot gets stuck in the cart transfer moment! I just played it all the way through and it DIDN'T happen...then played again and it DID happen once. There is now a Reset and Exit in the cog pop-up upper left if you get stuck either way.

We'll figure it out eventually... ;)

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

We made it from 18.5 ratings to over 20!! Thank you everyone. Of course if you have'nt played ASHES yet, click here

Hello everyone!

This week, thanks to your many feedback, i decide to develop a complete version of my compo : Escape from Hell.
If you have not tried it yet, you could find it here :

Escape from Hell

I began to develop it!

After two days of thinking on a new game design, i began to develop the new version.

What i already done? for the moment, i focused on fight system :
* Remade character movement
* Captured the good input
* Created smart weapon hitbox
* Added dash with invulnerability frames
* Capture the next action of the player during dash or hit (where you lost the character control)

Actually, the game seem really fluid without upgrade the player speed ;).
I'll share the current version of the game at the end of the weekend.

Thanks again for all your comments and advices !

I hope you'll continue to follow me in my first game development adventure :smiley:

I'm working on a post LD version of my game and I'm really stuck regarding the inclusion of enemies. People who have reviewed the game both say that the inclusion of enemies helps build tension, while other say the game could do without them. What do you think? Leave a comment if you have tried the game and have an opnion on the matter. Thank you.

Try it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/battery-life (WebGL and PC versions available)

https://youtu.be/6tkJ4xl4Tc0

PLEASE NOTE: This game is not part of Ludum Dare. Reaction is a mobile game made by Sharks Interactive, play it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uw-H-0RlEQ

Here is how we made our game and what we learned from the project. Hope you enjoy. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPs2cC299pc

You can play the game through your browser at This link.

If not here is the link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/the-money-hole Also I'll play the game of any person that leave a comment to our game page

Hey all! If you somehow misses us the first time round, please check out our game Blood Quest! We just made a fancy new trailer and everything.

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You can also check it out Here!

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

I've been getting heaps of amazing feedback from the community about my game, Sigillis, and to all of you, thanks! The game is all about drawing symbols that are used to cast spells. It's a neat, new idea, and I'm so glad that I managed to pull it off in just the 48 hour compo.

If you're interested, you're invited to play it here then if you have time, rate and comment here.

So, if you haven't heard, a tech-log is coming out in the next few days, all about the ins and outs of the Pattern Recognition Algorithm that powers the game's drawing system. It's fairly complex, so it's gonna be a video, and I'm making some neat graphics to help convey the ideas. It's taking longer than I'd like, but it is most definitely coming. I'm also working to fix a few extra bugs, and maybe deploy a mobile build.

Until then, cheers, and thank you for taking the time to read! :smiley:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/face-to-death

Face for Death is a 2D runner platformer videogame developed for the April 2019 Lumdum Jam.

You play a double faced coin that have to scape from a city plenty of evil rich dudes.

Dont let ‘em catch you and enjoy it!

You have super powers.

But you cannot save everyone.

Play, rate, make the choice

You can play the game through your browser at This link.

Ever wandered what it was like to sell lemonade to demons and angels in return for human souls? Well, you're in luck! In this game, when life gives you lemons, you stockpile them so that you can buy your way to reincarnation/heaven after meeting your untimely demise!

Play here: https://random-thoughts.itch.io/life-death-lemons

Check out our Jam entry - Pilling Debt! The game's a strategic runner, in which the player must predict how much time and resources they'll spend at each stage. The protagonist is Bill, a businessman running for his job, and the objective is to finish the three stages in as little time as possible. It's a neat little game that can be completed in a short time.

This is our group's first Game Jam ever, and while we did run into some complications (such as one of us getting sick and many going out to watch the new Avengers movie), I'd say that, all things considered, this was overall a success. We all gained a lot of experience from it, and the event was pretty fun. So please, check out our game, and leave feedback if you can!