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Just Press The Button

Press The Button is a game where you press buttons to complete tasks, get upgrades and finally get that promotion.

Nothing tastes better than hard work and pressing buttons.

Press a button today! The company welcomes you to. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/press-the-button

Hey everyone! Now that rating has kicked into gear, I thought I'd share some insights and takeaways from my eighth Ludum Dare Compo.

Overview

For this event, I ended up going in a different direction than usual - local multiplayer. While I don't know as I'd necessarily recommend it, since it places more restrictions on who can accurately review your game, I think the experience was positive overall.

Of course, game design doesn't happen in a vacuum. These are some of my favorite multiplayer games that influenced my design decisions:

• 0Space (Teknopants): Also a game jam game, 0Space is one of my go-to examples of great game design in a multiplayer setting. One thing worth noting is that the gameplay isn't particularly fast... it's strategic, and relies on precise timing. (It's also now free on Itch! Highly recommend!)

• 12 Orbits (Roman Uhlig): The pinnacle of one-button multiplayer games, 12 Orbits lets you play with up to twelve people on a single keyboard. When I decided to make a game with one-button controls, I took a hint from their key select screen and let players bind to arbitrary buttons.

• TowerFall Ascension (Maddy Thorson): Another excellent couch co-op/competitive title, TowerFall does a lot of things right in terms of replay-ability. Notably, it has a variety of maps and powerups that change how players interact with the game at any given time.

What went well

Overall, I think I did a pretty good job this event.

• The Pivot: I originally was going to make this game a dungeon-crawler rogue-lite with the same theme and controls. I realized the scope for this was likely too large early on, and pivoted to local versus, which was definitely for the better.

• The Polish: With this reduced scope, I was able to spend more time on polishing the UI, character select screen, animations, and effects.

• The Feedback So Far: People seem to like the game so far! Which comes as a little bit of a shock, because I never actually playtested it with multiple people, just me versus empty players or some of the very early enemy code I had written.

• The Sleep: I actually took care of myself this weekend!

What went poorly

Still room for improvement!

• Rushing the Music: I think the music turned out decent, given time constraints, but it was really rushed. My usual workflow for music was changed after my student Sibelius license expired, so I ended up actually directly recording me playing my Casio keyboard (after running to Office Depot for a quarter inch adapter). I only had time for two or three takes, and was mostly improvising, so you can hear a few spots where I hesitate or mess up.

• Scope of Art: I think I took things a bit easy in terms of visual assets. The game looks clean, but there's not much to it. I actually only did one frame-by-frame animation --- the bullet exploding --- and everything else was with modular animation or no animation at all. I would also have liked to have more interesting map components, like hazards or conveyor belts, to spice up the gameplay further.

• Collision Code: My collisions are suspect at best. Occasionally, players will pop through walls. In 48 hours, it's tough to write robust collision code from scratch.

Going forward

While I probably won't be making another local multiplayer game for Ludum Dare anytime soon, it was definitely a fun experience. In the future, I'll probably want to start with some base code for 2D collisions and tile system, since those things took a lot of time this event and are very generalizable.

You can play Spinnerets here. Have a good event, everybody!

Hey, thanks to the overwhelmingly positive feedback we got for our game I decided to take another deep-dive into the WebGL probelms we were having with Unity. No exceptions were being thrown in the debug web build, and everything was working in the editor, yet the game just wouldn't start in the web build. Some Debug.Logging later I found out that async code doesn't run correctly in WebGL (perhaps I'm missing something), so I had to replace all our async code with Coroutines instead. And now it works! This doesn't change any of the behaviour of the game (except for making the WebGL build work) so I'd imagine it's fine as per the rules.

"Certain Bug Fixes are allowed. You can’t add new features, but if something broke or didn’t work correctly as you were finishing up, you can fix this after the deadline."

Thought I'd let you know if you're experiencing similar problems. Also, play our game! :smile:

https://www.twitch.tv/siraeron come join me on twitch for another day of testing your games live!

We're loving trying everyone's games and rating them. What a talented community! If you haven't played our game among the many amazing entries, please give it a try and feel free to rate and comment :) we'll play your game too!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/dolen-days-working-title

we've already fixed all bugs we can find, and added two normal endings & one Easter Egg ending to the game, hope you can come back and have a try again, have fun!

try it ：https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/creed

Some have been voicing their opinion on the difficulty level of our game .... well I hear you guys.... and I know exactly where most things are most of the time ............ when I remember; did a playthrough and recordeded it...

First death .. yeah - this is alright... fireball out of well.. right field...

Second one.. well that's just bad timing

Third.. well bad timing again...

Fourth ... damn wall...

Fifth.... AGAIN !!

Sixth... OM*G!

Seventh... You're an idiot and then I stopped counting... nice of the game to tell me it was 10 times.... well thank you very much.......

This was around where I started cursing at the screen ¤"!¤!"#!"

My playthrough and sorry for the sub par recording ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb7iWhAgbXY

Fall is a great time to be in the Motherland.

See the beautiful fall colours!

Look at the wildlife!

Kill it.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/boris-the-bear-hunter

All Aboard! Keep the roller coaster alive by giving your Aztec community a nice thrill, but be careful not to lose them! If you run low on fuel, just get some people flying and catch them on the way back. Hail Quetzalcoatl!

Play now!

Hey, come and play AUTOLOOP. Help Mamüt to to flee the eternal loop of the everyday life by acquiring cyborg body parts.

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

Our team of professional veterinaries have finished to take care of the mighty dodo ! You can now enjoy the game at its full potential. Thanks for all your remarks and, with you, we can do a better wor-- game !

This is a WEB game !!

What would happen if every time you sob, you go back a few seconds? Help our magician to find a way to fix things.

Experience a new mechanic: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/hiccup-time

Hitting 20 Ratings was really my only hope for Core Guard and my first jam. I'm so grateful to everyone who's played and left feedback so far!

It's far from a passion project, but I've grown quite attached to this little game. I'm still unclear as to what the rules are for updates (aside from no new features) but I'd love to push a build with triggers for particle/screen effects and additional sfx.

Thanks again everyone, feel free to check out Core Guard - I'll keep fawning over all of your awesome games in the meantime!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/core-guard

Not Enough

If you interested in a game where your main purpose is to survive while killing ghosts then GHOST FROM JAIL is the game for you. Game main Idea - kill as many ghosts as you can, each ghost color represent different speed and health. DONT let the ghosts to touch you unless you wanna lose, you can also use the teleportation tool to run away from ghosts but NOTE that this tool is completely randomize and can put you right into the ghosts' hands. So use this carefully.

**The game can be played on the browser, and also can be downloaded

Game Page - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/ghost-from-jail

It's got good music and you fight like thousands of skeletons. Get ye golden shurikens, get ye bicycles, get ye ice boots, get ye purple robes and slay them ALL!

AMAZING retro graphics (totally not last-minute programmer art)

skeletons

skeletons

OH GOD SO MANY SKELETONS (god mode turned on for epic screenshot purposes)

Play: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/test-1

HINT: everything in bold is a thing that is in the game.

Yesterday I managed to play around 10 games.

Today I intend to play more between 17-20 and 21-24 (CEST)!

Submit you game here or during stream using !submit: https://forms.gle/pd2i2NvstfFbPnZ59

Drop by on stream (Starting 17:00 CEST) : https://www.twitch.tv/mikoziiq

Wanna rate my entry? Check it out there: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/loopfield

EDIT: I FIXED FORM, NO EMAIL REQUEST ANYMORE, WHOOPSIE <3

Happy Ludum Dare everybody!