I have minimal experience writing and playing music, but I really wanted to try this time. Level 1 music is almost done, it just needs some equalizing and effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnD68Na7us

The game is set in a * nuclear plant or lab* so I tried to convey that.

I'll start programming now.

How are you lot doing? :rocket: :space_invader:

So I've made some good progress considering I spent hours trying to fix a nasty bug!

Ending Day 1 with most of the artwork done, the level set up, colliders all in place, movement controller working, and a few of the base mechanics programmed. Tomorrow, Music and Audio, and the rest of the gameplay mechanics!

Still haven't gotten it. RayCasting is impossible to me.

The idea behind my game is everytime you die, you travel back in time to the start of the level, and are able to use your past versions to get places you couldnt get to on your own. Like this!

Making some good progress, feels a bit more solid than last time.

Fingers crossed I haven't managed to tangle up my code toooooo much.

Discovering I have a very loose understanding of how circuits actually work - Electrical Engineers don't @ me!

Must remember to turn off the collider debugging renderers...

Took time to even come up with something, but the loop is cooking ! ( A loop ! Get it ? Cause... that's like... a loop... a music loop... but also the theme ! Get it ?) @vorunah

We've finally managed to compose all the stuff we made today in one build!

We are going with a western themed game, a hanged man seeking revenge on those who did him harm. Stuck in a Loop -> Hung in a noose.

Placeholder art, getting movement mechanics in

Tuning up the movement mechanics, here you see some art being added

Adding swinging mechanics using your noose, character art is being added

I love the way it's going so far! Good luck to all.

Just a few moments of my game!

Hope you guys like it!

We have learnt so much already. 1.) Know the tools before starting a L.D. 2.) Test an idea first before trying to implement 3.) Scaling and size is important 4.) Making games in 48hrs is no for the faint of heart. ... I have new respect for all of you!![Witch shoots.gif]

Trapdoors are only open for a couple of seconds, so you have to time your clicks just right!

We're live on Twitch! Come hang out at twitch.tv/Outfrost and twitch.tv/666Savior13!

Now, for what we've been doing so far. It's kind of embarassing, but I've got... a movement controller. And it doesn't even work that well. Can't jump half the time :(

Meanwhile, @666Savior is on modelling duty

And we've also got @saveng0r trying to figure out projectiles and stuff.

Hopefully more from us soon™.

Just wondering if Unity's Post Processing v2 is allowed for the Compo? :)

I've made a really basic tileset and also some Graphics and Animations. I think tomorrow I need to rework/clean them up a bit.

But so far, I am very happy with my progress :smile:

And say Hello to Lula Loop, the Gal with the Magic Hoop! Lula Walking: Lula Jumping:

Yommy!

Enemies can move now ! :D

https://www.twitch.tv/thegreenman426

Being implemented live: https://www.twitch.tv/ginger_bill

Programmed with the Odin Programming Language!

After a slight panic episode where I was really doubting if I could make my initial mechanic fun, I think I'm onto something ! 2 am now, time for bed and tomorrow...Let's go HARD ! Crash Thunderstud, Zombie-Slayer is back for more !

It has been a very slow day for progress.

I have some of the backend for scripts ready to go. I spent a lot of time tweaking the character controller because it wasn't moving right. I definitely needed to spend more time messing with Cinemachine before LDJam.

The few features I did get done are dragging the objects around.

Click to interact is next.

Having such a great weekend seeing all the great ideas that the community has. This is my 3rd time participating in the compo and all of your creativity never fails to inspire.

Progress: Basically spent the first 24 hours making a shader (having never used URP it seemed like a good thing to try on a deadline). Really liked how this turned out. Hope you all are enjoying the jam as much as I am! Keep up the good work everyone!

First time working in it and holyyyyyyy so nice

https://ausstein.itch.io/stuckinthewhileloop

Please leave feedback!

I finally have my character and my main GPE. A little late, but it was a lot of fun to do. See you tomorrow.

Stpe 1 -> clear bugs

Step 2 -> Validate feature

Step 3 -> Polish (Camera and Exite loop force)

Step 4 -> Sleep

Step 5 -> Kill Character when he hit a obstacle

At least I have the player character ready.

AFter floating ideas on "Day 0", at least we have some floating sushi ready now and big ideas for our remaining time.

My second solo Ludum Dare ever is progressing slowly, but the core gameplay is almost done. As the last thing for the day I set the grass tiles become null when the player object goes over them, but for some reason the cell 0,0,0 doesn't want to do that. Considering that I'm not a programmer it's looking ok, hopefully will have time to work on the graphics and add some sounds too.

today i made tons of progress, i found out a new technique with sprites, implemented different weapons, different sfx, enemies, core gameplay basicly, all i need to do now is polish, some more things on the core gameplay and the menus!

and woke up at 7:40 holding my phone with no notifications that any of the alarms went off.

The hell.

... the levels will get way more complicated now, won't they

I had work yesterday, work tomorrow and only half of today available, so naturally I'm in. I'm going to try my hardest to make something in as little time as possible! I have a few ideas and haven't entered in ages, so this is going to be interesting.

Our first screenshot of EvoLoop - game about evolution on a foreign planet

What do you think?

Working hard, using GoDot. But I've never done a game before and I'm not an artist. You can tell by the crazy colour combinations. :v:

This is the key art for our entry! We are excited to show what we have developed!

Hello everyone!

after a lot of struggling to figure out what to make, i finally decided upon making a game where you drive around a loop powering a generator!

i finished the main gameplay today, so my goal for tomorrow will be to add an intro cinematic and a store where you buy upgrades.

ain't it the cutest??

We already have the basic mechanic idea implemented, and now i'm working on some basic combat against idle enemies I'm on twitter (https://twitter.com/elvismdd) tweeting about the progress!

Starring Default Mixamo Woman in the role of Theseus and Robot Kyle as Princess Ariadne! This is definitely the final look - it's already so polished! And I can't believe how quickly I came up with dialog this intense! Maybe I should be a writer instead.

"Oi, green..... green..... GREEEEEEEEEN!!!"
"..."
"Whacha doin'?"
"Just... loopin'"

Rest in RIP

Here's a video of how my project has been doing! It's a game in which you are always falling down an endless hole, and the people who live in this hole will help you escape if you help them do their stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A42hv9JKQY

My friend is doing all the music and audio for the game. Does sampling an audio clip he previously recorded and heavily modifying and distorting it count as using previously made assets? I love his music and would hate to have to opt out of the audio category if we move forward with what we have right now.

I'm very happy with how this is turning out. It's great fun and it's easy to add various degrees of difficulty. For instance, the above level is pretty difficult because of the infinite loop and changing directions. It bends your mind a little bit.

My minions have learned how to dispose of trash. More to come tomorrow!!

Got the rudimentary persistent organic objects, AI, and attacking going, the hardest things to implement.

This particular game is pretty technically challenging for me so far, I swear, if this code works in the end and the game isn't riddled with bugs I'll be surprised! :sweat_smile: and very happy!

4 pm, i have no idea what i do, but it looks cool for me) >3

Here's the progress so far on my LD47 game. The idea was basically a "create your own Rube Goldberg machine". That was probably a little too much for a 48 hour game jam, but I did manage to have it so that you can create a track for balls to move through. You have a limited number of pieces you can use. Zip pieces give your balls more forward momentum. The objective is to complete the specified number of loops with your balls, which goes back to the theme "stuck in a loop".

Looking good so far! Background is ready, but still needs to be implemented. Now to make it work as intended! I like how shiny the wings look under the streetlight, so cute!

Gaze upon my beautiful placeholder graphics. I'll draw the real player tomorrow.

Someone needs a bit of sleep there...

See if you can guess which part is the placeholder art I drew.

It happened. Unity totally glitched out on me and deleted my entire project. A whole days worth of work!! But I managed to make a very early backup and restart the project. Stayed up an extra 4 hours to catch up with it. Funny, the theme is "Stuck in a loop" and I experienced the most gut wrenching loop of all :skull_crossbones:

WE WILL PERSEVERE!!

https://i.imgur.com/KzCAjAa.gif

I've got the functionality working (Its not pretty haha), but I've lost a bit of steam.

Sometimes if I'm not super excited about an idea I just find it difficult to focus on stuff like menus. Guess I'll take a bit of a break and come back to try polish it up and hopefully improve the level geometry. There is some nasty bugs with the movement as well haha.

Probably going to be an all-nighter tonight. That's fine, one more bit of engine stuff and then I can program the actual game lol.

Just finished my small puzzle game, quite happy with the result.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/stuck

Boomboy, give me the strength I need to pull this all nighter...

My game mechanics are all up and working, but I'm no good at designing puzzles. I have one puzzle that might be clever, or it might just be unfair and obtuse.

Current mechanics are:

• Time loop that creates clones.
• Switches that open gates (and close some other gates).
• Boxes that can be pushed and used as a platform or to hold down switches. Multiple clones will push the box faster than just one.
• "Clone gates" that can be traversed by the current player, but will block time clones.

At least I have composed some catchy chiptune music.

Lets see where this one is going ^^

https://youtu.be/vfS4OrtgwQU

A thought for everyone crunching for the jam ;)
Don't push to far and take a nap !
Thank's to my teammates @130n35 and @azsteak

The cannon now has reloading, and there is a difficulty progression through the levels which involves tweaking numerous variables. There are also messages that appear onscreen between levels (not pictured).

It's getting there, in face gameplay wise it's practically done. I have to move onto visuals and audio soon!

Greetings from Russia again everyone! My lovely girl and I joined the event 13 hours in. Struggled to find and refine an idea, but escaped that loop finally =)

We'll not spoil overhaul idea, but here is some footage. Struggled hard with loader movement and with 3d-ish shelves rendering, but finally... As in the last LD, my girl doing majority of graphics, and me - the rest. I need some sleep. See y'all in the morning!

Saturday is close to ending, and I haven't had much time to post progress pictures along the way.

We have platforming working and some pieces of environment art ready to go. Still a bunch of placeholders scattered around and some rough edges on the level design, but it is functional!

I've finished the main gameplay elements, gonna add more cards and enemies tomorrow, then finish the level select (loop) screen.

For those that missed the previous update, I'm working on a deck builder where you have to fight looping functions before you get a stackoverflow

:x: Animal Movement

✅ Animal spawning
✅ Animal movement
✅ Collectable animals
✅ Scoring system (temp)
✅ Font
✅ Ground
✅ Foliage (with Z ordering)
✅ Timer (with Time's Up! screen)
✅ High score

Because i have one less day than i thought i did im now unsure if i can actually finsih.. i mean i might just upload what i get up too and maybe one day fix it but we shall see. i have no doubt its going to have many bugs regardless lol

Here is a mockup of the direction were heading. Fingers Crossed we finish :D

So the theme sucks IMHO :anguished: but I had an idea for another theme that I can jury-rig to fit this one. Still, it's a bit of a struggle and I'm not sure I'll get finished in time :cryingcatface:

And of course, Unity has decided to pack up :angry: so now I'm trying to reinstall :shrug_tone1: Ironically, it got stuck in the "failed to load window layout" loop...

Ok, so our concept is that you are a ship stuck in a Space loop, and you have to get out of each successful loop to escape. Dodge the bad stuff (pink) and pick up the good stuff (green) to progress through the loops to your escape.

Should work on mobile, although better in landscape. Also works on PC, iPad, etc, as it is a Web Game

Made with THREE.js and CANNON.js, etc. Music by kevin (teammate), ship from Kenney.nl (Thanks!)

https://ldj47.nikolaj.dev/

Fish floating in the water.

I haven't participated in a Ludum Dare in a long while - last time was still on the old website, where I did three of them. My username there was 222464 - I made a few games, my personal favorite being "Hero Must Die".

I'm a bit rusty when it comes to game dev, but I felt like participating once again.

This time, I am making a CTF game (capture the flag). There will be a special mechanic (not visible in the image) involving reinforcement learning (which in turn ties it to the theme).

The "graphics" are horrible, I know. It's probably the ugliest looking game I have ever made, actually. I will try to improve them a bit if there is time left after implementing the "special mechanic". I am taking this LD pretty slow, so this will be a Jam entry.

No idea if the mechanic will work out yet, I hope it will be fun to play. Will see soon enough!

https://youtu.be/uk9dK7g0Wu0

Things starting to look decent!

https://youtu.be/tB6Q7EoiETk

using my extra time to expand my map!

Basic gameplay mechanics done!

This theme really lends itself to endless runners / racers. Here's a playable link. https://samuraidan.itch.io/stuckinaloop?secret=5osDr6wLMFSjMwewzhmgLEyM

Pretty much everything's done, tomorrow I just have to make one texture and then I'll do some polish and have fun

Here is a capture of the game so far. Still need some Music and Sound.

oops

Ok crappy tileset....check!!!

So... i finished the basic gameplay, I'll move on to the rest