• Added selection of quality settings
• Fixed well animation not working properly
• Items become highlighted faster
• Added "fadeout" in beginning of game

Click here to go to game page

Then this game is for you! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/pyromania

Play thee game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dont-go-grandpa :D

Game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/duck-crossing

Hello! We just uploaded a version of our entry, Pigeon Ascent, with many bug fixes. On our game, you take care of your own pigeon as it fights and evolves while facing other pigeons, and at the end it must defeat the legendary Pigeon God.

I know it sounds pretty weird, but we had tons of fun developing it, and it was even greater to see so many people playing it and saying what they liked and disliked!

In case you are interested in playing the first version and seeing its problems, you can still do so by playing the game here. The changelog for the fixed version is:

• Fixed Hatoshi being the default evolution for the speed build;
• Fixed hit particles spawning at wrong spot;
• Fixed buying items not spending any gold;
• Fixed the retry button not showing up;
• Fixed the enemies level not reseting when trying again;
• Fixed the buffs not doing anything. Sorry about that!

Some post-compo stuff, I Made a quick trailer video for my compo entry, as well as a nice gif to show off how RAD the game is. Getting a linux build up was easy, but web isn't playing nice with me so I guess that's off the table for this jam.

In my head I've been toying with the idea of modifying the game to have procedural content, turn it into kind of an infinite runner, but that might be a bit of a challenge on this quake based engine I'm using.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/rocket-maniacs/

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

Time to keep this cute little plant alive! Tend to it's needs and watch it grow!

Play rate and comment! We're super happy to hear your opinion!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/leafy-hero

In the meantime I have found the time to play some of the Ludum Dare titles. There are thousands of submissions this time, which means that you will most likely only get to see a small fraction of all games. Anyways - I would like to introduce you to some of my favorites:

• * Woodpunk * - Seriously? A complete Soundtrack with 22 tracks and a highly polished game? Good Job.

• * MELT * - Great Idea, great execution. Perfect Jam Game.

• * Milk for A Dead Man * - Deliver Milk to a Papyrus-esque skeleton king. A super funny game, where you play as the dungeon's traps.

• * Mount Ookie * - Fell in love with the artstyle and it turned out to be a great game too.

• * Remember, Apollo * - The first game I tested - instant bullseye. Poetic, artistic, and well executed.

• * FireKeeper * - More like an artsy experience - I don't want to spoil it at this point. Definitely worth checking out!

• * Delivery Hero * - You play as a cute little bird and deliver some toilet paper to isolated people. Corona leaves its marks.

• * Embers * - Beatiful pixel art, high level of polished and very fun to play.

The selection is - of course - purely subjective. If you have any recommendations, feel free to comment or message me!

If you want to check out our game, you can do it here: * St. Hestia *

Stay healthy and don't let them real life shadows harm you!

We recently published a new update to Scrambl'd fixing some bugs that came up during the last hours before submission. Game link and list of the full changelog is available here!

We are also in the midst of planning a post-LD version featuring all the stuff we dreamed of doing but didn't have time to fulfill... ...and maybe even print some Scrambl'd cartridges. Stay tuned!

Hey, feel free to play, rate and give a feedback to my game ! :) Hope you'll enjoy it

Hello !

After your first feedbacks, we managed to correct our game. We have fixed some bugs on the v1.1 but there is no tutorial yet. It's coming on the v1.2 ! With more bug fix.

Feel free to test it and give us your new comments! But, please, do not rate this version v1.1. We did in more than 72 hours.

[PATCH NOTE v1.1]

Added features - Crops now become BLESSED when planted in BLESSED soil. - Products special effects have been implemented. - Products now exist in BLESSED form. - Products are BLESSED when harvested from BLESSED crops. - Products can be turned into crops using the hoe. - BLESSED products turn into BLESSED crops. - Crops info in the drawer-dossier now display the crop's quality. - BLESSED crops now output BLESSED products.

UI fixes & updates - The crops drawer-dossier is now more visible. - The track switch has been turned into a radio! ♫ - Clicking on a harvested product highlights the WHEELBARROW, the hoe and the soil tiles. - Products names have been updated.

Bug fixes - Tiles now correctly become PURE when crops are planted on them. - BLESSED earth or planted tiles can no longer become BLESSED when OIL leaks. - FERTILITY and QUALITY now correctly affects the crops' output

Balance changes - OIL leaks adjusted from 50% to 20%

LD page : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-machines-blessing

Play the game : https://anthony-hurez.itch.io/the-machines-blessing

Thank you for all your support <3

❁☢❀☢✿

Looking for some dark games to play in my browser - graveyards, ghosts etc. U got some? :smile:

It's been a few days since we finished and released Todd and Bobb's Excellent Adventure, a short Ludum Dare 46 game, to the public and we have received some awesome feedback!

That feedback has been translated into numerous tweaks and fixes that can be seen in the previous patch notes. However, there is one significant pain point that we have not changed and that is the controls!

Rather than revamp the controller entirely and move to a more traditional system, I encourage you to try it a few times to get the feel of it. While it can be different at first, once you understand and get used to it, you will find that the game plays really well with the current control scheme! To that end, here are some quick tips to survive and a link to a full run completed in 4:02 so you can see them working (note that this is not even close to a "perfect run" as I get knocked down a few times).

https://youtu.be/8uB7_C62Qqg

Tips:

• While sprinting consumes energy it is key to survival, save your sprints for when you have the lead on the zombies but need to get through a tight spot.

• Torch swing can consume energy fast, it works in a forward arc, and has a limited range but is effective at scaring clumped mobs. Use torch swing when mobs are clumped and mobbing your dragon or in your way and unavoidable. Torch swing is activated with the left mouse button.

• Use obstacles to your advantage. The Undead don't have the ability to climb on tables or rocks effectively.

• The lanterns need to be visited and used in order to light the next one, follow the glowing semi-circle if you get disoriented.

• Keep moving! The environment is pretty nice (great work by our design master!) but the timer is a bit too tight to waste time wandering unless you don't mind dying :)

Have fun and share your best times on social media with the hashtag #toddandbobbfullrun!

PicusB

Or idk, just shooting goblins or something like that? Even if you just like to protect things, or painting your weapons different colors, come and try Crystal Goblin Swarm!

Play it, rate it, and leave us some feedback, we would love to see where we can improve it, your opinion is super welcome!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/crystal-goblin-storm

Hope you have an amazing day! :D

Playing ludum dare games for an hour or two.

I set up a discord server for dev interviews. So if you feel like talking about your game join us at https://discord.gg/Mt3X3H and twitch

Do you like IT ? Test our game to help it 😉

I've uploaded a version of the game that does not require to sell one's soul to dark forces to get through it anymore, have fun!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/marxs-graffiti-squad

I am planning on releasing this game to mobile in the near future and I need some feedback from you guys

Game link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/paper-holes

Detected low players rate!

Zoo keeper Wate you!

Don't miss you a chance to make this world cuter!

Push this link https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/zoo-keeper and show us how we can do this game cuter!!!

We want your feedback! 👨‍👨‍👧

Thanks for all who help us with the feedback and reports! 🎉🎉🎉

Hello There

After a few days of hottest battle with bugs and precise work on improvements, we added WEBGL support, for the ride! No more unnecessary downloads and archives — only you and your tab in the browser.

We Need You

Thanks to the people, who helped us to point out our mistakes. Feel free to criticize Prism of Science. Platformer project is something new compared to what we already created. We appreciate how this should work in theory, but in practice there are different sensations from the gameplay. Only with your feedback we can stay closer to the best experience. Thanks for pointing out our mistakes.

Game Page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mr-cheesy

https://youtu.be/1e1zBk3ud6o

:slight_smile:

...seriously you should check out Cub Valley by @cresceda @sam-minh and @binaryspark ! It's a really polished game with interesting gameplay, but way fewer ratings than it deserves.

Here's a link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cub-valley

My mother sent a picture when she tried our game, she totally messed up the factory 🙀 😂 Can you do better than her? 🤔 🐈‍

Our game page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/bankruptcy-countdown

Play it here: https://martin183.itch.io/bankruptcy-countdown

Take care of your Tree of Life in The Last Guardian. We would like your feedback on our Ludum Dare entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-guardian (Web build available, plus Linux, macOS and Windows)

Hey everyone, I took a slightly different approach to the jam than you'd expect.

For Seraphina is a short story about loss and keeping the memory of someone alive.

Here's some screenshots <3

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/for-seraphina

Submission page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/how-to-air

HTML shortcut: https://kwakuuuu.itch.io/how-to-air

Hello there, I am 11 and this is my first Ludum dare. I am in need for positive feedback to improve my coding skills. Please go and rate my game and give me feedback at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-flower. The results have been good and participating in Ludum Dare has been awesome! Thank you, and feedback would be greatly appreciated!! 😀😃😄😁 Also, in the comments below, post a link to your game. I will greatly check them out.

but can yours count?

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Come tinker and play at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tyson-lee-keep-it-alive-edition

Hi everyone!

I've had a few people ask about how I approached the procedural animation for the spider creature in my game so I decided to write a blog post about it!

It's quite lengthy and a few of the gifs were too big to post on here, so I've hosted it on my website instead.

https://www.tomstephensondeveloper.co.uk/post/2d-procedural-animation-in-unity

It covers:

• Rigging The Legs And Inverse Kinematics
• Keeping the feet on the ground
• Animation curves
• Some code for movement

Let me know if you find it useful or if you have any questions!

The Dark Cave

A Small Atmospheric Platformer

If you haven't seen the game and would like some context, here's a link to the Desktop and Browser versions of my game:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-quiet-caves

Mr.Cheesy: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mr-cheesy

If Not Then try it now

Play, Enjoy & Dont Forget To review and comment you experiance or suggetions

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-it-charged

Do you like pixel art? Do you like timelapse videos? Well, I happen to have both those things, and so I decided to cross the streams. This is how I slapped together the art for ASTRODRIFT in Photoshop CS6, with a brief moment of level design in Tiled sprinkled somewhere in there.

I also captured some (very poorly executed) gameplay at the end, so you can more clearly see how it all worked out. Mind you, do play ASTRODRIFT for yourselves so you can really see it in action. :smile: And if you do play the game, please leave us some feedback.

https://youtu.be/yoeRJPocob0 Direct link here

Next up I will try and wrack my brain over a post mortem. :thinking:

The doctor should now be able to do his work without getting stuck (bugfix applied, new version released).

"Keep it alive, doc!" > https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-it-alive-doc

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/in-brothers-arms

I added build of web version (original, no change in the code)

http://marian.borec.cz/kiamania/

Tulip is stuck and needs your help getting food. Are you willing? Play Flower Power Now!

Play Overly Fragile Relationships, a game by Allemansrätten!

Go out with your friends, work around their unique personalities, likes and dislikes and most importantly, keep your friend group together!

We'll be happy to hear your feedback!

Yesterday, I made a post about how I created a dialog engine from scratch. However, I didn't get into how the trash talk system works, which is what this post is about! You can check out yesterdays post: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/a-samurai-friend-of-mine/behind-the-scenes-of-my-own-game-engine-made-in-72-hours

The trash talk system is also managed by the dialogManager class that manages all the dialog in the game. However, the actual content of the trash talk is dependent on the scene. I will get into how I managed scenes, or "contexts" as they are called in my DIY game engine, on another post. We can briefly describe them as the entity that is aware of what is going on in the level.

All the content of the trash talk that is going to be displayed on that level is kept in it's context object as an std::vector.

This "trash talk stack" gets filled during the initialization of the context. So if I wanted to add a new trash talk line to any level I can just go to it's .cpp file and .push_back a new line.

Okay great! So how do I decide which enemy gets which line? It's all random. Anything pushed into the trash talk stack is randomly distributed amongst enemies that are alive and in the scene. Well, actually not that random. Every enemy gets to display a single line for 3 seconds and then the next enemy displays the next trash talk line for the next 3 seconds. So it's actually sequential. However, because the number of enemies and the number of unique lines don't match, it all seems random. At least untill you play the same level again.

It's pretty simple so far. But I added one more thing which seemed like a cool idea to me.

These lines already have the ability to change based on the level, for example they can trash talk you about how your chances of beating the "Big O" is so slim before you actually beat him. And then when you actually beat the boss they can tell you how he had a really nice family and how he was a great individual who liked to give back.

I also wanted them to react to what happens during the fight. This piece of code makes it possible for the enemies to react when you hit them during the fight.

One question you might still have in mind is, how does DM->addPopUp() work. It's also pretty simple. It just pushes the text into another stack. DM is the dialog manager. The dialog manager has it's own popup vector. However, it stands for what is being said instead of what can be said. Meaning if something is in the popup vector of the dialog manager, it is also being displayed on the screen. Popups automatically get deleted after a while so that the trash talk text disappears after a few seconds. This is how it's done.

That's about all. Well, actually there is much more to explain before all this comes together but since I don't want to bore people to death this is it for today's post.

By the way, if you have a good idea for a trash talk line that can be used in the game, comment below and I might actually add it into the game!

Also, try the game out to see how it all comes together at the end:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/a-samurai-friend-of-mine

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Click here for puzzle-platforming!

we added a non-vr version for you guys , you can test it now https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/last-water-temple

Fix some bugs and simplify controls. Enjoy!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/gate-ball

I have just uploaded a new version of the game with minor bugs fixed. I have also exported a 32-bit version of the game. Enjoy! <3

Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/what-remains-of-us

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁? 😤

𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/life-of-the-party-4

@meme-310 got this score, check out their game! 👍🏿

Hey guys! I know how hard it is for everyone who made a VR game to get their submissions out there and get ratings since not many people have made VR games.

Well, I just so happen to have a VR headset and I love trying out new indie VR games, so I can give it a shot and a rating! Leave a link to your VR game in the comments!!

The only VR game I've tried so far is this one (which was really great), but I'd love to see some more!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-vibe-alive-vr

Hello again everyone, i appreciate everyone who can give it a try and give us your feedback and rate it. :D

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/amafufunyana-first-jam-d

So it turned out that our game was actually quite good. Which was quite surprising. Atleast to me.

From the outset I thought we'd get too bogged down in learning new tools and learning the boundaries of what we could achieve together as a team. For some of us it was the first time we'd ever been in a team this large.

I'd done enough projects that I knew the key is always to keep it simple. To ask the key question, what is the game actually about? We had a few scope creeps. Suggestions about adding additional resources or more complicated battle mechanics. But at the end of the day additional mechanics didn't add anything to the core concept of the game. If we couldn't get the core concept right then what was the point?

The other things I've learnt from prior projects is that nobody cares about a game unless it feeels good to play. This, to me, is why games are so hard to make. What the hell feeels good to play? A kinda hope we acheived that with Wayfarers but the game is far from being the best it can be. There is so much that can be done to make it better that it boggles the mind

In conclusion Wayfarers is the culmination of a lot of crap that ended up making something quite okay. For ludum dare making something that you can honestly say turned out pretty good is quite the acheivement. Atleast to me anyway :p

Play the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/wayfarers

Can you beat that ?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/last-beer

I enjoyed LD46 a lot, and I'm happy with my result! I made a timelapse of me making the game in 48 hours, check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpJSo4NGfrY

This time aroud I used my own game engine, and I'm glad that went really well. The engine is written in C# and cross compiles to Javascript so it can be easily played in a browser from platform (PC, Mac, phones etc.) I ran in a few problems that were easy to resolve, but it really shows me in what places my engine was lacking!

If you want to try the game out for yourself, it can be played from here!

First off I want to thank everyone for all their valuable feedback. When we first started developing the game we had a very dark background so our cursor color was white and our bullets were yellow.

However when we changed backgrounds we never adjusted the colors of the bullets or cursor to be more visible. So one of the number one issues stated in the feedback was that it was hard to see the cursor.

We also changed the shop text from white to black to be more visible

So this update changes nothing in gameplay. The game plays exactly as it did before, it's just now more accessible with the new updated color changes

Play The Game Here

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/oak-defenders

The Issue - white cursor (Before)

The Solution - black cursor (After)

He is making some terrible decisions today. Only if you help him keep himself and his company alive (and drop a rating and a comment) may his creator be able to stop shamelessly posting self-promoting ads. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/irving-forrest-technologies-and-redacted

...so I just wanted to leave a little recommendation for you: Play https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/signal-fire-on-mystery-island , I just love this little game! And if you wanna see another approach at fire... play our game aswell! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ignis-morty !

My personal record is 1:36 which means I got completely crushed

Play the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-the-dinos

Are you concentrate enough to finish the game ?

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

I thought I'd do one of these for anyone that might be interested! 🙂

Ubergine was made by 3 people in the UK, myself as the programmer and audio guy, my fiancé @curleyrach doing environment art and UI and our friend @olliemotion doing character art and animations.

Me and Ollie had done a few Ludum Dares in the past where I was just doing audio but it had been a few years since then!

I've bounced on and off a lot of game engines over the years for various reasons but I have recently been using Monogame and I absolutely love it. It fits best with how I want to program games.

The Idea

We ran through a few ideas at the start but settled where we did for a few reasons. As this was my first time programming in Monogame, I haven't got round to programming a working camera solution yet 😅 so we wanted to keep the game stationary if possible. We also chose a side on perspective to allow for sprite flipping to ease the amount that Ollie and Rachel had to do!

The Ubergine itself was originally a tree, but we thought to ourselves, "Why would vegetarians be trying to eat a tree?" and made the jump to vegetables. It was then a case of finding a long visually interesting vegetable to fit in the play space we had available, and well... 🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆

We'd originally planned a basic arena shooter, but soon had the idea of splitting the controls. I was happy with this decision as it felt (at least slightly) original. It can be tough to control 2 characters at once, but I find when it clicks and you pull it off it feels great!

What went right

This was my first time building a complete game with Monogame as I've just been making prototypes and experiments for the past 2 months. With that in mind I'm very happy how the game turned out, seemingly bug free! 😲🤞 I did a lot of stuff that was new to me, but it all seemed to fit and work!

It's a little thing, but it was only when I got to spawning the enemies that I realised I was going to have to sort the sprites in a way so that things with a higher Y value would appear above other entities. This caused me some stress as I initially wasn't sure how to do it and thought it would cause the game to look very janky! It turned out to be as easy as giving the Entity base class a sortOrder property, having entities set their own sort order based on Y position every frame and then sorting the Entity list by the sortOrder property! Easy!

I also think the art was done really well and all tied together great. When Ollie sent me over the Ubergine graphics I knew we were onto something. 😂 It seems like people really responded to the art which is a great feeling. 😊

Also this was @curleyrach's first time ever doing pixel art and she picked it up really fast. This is definitely going to become a new hobby for us both. 🙂

The music turned out cool too and I was happy to have an excuse to whip out my banjo! 🪕🎶

What went wrong

One thing I feel could have been better were some of the sound effects. I woke up early Monday morning very tired and recorded those so I think some of them are a little lackluster but oh well. 😄

I took a shortcut with the particles also. I have programmed a particle system in Monogame before but I was a little scared to try it in a jam. So instead I opted to use this great tool Particle FX Designer by @Code Manu. Its a great tool that allows for quick output of nice looking particle effects to sprite sheets. So all the particles in the game are actually animations played with a random rotation value and some other modifiers to make them look different. 🙊

Another issue I had was my UI. I am scaling the screen for fullscreen and different screen sizes by outputting the render to a texture and then scaling the texture up with ratio applied. This worked great for gameplay as it allowed me to program in a consistently sized world. The problem was that this meant that my UI layer was actually very small in pixels so I couldn't use hi-res fonts as they would look blurry! 😢 Lesson learned for next time, I will be splitting the UI into a separate thing and scaling it differently to the game world to fix this issue!

Conclusion

We're in a very strange time a the moment and I didn't realise how much I needed to output something! It has been extremely satisfying to finish this project, be happy with the result, and have a really positive response from the community! Thanks for all the reviews so far! ♥♥

Please play and rate Ubergine if you haven't already 😄 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ubergine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXOm0-PCGDA

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

Source Code Uploaded With Bug Inside

We have just uploaded our source code (Unity project). We have intentionally (🙄) put a bug in. Sometimes Our player instantiates twice ... 👯

So if you are a professional bug hunter 🕵️ WELCOME !

💰 REWARD 💰

Hum... Virtual Beer ? 🍺

-> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/deadly-afterquest <-

We finished porting our game to HTML5 ! It's a tower defense shooter with elemental magic. If you wanna try it out, here is the game page : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/elementrees

I worked on some logo designs today. Let me know if you have any favorite.

You can find the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/meatball-vs-gymzilla

so it has been a week now, i know... but hey, better late then never for some self reflection! first off i need to say! i have been working on my latest patch under the original file name, so when i uploaded my latest version to itch it overwrote the original upload so i had to reupload the LD release, but now it says i uploaded it today.... have mercy!!!!

But as you can see, and if you have faith, the original release was last edited a couple minutes before the deadline...

ANYWAYS!

the game concept is pretty basic, you controll timmy who is trying to keep his new friend Rock alive from all the monsters trying to create unbalance in the universe. it's a 2d platformer wich i havent done in ages so i had to revisit some old game concepts wich i had forgot how to do properly. so a lot of time was spent fixing some pretty basic bugs and getting core mechanics working.

in the end i was pleased with the original release, but it felt bare-boned, but everything was working as i wanted, i had one silly bug wich halted re-playability by having my main room where the "game" happens being ticked as persistent, so when you returned to it from the intro scene it had saved all the instances from the previous run, wich caused it to end immediately... fixed by a tick box haha...

i have had a hard time finding a lot of time to work on it this week, it has been hectic, unbelievable right? but i managed what i set out to do this week - a couple features, but hey, it's better then nothing right? haha...

                                              Rock Need YOU

now i'm finally going to have a short nap, and then, what i have been wating for... CHECKING LD ENTRIES!!!!

Hey Jammers and Players !

Tonight marks the one week anniversary of our venture :) And to celebrate... I decided to put out some cheat codes for Long Live The King ! :D Just type the following words during gameplay ! Hope you enjoy !

• HULK one shot all enemies

• IQUIT warp to the boss stage

• IAMSPEED grants superhuman speed

• BIGBABY self...explanatory !

Cheers and stay safe,

Dr JavaSaurus

Maybe you will be the first one to reach it :) TIP: if you want to see secret ending, you have to play on hard https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/hamloon

Hi guys!

Tired of downloading game that give you a feel-good sensation and make you see la vie en rose?

Here is the solution: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/soul-blazer

Guaranteed with blood and epic music.

Yes, these fingers are skewered on branches.

I added a webbuild for my game: Blockemon https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/blockemon

Which I should've done immediately, but I assumed it would be a hassle (but it wasn't, it was super easy :sweat_smile: )

I really appreciate everyone who plays it and rates it. (so please do! :smile: )

Let me know if you have any problems with the web version, the windows download version plays super smooth on any (windows) computer (as far as I am aware), hopefully the web version is just as good. :smile:

After a longer than expected time I managed to add HTML5 to the list of platforms in For Seraphina. So if you haven't tried it yet, i'd love to hear your feedback~

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/for-seraphina

I mean, it only results in more people having to rate the game and the ratings number on the game to be an uneven, jarred float.

On a similar note, why don't people opt-out of categories they know they didn't create their game for? I saw a lot of games which are clearly not intended to be funny in any way, yet they still have the Humor rating. All it does is it decreases their overall rating.

Please play and rate, I'm interested in your feedback :bow: And I'll gladly play and rate your game too!

Link to my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-them-alive-1

:seedling: Have you played Yobuds yet? If you haven't you can play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/$193773

If you have, what's your hi-score? My current record is around 20k, with 50 Yobuds on-screen!!

(the .gif below is not of my hi-score by the way :wink:)

The dust has settled and I finally had time to think about what the hell happened a week ago. LD46 was my debut as a pixelartist/graphics-something person [1], so I had to learn many things on the fly - tools, techniques, animation basics, just to name a few. Thankfully, I had some cards up my sleeve that kept me sane and I wanted to share them with you.

But first I wanted to thank you all for >30 votes on our game Just a Stroll. It means a lot to us! Every comment and rating is very appreciated. You're the best! :bird:

Random Tips

1. Start simple - you'll save yourself frustration if you keep your goals easy and realistic. I knew I had no experience, so I didn't expect to create a mind blowing masterpiece. Having something done is already a success!
2. Think about a palette and stick to it - focus on the colours and how they come together. Pick ~16 (or less) colours max and combine just them.
3. Don't reinvent the wheel - there are many techniques already in the wild. Just go, research and learn them!
4. Look for inspiration - look at the art you like, and think - What palette is used there? What are the outlines? How to pick colours for shadows? I have some tools I used for creating the pallete (~~I'm still not quite ok with the grass colour but don't tell anyone~~)
5. Make shadows more blue, lights more yellow from your base colour - it'll get your picture more interesting

Reading

Before putting my first pixel down, I made sure I had some readings handy:

• Pedro's pixel art tutorials - many gif-based tutorials which are short and sweet. Mostly focused on animation. Side note: I like to call them Celeste pixelart tutorials, you can do so.
• Pixel Logic - yep, this is the book. It's huge and awesome, so I just skimmed through the colour-related and animation chapters.

There are soo many pixel art materials out there so it can get overwhelming pretty fast. I stick to these two because I had too little time to learn everything. Learn only what you need to get your job done.

When it comes to inspiration, I searched Tumblr and, the best in my biased opinion, Pinterest! Once you find a picture, you can always scroll down and browse More like this section. Beware, it's time consuming + demands having an account.

Tools

I started my work with creating a colour palette! To make my colour palette better, I used:

• Coolors - if I could marry a website, that would be the one. It can generate pleasing colour schemes and lets you lock your picks so you can find a match. I used it to look for the main colours and them pick a shadow.
• Canva colour palette generator - sometimes you just see a photo and it has this aesthetics. You can upload it there and it'll pick main 5 (or so) colours. It can be a good starting point for your palette.

And, last but not least: - Aseprite - it's a no brainer for creating pixel art. Intuitive and powerful tool that I was able to learn in less than a day. It didn't freeze on 1k+ frames of animation, it earned my respect.

I hope you found some of these tips useful. It's a tutorial from a newbie perspective - I just present the 1% you should know but, hey, it's a start!

Good luck with your creative endeavors,

Potato from the outer space :rocket:

[1] - I'm a programmer irl, source

Hello Jammers!

We're playing your games live on Twitch. If you’d like your entry featured, kindly drop it in our form or join us in chat! We love having devs in chat with us and we'll prioritize those games, but we also highlight every game in case you can’t join live.

• When: 2:15 PM EDT today (about 10 minutes away. Late post.)
• Where: https://twitch.tv/cyberlightgames
• What: The first installment of Ludum Dare to Play 46!

Note: We were unable to participate in the Jam this time so we cannot officially rate anyone, but we would still love to play your game and get you some feedback!

Need ratings/comments? If you play my game and leave a comment, I'll be sure to play yours and leave a rating/feedback for you! (Assuming there isn't, yknow, hundreds of games or something). My game is Wave Machine, a rhythm heaven inspired microgame, and it only takes about 3 minutes to play through completely. Looking forward to hearing what you have to say about it!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/wave-machine

Play the game now if you missed it! -> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ice-ice-baby <-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6klUwam_6ZE

The concept of 'Missing Pieces' revolves around the priceless things that bring meaning to our life. The playable character in 'Missing Pieces' is the player him/herself who is looking for those things which once made him/her feel alive. We tried to narrow it down to the three most wonderful things in life. Art, music, and friendship.

The first level is a reference to our aimless superfun childhood drawing habit. I am pretty much sure we all drew what we liked with all the colors in the world. Maybe as time went on, we forgot how much we enjoyed drawing and paint the world with the colors of our imagination. In the game, your past-self gets back the first missing piece as he walks around the tiles drawing the shape of a heart.

The second level is a reference to our love of listening to music as well as playing it. I, personally remember the first time I tried to play guitar. After some time suddenly I realized that I was playing the first two notes of Für Elise, a famous musical piece composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Through many trials and errors, finally, I figured out the first few notes of that masterpiece. And it created such a wave of joy!

I am sure many of you can relate to this story. So in the game, your past-self gets back the second missing piece after some trial and error, each time coming to the first notes and rework the notes after, finally creating the first line of Für Elise.

The third level is a reference to our lost friendships. When you start playing this level it seems you have no clue how to reach your friend who is at a distance. And when you start finding your way, you finally see that the solution was just around the corner. After that, you get back the last missing piece after you re-establish the connection with your friend.

▶ Play Missing Pieces

Explore the calm Peck Beach and battle some monsters in this simple turn based.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/peck-beach

JUST A SHOW OF HANDS..... HOW MANY OF US ARE USING GMS2?

Please comment or Like. Also, what plugins and exports do you have?

Yes its hard.

Yes its a bit buggy.

But its fun! Give my game a try if you havent, see if you can get past lvl 1! The GIF above show its possible :P

Play it here - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/my-friend-phil

Has something changed about the smart balance calculations? This doesn't seem quite right. Here is a pic of me and my "position neighbour"...

Also, do all plays of a team count towards the ratings/feedbacks given? If so, isn't that quite unfair since we're competing for the same visibility on the page? Was just wondering since I saw very little compo games on the top of the games list. And over 25% of the games should be compo... :thinking:

Playing Ludum Dare games on stream for the next couple hours! Come hang out and send me your games to play!

https://www.twitch.tv/miltage

Hi there everyone,

I hope you all had a great Ludam Dare like myself. This is my 10th game jam, but first Ludam Dare and first "solo" jam. I'll get to the quotes later.

I found out about this Ludam Dare the Friday night after it had officially begun. When I saw the theme of "Keep it Alive", I made a joke about making a tamagachi style game, but with a plant instead. I thought about it and went to my asset packs in Unreal and realized I hate a house plant assets pack and a house asset pack. All I needed was a watering can, which my friend offered to make. I then began on my "solo" venture. I didn't make everything from scratch. I was using asset packs and a few assets from a friend, but that was ok. If I didn't have these things, I probably wouldn't have participated. Instead I decided to approach something I've never done and came out the other side feeling really good about this little game. I love seeing the work of the compo jam and seeing those people shine, but it was also good not feeling the pressure of the normal jam and just making a game.

I got the basics up and running pretty quickly, but the biggest challenge I needed to tack was, "How do I have it so this game plays even when it's turned off?" There was a lot of data to handle to save and load properly and keeping track of time passed when the game turned off and adjust things accordingly. Luckily the internet is a great resource and I was able to find little bits here and there of information that I was able to piece together to figure it out. Now that I figured it out all was great! Well no, there were a lot of bugs. While I believe I was structuring gameplay object correctly, I was having a really hard time saving them and loading them correctly. This took up many hours of debugging and I'm glad I did it. I've learned so much more about saving/loading than I ever would have otherwise. This right here is the main reason I love game jams. It gives opportunities to push yourself to learn something new and I sure did here.

So the main systems were done, but I didn't have a lot of idle/interaction systems. I only had 48 hours to really work on this so there wasn't a lot of time. I figured out some basic fun interactions, but I really wish I could have fleshed this out more.

Also building UI is hard. Luckily I had a main menu asset that I could modify to get that all handled, but all the UI for the game needed to be figured out as I was building it. Luckily I built some pretty crude buttons early on to get everything working in a prototype, but UX and UI is a lot of work to really make it smooth. I wish I could have focused here more to flesh out the experience, but I got enough there I think was decently approachable. Not getting a more robust interactive UI did kill the one thing I wish I could have done for the jam, and that was unlocks. Idle games are all about progression, but doing progression right means needing to message it properly. I might have been able to do this, but I didn't plan ahead enough for it, so I took the alternative route and gated things by price.

In the end I have a weird little game I'm proud of that I never thought I would have built. I've gotten great feedback from so many of you and I'm glad so many enjoyed it. I hope this little post mortem was insightful and I look forward to doing more Ludam Dares in the future.

Guide the last spacecraft from Earth through the immensity of the Universe in search of a new home for the few survivors of an Earth unable to sustain life. Until you reach your unknown destination, keep the crew hydrated, fed, heated and don't let the ship drift without power. Keep an eye out for radar. It tells you where to find the resources you need to support yourself until you find a new home for humanity.

Play in the Browser

But our PC Version got even better!

What changed? - Keyboard notes that have to be held now display their note length properly and also recognize their release time correctly, making things a lot easier. - Drums got new notes to play, making the game more balanced. - Did some visual improvements on the keyboard lighting. - Made some changes in how a well played riff affects your total audience satisfaction. - Added a borderless windowed mode.

What are our future plans on the game? - Create a selection of multiple tracks to play. - Implement the concept of optional notes. (Give bonus if played but no penalty if missed) - Some sort of music sheet to let you know what to play in the long run. - Maybe some sort of visual recommendation on how to place your fingers on the keyboard for each instrument.

Despite this being a less than ideal LDJam for me, I was happy to see that my game gathered the needed 20 votes and it will be eligable for a score. I would like to thank everybody for this.

If you would like to check out the game as well, you can do it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/garden-royale-1

Garden Royale - A garden survival game with crafting, weather and snails:

Excited to see what you guys have done :)

Hi all!

It's always an excellent news when someone is talking about your game, and some youtubers chose to show Tumbleweed in their videos !

https://youtu.be/5wI_UtVuxuI

https://youtu.be/0Ww6FGRAU0o

A lot of streamers took time to test the game as well so we really want to thank them too ! Streamers : * ursagame * Miltage * MissingTheMoon * ElysiaGriffin * DanaePlays * leroivi * helmersoft

:arrow_forward: Try the game : Game page

After this global pandemic, only 300 people survived and they are now aboard a spaceship to flee from the dying Earth to go to Mars, the next Earth. Play Earth 2.0 and keep Mankind alive by saving these 300 people by steering the spacecraft 140 million miles through asteroids which are on the way to Mars.

Can be played on Web as well

Your significant other has left their precious bonsai in your care while they're on a trip. Hang out with the tree and respond to their texts in this chill messaging game. If you get the best ending, let me know, I want to congratulate you!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/blooming-with-you

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/flower-defense-3

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/deaths-compass

Hello Jammers!

We're playing your games live on Twitch. If you’d like your entry featured, kindly drop it in our form or join us in chat! We love having devs in chat with us and we'll prioritize those games, but we also highlight every game in case you can’t join live.

• When: 2:50 PM EDT today
• Where: https://twitch.tv/cyberlightgames
• What: The first installment of Ludum Dare to Play 46!

Note: We were unable to participate in the Jam this time so we cannot officially rate anyone, but we would still love to play your game and get you some feedback!

Hey, we uploaded a Linux Version for Hive Preserver. However, we cannot test it ourselves. So if you want to give it a try and give us some feeback, we would be very happy about it :heart_eyes:

You are a newborn alien, abducted from your home by evil scientists. They are trying to destroy your hive. You must return quickly if you want to keep it alive...

Hive Preserver is a fast-paced first-person alien action game:

Play our LD46 jam game: Hive Preserver

Follow us on Twitter on YouTube or on Facebook

I successfully submitted my game for the jam but I was not able to make many levels. Now I had made more levels and I want to update my game can I do it?

I have uploded my game on itch.io .

Thanks :smile:

sorry for bad english

I'll be running the second installment of my LD46 streams today! We got through 20 games in 4 hours yesterday - lets get through another bunch tonight! I'll also be joined on voice my @ElysiaGriffin to give commentary (and judge your button feedback) during the stream!

I'll be streaming for about 3-4 hours, so I'll be giving no longer than 10 minutes per game in order to try out a larger quantity of games. There is a good 20 games in queue at the moment, HOWEVER - I only play the game if the dev is in chat, so many of those who submitted yesterday are likely to not be in chat so we'll be burning through the queue quite quickly at the start of stream I'd say.

You can submit your entry here

You can see the current list of games to play here

I'll be live at 19:00 GMT | 20:00 UK | 15:00 EST. You can find me on twitch on the link below:

https://www.twitch.tv/honestdangames

If you're interested in our LD46 entry Bunnurse, feel free to check out the Game Page

The Puzzle Of The Fantastic fungus is a fast-paced and challenging puzzle game inspired by Powder Game (https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust )! Can you devise a strategy to keep a critically endangered alien organism from being consumed by it's own runaway biology?

Windows & Mac Downloads: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-puzzle-of-the-fantastic-fungus

!Thanks to all of you that gave us a little of your time and came to test our little game! We are so happy that so many people found our game fun, people that saw potential, people that gave us tips, that gave all this support! This is our team first GameJam and we can't express how we did NOT expect all of this from a GameJam, with a game made by college students, and how it all worked out! We're thinking on continuing this game in the summer for it to be our first polished and finalized game! I hope everyone is enjoying this Ludum Dare that removed a bit of the COVID problem >-<

We are trully happy and inspired! Feel free to follow us if you want to see our future projects!

Hey guys, it's our first time jamming and also our first time ever finishing a game. We're really thankful for the comments we have already received and we have released a quick hot-fix addressing some of the issues but we would love to get even more feedback from the whole community.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-genie-of-light

After this global pandemic, only 300 people survived and they are now aboard a spaceship to flee from the dying Earth to go to Mars, the next Earth. Play Earth 2.0 and keep Mankind alive by saving these 300 people by steering the spacecraft 140 million miles through asteroids which are on the way to Mars.

Can be played on Web as well

Me and Issac had a great time making this but can't decide if its worth turning into a full game or not. Perhaps a fun little phone game? If you haven't played it already please check it out and let us know what you think! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/come-to-mama