We need more than 12 more ratings! We will play your game as well Please rate fair and hope you like it :v:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/no-pain-no-gain-1 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/no-pain-no-gain-1 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/no-pain-no-gain-1 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/no-pain-no-gain-1

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The Soviet side of a Hotline Miami inspired game!: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/enemy-of-the-state

I'm doing another stream where I'm playing and testing ldjam games. If you want some live feedback on your game, you can comment your game under this post. There's gonna be a queue in the stream as well so you can join there as well.

I'll go live at 9pm CEST (6 hours from now) at https://twitch.tv/syrapt0r

See you there :smile:

I added WebGL and Linux support to my game, Heal Zone.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/heal-zone

The Linux port has been very minimally tested, please let me know if you encounter any issues.
I had a lot of fun making my first Ludum Dare entry and I've learned a lot.
Thank you everyone who played my game! :smile:

Feel free to try out my game where you need to absorb power using your life to win. Here is a not so good gif:

Thanks in advance!

Take a look at it guys! :up: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/lifleline-warriors

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/bravebelly-funny-dystopian-thicboy-runner-with-dark-undertones

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/bravebelly-funny-dystopian-thicboy-runner-with-dark-undertones

Link to the channel below!! https://www.twitch.tv/scofflawgames

Here is a link to the submission form as well!! https://forms.gle/mf5ALHdvrpVNmP1B9

Games will be played in order of received, with priority of devs who are watching the stream!!

Hello community!

I decided to join the Ludum Dare with the intention of prototyping an old idea, originally concepted for Global Game Jam and its theme Home. Yes, I decided to ignore the LD theme, but only because that idea was waiting to be prototyped for a long time (Actually I was hoping that the theme Limited Memory got seleted, that would be perfect!).

So the day came and I realized that the idea was simple enought for me to learn Twine, because was all about triggers and conditions, so I jumped in by myself with the quest of writing and coding. I'm a game artist but in this project I decided that art was my last concern.

In the game you are drunk and that was a really good choice that could explain how hard was to interact with the NPCs and also play with the character's memory. A good reason to make the player control a drunken character was the ridiculous context that some players may indentify themselves (I actually hope you don't).

Another concern was to avoid giving away the gender of the player and the "pretty face" NPC. By leaving non this kind of information vague, the player could fit his or her own idea of what a pretty face would be and wonder what was the reason you had his or her number written on the paper (maybe it was a invitation for a RPG session, who knows?).

From now on I want to develop more the NPC interactions, add art and sound to improve the mood and make a full prototype for maybe a adventure game made in 3D. Who knows?

### Thanks a lot for your time and if you want to know more about dRUNKEN nEIGHBOR just come in, take a seat a play it. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/drunken-neighbor

I'm on my way to getting those 20 reviews! Currently 11.75 and counting! Played a few games myself right now and gave out a few ratings and will do more of that tomorrow. In the meantime, why don't you check out the NES ROM I cooked up for the Compo :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/the-stranger-1

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/mahou-shoujo-monster-promised-fate

Its funny 'cuz "Promised Fate" and "Post Mortem" are very nearly the same thing in this game ;)

Overall our team had a LOT of fun with our first game jam. We got to leverage parts of our in-house game engine to make parts of the game really quickly (especially art assets being contributed by a variety of artists with little need for time-heavy communication). People loved our escalation of tone, and we got great reviews on our music and art :) .

But we made some mistakes, too.

Feedback consistently talks about our confusing gameplay, and while we INTENDED for it to be a bit confusing and a puzzle, we clearly calibrating things wrong. If we'd had just a few more hours, it would have been good to have a better way to express "you do not KNOW how much this pact will cost you. Do you still want to risk it???". Maybe a better way to convey what pacts apply when as well, compared to just having it show up as a damage modifier. Plus, knowing the girls stats would make the damage feel less "random". Maybe a section in the recruiting cutscene listing the girls stats?

I do think we'll polish this up at some point after the jam (we're also working on the second Land in our steam game), so it'll be interesting to see what we focus on with less time pressure, and we expand past "oh god don't make it longer than five minutes or no one will have time to play" as a mentality.

If nothing else, we had another Magical Girl Mini game that was a lighter toned "Pretty Dress Up" kind of deal where you customize each magical girls outfit, and that might be neat to integrate in?

Though, come to think of it...that might be WAY too dark. Its one thing to have this purposefully no-emotional-depth Magical Girl turn into a blood smear, but I think it would be WAY worse if you'd raised her up and gotten her the perfect outfit to max out her stats.

There are now more options to play our game. In your browser or on the run with your Android phone!

                               Check out our LDJAM44!

                          PIZZO TYPING HAS ARRIVED!

               💸💸 TYPE TO PAY SICILIAN MAFIA 💸💸

                                         CREDITS:

                        💻 Ignacio Muñoz Márquez

                        💻 Miguel Melgar Reyman

                      🎨 Antonio Carpintero García

                      🎶 Ricardo Roldán Fernández

                                       CONTROLS:

                                      JUST TYPE!

                             💕 Thanks for playing! 💕

                             📤 Thanks for sharing! 📤

                               You can play it HERE!

Thank you to every playtesting and giving feedback!

In this version we've updated both the Web and Windows version fixing the a critical text in the Graveyard puzzle as well as an init bug where the game could lost the focus of the Start Game button.

Play it here! Draytown

Here is some footage with the forest mini-boss fight to celebrate it!

Now lets keep voting games!

Come and say hi, and submit you game. I will play it live!

https://www.twitch.tv/thevinter

My first ld jam entry check it out.If you rate and review my game then I will also do yours.Love.

And shooter for a reason to pay ^^,

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/max-payin

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/the-branch

The Branch is a ‘slice of life’ documentary looking at the staff who work at the local high street bank.

In tonight’s first episode we meet branch manager - Clinton Meeks. Clinton’s obsession with currency is preventing him from ever loaning the bank’s money to anybody! In charge of the Bureau de Change is xenophobe - Mildred Pew. An elderly woman who’s only interested in the GBP and wants to get rid of all other currency. Then finally there’s body builder, branch security and delivery driver - Derek Armageddon, who’s suffered a severe spinal injury since using the vault as his personal gym. For these 3 people - currency is their life.

Tune in now!

The Branch is a simple narrative driven experience. Meet the characters and play out their day to day activities. There is no winning or losing, just doing. Have fun!

If you’ve played our other Ludum Dare entries then you’ll know what to expect, questionable gameplay, questionable voiceovers, and stupid humour. We hope you like it!

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!

Our rogue-like Shadow Seekers is a very fun game to play you guys should try it out. Somehow we pulled off this game still am shocked by it myself.

HTML: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/shadow-seekers

As a mac user, I'm sad, that I can't play most of your games :(

We have some comments saying our game is a bit hard to understand at first. We wanted to do a better tutorial but didn't had time So here is a little gameplay footage that can help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teVRe4W5Ql0

Here is the link of our game : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/hackz-memories

Hi there!

I want to try some bullet hell / top-down shooters! Send me yours, and I'll rate it! Yay!

My game To Health and Back now has a web build for anyone like me who pretty much only plays LD entries with web builds 😜

Hope you enjoy if you play it, I'm really proud of how good I got the platforming to feel on this for a single weekend's work.

Some small Bug-Fixes applied and Mac + Linux support ready to go. Have fun wherever you want to ;)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/cats-without-cars

Would you like to rate a game without the extra work of having to download and install an .exe? Be lazy and rate my game now!

Oh and btw its a weird undead boat thing.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/styx-it-to-the-man

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Making a game with a good story is hard.

Making one for a game jam is harder

If you have a game with a story to tell, share it in the comments! I would love to see what you've written!

It's hard to find time to write anything while worrying about art/mechanics/music/programming

Also, come play my game Arm & a Leg Where I also somehow managed to fit a narrative in it

(Don't ask how, I've kind of blacked out the past 3 days...)

We have just released a Web Version of Dudes of Wizardry. Enjoy the game! <3 :-*

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

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/dudes-of-wizardry

To begin with, I created a sketch of how many stages of growth we will have. There are 2 frames to make, then the growth is quite fast and inconspicuous. Therefore, set the frame in 4 frames.

Then I drew in the vector the simplest model for the programmer, with which he can already work.

It was decided not to make a large number of details, but then you need to work with color so that the plants can be easily seen on our background. It was very important.

Well, the result was such a result.

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

A huge thank you to everyone for reviewing my game. This ludum dare was a wild ride from start to finish. For the first time I stayed up all night to finish the game. I ended up submitting it with less than a hour remaining. Now that I've had some time to distance myself from the game (and got some sleep), I think I'm finally ready to write down my thoughts that went into creating the game. I'll be posting a postmortem soon here and on r/gamedev.

After that, I'll get back to reviewing your games.

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

Our game has already reached 47 points of innovation, thanks to all those who have voted.

This jam was just the beginning of a great adventure for us and for the game. So we need your thoughts to make it a high quality product.

Keep coming to see our work and leave us feedback.

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

Beware! I'm just a 14 year old. Don't expect much. Actually expect some effort put into the editing!

Survey link: https://forms.gle/EkFh4sito6M3fSLU8

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7pbSyOvrurXLAMiSs1w

Also, a picture.

Game: Clunky Bird

Making of: https://youtu.be/9mtG_4f635A

Play as a musician that needs to earn his living on daily basis by playing in subway stations! Rock on!

https://youtu.be/gzg8L5bDNP4

Hey all, we created a webGL build so now you can play in browser! Its even easier to play HeartString now! Check it out!

Itch.io link to play https://nightember.itch.io/heartstring

LD page https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/heartstring

Center 301

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0m4yqwYvbk

LDJam Site: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/center-301-1

Gamejolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/Center-301/411399

Oh my glob, our game was randomly selected and played live on Twitch! That was so unexpected and exciting to watch — one feels like a superhero after that :D It's a big achievement, especially since it was the first time for all of us working in PICO-8, and the first game jam for the half of our team ... just wow! :)

Try it for yourself: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/piggy-the-bank

source: https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=elysiagriffin

There's this fine line I walked during development on whether the game was too unforgiving/difficult. I knew all the right answers so finding the balance was a guessing game without feedback. After some feedback I adjusted the amount of soul credits you lose for wrong choices in the WebGL build! The windows and mac downloads are unchanged. Yes, the decision for whether a person should go to heaven or hell is arbitrary! Almost all of them were made at 2am! Thanks for all the feedback so far! I definitely see making small changes to this to make the overall experience better! Check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/your-life-my-currency

Oh, turns out the site doesn't like anything over 4mb... So here it is in a tweet! https://twitter.com/forcehabit/status/1123612348382633987

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! ;)

I forgot that we aren't allowed to do any improvements post jam and update the build, I also forgot to version at the end of the jam and make an HTML 5 port whoops!

So here's some gifs with some of my improvements thus far, sorry you can't play it with them and sorry you can't play it in web!

Don't forget to play and rate Fools Fortune here; https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/fools-fortune

You can follow Fools Fortune's post jam development at:

Twitter;https://twitter.com/Gear_Steak

Itch.io;https://gearsteak.itch.io/fools-fortune

I spent a good weekend on this by myself, so I would really appreciate it if I got some feedback for it. I know it's not great and is missing a few things, but I'm really proud that I managed to pull through with my idea.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/protect-the-dungeon

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

I'm streaming post-compo content development at https://www.twitch.tv/shp__ starting right now!!

Tree sprites sacrifice their lives to take care of their mother tree. Help organizing the sprite village and ensure the greatest bloom!

https://youtu.be/gSM7GLe45tQ

Play and rate The Bloom now at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/the-bloom

So, LudumDare44 was our second LudumDare jam and third jam generally. Perhaps some of you remember our previous entry Drunken Soviet :D!

This time we had a real blast with development as the theme really resonated well with us. In fact, we spent the last few days nearly without sleep constantly working on implementing features and tweaking things. In the end the game we ended up with might not be the most complete product but it’s at the very least playable.

We really liked the idea however and are even considering working on a full version with much more involved and complex mechanics. :)

Cheers!

I've had some great feedback from people but a few where unable to play since I had only built for Windows. The game is made using FNA (which I've grown to love quite a bit) and I've never built for anything other than Windows. So down the rabbit hole we go.

Luckily there was a pretty handy guide on doing exactly that on the FNA page. Some different files where needed and configs configured but I got it together and I was able to test the Linux version using VirtualBox. Somewhat to my surprise it worked on first try! There is always some issue when trying to get this kind of stuff going, especially in a VM.

So now all you Linuxers & Macers (?) can try it out too!

Ratings received: 22.375

many thanks to all :) I am very happy for the comments, and for criticism, whoever wants to play will be very happy

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/the-game

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/kitchen-for-one

Note: I'm just a 14 year old with some editing skills.

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7pbSyOvrurXLAMiSs1w

Survey link: https://forms.gle/W7wCsBB8TpRV1rfs6

Imagine it, you go to the bar with your friends, you buy a beer, some time passes, the party begins to be boring, what to do to save it?

It is the perfect moment to take out the phone and start Bet Your Life and start the party again. It is a simple party game like Russian roulette, which we created on this Ludum Dare. First, see the teaser we've been exploring and then play while having fun, leave reviews and judge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcSTZW3-PBw

Make The Party Great Again

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

Did you know you Seaway could make wonderful wallpapers ?
Just press Space to take a screenshot without any UI !

Try it yourself !

Uploaded to a seperate build so you can still experience the raw more brokened version on itchio that was made within the time limit if you wanted to :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/your-life-is-my-money

Leave a comment and rate mine as well! Enjoy!

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

Stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/nayakidraws Signup here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCJ5qTx8Tcczbx0xhF7bPJnjeFHGELDa1mK75bSfDY9ariw/viewform?usp=sflink

Being a coder creating art for my prototypes has always been difficult, so many ideas I ended up discarding because I knew I couldn't create art decent enough if I couldn't find anyone to help. So I've been practicing for a while now and wanted to challenge myself in this Jam. I'm happy with the result but I'm so slow that I couldn't finish in time for the Compo and I submitted for the Jam. The game is missing a few crucial things that would make the story easier to understand, as well as a few planned extra enemies and a lot of polishing, but I'll be happy if you all can try it.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/cursed-samurai

Zer0 money means DEATH for your credit card!

Come and beat the "Black Friday" BOSS 😠

Ludum dare has just ended and wow, as a second time participant, things went nowhere near as smoothly as I hoped. Here's what I've learned by going through that grueling journey:

1. Sh*t happens. If I had to describe this year's ludum dare in a nutshell, that's how I would describe it. The artist I was working with had to leave on the same day due to RL issues. That left me with with a very small amount of usable assets and not enough time to look for premade ones. I had to somehow work with that. Then My university decided to randomly hold classes on the last day of ludum dare. Then, as if that wasn't enough, They announced that my yearly result would come out on the day before. I spent the second day frantically refreshing the results page to get some peace of mind so that I could work on the game. Naturally, progress came to a halt. Which brings me to my second point.

2. Don't give up before the end. I almost did. My motivation was already running low with all the issues I was having outside of the game. 12 hours before the submission I realized that I might not make it even if I crunched all night. I closed unity and basically gave up. I procrastinated for two hours playing Sekiro. Weirdly, beating one of the bosses I was stuck on for a while gave me the motivation to retry. Then, I somehow submitted the game less than an hour remaining.

3. Cut your scope again and again. Don't bother with extra features that you don't have time for. In my experience, UI falls in this category. I spent the majority of the second day implementing the UI for an upgrade menu before deciding to replace it with a more simple one. I didn't even bother with a title menu since the game is not very replayable. I think the game is better for it. But this will vary from game to game.

4. Don't be overly worried about clean code. One of the reasons the upgrade menu was taking too long was because I was trying to code everything the clean way. I threw away all of it for a more simplified upgrade system that directly modified the variables in the code. And I just copypasted the same code for all the powerups. It took me just a couple of hours and I never had to look at that piece of code again. Plus, when you do something the wrong way, you have a better understanding about what the better approach might be.

5. Making an actual playable build is important because you'll probably mess up your first time. I said this last year as well. This time I decided to do a webgl build. I didn't know that itch.io requires you to upload a ZIP file, not a rar. It's a simple mistake but I was stuck on it for an hour. I don't think I'll ever repeat it now. So fail fast and make those mistakes early.

6. Do not be complacent with your progress early on. The first day went really fast for me and I had a lot of things done. But that's only because I was doing the simple things then But progress was slow afterwards and I almost ended up missing the deadline.

7. Know your toolset. I lost a lot of time integrating an external pathfinding library. I also wasted a lot of time writing a save manager (which didn't even make it in the game). Pathfinding and serialization is one most common things you need in games. Learn them before hand so that you don't have to waste time.

8. The theme will always suck. Don't avoid participating on the jam because you didn't like the theme or some other external reasons. I skipped ludum dare for a year making various other excuses. What matters is not the theme but how you approach and design based on it. I don't think my take on the theme was particularly unique, but it is still MY interpretation and all the weirdness that it entails.

9. Accept that you'll never be able to do justice to your ideas. There were a lot of things I wanted to implement but I didn't have the time for.

10. Polish your game- I was going say this but I should really practice what I preach. Unlike last time, I didn't have time to polish the game and it really shows. The main thing I realized from playing other people's games was that theirs was much more polished. In a sea of games, polish is what will separate your game from the rest. Obligatory link to THAT video

11. And last but not least, don't beat yourself up by comparing to others. There will always be people who have accomplished much more impressive things in three days compared to you. But know that they still had to reach that point by trying and failing again and again. Your first game jam is unlikely to be that great but over time you will learn and improve. But I'll admit that I still don't understand how people can make such amazing games on the 48h compo.

Overall, this ludum dare has been an enlightening experience for me. I hope you guys enjoyed these past few days as much as I did.

*You should have known better than take capitalist offer komrade. *

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

Waoh, many feedback for Escape from Hell, thanks !
Today i began working on a complete version of the game, first goal; complete the fight system.
I'll post some news soon ;)

Escape from Hell

Explore the World Beyond the Slot! You can even play it in your browser!

• 1 - 1501 - thib
• 2 - 1392 - chris
• 3 - 1319 - yo
• 3 - 1243 - @neowedge
• 4 - 1224 - cerise
• 5 - 1213 - jeo
• 6 - 1114 - godu
• 7 - 1110 - @marcus-gambit
• 8 - 1073 - @wassim

get a place up here! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/uralys-ld44

Here is our little game were you have a gold plated shotgun and you need to repulse zombiefied people ! * Our game *

* Our game * Available on Web and windows ! Really short game 5-10 min :p

I'll playtest and review immediately :)

Also, if you want check my entry also! It's fully playable from PC, Android and iOS

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

Hey guys, we created a WebGL build so now you can play in your browser! Check it out!

Itch.io Link https://mrkyrios.itch.io/speedrun-your-life

Ludum Dare Link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/speedrun-your-life

Hi! I just released an official gameplay video (in portuguese, but the game also have a 100% english version) of my LD44 game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF-baNXBSA4

Of course, if you want to check it out:

Play Here!

After getting enough sleep after the Ludum Dare marathon I've finally had some time to make a gameplay teaser for our game and overhaul the game page - please let me know what you think!

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

https://youtu.be/XJfiiTu1COU

Danko is finished.

Our game was made in 72 hours, and we didn’t want to touch it during the Rating and fix something that didn’t work. It seemed to us dishonest, because there are 72 hours for which we must do this. But, as we noted, this is a common practice, and there is nothing to worry about. Therefore, we also fixed a few small things that our players encountered. This is the first and last update.

Fix Update v.0.01 + Fixed bug with altar openning + Fixed bug with pause button + Fixed bug with damage hero + Fixed bug with lights in webgl version + Fixed bug with sound of skeletons + Fixed bug with colliders

Thank you for your support and kind words, we are very glad that there have appeared people who liked the game. Our team wonders whether to do something from this, something completed or not. But we will definitely make a post-ludum version, where we will add everything that we did not have time for 72 hours. Good luck.

For an unknown reason, a hacker has decided to destroy my leaderboard online. So for a while it was not reachable. It’s a pity. I fixed it today, ~~but all previous scores have been lost~~. Thank you for your comprehension. 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. This contest runs until LD results. Try if you dare :)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCC3W4h-u-E

We added our72-hour time laps video! You can check it out right here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/cats-without-cars

And when you are already on the page, check our Game out aswell, we would like to rate your Games aswell ;)

Are there really 20 days to play and rate games? This is my first jam, I didn't realize we'd have so long. I guess it makes sense considering the sheer number of games.

Also, I was wondering what the deal is with hosted content? I assume we're not supposed to update anything after the deadline, but how is that getting monitored? It doesn't really seem possible, for instance, to know if someone has updated their itch.io hosted content.

Note: I'm just a 14 year old with some editing skills.

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7pbSyOvrurXLAMiSs1w

Survey link: https://forms.gle/W7wCsBB8TpRV1rfs6

Hello, I just did 5 hours of streaming playing your games, and I will be doing more at around 9:30 GMT+1 (In an hour in a half)

Currently I have some games in the queue that I skipped over because the creator wasn't there

The full queue is: * Devaluation * Demon Pact * Mind Over Matter * Sacrifies Life To Save * Gore

If you're one of these authors come back when I start streaming and I will do your games first!

If you're not in the queue you'll be able to submit your own game.

Also consider checking out our game: [S.H.R.O.U.D], we think it's fun!

See ya in the wasteland at 9:30!

You could watch the entire game in this gif, or try it yourself! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/capsule-collector

Play it here:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/lifeless-treasure

Yeah I made a lil video game go play it

You play as a hot witch and you cast spells to shoot shit and thats basically the game.

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/730646

Rate here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/paristroyer

The correction of the sound on the browser version has arrived !!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/piggy-bank-1

We made little improvements ! Try the new version :)

https://ezki-jams-account.itch.io/overworked

So this is my first Ludum Dare in 4 years and this is also the first time I'm not on a PC. I'm trying to play and rate on my MacBook and everything is Windows only. I finally feel the pain of Linux users!

The website has had a large makeover in my absense, but there still doesn't seem to be a way to sort games by platform availability?

Will you help Anton bring peace to the crab island?

Any constructive feedback you can give is greatly appreciated :smile:

Check out the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/skeleanton