I've submitted the post-jam version of my game, what I was originally aiming for with the game before I ran out of time.
This new version has a bigger map.
It also Supports azerty and joystick control now,
and it fixes a few minor bugs.
You can play it here: https://fallingflatstudios.itch.io/passing-flame-post-jam
you can also check the original submission here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/passing-flame
Simulating the time needed by the signal to go through a gate. Said time is called propagation delay or gate delay. When designing real hardware, gate delay has to be taken into account in order to prevent hardware bugs.
Come tinker and play at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tyson-lee-keep-it-alive-edition
In this part I'll share information I received from @Mickxe who did the environment models for our game!
The straight and angular models, like the cabin, were built almost like how you would build it in real life. One piece at a time, frame boards for the door & windows.
The boulders, camp fire, and the mountains were made with the sculpting tool.
The Decimate modifier (in Blender) was used for those models to easily adjust the level of detail to match the other models without having to actually change the model.
If you haven’t played our game, please go ahead and try it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/fox-hen-bag (￣︶￣*))
In the next part, we'll talk about lighting or maybe animations! ヾ(￣▽￣)
But our PC Version still keeps improving!
Post Mortem: Keep the Flame Alive 1.2
What has changed?
- Added optional notes to drum tracks.
- These notes are represented by striped or white balls.
- They can be played for bonus but do not yield a penalty if missed entirely.
- When played, they yield their usual reward though, even if it was horrible.
![1_2Drums] - Added quality tracker to top right corner.
![1_2Break] - Added a display for your overall performance at the end of your solo.
![1_2Score]
The game is free, and that's a great price: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/have-mercy
Our big team will be revamped and the application system for it will be completely remade. Many people also didn't have access to their computers, because of... you know... that thing. You can play it if you want, but I would suggest the fixed version (version accidentally discarded by git during gamejam)
Play here on Windows or OSX https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/alien-operation
Hey everyone! My compo entry this time around is a 1980’s-themed physics puzzle game about trying to keep a mysterious orb in your grandma’s old VCR alive.
This game was my first entry in the compo since LD38 -- three years ago! I had an absolute blast working on it, and I had the opportunity to try out a ton of new things, like: * Composing music for Ludum Dare for the first time * Building a game entirely in Javascript with React and MatterJS * Doing a level-based puzzle game
My greatest challenge in creating Play<<Back was polishing the mechanics. React handles state updates differently than MatterJS does, so it took a ton of refactoring before I was happy with the game's refresh behavior. By the end, I had a product I was super happy with, but it meant not nearly as much time as I was hoping for to build levels.</p> <p>Most of all, I'm really excited about this game's retro aesthetic. The title screen was inspired by a blend of old VHS covers and retro video games like Atari/NES. I hope the combination of the graphics, music, and story gives you the fuzzy nostalgic feeling I had while I was making it. :smile: </p> <p>Once results come out, I intend to flesh out Play<<Back with more levels and puzzle mechanics. Thank you all for a wonderful event!</p> <p><img src="///raw/bc5/z/3338f.png" alt="PlayBackCover.png" title="" /></p> <p><a href="https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/playback"><strong>Play<<Back (Web)</strong></a></p>
Play as Gaia, the ancestral mother of all life
The balance between nature and human beings is very delicate. Your goal is to make them coexist, even if you have to make some sacrifices.
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
It's saturday, and it's the perfect time to rate and play some games during the quarantine.
You can play mine here:
-> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ice-ice-baby <-
Write me your game in the comment and I will rate it and leave a feedback on it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6klUwam_6ZE
Thought some people might be interested in seeing the map of our game Beetle Blast.
This is a trailer made for show our game, we hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/H2oczFqIU_Q
Link to game:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/go-cockroach-go!
When I finished my game, I thought I would be lucky if I got 5 reviews and they were positive, I would've never dreamed of 20 ratings and almost all of the comments positive. Thank you so much for your support and making my first Ludum Dare game jam amazing!
If you want to try it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/repair-it-roger
Hey everyone, NOKOI here. I'm writing this quick little blog post to summarize my thoughts on how my first Ludum Dare went for me!
The Good
This was my first time working in a team and I think it went phenomanally! I handled the programming and the brunt of the Unity parts of the game while the other team members made art assets and music. I had a blast working with everyone. Tackling the idea of making a Katamari game seemed difficult at first but I'm glad I could pull through. I learned a lot about Unity in this time, especially learning about just how useful components like the line renderer and trail renderer are. I'm glad to have had this chance to learn more about this engine I love using and I'm excited to work on new projects. Seeing all of our separate work come together into one big project was a joy for me. I hope to work with this group of talented creators again for more projects. Who knows, maybe we have more on the way? :smile:
The Bad
While developing the game, we decided to use Github. Big mistake. Not many of us even knew what we were doing with Github and we almost missed the deadline because of a bad merge, causing panic in the final hours of the game jam. We plan to learn Github a little more so we don't make the same mistake. Luckily, I recovered the project file, but it was almost too late and very stressful for me. There's this nasty bug with the camera that I don't know how to fix. Whenever the character moves, the camera freaks out and rapidly moves side to side. I hope it wasn't too noticeable and I'm probably going to create a better camera in my next game. It was my first time trying to make a mouse controlled anything in Unity but I'm pretty happy with what I did make in the limited time. The saddest loss due to time was that we couldn't implement dynamic music. We had a whole thing planned where the song would have more layers based on the ball size but that never came to fruition. Instead, the whole song plays and I limited the timer to the length of the song to simulate this effect.
Conclusion
I'm really happy that I entered a game jam and got to work with the talented people I did. It also luckily coincided with my school vacation so I got to work all throughout Monday to finalize our game. I hope this was a fun little read and that you'll be inspired to try out our game, KAKYUUMARI. Me and the rest of the team will be playing all the other games we see too. Hope everyone has a nice day!
- NOKOI
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/kakyuumari
What's the consensus on doing bug fixes after the deadline? My game, Innocuous Pong, starts with a simple one-player version of Pong that steadily gets harder and harder. It's decent in the Mac and Windows build, but there are some issues with the Web build that make it hard to get to a score of 15 (which is kinda the whole point of the game). Am I allowed to fix those bugs and then have people rate that?
Hello everyone! I'm Stickle and this was the first game jam I've ever participated in.
Starting from 6pm Friday to 8pm Sunday, this has been one of the most exhilarating weekends of my life. Even working with a teamate (@duckduckproducktions), the amount of programming challenges I had to overcome was intense and I really learned a lot. The goal of the project was to make something actually playable and understandable and I think we did good in that aspect. Obviously there is a lot to improve on but for a newbie this is something I am definately proud of.
The game @duckduckproducktions and I made is named Boss Fight and it's a mini puzzle game where you need to control the path of the hero beforehand so the boss can get the vacation he deserves!
Play it in your browser here! - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/boss-fight
My teamate even made a little trailer for it! - https://youtu.be/FCoWyip9YWI
I really had a blast working on this small project and I can't wait to join again in October! Thanks to all the event organizers for putting such a fun event together and all the game developers participating for making such fun games to play!
I'd love to play & rate your game, just leave a quick comment below and I'll check it out shortly! :smiley:
While you're at it, consider checking out my entry, an intense retro FPS called "Operation SOL-3". Had a lot of fun trying something very different from everything else I've been making recently!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/operation-sol-3
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. It is 3D projection using u,v,z. Then Z-sorting based on the Y coordinate of each ghost, then scaling each ghost appropriately as it goes further from the "camera".
Would you dare for the risk and rule the market by inflating and deflating this brittle and whimsy bubble? How long can you keep this new Economic Bubble from final fatal burst?
Try the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/economic-bubble
For those who's interested - Tech & Art Stack: 1. Game Engine: Defold 2. Art: Krita + Wacom CTL-672 3. Music: WolframTones 4. Sounds: freesound.org 5. Secret sauce: My Wife & Friends Support
This was my setup this morning: 3 screens scrolling Ludum Dare pages, comments and folders downloaded, playing and checking all the awesomeness that this community created.
I replied to each one of the amazing comment left in my game :v: I then also played and left feedback for each one that also left a comment for me.
Web and Desktop available, all platforms!
Leave a link for it in the comments here :) Web and Windows builds are welcome.
Are you allowed to vote on projects if you are just an 'Author' and didn't submit a game, and if so, are there checks in place to make sure people aren't creating fake accounts to vote highly on their games or double vote on other games? Call me crazy, but I'd say over twice as many authors as submissions is a bit fishy...
Signups: 10330 Unique Authors: 13529 Number of Submissions: 4958
Edit: I also didn't take into account team sizes for jams, but also only 70% of the entries are jams and I'd be surprised if there's an average teamsize of 4 for the jam entries
Fight against your enemies and try to survive, keeping your station alive!
Armed with a machinegun, fire at the enemies basic ships, destroy the motherships before they create its swarm, avoid the kamikazes, be careful of the faster and frenetic Viper.
Available Online and for Windows!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-station-alive
I'm rating your games too! Leave a comment so I can check them out!
Hi guys,
I recently started recording videos from the jams I participated in :) This was my second one. If you have some spare time here is the link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e3t9jD94VU
Second stream ever to celebrate 100+ views on my game!! Come hang out in chat! https://www.twitch.tv/pomothedog
An updated version of Earth 2.0(now Earth 2.1) has been released for HTML.
Whats New?
Hope all of you all like it! Play Earth 2.0 and Earth 2.1 now!!
Hi all!
In our game, we have a replay value with the highscore! Here is the highest score we know made by a friend (Cypress) which is 77098. Could you beat him?
Here are some hints about our score mecanics. - Score given decrease with time after the poachers appeared, the quicker you shoot, the more you have. - Head Shot give extra point, don't miss the head. - Overall score is multiplicated when Rhinos arrived at 100% love progression, just a short time after gold heart which is 90 and means victory - Love progression increased faster with heart gold flirting rhinos.It take the lowest of the 2 Rhinos. - Gold very fast, pink fast, red normal, grey nothing, blue decrease. Keap them gold to get bonus earlier. - Shooting love ammo to Rhinos'ass increase their flirting value by 2 ranks.
Don't forget to change mouse speed in option if needed for better aiming. ;)
Here is our game : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/horny-rhino
Just Released A Mini Documentary Video On My #ludumdare46 Entry!
The Making Of Village Vanquish - A Video Game Documentary | [Ludum Dare 46]
WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/1kN3z96yETc
Play The Game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/village-vanquish
Play The Game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/village-vanquish
Thank you, very very much. It means a lot to me and my friend. We have never thought some many people would care about it. Damn. Once again thank you.
Our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/firekeeper-3
Your best bro Chad has a really important date to go on, and has asked you to look after his pet lemming Zack and handle a few chores for him. Can you manage everything and keep Zack (or his replacements) alive before Chad returns home?
*We cannot be held responsible for the loss of any lemmings that take place during your playthrough.
Below are real, unedited sketches for characters in our game. The sketches were just enough to get an idea of what to create when I get into Photoshop and Pyxel.
Play Fleur Defense Now! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/fleur-defense
For this jam I feel like we were all on the same page right from the get go. We were already eye-balling the “Garden” theme, perhaps under the influence of a recently popular farming game. I started out by creating our hero straight away.
It felt pretty good to get rolling on the game right away. Our team has a great deal of trust and we're able to allow each other to do what we're best at without getting hung up on details. We brainstormed a few things and got the ball rolling.
I made up our first defense plant next. I tried to make things that the developers would need as they went along, although sometimes its best to go with inspiration and come back to immediate needs. I like to sketch things at least three times usually, and I'll flip it over to double check proportions so it doesn't look weird (as I'm heavily right handed).
After getting some sleep on the first night (having worked at regular day at the ole 9 to 5) I started in on our first enemy bug. I thought of the bugs in Starship Troopers, so I put the movie on while I worked. This wasn't a great idea, probably a better idea to put on something super boring with not a lot of action. I'm not sure why I did, but I decided to imagine a 4 legged walking cycle for a bug, rather than just looking one up. Still came out ok.
The developers wanted another defensive plant, one that was melee or short ranged. Fortunately I had some axe & shield seeds!
Wait that's no axe! Well I decided that a plant, being more afraid of axes than swords, might just use one to defend itself. And the shape is a bit more like a leaf. I rounded out our plants with two growth stages to show their progression.
We wanted a smaller, faster bug and Tristan helped me out with some inspiration, finding a nice photo of an aphid. This time I wanted to do a 6 legged walk cycle. Conveniently I managed to do it with just 3 frames! Nice!
Its important to give yourself little challenges in a jam, it's a great way to learn! Tristan continued to help me out by finding more inspirational photos. We were on the hunt for our "mother" plant, as it was almost as important as our hero and I wanted to get it done before it was too late. We found some amazing photos of a Jade Vine plant, and I used it to make our mama plant.
The next big challenge was our environment. I made a foreground and background tile set that kinda looked like it could be in a plant nursery or greenhouse, with some lighter colored cement and medium raw woods and plenty of green. I threw in a greek meander for style points. Then the hardest of all, a way to represent that the game takes place inside a greenhouse.
I wanted to show a lovely background behind the glass and came up with this, kind of inspired by classic Mario and Kirby games. It was here that I started to break out Illustrator, its easier to come up with big shapes like this than starting out with pixel art.
Finally I concentrated on our title screen. This was the only thing that we honestly struggled with, right up to the final day. We couldn't decide on a name for our game! I played around with naming our hero, and looked at baby names that have something to do with flowers. I landed on Fleur, it seemed fitting. I played around with some titles with her name, even just "Fleur" as the title, finally coming to Fleur Defense and it stuck as it both described our hero and the mechanics of the game in a simple way. I did the title also in illustrator.
Our style well established by this point, I came up with a rolypoly bug to take out defense plants. Play testing at this point clued us in that we needed to give the player a reason to move around the map instead of staying put. We came up with lemon trees that need to be defended, so I came up with some animations for those. By then it was ready for release!
Thanks for checking out the art of Fleur Defense and playing our game!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/fleur-defense
https://www.twitch.tv/pomothedog
Submit here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwyAj1WLkFEPwi1PnOiywtBVfvVxzYfehu2psY6tDFPA-DIQ/viewform
note : Anybody who gives me any kind of feedback, will have his/hers game rated and commented on :thumbsup:!
Our entry is: keep the love alive
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-love-alive
It's a game about the relationship between two people where you have to keep alive the relationship being together, while still manage your business and do what you like most with (and sometimes without) your partner. Have fun
How to play you ask? Well, ask and you shall receive.
"yeah, can't bother just show me the gameplay"
Ok, okay. You can see a gameplay here :)
https://youtu.be/ZtnKhYS773M
Hey guys, just updated my game, added a new Gamemode!
You can check the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/guns-n-violets
You can play Star Keeper here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/star-keeper-ludum-dare-46
I appreciate all feedback and would love to give you some as well, so please comment on the game.
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!
Is he an escaped prisoner, a South American Druglord in a witness protection program, Freddy Mercurys long lost cousin or the Argentinian Mario villain Che Guewario!
(Probably) find out in ON AIR!
Had fun with this jam! Really happy with how my game came out! Also thank you for getting my game to over 20 ratings (currently at 21)!
If you haven't played it yet and are interested you can play it here:
Thank you!
Also if you are interested in play-testing a game called "Buddy's Creative Quest!" that I am working on, please send me an email at: "collinsludumdaregames@gmail.com" with the subject "bcq!playtesting" thank you! I really do appreciate every play-tester!
I was just checking my analytics on itch and it says I have 2 downloads but I just have my game up for webGL so what does this mean? Are people still able to download it? Sorry if it's a dumb question but this is the first time I haven't put up a windows build so I'm just confused
(If you wanna check it out it's here btw 😊 )
Adding some more hairstyles in our Noble houses Family tree game!
All the parts are seperate and picked and colored in engine depending on the genes of the characters. The genes are a mix of the parents and can result in new visible variants (not just 1 of the 2 options of the parents) Each character has 26 alleles (allel is 2 gene letters). Each variant has their own result.
Try it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/noble
New hairstyles probably coming in the patch tomorrow!
My girlfriend tried my game and she liked it! :D Getting real life feedback is super satisfying, although my cat was less impressed. Who do you agree with ?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/brainstorm
https://shakedimus.itch.io/brainstorm
So, everyone that has been doing Ludum Dare for some time knows how crucial it is too keep the scope of your project quite small. However the more content you are able to squeeze in, the higher chance you have of rating higher.
What's the most ambitious LD game you have created/seen were the dev actually pulled it off?
You can play it here
I neglected to add cursor keys as an input method in the original submission, I've updated the game to support it so people who can't know the simple joys of WASD will be able to play the game without reconfiguring their keyboard mapping.
Thanks @spawnie for pointing out the unforgivable omission!
Stop-motion photography has become somewhat of a staple element in my LD-entries.
Your Money's No Good Here was a visual novel fully constisting of still photographs.
While Tabula Rasa represented an entirely different genre (platformer), I continued the tradition by including photograph-based intro and ending, while the game itself took place inside a notebook.
This time is no exception.
My first team-effort I I R O, features a stop-motion intro, and a level-hub that is based on videos.
That is a real physical mask you see in the picture BTW, sculpted by my team-mate Ankea!
And speaking of masks, they're also a recurring element in my games. My previous entry also had a real physical mask featured prominently in the game.
The practice of utilizing photos/stop-motion in games came quite naturally to me because of my love of art and film in general. I've consumed and produced art in many forms most of my life.
I used to develop simple and crude games already as a kid. Art and music became more of a serious passion for me as I got older, but I never gave up games for good.
Lately my ambition has been to combine all of these elements into one harmonic entity.
I know "artsy games" have a bad reputation of being of low quality when it comes to gameplay and design. While it may be true in some respect (and some of my work admittedly suffers from this), my aim in the future is to create something that doesn't compromise gameplay for the sake of art, or vice versa.
I'm not quite there yet, but slowly getting closer to that goal.
Be a real hero, take the control of Cabral, a real person that gave his life in order to save San Martín, the Latin American libertator. You have to keep him alive in the name of liberty!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cabral-soldado-heroico
Be a real hero, take the control of Cabral, a real person that gave his life in order to save San Martín, the Latin American libertator. You have to keep him alive in the name of liberty!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cabral-soldado-heroico
note : Anybody who gives me any kind of feedback, will have his/hers game rated and commented on :thumbsup:!
(but only windows and HTML games)
A tribute to the Firestarter Keith Flint of the Prodigy.
Kicking and Throwing is done automatically. Arrows / Touch controls if mobile.
Music/FX in FlStudio, Game in Construct 2, Visuals in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015
Can I be a productive developer for 24 hours while working on the post-jam version of Eggcelerate!
There is some potential for playing and rating your games on stream when I get less productive.
Join the stream now! or tomorrow as I will still be there!
Thanks to my community and supporters for making this happen, I really appreciate it!
Our game, Faire L'Amour aux Plantes, is almost at 100 ratings!! If you're interested in some delicious plant kisses, and the opportunity to smooch Niel DeGrass Tyson, check out (and rate) this game!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/sexy-plants!
Hello fellow game developers.. I was wondering if I could add a web build to my game..Is it against the rules... I'm not adding anything new to the game and just want to add a web build so people don't have to download the game..help would be really appreciated...
We are soooo close to 20 reviews, and I absolutely hate to do this, but our game can be found here:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-away
You really should play it with a gamepad if you can (I don't know who on my team chose the control scheme but admittedly it sucks for mouse and keyboard); if you can't, make sure you have a physical mouse with the ability to middle mouse click. Read the instructions first, otherwise https://youtu.be/6Ls5j5iz2eA?t=10
To help ease my conscience, please post/play your/other games in the comments, especially if they have less than 20 reviews.
Managed to get 631 meters when playing with my daughter! My previous PB was 419.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mr-yellow
This is the first time I make a decision game. And I decided to develop because people seem to enjoy it.
This is why I'm trying to study decision based games (games that had almost no execution just choosing stuff) and what makes them fun and addicting.
Yes that includes visual novels but I'm looking for fresh more "gamey" ideas. please share any (even if you did not make them)
So far I've played: - Penguin marsh - Field hospital - Sisters light house - Delicious Letters
Also I encourage anyone who can to make big lists, say strategy games. Because I'd sure love to play those, since there aren't many.
And of course play our game if you want Mammoth Expedition: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mammoth-expedition
If you are interested in the list I will publish it when I make 10-20 games. Follow me if you want. I will also write a post about what I concluded in this short-study.
Hello! I am playing LD46 games on stream right now. If you would like to see a live person play your game in real time… just submit here: https://forms.gle/SWyK4AgNvUMng2t36 And tune in here: https://twitch.tv/walkalope
I will try to play as many as I can over the next couple of hours.
It is still untested though. If anyone with a mac and a decent GPU could give it a shot that would be rad,
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/microvore
For my game... You just relax. You could go on the hunt for the fabled mega seed, but no pressure, take your time, I insist. If you'd rather, you could just explore the world, meet people and chill. You can use your vine power to traverse the world, cross gaps and climb cliffs, hopefully that will help you on your journey.
There isn't any time pressure, no one to fight, no one's going to die, there's just you, the world and the people inhabiting it. The game isn't about the destination, it's about the stories you experience along the way.
If that's what you're looking for, you can play the game here. Give it some time, this isn't a game to be rushed. As a footnote, the game is procedural, so I've taken the time to film a heap of gifs that I'll slowly release in these posts. Thank you for reading, I hope you have a wonderful day (or night, I dunno)! :v:
I'm not a big fan of the new Smart algorithm...
Compared to the previous Ludum Dares, it feels like playing, rating and leaving feedback on games doesn't matter anymore; I'm not sure why, though.
What does the rest of the Ludum Dare think? Are you enjoing the new algorithm more or less compared to the previous versions?
The game now has a web build.. it took me a while to figure it out.. I have having resolution issues.. Turns out I forgot to check this option..
Game Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/clonization
Hurrah!! Our lovely duckling protection simulator no longer freaks out intermittently when using a gamepad!! G'wan... viciously murder some gnomes. You know you want to...
A cute little retro 8 way endless shooter.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/for-ducks-sake
My game, Save the City, now has a cover picture! It is a game where you catch bombs to prevent the city from being destroyed. I hope you play it! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-the-city
Well, it comes to no one's surprise that most of us have spent weeks in lockdown by now. Some of us have been privileged enough to be able to work from home, but an inconvenient is that all days end up resembling each other. As a programmer, that means that I've consciously refrained from looking at a single line of code during the weekends in order to rest and to make those two days feel slightly different. For that reason I wasn't planning on joining this edition.
Despite that resolution I kept being up to date, checking the themes, voting and so on. When the theme was announced, I thought that Keep it Alive was really promising, so I started brainstorming ideas, even if by that point I was still fooling myself on the "will not be in" camp.
Eventually, a seemingly silly A + B mashup formed in my head and clicked: "What if I cross Tamagotchi with a tower defense?" :thinking:
I thought the idea offered lots of potential, both genres could benefit from each other and, most importantly, seemed easy to prototype and scope down.
At that point I'd lost more than 12h but I had severely nerd-sniped myself, so I decided to give it a go.
Source: XKCD
And well, here we are now. To be fair, I am reasonably happy with the result.
For comparison, this is how the game looked like by the end of Sunday: https://youtu.be/a3P6SCMRsVM
And this is how the submission entry looks: https://youtu.be/NXk0DCoBOM4
Game mechanics are easy to layer and iterate. 48h-72h (a lot less in practice) usually mean that no matter how much you've scoped down from your original idea, it's probably not enough. Luckily, this game can scale easily, so feature development and content creation could be layered. Even if I had to cut stuff (more on that later), I could have something playable with a clear goal at all times from relatively early.
Haxeflixel. I hadn't touched this since LD42, favouring Unity instead, and I tend to forget some stuff, so I was slightly concerned that I could run into hiccups trying to figure out something obvious.. However, everything went pretty smooth, and some built-in features, like some simple pathfinding, saved me hours of development :two_hearts: I had a couple of issues porting the game to Android, but some library updates and logcat detective work sorted things out easily.
Graphics. People seem to like them :slight_smile: I think they're more or less consistent and the palette apparently works well.
Slipping to jam mode. Yeah, I said it was the right call, but I still regret not being able to make it in time for a compo submission. Would I have been able to make it to compo if I had started 3-4 hours earlier than I did? I'll have to live with the doubt now.
Graphics. Even if people seem to like the game graphics and colour palette, and I do dig myself some parts of it, I still feel that it's not as good as it should. Mobs could be better, UI graphics could be better or provide clearer feedback, and the game could certainly use more animation and effects.
Cut features. On my TO-DO list there were more turrets, turret upgrades, additional pet interactions, passive bonuses depending on how well taken care of the pet is and, the jewel of the crown, conditional pet evolution with consequences to gameplay (skills). Press F for all of them, please.
Few levels, so-so balance.
No time for music or sfx polish. SFX made it in the last hour,so it's expected that some of the effects are lackluster or even grating if they're used often.
As always, thanks for keeping up with me up to here. If you're still interested and don't feel like scrolling all the way up, you can play it and rate it here :)
Come Submit Yours!!
https://www.twitch.tv/pomothedog
https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLScwyAj1WLkFEPwi1PnOiywtBVfvVxzYfehu2psY6tDFPA-DIQ/formResponse
Chop chop: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-lumberjack
Innocuous Pong was my first solo compo attempt and it was a completely silent game for the first 46 hours. But when I finally finished the basics with 2 hours to go, I thought I might tackle sound. Out of desperation, I turned to GarageBand, which is free on the iPhone. I learned a lot in those two hours, including how you can do pretty much what I did in 15 minutes. First, startup GarageBand on an iPhone and then click on the '+' sign to start a new song. At this point, scroll over until you get to the "Drummer" page:
Select it and you'll get to the settings for the drummer.
There are a ton of buttons on here but you can ignore them all and hit the second button (it looks like 3 rectangles with the middle one larger than the others), which brings us back to selecting a new instrument. Scroll over until you get to the "Keyboard" page:
Now hit "Alchemy Synth" and it'll bring you to the keyboard screen:
Again, a lot of buttons. There are a lot of overlaps with the drummer screen, but we're going to focus on the two right ones on the second row: the arpeggiator (the mountain made of rectangles) and smart piano (the stacked rectangles). Start by tapping the arpeggiator:
An arpeggio is when you take a chord and just play the individual notes one at a time. The arpeggiator does this for any chord you play. Turn on "Run". You can also check out the other settings. I like to set "Note Order" to "Random" just so that there's a little more variety, but that's up to you. Then hit "Done" and toggle on the smart piano (the stacked rectangles).
Now here's where the fun begins. Smart piano plays a full chord when you tap on it. Combined with the arpeggiator, you'll get a nice sounding sequence of notes. Go ahead and drag your fingers around the rectangles and see what happens. You'll notice that it only works for dragging up and down in a vertical line. That's all in one chord going from 3 low notes at the bottom to progressively higher chords at the top. To shift to another chord, lift your finger up and drag on another column. Play around all you want because you're not recording anything yet.
Now a bit of music theory: This is based on the key of C major (you can transpose your track later, if you want). If you want to start your cycle there, you'll start by dragging your finger up and down the "C" column. From there, the most harmonic transitions are either a fifth up or down, which would be either the "G" or "F" columns. And then you just keep moving around. The farther you go from "C", the more "tension" there is in the music but you'll eventually cycle back and start over. For my game, I did 2 measures each of "C", "G", "F", and "Dm" (D minor). One you've got the feel of it, hit the record button and record your eight measures.
That's all you need to get started! You'll eventually need to export the song, which is basically something like this: tap the down triangle button on the upper left, tap "My Songs", long tap and hold on the song you just made, scroll down and tap on "Share", tap "Song", tap "Uncompressed (WAV)", tap "Share", tap "Open in...", and save somewhere you can access.
If there's interest, I'll go over some of the other buttons in the app. And if you'd like to hear what I came up with, please check out my game, Innocuous Pong. Thanks!
WebGL version is now available! No need for downloads, more online less download.
Appreciate your time and feedback, if you have have a chance to try Floyd's Fire. A game about fire, but in this one you fight ghosts to make your flame last longer while trying to get out of a cave.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/floyds-fire
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time and played our little game! It's a game where you explore around a strange and surreal world, talk to colorful characters, and discover the mystery of the Relics. It was so much fun making it and I hope you have lots of fun playing it too!
You can check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/koita-and-the-elder-relics
You're in lockdown and you're looking for motivation to make cool projects in a chill atmosphere? Today, 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!
Whats New?
Hope all of you all like it! Play Earth 2.0 and Earth 2.1 now!!
Put your cocktail knowledge to the test, and see if you have what it takes to save your bar during lockdown by mass producing hand sanitizer !
Put your name up the online leaderboard and show your mastery to the whole world \o/
Game url : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/raising-the-bar
We have enough ratings, so this one is mostly for your own fun.
Thanks to everyone who played it already, you are awesome ^^
Mama needs your help! Search the map and find food scattered around
Quickly! Play Slime Mama here:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/slime-mama
Sorry! :smile: Love you Mike!
I wanted the ants to be upgradable with visual changes, a 3D model seemed the easiest way to do this because I can just attach objects to the animated model later without having to worry about doing any extra work.
So I made this model, running in the background
Then draw that to a 2D texture and apply this texture to all the ants. Because the model is rendered only in one place it doesn't cost much in performance
An early stress test. There's not much left of all the detail but it did the trick
You can play the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/antourage
[EDIT] Thanks for all the well meaning comments on how to give feedback, but my point is that I would like to have known that this change was made.
I've rated 18 games, but noticed hardly anyone was rating my games back. Apparently my "Smart balance" score is not increased by rating games, but only by comment karma? Does anyone know what's going on? Is this a bug?
[EDIT] I am not on Twitter. Thanks the the commenters pointing it out, I just found the following on Twitter. Please Mike, put this in a sticky post on the LD site. Not everyone is on Twitter!
In The Ill Divinity, you are a shaman whose duty is to save the divinity of your lands. It is infected by macrobias! You can try to reach its heart and save it with your healing power!
Play and rate here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-ill-divinity
NB: If you get blocked at the last room, I give some clues in the comments of the game page on how to defeat it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T2oQE-HSbI
Made a very long post about my LD46 experience. https://wans24.itch.io/he-needs-healing/devlog/140983/what-ludum-dare-46-did-to-me
I feel like around this time, people slow down on playing games, and its a bit harder to get your Smart balance up high. Maybe I'm crazy :)
Anyways, check out our game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/leap-of-faith
We are currently making a mobile version for iOS and Android! Follow us on itch.io to keep up with the news!
During these awful times where everyone is dealing with the Corona virus, it is difficult for local businesses to keep running. Flower shops have no customers anymore, lower their prices to an absolute minimum and local bars and restaurants are closed in many countries to reduce the spreading. This is all for the greater good, but imagine the struggle for a local bar owner. How are you supposed to make money now?
Play "Raising The Bar" now to dive into one solution: turn your business of selling alcohol to selling hand sanitizer and soap, made from your stockpile of drinks! Mix different drinks together just like you used to to reach new markets. But don't get stuck in one, as all handsanitizers have different market recovery rates. Explore a new way of mixing drinks and compete to be the best in our online leaderboard!
Let us know how you did, which drinks you found to work best and what highscore you reached! Play the game over here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/raising-the-bar
All crash problems are solved in Precious Animals, game is completely playable now waiting for you to play it in html5.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/precious-animals
Whats New?
Hope all of you all like it!
Thanks to all who have already rated the game. 92 feedbacks so far, these are many many many more than I ever imagined!!!
Play Earth 2.0 and Earth 2.1 now!!
Yesterday I asked you to play my game and submit your games too, a lot of great games go unnoticed and yesterday I played some amazing games, so I will do it again today!
You can play mine here(HTML5):
-> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ice-ice-baby <-
Write me your game in the comment and I will rate it and leave a feedback on it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6klUwam_6ZE
good morning to all,
we have released a new version with some bugfixes:
1.02
Fixed bug where game would crash after 8 waves
Fixed bug where enemy aggro was determined wrong
Fixed bug where player would heal completely on any amount of souls sacrificed
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive
have a nice day
We have a dilemma and don't know, should we finish the project?
Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/i-am-your-dead
What we plan to do? 1) Better understanding mechanics; 2) Balance; 3) More diverse art; 4) Narrative (we have in our team strong narrative designers); 5) Content (more characters); 6) Fun random moves (not like it's now, but more complex).
Hurrah!! Our lovely duckling protection simulator no longer freaks out intermittently when using a gamepad!! G'wan... viciously murder some gnomes. You know you want to...
A cute little retro 8 way endless shooter.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/for-ducks-sake
I participated alone this time. It was my first time doing the sound design and the music. I'm quite satisfied with how it turned out.
* LEADER, Keep them alive * is a narrative experience where you'll be the LEADER of a space mission. The game is inspired by the Apollo 13 events. I really focused on the mood and the story.
The game looks very complicated, but a tutorial guides you through the different gameplay elements. I hope you'll like it!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/leader-keep-them-alive
I'd love to hear what you think of the game :smile:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-the-fox
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
In this puzzle game, you will learn how 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.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-the-fox
I got a few requests for a Mac version of Don't Kill Death, but unfortunately I don't have a Mac which is needed to export a Mac version from GameMaker. I did however do the next best thing and specifically purchased the HTML5 export module for GameMaker to compile the game for web, so the online version will be playable soon if you missed it because of the Windows .exe not working on your Mac. It will however come with minor quality of life improvements and bug fixes, but when the time comes it will be clearly indicated so as not to confuse with the jam submission. So, keep your eyes peeled!
Can't wait to upload the HTML5 version; I'm genuinely surprised by the general out of the box compatability of the export. There are a few things that need tweaking to ensure it runs properly but in general it appears mostly stable and ran well for me when testing in the browser.
The game recently got some love on Reddit - so in the meantime if you haven't checked it out already, feel free to do so here: https://madebychaz.itch.io/dont-kill-death-or-die-trying
Thank you to everyone so far for your amazing feedback. This is my first game jam and I'm so glad I jumped in with Ludum Dare; the community has been f**king rad. x
~C
I made a small gameplay video of my arcadey and action-y submission for youtube. It's for windows and WebGL.
Youtube link : https://youtu.be/LaZIG3XGzBU
game link : https://vcp.itch.io/tower-of-boom
Ludum Dare page : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tower-of-boom
note : Anybody who gives me any kind of feedback, will have his/hers game rated and commented on :thumbsup:!
(but only windows and HTML games)