An updated version of Earth 2.0(now Earth 2.1) has been released for HTML.

Whats New?

• Smooth movement for the spacecraft
• Fog added
• More asteroids added with more space between each
• Removed the spawning in front of player after first five seconds
• Changed introductory and credits audio

Hope all of you all like it!

Thanks to all who have already rated the game. 95 feedbacks so far(just 5 left), these are many many many more than I ever imagined!!!

Play Earth 2.0 and Earth 2.1 now!!

They were wrong. In The Last Guardian you play a druid with unmatched gardening skills and rain chanting powers. Save the Tree of Life today! Check out our game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-guardian

Hi peeps, The Boredom Ministy is proud to take you with us on the little journey of the creation of "THE PATH".

You can play the game here and don't forget to rate us !

We made the first iteration of the game for LUDUM DARE 46 game jam. We had 3 days to do it and finished it 10 minutes before the hard deadline.

We had so much fun working on it Grégoire and I, it went so smoothly from beginning to end and we were so happy about the result, its potential, that we decided to make a long, better version of it. A proper game this time. 4 days after the jam we're back at it transforming what was a snippit into something that is now 10 times bigger. We'll post here what we sarted with, our thought process, what we decided to improve upon and how we built it.

For the game jam version of the game we went for something simple with a square screen, dividing the ladscape into tiles for no particular reason other than for being able to decide what amount of different land we wanted the chicken to stroll through. Since every kind of land had a certain kind of traps and hurdles attached to it, thinking in section was making it simple to figure out.

We started with twelve tiles of land, each the size of the screen.

This was the base for the backgrounds, I would (if I had the time - since I had to work simultaneously on 2 freelance job during the game jam) add props on it to mak the backgrounds richer. I didn't have th time I wanted to dadicate to the props but we made do. he plan for the background was:

1. One square of base backdrop land

2. one layer of props and traps

3. one layer of eye candy (namely moving flowers for the most part)

4. Some shadow being cast on the square from some sort of vertical structure we don't see

5. A vignette that would both concentrate the attention like a soft spotlight on the heros but would also dim the background under their feet so the characters would pop out better in the frame.

6. on top of that a layer with the charathers and their shadows (shadows were additive between themselves at the time, now they blend thanks to Grégoire)

7. and, at the end if we have time ( which we didn't) was to add an extra layer of eye candy like smoke, and ash rain, that kind of thing. But we managed to add little extra deails like cigarette butts, and a few rad kill tin cans.

Every animation was super minimalist, literally 2 or 3 frames. And it worked pretty well for the most part. The chicken needs more work in erms of movement, but that was ok for the jam.

So we ended up with something looking like his very quickly :

Now that we knew where we were going the rest was JUST GET IT DONE.

SOOOO. Today here's what I'm doing today -- and what I've been doing for the past couple of days:

I've been doodling the 120 background panels of the long version of the game. I should be able to finish the basis tonight. The landscape will be varied from fields to cities. Now with that we can start adjusting the story, the events, the increasing level of difficulty and know what goes where, when it happens and how.

Thank you !

You can play the game here and don't forget to rate us !

Because there are certainly lots of interesting games I haven't gotten to play yet, please send me your HTML5 games!

And consider trying our game out as well: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/final-flower-petals-of-a-lost-age

Try it!

Feel free to share your best scores!

Hi everyone, someone from here just donated a dolar to my game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/survivalgo. I am over the moon now that this bit is my first earning from game development. Now, I'm more encouraged to continue the project. I wanted to share this achievement with you.

This morning I did my addictive routine of checking if there was any news about the game on internet. I found a gameplay video of Tumbleweed on YouTube and there was a link to an article on the description.

It was an excellent discovery as the article from Sebastian Standke is really enthusiast about our game ! The whole team is totally enjoyed by this first article about the game, se we want to thank GameCurator for this !

It made my day ! :sunny:

Here is the link to the article

:notepad_spiral: https://game-curator.com/jams/ludum-dare-46-tumbleweed/

You can also try the game here

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

Jump to kick the ball around the arena. The faster the ball, the more points you get! Can you beat my highscore? :grimacing:

P.S. Thanks for those who have already voted and gave me your suggestions! This is the first game jam I participated in where I actually want to update the game (especially to fix the stupid mistake of not looping the BGM :sweat_smile:), but right now because of National Service I'm isolated from my main PC that I used to make my submission, and can only return after 3 more weeks. Hopefully I still have the drive to update this game after the 3 weeks, but till then, once again, THANK YOU!!!

P.P.S. Comment any browser games for me to play and rate! Because of the aforementioned isolation, I'm using my mobile data to play and rate games, so I can't download anything :sweat:

1998 OR2 is an asteroid which is inching it's way closer to Earth. The world is going to come to an end.

Keep it alive!!!!

This is true news. Photo credits: NASA

* Play Earth 2.0 and keep Mankind alive from the asteroids!!*

A shout out to Elit3HoboGuy for playing my compo entry from start to finish.

https://youtu.be/6wmFQnsKngY

Timing is key. Are you quick enough? Try and find out

Tough jam for me, had a power outage which costed me some time after which my pc crashed, which took even more time to restore. Unfortunately I did not have enough time to create what I envisioned, but hey such is life.
Play it here:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/deaths-compass/

My game needs ~1-2 ratings to break 20. Thanks.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/you-are-on-the-wrong-path

Thanks to all your nice feedbacks, my girlfriend allows me to continue to work on this project. You know the struggle - I should finish the other project I have started on first - blabla. So look forward to more track, sorting devices and an intro explaining what the hell is going on! Soonest in a month - maybe earlier - probably later...

🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤

1998 OR2 is an asteroid which is inching it's way closer to Earth. The world is going to come to an end.

Keep it alive!!!!

This is true news.

Photo credits: NASA

* Play Earth 2.0 and keep Mankind alive from the asteroids!!*

Hi, we warmly invite you to play and rate our game SAVE THE FISH, if you want of course :smile:

This is adventure arcade game based on ACTIVE RAGDOLLLLLLLLLL and PURE TIME PRESSURE. You have to SAVE THE FISH to win the game. Your fishbowl is leaking and the only way to help your little friend is to throw it to the lake. Collect additional water refills and don’t leak any additional water by falling. Have fun with physics and GOOD LUCK :fish:

SAVE THE FISH Entry page

Although not many people play my game, thank you all the same.

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

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

The Most requested Feature

The Spirit Stone now has some Juicy Sound effects in the Post LD version.

Check it out! Or wait for the quality of Life Update which is hopefully ready next weekend.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-the-spirit-stone-allive

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

Full Devlog Video about my weekend and behind the scenes Development of Mr.Cheesy 🧀

Thank you all for the support and the motivation! This means so so much to me!🙏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1a3K_ozaPw

1998 OR2 is an asteroid which is inching it's way closer to Earth. The world is going to come to an end.

Keep it alive!!!!

This is true news. Photo credits: NASA

* Play Earth 2.0 and keep Mankind alive from the asteroids!!*

If all goes well with technical stuff, in about 15 minutes from now I will play some of your games live on https://www.twitch.tv/jer_re

feel free to comment a link to your game here or in the chat there (macOS or Browser games).

Also feel free to check out our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/unseen-forever :)

Hi guys,

I was finally able to settle on an aesthetic decision of whether to add in textures for the models or leave it as just plain colors. I decided to keep it the same as the one in the jam (Plain Colors) as it shows it clear to the player instead of making it pretty I will keep it minimal and simple.

Other progress I made: - Mechanics changes with how the heart of trees are represented - Mechanics of the blocks - Design decision for gameplay loop

Cheers!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-fisherman-is-the-village-hero

It's a puzzle-platformer with stylish pixel art and catchy chiptune music!

Click me!

@rose and I just released a post-jam version of Interstellar Connection, our narrative puzzle game about helping a lonely spaceship pilot make a connection. We added a couple of enhancements, like endless puzzle mode, but the most interesting one was adapting the game for smaller screens so it can be played on mobile devices.

Interstellar Connection was built directly in HTML, so most changes were CSS. I redesigned the layout from two side-by-side panels into tabs, and added an automatic tab switch in the JS code to transition from puzzle to story and back.

The game is not strictly responsive - changing the browser width doesn't change the style. Instead, I do a one-time check of the window width when the game loads. If the width is below 960 px, I enable the stylesheet for the narrow view, and that width is also factored into game logic, like whether the relay network is generated as 6x4 or 4x6.

You can see it in action by adjusting your browser width, then refreshing. (Or by opening the game on your phone!)

I was really excited to tackle this. Since Interstellar Connection is a short, casual browser game, having it be accessible to people browsing on mobile seemed like a great way to expand our audience. And it was interesting to work on - @rose is normally the UI expert of the team, so for me to take this on was a great challenge!

I'd love any feedback on the mobile version as well as general feedback on the game! Please play and rate if you haven't!

You only need a 48x16 pixelart animation resized x10 or any other factor (this one is 480x160) 48x16 grid of round holes at the exact same size (again 480x160 for this one)

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Used in my game Ghostvac playable here.

Let's keep Hisen alive.

Play as Lily, Guyran, Sarah and Roger in this short RPG.

Game Page

Hello gamedevs!

I wrote down a short post-mortem of the development of my game Feeding Rush!

Check out my Blog for the article and feel free to follow me on twitter!

Keep on rating and have a nice day!

Today is Sunday, the day of relaxation and video gaming! I will play Ludum Dare games most of the day. Send me links to your Ludum Dare game in the comments below. Need enough games to keep me occupied all day. I will also rate and comment on all the games I play! Giving out helpful feedback. In addition, I am 11 years old and need constant feedback on my games to make my games and coding skills better. Please rate my game and leave some feedback, it would be appreciated. Here is the link ... https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-flower. Good Luck on your Ludum Dare games! 🙃

Have you ever wanted to control a poussin who have to roll his brother egg to the incubator?

If you have 10mn to kill (but not the egg), give it a try.

Edit: with the link it's better: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/eggy-and-chicky-eggsercise

Will you be able to keep Princess Ribbon alive ? :ribbon:

But at what cost? :cry:

Join her loyal servants to her rescue!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/princess-ribbon

Thank you for all the feedback :smile: Here is a playthrough of the game!
If you have 5 minutes, give it a try and leave a feedback :v:
Always looking for ways of improving my skills :muscle:

Playthrough added! :video_game: Can you do better than 3m42s? :timer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPVaYpcojF0

Congratulations everyone:fireworks:

My game have nearly 50 ratings. Thanks to everyone for the feedback. If you would like to play it here's the link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/drivin-alive

Wanted to post this again just in-case people didn't see the first on how to make cartoon-like grass.

Draw yourself some simple grass outlines and use it as an alpha map (or just use this!):

Then use settings to alter the noise and dryness color of your grass

And make sure wind is on (these are just defaults)

After few review and some post work, will you survive again in leading the camp !

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

PJ-WIN: https://tinyurl.com/y8pkyqhs!

PJ-macOS: https://tinyurl.com/y9xkmoe4

First timer here. Taking part in LD is an awesome experience. Always had trouble getting things done but the 48 hours limit forced me this time and I am amazed how much I can do in very short time if I have to. I have three small children and bunch of real life stuff to do all the time and I expected to have no more net dev time than half of it. That was a good estimation as according to my timelapse video I had spent about 26 hours with the game. About three and a half hours of that was wasted working on my initial concept and engine which then I changed to the one which GOLKIA get built upon: A game of life simulation sandbox.

I started with Corona SDK which seemed promising, I saw a talk by John Romero who suggested it, coding is done in Lua which I get used to with LOVE and PICO-8 before and I tried to give it a shot until I realized that it has no game loop in its classic form and yet it can get forced to work like that it seemed too messy to go into it as I wanted to get to actual game development. Also, I had to discard my original concept. During the theme voting final I figured out concepts for every possible themes and up and downvoted accordingly. For Keep it alive I had the following note: Life automata with aging cells.

At the start I looked on my note and it was far from enough to start with. This was a lession to the future that the concepts should be made to the point I can develop the game immediately after the start. Yet I changed in time. I remembered that Conway died in the COVID-19 epidemic and I thought there is no better time to make a hommage to him than now. Initially I planned to gave it a twist with more states, some being power sources and others being different kind of live forms like domains).

However I first needed an effective Game of Life simulation, once that is done, the states are not too hard to apply later. I then came to the idea of making the video card to evaluate the game. Before this game, I only made a shader which applied certain palettes on the whole game screen. This was different but I switched to the engine I made that before: LOVE.

My productivity got boosted and soon I ended up a shader applied to a 8bit grayscale depth canvas (there was no 1bit option) and the end result being copied to another one which is shown to the user. Effectively the whole game is running on that low-res image. After resolved multiple issues, it worked like a charm, on high FPS without lags.

My development machine is a 2011 made IBM Thinkpad T420. I attached a 2560x1440 monitor onto it which really pushes its video card to its limits and I usually have to play games windowed. Now in the play+rate period, I see many trivial and plain games to get laggy and unplayable slow on this machine, most of them are made with Unity. My game runs perfectly on full screen. This is the reason I like to develop on weak computers: It assures that the users will not have performance issues.

Drawing on the live evaluated Game of Life world was really satisfying and I was glad that the game was good enough to apply. Even my wife tried it and liked it which made me very happy as she do not play video games at all excluding some casual Sokoban, Match-3, or Tetris.

I had 3 hours left. I rapidly applied the pause/resume and reset features and changed the borders from continous to fixed, all of these were trivial changes and gave a lot to the user experience. I made a quick list of possible features and ordered them by importance: zoom/pan; speedup/down; increase/decrease brush size. Went for the zoom which the game really deserved and with all my efforts I tried to make it work but I failed and had to publish the game without that feature. My mistake was that I want it to work perfectly instead of decently. As the mouse pointer is also a painter tool, I wanted to keep it above the same position while zooming. I could definiately get the zoom feature done in time without this and it would be fine enough together with panning. The post compo version works like intended but I had to think on it for a long time.

So, it was deadline and I published the game without the ability to zoom. But hey, it was a very good feeling as I really liked the game!

Golly, which is the most feature heavy Game of Life software stops while you draw, although it can handle very huge GOL constructs without problem. I do not stress tested GOLKIA but I assume it would be also fine with much bigger maps as well. Still, it is more a children's than an enginer's tool and that is more than fine. I tagged it as educational on itch.io.

I might continue to work on it to make a released game of it.

Was a plesure my first Ludum Dare!

o/

1998 OR2 is an asteroid which is inching it's way closer to Earth. The world is going to come to an end.

Keep it alive!!!!

This is true news. Photo credits: NASA

* Play Earth 2.0 and keep Mankind alive from the asteroids!!*

Based on some of the feedback I got, I quickly created a new graphical style for YMGYPBVF (I regret that acronym).

The existing Vector art (which eventually would have shading/highlights put on):

A possible new hand-drawn version:

Which approach do people think looks better and suits the gameplay (sliding puzzle)?
Any feedback welcome.

Original game at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ymgypbvf-you-must-gather-your-party-before-venturing-forth

If you haven't tried it yet, check it out!

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

Today is Sunday, the day of relaxation and video gaming! I will play Ludum Dare games most of the day. Send me links to your Ludum Dare game in the comments below. Need enough games to keep me occupied all day. I will also rate and comment on all the games I play! Giving out helpful feedback. In addition, I am 11 years old and need constant feedback on my games to make my games and coding skills better. Please rate my game and leave some feedback, it would be appreciated. Here is the link … https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-flower. Good Luck on your Ludum Dare games! 🙃😀

Updated!

Thanks to everyone that's rated and commented on our game so far. We have taken your comments into consideration and made a few fixes.

Patch Notes (v1.0.1):

Bugs - Fixed the protraits not being clickable.

Playability - Selecting a patient that already has a professional attending to them will now swap the professional with the new one. - Points are now awarded immediately when a patient is discharged, and not when the patient has left the building. - Professionals will no longer compete for a roaming spot. Also moved the spots a little to prevent patients from getting stuck between a bed and a professional. - Increased the professionals' obstacle avoidance, so they shouldn't walk into each other as much anymore. - The incident icon will now change as the patient moves into different tiers - The difficulty curve has been adjusted to make it easier to get into the game.

More here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/docter

We barely mannaged to complete it. Its left a little unpolished, but hope you still enjoy! :)

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

Hello there !

We did a little update on Checkmate !

• Add the possibility to skip cinematics.
• We optimized the pathfinding. (less freeze in game)
• Now you can play the game in french.
• The king will now follow you if too far !
• AND, we add the KNIGHTS

You can try the 1.1 here :)

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

1998 OR2 is an asteroid which is inching it's way closer to Earth. The world is going to come to an end.

Keep it alive!!!!

This is true news.

Photo credits: NASA

Earth 2.0 is a fast paced - 1 minute game. Play Earth 2.0 and keep Mankind alive from the asteroids!!

Thanks in advance for showing me your talent :smile:

New Add: player input improved ; :sunglasses: check ground improved; :earthasia: add auto target on hook point with icon; :bowand_arrow: Dash; :runner:

Come on! Play and rate my entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/postcard-ninja

That's insane! Almost 80 of you have taken the time to play and leave your feedback. Words cant describe how much I appreciate it!

If you haven't yet - you can play my game here!

Thank you all so much.

Hi everyone!

In less than two hours from now, I'll be streaming my first impressions of your Ludum Dare games! (Yes, I'll be rating them too... though not until after the stream.) My playlist still has plenty of spots open, so if you want me to play your game on stream, just leave a comment on this post with a link to your game.

I'll be live on Twitch at 3 PM EDT. I hope to see you there!

Really pleased to have over 30 ratings so far, for my most completed jam submission so far. Having wasted the Saturday on a bad idea, I had to work hard on Sunday and Monday while completing some Uni work to get this finished, so I'm really pleased with how it came out! Particularly getting some sound effects in brought it a step above my usually silent submissions. Please give it a look if it catches your eye.

Finally got around to adding a web version! Play on full screen for best experience ^.^ https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/yakka

Here is the retrospective (postmortem is so morbid) of my entry to Ludum Dare 46: The Next Generation.

That post contains my brainstorming process, barking up the wrong tree for 24 hours, almost dropping out, and turning a not-fun Game of Life sandbox into a kinda-fun puzzle game. It also contains a timelapse of what developing the game looked like from start to finish, and a list of everything I googled over the 48 hours it took to make the game.

I've appreciated all of the comments so far, and if anybody is looking for another game to play (works on web, mobile, and desktop), check it out here.!

Hi! Here's a PSA:

Guys. Please export your games for web.

If you used unity it's really easy (if sometimes a bit slow), just change the build settings to html5, and I saw one game that I know was made with Godot that had a web version so it should be doable (for gamemaker you need to buy the export plugin though, I'm sorry).

My reasoning: - I personnally will only download a game without web version if I really really really want to play it, while I totally will play a mediocre-looking game with a web version in hopes of being surprised. - Half the posts asking for games to review here ask for a web version specifically. - For my game, we had two downloads (both mac and windows builds were available), and now 47 ratings and 76 browser plays.

If you haven't exported for web and can, do it and I guarantee you will see the difference (if you either have a positive ratings balance score for people to play your game, or intend to post here to boost your game's views).

I know not bothering to download a build is laziness on my part, but if I'm gonna try fifty games, I damn well reserve the right to be lazy.

PS: I'd be interested in other people's download stats (available on itchio in Edit Games>Analytics) vs ratings (when they have both web and a downloadable build) to further (or contradict) what I say here (please tell for which platforms the downloadable builds are).

Hello!

We have been continuing development on Cacophony our roguelike dungeon crawler game made for Ludum Dare 46, in this time one of the priorites we had was fixing the many bugs and UI issues that we ran out of time to do during the game jam!

Our first patch is now live on itch.io and is playable in your browser

Fixes include:

-Better (see: actually visible) icons for equipment slots in the inventory

-Shops now refresh when you enter a new floor

-Items can now be purchased from shops by clicking the entire slot, not just the item sprite.

-There is now a floor counter so you can see how deep into the dungeon you make it

-Armor and weapons now properly grant stats

We hope you'll give the game another try or maybe your first try if you haven't played it yet!

Let us know what you think we plan to continue development on this game for a while longer so any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!

Remember to open your inventory and equip the sword when you start ;)

Starting on tuesday I plan to post a daily series of posts detailing our experience and development through ludum dare check it out if you are interested.

Play Cacophony in your browser now!

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

Hey so, some people complained about how playing web was a bit awkward, so I just found that itch.io had an option for fullscreen (sorry) and now it's available. Also, I made some builds for MacOS and Linux, so people who doesn't use Windows can download it if they want.

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

I use macos, which as you can probably image, makes rating LD games a bit trickier since very few people provide builds for mac. You'd think the recent zealotry about web exports would have improved this situation, but in fact it's exactly the opposite. An increasing number of people seem to think that a web build is a substitute for cross-platform builds, and many people now only provide a web build, even though they are using an engine which supports cross-platform export. The net result, although I don't have hard stats to back this up, is that native mac and linux builds feel significantly less common now than they did a few years ago. Which is unfortunate, because the situation with HTML5 exports from major engines right now is really, really bad.

I can't claim to know why the situation with web exports is so bad (although I have a few guesses), but my experience has been that web games are extremely unreliable, to the point where I've started going straight for windows builds and trying them with wine first, because I actually have a better success rate with that than with running web exports. Seriously. At least 20% of the time they don't even load, if they do load it usually takes an unacceptably long time (much longer than just downloading and running the game), and if/when they finally get going there is quite often one or more game-breaking bugs with input, audio, rendering, or performance. I would much rather download a game and be plainly unable to run it, rather than waiting a full minute to find out whether it will load or not, playing for another couple minutes, and then suddenly being unable to continue because the mouse capture starts bugging out.

Y'all, please make downloadable versions of your games if possible! I am so tired of dealing with broken web games.

Focus on the NOT-gate. The Eye of Logic is commanding you!!!

This is what would theoreticaly happen if you connect gates in a circle. The input signal would propagate infinitely through the circuit. In reality an infinite propagation wouldn't happen, because every conductor has its own resistance which would weaken the signal every time it is passed from gate to gate. After a certain amount of times the signal would disappear because it lost too much energy (only, of course, if the gates don't have additional power sources^^).

Check out my first entry on gate delay: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tyson-lee-keep-it-alive-edition/input-signal-propagating-through-a-series-of-and-gates

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

Hey all the “most fair and critical” LD’Jammer is at it again, and I’m ready to play what ever games you’re willing to throw at me from LD44. So join in lets chat and have fun playing some games for some hours! https://www.twitch.tv/jacksendary

DO NOT COMMENT YOUR GAME HERE! Use !submit [link to your LD-Game] in the chat on twitch

*Game Description : *

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

Controls :

Jump/Double Jump - Up Arrow.

Walk/Run - Right Arrow,Left Arrow.

Credits :

Code - Damir Khairullin (Ilimanic)

Artist - Ildan Khairullin (Ilduck)

For Ludumdare46

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

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

Cheers guys,

It's been a fantastic week, as we've got so many great people to play Keep the Keep!

Thank you for being mighty supportive, helping us improve the game a lot!

Over the last week we've prepared a small yet meaningful quality update for you to check out:

• The turn will be automatically over as you place a building, no more useless clicks
• You can also skip the turn by pressing Space
• The finish turn button is moved to the bottom centre to be a bit more accessible whenever needed
• Tower buttons have icons now, making discerning them easy
• Towers connected to the Reactor are now shown by an actual connecting wire with the energy flowing through
• Fitting background music added as well

All of these little features have been requested by you, guys, and we are super happy to listen to our players.

It's just so incredibly inspiring to read all the feedback you've given us!

Have fun!

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

P.S. If you'd like us to play your game and get some quality feedback (like we had from you), please leave the link in the comments - we will surely play it very, very soon! :wink:

Hey everyone! Just wanted to say that, as the title says, I'm continuing to work on Brellatrix. You know, that game I didn't finish for LD46? Yeah, that one.

Don't think I talked about the game's concept yet, but I'm pretty sure all of you have already picked up on it from the gifs and stuff. Basically, the idea is to accompany your friendly fire spirit, protecting him from the rain... with your Brella. The fire spirit, in return, can light forges, which serve as checkpoints as well as places to unlock new abilities and get upgrades.

I think a lot of people did similar things with this theme, with "keeping the fire alive", but... Let's just say that unique theme interpretations never were something I cared too much about.

As the game takes shape, it starts to feel more and more Momodora-esque. I guess that's the direction it wants me to take it?

I really want to release it as soon as possible, so I'll probably just finish the core mechanics, make a small world and keep the game pretty short. A lot of the things I make end up being falling into a scope-creep induced development limbo, and this is something I wanna avoid this time.

Anyways, here are some enemies :3

They're all sorta wood-themed, mostly cos I wanted to add a fuel mechanic at first. Not sure if I'm gonna end up doing it tho, but I guess a consistent theme is still nice.

Anyways, this is the end of the actual information relevant to the game. You can stop reading this post now. I am serious.

Now that everyone had left, I'd like to take a moment to scream into the void a bit, if yall don't mind... Because I really need to.

I've... been in a really, really crap place lately. And not finishing an LD game really didn't help. Before that, I was able to actually keep myself un-depressed and productive by sticking to a routine get up early, have a quick breakfast, go to the gym, lift, go home and work on Animancy. But then... You know, the whole apocalypse thing happened, gyms closed, and even tho I'm still training at home and stuff, it... Just stopped giving me the same boost of energy, the same momentum to keep me being able to do useful things. But even that was sort of fine. What finally broke me was my hard drive dying on me. Yep, the one with all of the Animancy files. Long story short, the boot sector got corrupted, and I couldn't find a way to fix it myself. That basically destroyed me. I still hope to recover everything later tho, but for now it's not really an option.

I was really looking forward to LD, hoping it would get me back on track. And, even tho I didn't finish Brellatrix in time, in some way it still did, as right now I at least have a goal to work towards again, and I'm back to making consistent daily progress.

Okay, so making a game for LD has always been one of my dreams. I actually tried to participate five years ago using the only tool I knew - which was Scratch.

After my first glorious insuccess, I kept trying, always using Löve-2d, but pretty much failing each time. But this time it seemed perfect - I had enough experience to know that I could do it, and I had to stay home anyways, being italian in this unfortunate period. So I worked hard for three days straight, without doing practically anything else, and somehow at the end I actually had something to show! And waddyaknow, my friends and fellow Ludum Darers even seem to like it somewhat! It's been incredible.

It's also the first complete, playable game I ever made. And I really, really loved the experience, to the point that I know I'll want to repeat it. Actually, not just something made in 72 hours, but as an ongoing side project, with more time and serenity, slowly building something more complete and beautiful than what I could possibly imagine right now.

But something would be missing - you! Someone to play it. I would be happy knowing my future game found its way to just a couple hundred computers, or even less, but I wonder: would it? I know it's an oversaturated market and the volume of new games released is monstrous. So I ask you: do you sometimes have similar thoughts? What would you recommend doing? How could I get the lovely feedback that Ludum Dares offers, if I ever managed to finish a game? I just hope it's not something doomed from the start.

All the positive feedback we got (and constructive critism also :) ) made us decide to make How to Air a full blown release. With more planets, more puzzles, more creatures and dudes to interact with and more awesome hand-drawn graphics and animation. We will take the opportunity to already show some progress here as we actually already started too.

Firstly, rewritten it to Unity and also had some fun with shaders:

In the meantime, checkout our first LD entry which most likely will become a tutorial planet: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/how-to-air

In Exo Keeper, you turn a barren, frozen world into a lush paradise by intoducing microbial lifeforms. The game is a science-based simulation of an ecosystem, inspired by Conway's game of life, SimEarth and Terraforming Mars.

There is a lot going on in this game, and not everything is clear at first glance. I wanted to explain the thinking behind it, so I put together this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PgdhizHl0

And of course, here is the game itself: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/exo-keeper

Hey everyone!

Wondered how our game growing defense would have looked like, if the animations were done in time? Well - we were curious and added a separate updated version to our submission along with the original one!

Check out our updated version (removing an unintended sound effect and added visuals, gameplay was not touched) - we uploaded builds for linux, mac and windows as well if you want to check it out natively.

Thank you for all your feedback so far, we really appreciate it and feel encouraged to continue development!

Best regards - @fis & @nivbeth

Edit: oh boy - the link ofcourse! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/growing-defense

That was a long search, but finally the game is playable at ~60fps (+ - 1 or 2 frames).

You can check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/feed-the-beast-1

Hi everyone! We had a blast developing Cat Dad Redemption and we hope you have a blast playing it! YOU CAN PLAY IT HERE: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cat-dad-redemption

Nearly a week has passed since LDJAM46. We have used the past few days for applying some post-jam fixes: * Disambiguated UI * Refined Prop placement * Fixed timings * increased difficulty on Friday * decreased scare cooldown

This is a great opportunity for you to finally check out our game if you haven't already:

Play Pumpkin Keeper

Hi all, I haven't rated any games yet unfortunately (due to being an 'essential worker') but I'll be looking at some on my channel here: www.twitch.tv/heartlamp

Leave your links in the chat if you want me to take a look at yours. Thanks!

1998 OR2 is an asteroid which is inching it's way closer to Earth. The world is going to come to an end.

Keep it alive!!!!

This is true news.

Photo credits: NASA

Earth 2.0 is a fast paced - 1 minute game. Play Earth 2.0 and keep Mankind alive from the asteroids!!

This site should really have a button for reporting suspicious behavior, @pov.

Here's a list of games that all have no cover art or download link, were made by accounts created in the last week, and have all given exactly one rating: - lolol - Yesser - Cag0n - Not finished - Survive tild the last - Keep the rabbit alive! - The breuh

This seems very clearly like abuse, and I'd prefer not to have a repeat of LD43. I feel like an easy fix to this would be the following: - Add the ability to flag suspicious content, including a missing or broken download link - Do not allow games without a download link to enter the Jam or Compo (require they be submitted as "Unfinished") - Do not allow games without a download link to give ratings

Obviously this will not completely eliminate the ability to cheat, and LD has historically operated under the honor system, but it would at least prevent the most obvious forms of abuse that can significantly impact rating.

Okay, rant over. Enjoy the rest of the jam, everybody.

First of all, everything in my game is rendered onto a canvas. The game's main render target is a canvas, that's how we get moving graphics. But there are also a bunch of fun little tricks that I can do to make the game look more interesting by manipulating the canvas, and having the canvas render other canvases on top of it.

The most obvious example of this is the radar in your HUD.

The radar display is an HTML canvas element that gets updated every frame. Each threat to the hive ship is rendered as a simple little colored dot onto the radar canvas, and then at the end of the frame the radar canvas is rendered onto the game's main render canvas. This is made especially easy due to the way I designed the camera class to work.

Basically each camera object has it's own canvas that it renders to when you call camera.DrawImage(). So you can have as many cameras as you want, active all at once, each rendering to their own canvas, and then at the end of the frame you can render each canvas of each camera onto the game's render canvas, or even onto another camera if you want.

Another way I utilize HTML canvas elements are in the "tutorial" screen. (I know it's not much of a tutorial, it was added in last minute)
In order to get the background graphic in the tutorial screen, I simulate one single frame of the game, render that entire frame to a canvas once, and then render text over that canvas of that single frame of gameplay.

There are really two parts that are using canvas manipulation here. First off is what I mentioned above, rendering the gameplay frame to a canvas and re-using that canvas, and then also the text rendering is using canvas manipulation techniques.
Each line of text is it's own canvas. I have a class that I created (originally for another project, but I modified it to work here as well) called SpriteFont. The way the the SpriteFont works is it takes a sprite off of a spritesheet for each letter of the alphabet based on data from a JSON file, in this case the spritesheet here:

And it renders the corresponding sprite to the canvas based on the current character in the string that it's generating a canvas image for. Basically, I feed the spritefont a string (and some other parameters), and it spits out an image with that string rendered onto it based on the characters in the spritesheet.
For example: If I call
spriteFont.GenerateTextImage("Hello, World!", 1, -1), the output is:

And that's how text is rendered! For dynamic text however (like the player's score), I need to re-generate the image every time the value is modified. But since this is a relatively quick process, it doesn't cost too much CPU or GPU overhead so it isn't anything to worry about.

Another one of the major things that I use the canvas manipulation for, is procedurally generating the stars in the background. Basically at the beginning of each game I create a new StarField() object that when constructed, automatically generates a canvas image that is sprinkled with stars. The starfield object can be customized with varying density levels and different resolutions and when it's finished generating it looks something like this:

This texture is then tiled and drawn to cover the entire viewport of the main camera.

And when you put it all together, you get this:

Space Drone Guy - link

(Sue me, I'm not creative when it comes to naming things)

Hey everyone please check out our first ludum dare jam entry: A Walrus Dreams https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/a-walrus-dreams

It's a complete 3-level game with an original soundtrack and raining ham and cats.

Leave a comment with your game if you want to trade ratings (web or macos please)

Submerged is a game about choice,exploration and survival underwater,You have limited oxygen,limited guidance use your tools and find the key,open the gate and escape the underwater vault,Please Try the game and let me know your feedback https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/submerged

Hello everyone! We only need 2 more votes to be ranked, it would be lovely from you all to help us achieve this goal :two_hearts:

In Postcat, you must place items to help our little derpy cat to deliver its packages! Feel free to share :kissing_cat:

Now you are able to change between Windowed Resizable or Fullscreen to play Guns N' Violets! Just press the Bottom-Left Button to change!

You can play the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/guns-n-violets

We thank all of you who have rated Earth 2.0 and given such positive feedbacks!!

100 feedbacks!! Cant believe my eyes! First game jam, first Windows game(I'm not joking, others are for Android), and I'm just fourteen! It's like a dream come true!!

Thanks again to all who have played Earth 2.0!!

If you haven't played Earth 2.0 then play it now at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/earth-2-0. Love you guys!!

My game is at almost 20 ratings, some help to get there is appreciated

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/support-class

One cookie for everyone who beats Level 20 with proof!

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

We have read through our reviews of the frustration people have with the difficulty of our game. So, we'd like to announce our new update: Checkpoints! Now, instead of restarting whole levels, you now restart the section you were in!

Play Ball Monster now!

My first game jam entry as a 3D artist! :)

Our game can be played in coop if you got a friend to play with!

It's a falcon nesting simulator where you have to care for your eggs and catching preys for you or your falcon friend <3

Based on real facts :D :eagle:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/eat-preys-love

Thank you to everyone who has given us feedback from the browser version of our game! Also, thank you to everyone for any feedback they have given! During rating, we've seen a lot of really fun games out there, and this year the level of graphics in people's games is amazing! If you want to rate our game here is a link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cats-in-flat

Any feedback would be very much appreciated!

Come check out Keep The Beat Alive! The rhythm-based shooter! Several issues have been fixed, most importantly the difficulty not working properly. Check the changelog on the itch.io page for a full list.

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

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

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

Thank you for all your feedback so far, we really appreciate it and feel us encouraged to continue working on the project and applying some post-jam fixes:

• UI adjustments for different resolutions.
• Physics improvements.
• Sound fixes.

Don't lose the great opportunity to finally play our game if you haven’t already! :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/feed-me-if-you-love-me

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

I made a post-compo update to my game Whale Dive - a game for the Atari 2600 console. It now can be played at a lower difficulty. Although the game is supposed to be unforgiving, I don't want anyone to miss out of the content. See if you can complete all three levels!

Download or play online here

Unity terrain is a handy tool when it comes to game jams. It allows you to create a complex level layout directly in the editor and make improvements quickly avoiding export/import routine.

Some things I found useful: - Flatten all the terrain with height 10 before you start. So you will be able to lower some regions later. (unity does not allow to set negative height values, that is why). - Test your terrain size first by placing some placeholders for main game objects. It will be hard to change the terrain size later. - Iterate! Define raw layout first, then add some major details, place all main game object, playtest! Add all the small details in the very end. - Use 'Set Height' brush instead of 'Raise/Lower Terrain' to be more consistent on each iteration. - Use 'Smooth Height' to fix possible shading and 'sharp-polygons' issues. - Use 2-3 brushes max for each 'biome' to have a consistent style. - Add some quads/cubes/fog/clouds under your terrain for a better scene look. Sharp terrain edges are immersion breaking. - Have fun! :smile:

Play on Web

Submission Page

Because we have one!!! Come check it out in The Tome of the Ccaizhdi! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/our-game

I just edited and uploaded a youtube video with some behind the scene footage from creating my Ludum Dare 46 entry.

https://youtu.be/n0f9Zhl8o60

Play the game at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/eternal-flame

I played many games and wanna give some change to low appreciated html5 games tomorrow. If you made a game which is playable with html5, drop a link to comments. Also pls look at my html5 games. Looking forward to playing awesome games https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/survivalgo https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/precious-animals

This does not look like regular wood...

Keep the fire alive by feeding 17 different items, with different effects, including two unique ones!

Enjoy and rate us! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/friendly-fire-1

First of all thanks for the 80 ratings! That's a lot, you're crazy guys. If you're curious why over 80 people decided to play my entry here's the link Hostage Escape

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

As part of my weekly game dev related vlog series, I discussed the process of coming up with and creating my entry for Ludum Dare! It was a crazy experience, I tried many new things & pushed my limits to create something awesome. :smiley:

If you want to come check out my game, that would be fantastic. Thanks!

As always, there was not enough time. ;)

I tried to decide for a super simple idea which turned out not so simple to realise. The result is like half the things I wanted to make. But the bright side is I learned a lot. Especially in the JavaScript framework I used: p5.js. I always wanted to try out and dive in and will definately use it for future projects, not only games.

Well, here is the link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/me-tree

Grow a tree and keep it alive!

I would love to hear your feedback! Thank you in advance.

Listen jack, this is America, the land of the, you know, the thing! We don't do that in America. You make a game, and it's on the internet! Just like healthcare.gov was, we'll...oh nevermind.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/joe-biden-campaign-simulator

Hello, I am a Linux user, and sometimes it is a bit hard to find Linux games to play. Please leave me a comment with your Linux (or HTML) based games.

PD 1: I see some very interesting games that only have a Windows executable. I know we are an small minority but please consider uploading a Linux (and Mac too!) build of your game if you can please!

PD 2: Please play and rate (and comment !) on my entry Tomk.

Is a simple physics based game made with Godot Engine: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tomk

Help us, play, rate, fun in HTML5!

https://youtu.be/H2oczFqIU_Q

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/go-cockroach-go

Finally, after 1 week of I'm done with the development of Rebooting Flowers (check out the latest version, but be careful to rate the old one V0.1.3 !) ;)

https://haoro.itch.io/fdf

Now I can finally focus on checking your games so send your links to me !

Since I had so much fun reviewing your games, lets do it again! I still do not have 20 ratings, so if you play my game and leave a comment, post a link to your game down below and I will play yours.