Thank you, everybody, for your feedback on platformEGG. I appreciate all your suggestions on platformEGG.

I've made some tweaks in a new version of the game, primarily, I've made new keyboard control and add Linux version!

Frankly, I didn't anticipate so many ratings. And I'm sorry that I didn't leave much feedback on your games. However, you inspired me to create a full game out of this submission. Thank you!

[UPDATE] Got sick and took a break now back at it!!

*Game Description : *

"The Birb" is a gloomy styled platformer game where you play as a lost raven-human that is stuck in the dark forest. You have lead its way out to keep it alive! Your goal to find a way out to a mystery firefly because it is the only source of light here. On your journey you will see 2 little locations, use some items and get a new skill for a character.

Controls :

Jump/Double Jump - Up Arrow.

Walk/Run - Right Arrow,Left Arrow.

Credits :

Code - Damir Khairullin (Ilimanic)

Artist - Ildan Khairullin (Ilduck)

For Ludumdare46

PLAY https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-birb

PLAY https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-birb

And so, LDJAM 46 is coming to an end!

Had great fun checking out everybody's games =)

If anyone still wants to try ours - a Stranger Things-inspired virtual pet / narrative game - then this is your last chance, and the ratings would be much appreciated!

It's at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tama-gotcha

So many great games and experiences. This jam changed my life for the best and I'm very thankful for everyone involved!

Hey Guys and gals, if you haven't played our disturbingly sad little chicken game, you have on last chance to rate the hell ou of it! :)

Play it here:

https://gregoire-d.itch.io/the-path

Hope you like it. Leave us a comment, tell us what you think. Thank you and have fun!

BF

Wow! What an incredible event. Ludum Dare 46 has ended.

The results for each category can be found here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/results

You can check your game page for your individual results (via the My Game link up top).

Congratulations everyone! You made a game!

An unprecedented event

You might not know this, but we actually generate statistics for our events.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/stats

I pushed some changes to the prioritization algorithm that made giving feedback significantly more valuable than giving ratings. We still want you to give ratings, but with so many people taking part (over 13000 on over 10000 teams), so few people will get brag-worthy ratings. Instead, switching the focus to feedback means everybody that participates in the process hopefully gets something more out of it.

Anyway, not only did we see a record number of submissions, but we saw a record number of participants get 20+ ratings on their game. Our prior best was about 62%, but this time around we did 70%!

It does look like the changes helped, but we will have to run a few more events to see if that's true. It's that, or maybe folks just had more free time. :wink:

Ludum Dare 47: Coming October 2nd-5th, 2020

Ready for more Ludum Dare? We do 'em every 6 months! Next event is scheduled for October 2nd-5th weekend. Also FYI October events start 3 hours earlier, so our friends in and around Europe don't have to stay up until gawd-awful hours just to get the theme announcement.

Be sure to check-in during September for Theme Selection (suggestions and voting). We'll probably open signups a bit earlier than that, but for the moment we're going to let things breathe, let us focus on the results for a while.

Stay Informed!

Want to be reminded of the upcoming event?

Sign up for our mailing list here:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-mailing-list/

Or follow us on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ludumdare

Wrap Up

I've been forcing myself to do YouTube videos this year, and I'm planning to do a wrap-up VLOG in the next couple days. I'm usually bad about promoting myself, and I'm told I need to do it more. So if you're interested in hearing Mike the Ludum Dare guy ramble about life and running this crazy record setting event, subscribe and stay tuned for that (aiming for early next week):

https://youtube.com/MikeKasprzak

(I'm also starting a business to hopefully create more time for me and my projects, so feel free to stay subscribed to hear more about that)

I also always neglect to mention that I have a PayPal and a Patreon you can contribute to. This is never required, so don't feel obligated to contribute unless you want to. :wink:

That's it for me. See you in October!

After the deadline of the Ludum Dare jam, we started to work on some extra levels, and some bugfixes, here you can see some of the funniest bugs that we had. The new version can now be played since the ratings are in. you can play the game here. https://cptfinn.itch.io/untitled-phoenix-game

No jumping on moving platforms

Few hours before deadline, we realized that on a few platforms, our little phoenix couldn't jump. This was a fairly by problem since, a lot of our levels were build using moving platforms, we ended up having to remove all moving platforms that weren't important, to make sure that any player could finish the game. The bug came from us having written our own simple platformer physics for the player and the platforms, and that the call order for the platform and player messing up, and making the player think that it was still on the ground after jumping.

Flying with egg (That's not a bug that's a feature)

We realized during the jam that if we threw the egg, then we could grab it in air, while the phoenix would start using the walking animation, we didn't remove this, because we thought it was funny and actually liked the gameplay that came from it. Our little friend now has an animation for flying with the egg, and in the new levels we have experimented more with this.

The future

We have found it very interesting, to work on the game and plan to keep experimenting with the mechanics. If you want to see where the game goes then you can follow us on twitter or itc.io

https://cptfinn.itch.io/untitled-phoenix-game

CptFinn: anders_wagner
Pixel art

Rasmus Clausen: RasmusClausen
Programming

SimonTheCase: SimonVWebs
Sound Design

Could've probably scored higher in the fun category if the gameplay was a little more balanced, but all in all really happy with the results. Thanks to everyone that played and rated my game! Until next Ludum Dare, cheers!

Made a good game, but played too safe. Next time will try something more ambitious.

Although I placed really well and I thank everyone who rated my game, I think it came out pretty boring.

As per usual.

Also, played tons of great games!

Yep! It can look like small results, but I was hoping to be in the first 500 places overall. So I guess I made it! That was my very first compo entry and I'm really glad about what I could come up with and how well it was received! Thank you very much to you all! :smile:

Hope I'll do even better next time!

You can still play my game at: https://sticmac.itch.io/the-heart-pieces

My best rank was 1712, and as this is my first jam, I'm happy with this result. I have learned loads from all your amazing feedback. Thanks you so much, and I hope to see you all in the next jam!

If you've been reading my recent blog posts, you know that my goal was to end up with a score above 100th in the humor category. Well, I achieved this, and I couldn't be happier! Thanks to everyone who played and rated my game, and those who will play it! Here's to a great Ludum Dare 47!

Just want to say a big thank you to everyone who played my game and I couldn't sleep because all I wanted to know was how I had done!! I was hoping to be in the top 1000 for the jam category but couldn't believe where I ended up. Thank you all so much it has gave me so much more confidence to undertake a full project which I never had the confidence to do before. So I really want to thank everyone!! I also want to say well done to everyone who entered and I am surprised at how much people could do and astounded by the amount of talent out there!!

Here is a link if you want to play https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/katastrophe

It was my first time participating in Ludum Dare and it was very useful for me. I'd like to thank everyone involved for the experience I gained! Thank you all! And congratulations with your achievements!

So I was initially somewhat bummed by my results when I first saw them.

While I certainly could have placed lower, I wouldn't necessarily call my final placements mindblowing. I was more than a few places lower than my last entry, which was itself a few steps down from my entry before that. In fact, my placements were around the same as my first Ludum Dare's results. So am I getting worse at this? I thought I did a pretty good job this time around...

That's what I thought before I compared my raw scores instead of my relative placements:

So, statistically, this has been one of my best Ludum Dares thus far! But if my scores are so high, why was my placement so low? Well, one look at the LD historical data and we see:

This was the most popular Ludum Dare by a significant margin! So I'm not getting worse, there were just so many more fantastic games this time around!

Congratulations to everyone on their fabulous entries, and I can't wait to do this all again in October!

Congrats to Daniel, it was well deserved #1. His game was better than any Jam game in this event, so the issue below wasn't really an issue for him.

On the Wordpress website, all categories of Jam entries were suffixed with (Jam). Why can't we have something similar on the new site? Why does it ultimately come down to a tiny string in the corner?

I know the votes are pointless, but I feel like a lot of people don't make a distinction or just straight up don't know what Compo is (I encountered a few). This is mildly important because we consciously or unconsciously compare games to other games, and the two events are inherently incomparable.

Seriously guys was it that bad?