Take on the quest of saving the world by destroying the cursed, blood-thirsty sword you were destined to wield. Be careful, though - failure to feed the sword will cause it to consume you. It is crucial that you keep yourself alive, even if it means sacrificing others, as there will be noone to break this cycle of pain and destruction without you!

If you haven’t seen our game yet, we welcome you to play! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/blood-oath

There are goblins, mages, warriors and much more. But there is one thing that is strictly forbidden - killing! Here is the link, you know what to do: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/have-mercy

Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/i-am-your-dead

Come check out my rhythm-based shooter game, Keep The Beat Alive!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-beat-alive-1

The first time I ever participated in Ludum Dare, someone made a wallpaper that included the icons of every submission. I thought it’d be a cool idea to bring that back, so I wrote some scripts to download everyones cover images and convert them into a giant wallpaper! This image has both the jam and compo in one- over 4500 entries! Can you find yours?

3840x2160: https://i.imgur.com/3S7aat8.jpg

1920x1080: https://i.imgur.com/jaSw2NU.png

Check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/eggs-eggsoddus

PS: We have HTML5 :)

Hopefully you'll be able to get the mobile version on your device!

Right now you can check the Ludum Dare entry in browser here

How much will you do to keep your egg alive? Come check out our game about a morally grey chicken!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-_kTTN2eI

Have you satiated that thirst for blood today? It's never been easier than now with the HTML5 version of VampySitter!

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

Take care of a Suicidal Mischevious vampire. Get him his sensual breakfast. Use you Right click Garlic to guide him or scare him aCROSS the room.

Careful! His not good at math as he cannot ADD 2 plus 2 or dodging falling stakes and botomless pits.

Also leave yout game's link to rate and feedback. 10 first games for today!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-pain

:v: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/eggs-eggsoddus :v:

:v: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/eggs-eggsoddus :v:

Play Keep chicks alive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySb5Cn06qQA

This is my first Ludum Dare submission. One day before it started I was still unsure if I could participate or not. Today is my birthday, plus I have done that little game in just 16 hours.. So yes, I'm happy.. And I just wanted to say it out loud.

Thank you to everyone who played the game, and rated it. I'm going to setup a list of Ludum Dare games to play in the coming days so if you want me to play your game just add a link below in comments.

Stay safe! <3 Antoine

Hey all!

My team and I would like to help out those who don't quite have 20 reviews yet. Please drop a link to your game here so we can play and rate them and give feedback! :)

If you'd like to help us out as well, the link to our game is here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/steven-saves-the-world

Heres the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-him-alive-5

Play Store finally approved my game. Who wants to play Gaia on your smartphone?

:robot: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RodrigoDenbila.Gaia

:video_game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/gaia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y551WMLwQoE

Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/exosphere

We made our own voice over for the game, and are (humbly) receiving good feedback from it - so come listen - the post-jam build also runs on mobile browsers too!

Play in browser now

Hello fellow humans! I'd love if some of you folks would get to test the multiplayer part of my game Extreme Garden Simulator . So if you got another physical human being nearby and ideally a pair of gamepads I'd absolutely love some feedback from you. Thank you! :heart:

Hi, I made my first Ludum Dare game and I'd like some feedback! The game is about watering plants, and I hope you like it! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/a-minute-and-a-half

You're in lockdown and you're looking for motivation to make cool projects in a chill atmosphere? On April 26th a Game Jam of not 100, not 102 but 101 hours will start! You want to join?

❤️ Click here

❤️ You can also join us on Discord!

What about a game with a nice ambient soundtrack?

Here, ready for you!

Flame Over!

Hello fleshed robot fellow...

I am here to provide my boss with the most ambitious resource in the world...

*The human money... *

Help me to harvest all the tomatoes (not pumpkings, you need to graduate your sight, yes) and the corn in these fields and bring the people the most delicious food in this pandemic world (non-covid19 related)

Click here 2 water with me...

Concepting

At the event’s start, the theme was announced: “Keep It Alive.” This reminded me of a quote I once heard:

When do fairy tales cease to be real? When people stop believing in them.

I presented this to my team and we decided to run with it, believing it would lead us to create a unique entry. And it did – there isn’t another submission like ours despite the event having over 10,000 participants.

We settled on a design where you play as Tinker Bell in an orphanage. You fly in front of children to inspire them while avoiding the staff – if they capture you, the game is over. This was to fit within the time constraints. The idea I originally had was a stealth dialogue (yes, you read that right) entry where you play as an elder employee secretly trying to tell fairy tales to the children while not getting caught by the other workers. The stealth dialogue idea still intrigues me as I haven’t played such a game before. Maybe I will create it someday – just need to find (or become) an experienced dialogue writer.

Production

I’ve never worked with the cel shaded aesthetic before, but our fairy tale idea seemed like the perfect setting to try it. If you don’t know the difference between standard and cel shading (often called toon), see this:

Cel shading, as the name implies, comes from shaders, not the modeling of the objects themselves. Right now my 3D artistry consists of hard surface (no organics), so I had to get the characters from asset packs online.

I spent most of my time on the level design. I haven’t done an indoor environment before, so this was a major learning experience in architectural design and where to be structurally unrealistic in order to make indoor flying feel less cramped.

First iteration of indoor level design using cel shading. It’s obvious my lighting needs adjustment:

After brightening the main light, adding a soft ambient counter-light, and setting up postprocessing with LUT:

We used IK to create Tinker Bell’s animations. Our main character has 1 forward flight and 2 idle motions. Unfortunately, LD's blog system doesn't let me upload videos (and I don't want to put them on YouTube). See them in my blog version of this post.

Retrospective

My time allocation looked approximately like this:

• Concepting: 2 hours
• Asset Production / Iteration: 36 hours
• Programming: 5 hours
• Ice Skating / Stretching: 4 hours
• Random Breaks: 6 hours
• Sleep: 16 hours (I didn’t sleep from Sunday to Monday)
• Testing / Tweaking / Building: 3 hours

I don’t know how many jams I’ve done, but I’m seeing a pattern with all of them: They barely get done within the timeframe and I don’t allocate enough hours to testing the gameplay. I believe it’s a scoping fault where I estimate (with good accuracy nowadays) what I can build within the timeframe, not what I can build and extensively test in that period. For my next Ludum Dare, I intend to mentally subtract 12 hours from the jam duration when planning. Hopefully this causes me to reduce my scope so I can iterate more.

As for our entry, here is some notable feedback we received:

Moving Forward

I won’t be adding this game to my portfolio, though it is still searchable online. I learned a lot about cel shading and lighting this weekend, and I intend to implement this aesthetic again in a future entry with greater confidence. In the meantime, play the game if you haven’t, and share with us your harshest criticisms:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tell-a-fairy-tale

Next month, I’m hosting the GameDev.tv community jam. We have over 500 signed up so far, and I’m looking forward to the creative ideas participants come up with. If you’re a beginner gamedev, join us! We have many people in the forum looking for teammates :)

First of all I want to thank all that have played and rated my Game! Your comments mean a lot and I can take a whole lot of constructive feedback out of it!

I want to share some more of the highlights I have tried so far! (you can check out my other list here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/signal-fire-on-mystery-island/my-first-ludum-dare-and-i-really-enjoy-playing-all-those-awesome-games)

A (at least for me) very addictive and funny game about cheese

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

A simple but fun MMO (I had luck and played with a lot of other players, hope you are lucky too :-))

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

A very interesting take on a Music destruction I really enjoyed

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/silence-please

A Sad but Uplifting experience

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

And if you really want: Check out my Game as well :-)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/signal-fire-on-mystery-island

Keep the good vibes up :-)

Hi, it would be awesome to get some players to play my game, you can play it in local coop if you want! (2 players). The game is quite fast-paced. Good Evening~!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-it-alive-27

sorry double post

The fools heart inside you is constantly growing hungrier for blood, everyone is armed and you gotta eat. how can you feast on blood and keep the fools heart beating swap bodies to evade suspicion and impale victims with your tongue designing this was a weird experience as i was cut short on time from a late start but im still pretty happy with the end product. i will continue developing it so i very much appreciate any input or ideas you have and even have a discord where you can talk directly to me or the community

Everyone is asking for playing and feedback. Don't see any reason not to do the same) Check my game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/he-needs-healing

Hey guys we need a couple more of ratings to reach the target, please take a look at our game "Mosquito" where you have to keep a mosquito alive while biting some peoples arms. feel free to leave some honest feedbacks it's always good to know what people think to improve for our next jam even if the comments are not positives everytime . Thanks a lot ! MosquitoSite.png

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mosquito!

So I just realised that I hadn't made a news post about my game yet... so... here it is!

Play as a vampire, leap around, bite necks and drink blood. Apparently some of the voice effects are too sensual -- sorry about that, very last minute mix! :joy: Enjoy!

Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/vamp

We have a trailer for our game Salad Days 2

If you want to build your own aqueduct with physically accurate water! you can check out the game here 👉 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/salad-days-2-pipe-dream

https://youtu.be/PuFaofzWyKo

When we started working on Tumbleweed, we never hoped for such a success, and here we are, we have reached the 200 rates thanks to you !

We are really happy to see that you love the game, all of your comments means the world to us ! Tumbleweed was an extraordinary adventure of perfect synchronization in this craft for jam team.

From all the team THANK YOU

For those who don't know the game

Here is the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thZDzXt-tEY

:arrow_forward: Try the game : Game page

👋 Discord: https://discord.gg/BApYP2T

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

These are some of my favorite Ludum Dare games so far that I think you should check out(in no particular order)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mage-or-trouble

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/fiery-caverns

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dino-spin

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/purple-thing

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

If you want to try out my game and put in in your least favorite games list, the link is here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/repair-it-roger

It's been a while since I've made a proper 3D game for a jam or otherwise, and this time around I thought I'd give it a try again! After considering a few different ideas, I eventually landed on attempting to make an intense retro-style first person shooter.

I spent most of my time in the jam working on the gameplay mechanics, and on making the combat feel fun and responsive. Lots of trails, flashes, camera shake, and impact effects! A lot of the 3D assets come from the Unity Asset Store, though everything else is my work. I whipped up some cool synthwave music, layered sounds to create the effects I needed, etc.

It was definitely a crazy yet fun experience participating in Ludum Dare once again, and I'm pretty proud of what I was able to pull off. The connection to the theme is fairly weak, but I think the gameplay worked out as well as I could've hoped.

Let me know what you think! This was my first attempt at making an FPS game, and especially within the 3 day time-frame. I'll be starting to play & rate other entries tomorrow, so remember to leave a comment so I can check out yours! :smiley:

I've made a new update for my game that fixes a graphic issue when the camera moves and I've made a new map.

Also I want to thank everyone for the feedback so far!

Do you care for some behind the scenes footage of my game The Cube? Do you like to see in-engine video on how games are made? Than this is the right video for you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3iZljDyNVw

The game can be found here, on the ludum dare page. Please leave a rating and a comment on what you think about the game.

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE THAT PLAYED IT!!!

This is my first game jam ever and I'm so happy that so many people liked my game!!

Come check it out if you have the time!

A tale of Rebirthism

Sorry for the double-post :)

Still check out our game ^^ https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/friendly-fire-1

Hi everybody! We made a small and eerie trailer for our game, Friendly Fire! It is really short and simple, but the feeling is quite good!

https://youtu.be/UzL8L1wSML8

Also be sure to check out our game! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/friendly-fire-1

Obviously every year does, but I'm super impressed with people this year! Tiny fragments from @daniel-moreno specifically is just perfect. Great job all around everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK6AY587hEw

Web or Download: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/prophet

You know what, this Ludum Dare has been so awesome!! I WANT TO PLAY MORE GAMES!!!! Please comment down below and send me a link to your game. I assure you that I will play your game. Also, it would be greatly appreciated if you play my game! As I am 11 years old and need constant feedback to improve my game and my coding skills. Feedback would be greatly appreciated. Please play my game and give me feedback at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-flower. But please, send me a link to your game in the comments bellow as I will play it later on today!! Good luck on your Ludum Dare games!😀😉Thank You!!

Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish my game before the deadline since I had to remake it after a glitch.

It would be appreciated if you could check it out. :)

My compo entry: https://skalex05.itch.io/ld-46-keep-the-romance-alive

[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/postcard-ninja]

Tell me what you think and if it makes sense to continue it! Reference, ideas .. anything can help me develop this game.

Good news for mac/linux users,I've got unity HTML5 build support so my game Harvest Season will soon come to web.

If you are on windows, please do check my game out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/harvest-season

Hey guys, if you think your game is worth to play. plz share it bellow.

Btw this is our game if u want to play it

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mammoth-expedition

Come submit your games!

https://www.twitch.tv/pomothedog

I have made a walkthrough of our game Virus

Play here on web

Or see the walkthrough

https://youtu.be/IL-CLWwSTOA

Hey Guys, please check me out! I'm still a bit new to Youtube. Slowly working my way up and releasing content. Game dev is extremely hard and I would highly appreciate if someone could check me out and subscribe. LD46 Content coming soon! Feel free to checkout my entry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZMYRbTjKc&t

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnuFJ4tigQxhOvMwCuvJhzg

During our brainstorm we had an idea to make a Run minigame with your Bro, where you need to chat with your bro while you run. Sometimes your hands would touch bromance style.

Sketches of the minigame:

Unfortunately, we didn't have time to create this minigame. So stay tuned because we are making a Post Ludum Dare :)

If you like bromance play our game

It's my first jam and I don't know anything about the smart balance. It suddenly dropped to -51 in 1 day. Will it effect my score?

Help :cry:

LINK TO GAME: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-a-plant

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/brainstorm My game being pretty simple, I was sure my 'simple' explanation would be enough to understand it. This was not the case so I made this nice and hopefully clear tutorial gif :D If you want to let me know if it explains the game well you can play it at : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/brainstorm https://shakedimus.itch.io/brainstorm

I also lowered my build size from 400mb to 50. It turns out you are supposed to compress giant audio files and HDRIs!

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

Hey! We are enjoying our first game jam, there are a lot of funny games! We did a pretty good game with a good dog :D Come and play it if you are a dog lover(or a granny lover)

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

Here come the WASD support (yep).

You can play here : https://lsigol.itch.io/team-wipe

Thanks for playing !

working in a 2D game engine doesn't mean you can't do 3D

Thank you to everyone who vacuumed ghosts in my game GhostVac. I thought I'd give a glimpse of how it's done

you can play it here: here.

https://youtu.be/QOW7bGPje_Q

a full overview of my teams creative process and timelapses as well as a developer playthrough of our entry with commentary

.

Check out how I made my submission for Ludum Dare 46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9tLRQd6rxo

Come submit your games!

https://www.twitch.tv/pomothedog

Heya all! Super stoked to be done with this project! The core gameplay and first two levels were completed in 48 hours for the ludum dare competition, and now I've finished the next two levels, added a boss fight, more storyline, better mechanics, way more features, and even a credits scene.

I was SERIOUSLY pushing the limit of the pico-8's token limit when this was published, and I had to do a lot of refactoring before I was able to export to html5, but it was so worth it.

This is the first game I've completed in 14 years, and the last one just didn't hold a candle to this one's scope, even though realistically it still is a very small and casual game made in exactly one week.

It's also my first PICO-8 game.

Here are some statistics by the end

• 2,450 brand new lines of lua code
• Two individual full-length music tracks created
• 16 sound effects generated
• 22 animated sprites drawn

This was my first large project using the component-entity pattern in a project outside of Unity, and I'm proud of my ability to pull it off successfully. I learned a lot about better ways to structure my code.

I also learned a lot about better ways to check for and structure collisions, which was important for the BBY push mechanic.

Thanks to all that have played my game demo so far. I hope some of you find the time to try out the full game!

Please check it out on itch! You won't regret it :D https://lambdanaut.itch.io/bbys

Yeah... we found a few more bugs. But we squished them! :stuckouttongue: Room generation should always generate a teleporter now, and all three levels should generate fully, every time!

LAST HUMAN is looking pretty nice...

If you haven't checked out LAST HUMAN yet, what are you waiting for!? :smile:

It's that time again!

Over the past week, the Keyboard Cowboys (coleslaughter, ruddiculous, ruddgasm, and alphabetasoup) have been playing and rating as many games as we can! Already we've found some stand-out entries, that we'd love to share with y'all!

Now then, in no particular order, here's a list of games that have really stood out to us:

Letter to Thomas

Team: @louiejams

Letter to Thomas is a short little narrative adventure game with a compelling story and seriously impressive visuals, all put together by a single person, which is still blowing our minds!!

Keep Our Mother Alive

Team: @daregb, @soyrandom

Simple, yet gorgeous, Keep Our Mother Alive is a fun little experience bursting with style and humor. Definitely a unique entry that brings more than a few chuckles as the plot progresses!

Mega Kinetic

Team: @blacksheepza, @add-an-a

Mega Kinetic is a bombastic physics-based action game with a cutesy toony art style. Keeping your little alien buddy alive very quickly gets chaotic and fun as it launches around the arena at high speeds!

Hive Preserver

Team: @for-science, @arcticmattekar

Hive Preserver is one ridiculously well-polished game with top-notch level design to boot. It's kind of crazy to think this was all done in a weekend! This game feels complete, with a definitive beginning, middle, and end, and a difficulty that ramps up super naturally. Definitely check this one out!

Disco Let's Go!

Team: @ariake81

Disco Let's Go straight-up should be getting more attention. The premise is simple, the vibe is spot-on, and the need to obsess over high scores is real. This is easily one of the unique concepts we've seen so far, and right now it's still looking for 20 ratings! Help 'em out, if you can!

The Bloodhaven Academy Dragon Club

Team: @nota, @nothing, @truefaux

This game is nuts. There's so much going on in Bloodhaven Academy Dragon Club, from randomly generated monsters, a turn-based battle system, unique character sprites and battle themes, a funny, tongue-in-cheek narrative, and so many monster stats!! This game really has it all, and we're super jealous...

Doin' It Live

Team: @sugarsores

This game just sticks out immediately the moment you see it, especially in motion. Doin' It Live is brimming with silly personality, and simple yet super fresh gameplay. This one's a quick pick-up, and once you dip your toes in, you'll be smitten with just how much personality the creator was able to inject into its character models and images (by themselves!!)

The Dragon's Curse

Team: @abyss, @james-kusardi, @horus, @aditya-kumar

You've probably already seen this game floating around some of the top LD pages already. Truth be told, we like to highlight games that aren't already getting the recognition they deserve, but the folks behind The Dragon's Curse have been going above and beyond to give back to their community with super thoughtful feedback and already over 100 games rated (!!) so we feel that they at least deserve the mention. With some of the sharpest writing we've seen this jam, and some of the most impressive artwork, this game is absolutely worth the few minutes of your time to play it. Show these guys some love!

...And that's all for now!

We've been really impressed with what we've been playing this rating season, and we've been especially super ecstatic about the phenomenal feedback we've been receiving for our game, Wayward! It has been absolutely melting our hearts hearing about how people have been connecting with the game, and we love every last one of your insights. :slight_smile:

We will be continuing to plug away at more games as the weeks progress, and time permitting, we would love to write up another one of these in the future!

'Til next time! :pointright: :cowboy: :pointright:

We recently made a trailer but it was posted during a lot of blog activity so I don't think many saw it. Have a gander!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSYEcNDU4Z4 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/fleur-defense

...also

To those who have played, rated, and commented on our game

Thanks!

Especially those who comment. I cannot understate how satisfying it is to see people responding and commenting on our game.

I would like to give out a shout out to some people I have seen being particularly active in the community. They've commented our game and most of the games I've reviewed, they've already been there too!

@briibot - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/aphotic-aquatic

@peachtreeoath - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/food-chuck

@peterfiftyfour - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/apple-panick

@ponypen - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-pit-alive

@sandra-jasionowska - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/peacemaker

@sheinxy - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/sleepwalker

@trexxak - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tiriplici

Thank you for being so active!

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on a final note, if you haven't received 20 reviews yet, comment your game, I will be trolling the comments

PLAY IT AND VOTE

https://youtu.be/v2_b7YvyztY

Hi, in terms of game views both of my ludum dare 46 games (yes I made 2 games) almost past my previous ld45 game. Can you review it so that I can beat my previous score? Also, I released an hotfix so that some irritating things are no longer available in games. I will be very appreciated if you can give 2-3 minutes to play my games.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/precious-animals https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/survivalgo

Also I will play games of feedback givers

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

You can now test the bug free web version of Elementrees we released today !

. Four Elements

. Different Types of Enemies

. Collect Orbs to unlock Powerful Magic

. An EPIC bossfight

. Tower Defense Mechanics

Be sure to tell us what you think about the game ! We're really curious about your games too.

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If you like intense gameplay, then this is for you, switch between elements to optimize your damage in mid-battle!

And who knows ? If you survive enough waves maybe you'll get to fight a secret enemy ?!

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                                            ENJOY

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

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We're really glad that so many of you are liking Turtle Daddy! We honestly didn't think it would be this positive. We're looking forward to expanding on this game post-jam! :v:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/turtle-daddy

We're working on a post-jam build!

We've been getting a lot of positive feedback about LAMPS but also some negative. Some people are getting lost, and don't know what they're supposed to be doing.

That's why we've decided to include a system in the new version that gives some backstory to the lamp shop, and will hopefully help players understand the core mechanic of Keeping the Light Alive

We've also implemented some... more SPOOKY additions to the game... so watch out for those too ;P

Play the Jam version of Lamps HERE

Hey everybody! Now that we're a week into rating, I decided to write up a brief retrospective on my project.

Goal and overview

For the past few Compos, I've generally done pretty well in Graphics, Audio, and Fun. This time, my goal was to focus on one of the more niche categories (most likely Humor, Mood, or Innovation) and aim for the top 100 in that category.

After the theme announcement happened, I decided to focus in on Mood. Rather than pouring all my time into animation and mechanics, I got a pretty simple prototype and framework together, then tried to create some characters, dialogue, and the hint of an in-game world.

The good

Here are the things I think went particularly well: - The scope: I did a pretty good job maximizing return on time investment this event. I did enough graphics to create the right feeling, then filled in the gaps with particle effects, modular animation, and some nice scrolling backgrounds. - The onboarding: While the game itself is pretty simple, I think I did a pretty good job introducing the player to its mechanics, and the various enemy types, as the game progressed. I not only had a tutorial, but it was within the story and dialogue! - The twist: No spoilers in this post, but it's pretty twisty.

The bad

Here are some things I could have done better: - The theme: My interpretation of the theme was pretty weak, especially after I got a few revisions in. I eventually settled for the low-hanging fruit of controlling a shield around a vulnerable player. - The visuals: While the visuals fit the mood of the game fairly well and I necessarily had to cut some scope to make room for other work (like four music tracks... oof), I still think my graphics were overall less standout this event than some previous ones. - The player character specifically: You're a green circle. I drew a green circle. That's peak art, right there.

Conclusion

I think, in general, I met my goal for this event. I made something very different than any of my past games and experimented in the aesthetic, audio, and overall tone. I think that top 100 in Mood is within the realm of possibility, but with 1300 Compo entries there's going to be some stiff competition.

If you want to play my game, you can find it on my game page.

Have a great rating season, everybody!

Play here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keiths-flint-steel

Fixed/New things

Now includes indicators to help you find the fire, grid snapping for kicking trees, and squirrels that fall out the tree when you kick it.

I'll do a playthrough shortly.

Been a busy week and the weekends are finally here! Time to play more LDJAM games. Probably gonna spend some time fixing some playability issues/bugs.

Sooo... I made a game for the Ludum Dare 46 and I also recorded a Devlog to document the process.. Here it is if anyone is interested in knowing how I made a game in under 12 hours :D

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR3pRXMngV8

I did a quick playthrough of my game - this one shows also some of the fixes / tweaks post-compo.

game

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keiths-flint-steel

walkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veXFOIi3CL0

Time for sleep now!

Drop a link to your entry here and I will give it a play/rating, along with a paragraph or two of what I liked and what I thought could be improved. I'll prioritize entries with fewer existing ratings but I should be able to get around to everyone eventually. Windows or HTML5 is fine - no installers please.

I'd also appreciate it if you could give feedback on my own entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-empty-cone , but you're under no obligation or pressure to do so.

Edit: yes I'm still doing this, please feel free to comment below. Just don't expect me to be able to get around to it right away, lol.

We know… We know we are a little late… But what is a 3 day delay when your game should have been launched in 1995? Anyway… Now you can play our game in it’s full extentent, just click this link:

https://neithernathan.itch.io/kardiossomatic

If you are confused between playing and not playing our game… just Follow Your Heart! We’re sure you’re gonna enjoy it! Last thing, here’s the 1995 Pc Gamer Magazine cover for our game:

I really appreciate all the feedback I've been getting on my little LD game! I haven't a whole lot of time this week to play and rate games yet, but I look forward to doing some tonight and this weekend! If you'd consider trying my game out, I'd really appreciate it! It's called Tyle.

Please check out Tyle!

Thanks! Comment on this post with a link to your game! :)

We know... We know we are a little late... But what is a 3 day delay when your game should have been released 25 years ago? Anyway, if you want to give Kardiossomatic a try, follow this link:

https://neithernathan.itch.io/kardiossomatic

If you are still confused about playing our game or not... Just FOLLOW YOUR HEART, I'm sure it'll give you an answer.

Don't forget to rate it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/kardiossomatic

Last thing, here's the legendary 1995 PC Gamer Magazine Cover for Kardiossomatic:

We barely mannaged to complete it. Its left a little unpolished, but hope you enjoy! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-your-wife

Hopefully the new art is a bit more eye-catching Consider giving it a play https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/pulse-1 could use more ratings!

a innocent heart defiled by grief a fool begging the child to be its meal become one with the nothing kill the lord take the knife be the brutus destroy the caesar we have been dancing forever will you join us

In this puzzle game, you will learn to get along with the peculiar rules of a mysterious island.

Music is the key!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/to-Leave

https://5imon.itch.io/to-leave

In each level, you will have to find the 5 matching platforms and activate them.Then you will be able to gather what you need to get to the next day.

Game me and my friend made for the first game jam we participated in. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/rememberance

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-it-alive-the-rectangle-that-is

Games without that many reviews preferred! Also, check out our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/electro-service-2-electric-boogaloo

In tht last days I played already many games. I liked many, but this is my absolute favorite so far: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/have-mercy You try to hurt but not to kill enemies in a turn based combat. Sounds and graphics are really good and the game is well balanced. Feel free to try it out. It needs still some ratings!

Play online here: https://baconxpogo.itch.io/keep-what-alive Rate us at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-what-alive

Comment link down below, we'll rate your games as well.

The response has been so overwhelmingly motivating. This is my first game jam and you guys are just incredible. I can't thank you all enough.

You can play the game here, if you'd like. I appreciate every one of you!

Before I go out on another gaming spree, I thought I should give some shoutouts to great games I played to keep the fire GOING!

The Ludum Dare Flame Maybe not as extreme as those guys though :D. Seriously though, how cool would it be if @tobiasw 's text-MMO would become something like the Orgrimmar Auction House of the Ludum Dare O: (with that I mean the central, social hub)

Aviarium What is it with bird simulators? I kinda really, really, really dig them for some reason and I don't know why :'D

Mr. Cheesy Very Gouda game! Simple, yes, but so enjoyable!

Tablet Force Myself? Not much of a Tablet-guy, really. Except you talk about this game here!

Tumbleweed Ye, I figure you probably already played it, but how would I not mention it in these little lists of mine?

If you have any recommendations for me, please tell me! I'm always eager to find more great games! <3

If you're interested in more great games I found, do take a look at my previous highlights

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looking for underrated games to play, if you have gotten around 100 or less ratings show me your game and i will give it a go! very much out of the goodness of my heart and not trying to bump up my coolness points

and maybe check out my game if youre at it too (; https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/craz

We had a lot of fun especially with the wife throwing mechanism! (We don’t encourage anything violent at all in real life) The bugs that showed out in while developing were really hilarious! And we didn’t know whether to stress out over the bugs to fix them or play around with the player and the buggy wife and wolves just for fun even though we were short on time! :sweat_smile:

Just love your wife dearly and save her from any danger in all worlds be it real or virtual!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-your-wife

I'm going to an hour or two play session so give me games to try :smile:

And you can play mine here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/fencing-meka

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/final-interrogation

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/final-interrogation

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/final-interrogation

Goodmorning everyone ! :D

Me and my 4 year old are bonding heavily this week over Ludum Dare Games ! :D We've even done a couple of Twitch streams, which were completely amazing and fun. However, as a parent, I need some time to pre-screen them to make sure they're appropriate for his age.

So rather than ME browsing through the thousands of submissions, why don't YOU tell me about your game! We could provide you with a timestamp on our VODs !

And offcourse, having you play our game would be nice :) Leave a comment so we know you played it, we can then decide to bump you up on our list as a reward :D

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/long-live-the-king

Cheers and have a good weekend,

Dr JavaSaurus

We have got some great feedback for our hex-based wildfire simulation game. Yesterday we pushed out an update that fixed some bugs that prevented the game from being won. You can find the changelog in game page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/catastrophe-wildfire-firefighters (Yes, we got HTML5!)

We have decided that we're going to turn this into a full blown game! Follow me on Twitter to get latest updates on the progress: https://twitter.com/kaappis

Also to show how thankful we are for your cooperation, @Airola uploaded games soundtrack on bandcamp! You can listen to it here: https://ramiairola.bandcamp.com/track/catastrophe-wildfire-firefighters-theme