A Little Worried My Game Wont Get Enugh Votes So Im Making A Post To Drive Traffic. Here It Is, Its A HTML-5 Game. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-it-alive-15 -I Know I Missed A ' in Won't But The Post Editor Won't Let Me Change It So Sorry-A Little Worried My Game Won't Get Enugh Votes
Apart from some cryptic message I didn't really spam my jam game here, but I just finished my first post-jam version of a Ludum Dare game, so it's party time! Feel free to check it out, and/or play and rate the original. I'm sure there's other games that still need ratings though, so check those out too!
my game is weird. yes
get in the paper of a hard working father, which sells his body to feed a H u n g e r y dog and ill kid
Fixed the gameplay system, now it feels more fair and entertaining to play
No cap on food
Medication + health system balanced for the kid ( MED IS GOOD, MED IS LIFE )
Avatar sprites now are correctly displayed
Day end screen. Pass time and get random events ( WIP ) to purchase unique stuff, improve the stats, etc.
Food bags are now displaying correctly
Sound and music
Woobly dog
I'm working on the dialog system, it should be complete this next weekend or so
Thank you for playing!
Hello! First time Ludum Dare jammers here! We made Finterior Decorator!!
The goal: Keep your fish happy. Collect the gold poop. Buy decorations. Make a beautiful aquarium.
Really impressed by all your games! Feel free to check out ours. Appreciate ya! Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/finterior-decorator
@savvu
@jcourt
@ctrble
And everyone else who has played our game!
You three played the most that I know of, and have reached the ominous table. @ctrble, im not actually sure whether you did or not, but you still spend quite a lot of time on the game, especially considering LD games are usually shorter.
These will be the only shoutouts I give for reaching the table, BUT if you complete the game, drop a screenshot as proof, and I'll put up a shoutout for you :)
Here's a link if you want to give it a shot
Cheers everyone!
I'm thinking I should have made it more descriptive of the game than just a floating head. Now I've added the 'HTML 5' , it says a lot more right? This is my tribute to the original Firestarter and legend Keith Flint.
Here's my entry into the 'Keep the campfire alive' sub-genre for LD 46.
I'm currently working on a post-jam version of Grove Guardian. It will include weather, spirit variants, a map feature (as well as new map generation code), and a bunch of new plants to grow! I'm also adding the ability to fast-forward at night. I should be done by next weekend! Please let me know if you have any other suggestions!
If you haven't played the current version, you can grab it at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/grove-guardian
I made a very simple game, Innocuous Pong, that can be completed in a couple minutes. The whole point of the game is to see how the game changes every few points until you get to a score of 15 to see the ultimate level. But I faced a conundrum: How do I get people to play the game without spoiling the later levels? It starts off very simply and I just show the initial level, hoping that'll be enough to entice people to play. But I also included a video with spoiler warnings to that people can see the later levels if they want:
https://youtu.be/0PbjETBAbOM
Our little game, Go-cockroach-go have 20 ratings in 3 categories, we are very proud and have to say, thanks! If you want to help improve our rates click in link below! Thanks everyone who play and give us feedback!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2oczFqIU_Q
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/go-cockroach-go
If your ludum dare game on android. send it bellow I'll play it ASAP. If U can also send android games even if it's not yours. I'll leave my home for few days. I want to have fun with your games guys :smile_cat: .
btw this is our game. u can play in it via phone or web
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mammoth-expedition
Gunther’s Plant 😃 is a game about an old villager named Gunther.
Gunther wants his plant to grow and to be as big as it can, but those gosh darn villagers keep getting in the way!
It was a lot of fun creating a not-so-serious game that quickly devolves into madness
It has been a lot of fun seeing what people have come up with this jam & I'm really impressed with the quality of a lot of the submissions.
I think it was the first Ludum Dare I've participated in that I actually liked the theme for!
Check out Gunther's Plant 😃 here:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/gunthers-plant
Try your hand at surviving through this Oregon Trail-like adventure in our game, Manifest Destiny!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/manifest-destiny
Its a simple game with WEB HTML5 version available!
About game : Direct a team of people trying to keep the ball in the air!
Make sure to recruit everyone passing by for the largest group possible.
People fit different classes with their own abilities, organised the placement and angle of hit for all the members to reach the highest hit count!!!
Let me know of your strategy :smile:
(A few People have already destroyed it, but can you?!)
* https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/air-ball *
I found a really solid fun game that you should try! This game deserves 20 ratings and more! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/gunthers-plant
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/turtle-daddy
Help delivering the letter to the other side of the world.
The journey through the forest, the ocean, animals and even monsters. From us “Cabbage Soup Studio”
Somlerk K.
Jukrapop K.
Engine: Unity 2019.3.7f1
Modeling: Blender 2.8
Sounds and Musics: FreeSound.org, Khinsider
Please enjoy :)
Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/a-balloons-journey
So Ludum Dare is done, but Moo Problems: 2021 is not. I've been taking time to digest feedback and even in some cases get a chance to watch other people play through streams.
And I've come up with three areas to improve. What I affectionately call me ty's (tees). Visibility, Difficulty, and Subtlety.
So this issue was originally brought up during a stream I watched. Someone commented that the game seems like it would be easier from the perspective of the title screen which reveals the entire map. While, I wasn't certain that that would be true, I was curious. Trying it out locally, I realized that it did indeed give me an edge. Knowing when and where my cows were going to be in trouble next, made me able to act decisively. The major issue is that the majority of the art was made for a size that was much smaller. So, rather than redo a ton of work, I compromised. I increase the size of the camera slightly, decreased the space that the UI took up, and most importantly repositioned the two machines to be centered (top and bottom of the level) and added a second drop off point.
The increased visibility definitely gives an edge, but the horizontal collapse allows the user to focus on the verticality of the level which provides both a natural defense against the robots and allows them to more quickly close the gap between cows. Falling and jumping are definitely faster than sprinting across the map. The addition of the second drop off point made it where the user never really gets significantly off balance to the left or right of the level, so they are always able to recover after a dropoff before the next bot wave begins.
The game is hard. Like, really hard. I don't want to point fingers, but I blame the lack of balancing and effective playtesting by people other than myself. Okay, so let's dive into why. My first guess was that the bots just came too frequently, but after making changes to visibility, I realized that killing the bots actually wasn't that bad. They came at a frantic pace, for sure, but being able to react effectively to them made a world of difference. The difficulty had already been made easier. So I decided to get my family to play the game (begrudgingly) and extort USEFUL feedback (no Kyle, the game is hard is not constructive!) from them. This led to some more breakthroughs. Most people lost because of the secondary lose condition, you run out of money. People usually ignored the money until they reached the danger zone. Then it was too late for them to recover, literally running out of time as they sprinted that last bit of cheese to the delivery truck, or even worse, shifting focus entirely away from fighting until their cows died. So, I made it easier. I upped the initial starting money by 1500 to give people an earlier edge as they get familiar with the controls. And, I removed the second lose condition.
Money is still tied to using tools, but it can go to zero, even below zero. At this point, the user can't use their tools until they recoup their losses. This means that while they need to shift focus momentarily, the game isn't over. This allows people to move cows and adjust positioning in addition to collecting cheese and the like. They shift from offensive to being defensive and evasive. This prolongs the game for those that previously would have lost and gives a chance to recover from not adequately preparing in the early game when resource balancing is easier.
Subtle things in games go unnoticed. That's something that pretty much anyone that makes games, unfortunately, has to come to terms with. Especially, for games that need to be learned and played in a matter of minutes like games made for Ludum Dare. I did a lot of subtle things. Most of that subtlety focused around the grass seeds. Which of course, I had the wisdom to make the most expensive tool. Grass seeds were more effective on the higher platforms and cows could only recover health if they ate grass. Plus I added a tutorial step that had you throw down grass seed before you really needed to, and I watched many a person assume that something was broken as they wasted their starting money trying to get grass to grow. :slight_frown: So, I took away the subtlety. Grass seeds now would completely heal the grass with two throws. Easy to understand and visualize.
Now cows complain if they don't have grass. They'll occasionally spawn a little blurp that drives the user to drop seeds. Creating a more solid connection between the cows and the grass color. Removed the tutorial step, but made it where the damage was more noticeable when you milked the cows. That damage would then only recover (in safety before bots spawned) if you kept the grass green.
Additionally, I added more messaging around when you can pickup things with a similar E blurp. Previously, you were allowed to carry multiple of the same item or a cow all at the same time, but only in certain circumstances. The circumstances were maintained in your own head, and if you lost track of them you either made the game artificially more difficult or you wasted time spamming E on something that you wished that you could pickup. This little blurp will alleviate all confusion around that.
:smirk: Boom! Some changes. Also, new music, SFX, and VFX. OooooOOOooooOOO. And a stat page for if you win!
Newest version can be played here: https://owlandjackalope.itch.io/moo-problems-2021-post-ludum-dare
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/kitten-catastrophe
https://youtu.be/Mh3c5Sga764
Check out my very difficult platformer game if you haven't!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-bodyguard
Do u see that plant dying go help him at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dying-plant
Help at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dying-plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj6b2LC6TEI
I made a gameplay trailer for rise of the purple slime! Now I can empathize with all of the streamers who played our game. Because it is a single-threaded fluid simulation in javascript and not fully optimized, our game is just barely able to eek out 60 fps even on relatively new hardware. Adding any additional load like streaming software immediately made the game almost unplayably slow. With some tweaking I was able to record but it was not easy!
Jam Entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/rise-of-the-purple-slime
Thanks everyone for all the reviews!!
I was so happy with all the feedback that I felt like I needed to make a postmortem version addressing the issues most people had - specially regarding the difficulty of the game. So I rebalanced it, but also added some nice quality of life changes, like a pause menu and tips for the controls. There's also a difficulty selector. And a special mode for those who manage to beat at least 1 minute of Hard mode... I won't spoil it here, though! Go and take a look!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/anatomic-mayhem
We still getting feedbacks, so keep it going!
*Link: * https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/alienconvoy
After the lats feedbacks the new 1.5 is released!
* What's new: * - New sounds - Better mining - Particles - Removed ricochet - Fixed bugs & typos
Forgot the link in the last post :p
Every time I participate, I always wind up not quite finishing everything I want to. Besides having to skip a bit of my planned content, I usually run out of time to implement some simple quality-of-life and nice-to-haves.
There's some things that EVERY game should have. You should be able to quit the app. You should be able to pause it. There should be a credits, instruction, and volume adjusting section. There should be singleton management and audio mixers.
We're allowed to use any existing code base or tools we like, so I always said I'd get this stuff out of the way before the jam and just focus on the theme and gameplay. I say that every time.
Well, it just so happens I had enough spare time to get started on that (thanks, COVID-19)
I created a barebones Unity project with some of the essentials, I'll be using it myself on all LDJams going forward, and wanted to share it with you all as well.
Please let me know if you like it, if there's anything I could have done better, etc. If you make a game using it, please let me know!
https://shaolindave.itch.io/baseproject
We ended up with a game that's a bit more fun just to wander off and dance rather than do the objectives we tell people to do. Didn't realize this until very late in the jam so probably couldn't have fixed it but I think for next game definitely need to provide some way to imply more sandboxy moments. Maybe a bit of breathing room from the main objectives or telling people they can move or hide the UI telling them what to do so directly... I dunno.
We still need more ratings so check it out if you have time: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/how-to-keep-the-dance-floor-alive-answer-alcohol
I just recently finished packaging up the WebGL template that I use for my games. It create a WebGL build that automatically resizes to the frame it's embedded in; even Itch.io's full-screen button works exactly as you would expect (i.e. full-screening the game). For a little preview, here's what the HTML loading screen look like:
If you want to take advantage of this improved template, instructions on how to install and utilize the feature is listed in the Github repo below: https://github.com/OmiyaGames/omiya-games-embed-webgl-template
Movement is life.
Music is life.
Don't let them stop. Play here and rate here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ballerine
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/light
I have to be honest. I always wanted to participate in Ludum Dare, but never had the time to do so. Now that we are in this quarantine situation, I finally managed to make a game for the jam. I was happy even though my game was not something that I wanted to make. I did participate in other game jams when I had a free weekend, but those were small jams, so I never got more than 5 reviews on my games. I thought that this will probably change in LD, but to my surprise my game faded away pretty quickly, then I realized that this is one, if not the biggest game jams in the world, so it's obvious why my game got so few plays and reviews. So what I came up with might solve this problem, and maybe help others who are beginners in game development. I'm going to show my journey of developing light.
The funny thing is that I totally forgot about the jam. I woke up in the morning and I saw that LD46 just started. I checked the theme and began brainstorming. I knew that most of the jammers will make a top down shooter, so obviously I had to do something else. I came up with a system where you help someone or something to reach the end of the level. You do not control the main character. So in my game the main character is a light orb, and the end of the level is the sun. This means that the mission of this light orb is to reach the sun and bring back the light.
I achieved this effect by mixing a 2D sprite with a 3D sphere. The sphere is rotating based on a perlin noise. The texture was made with blender and its hand paint tool, so it really made this easy. I also added a trail effect so the player could really feel the direction where the orb is going. I wanted the light orb to follow a path, but how do I define the path? So I made a path editor.
You can find the source code here.
After this I began to draw some polygons that I used for the border of the map and the obstacles. Then I started to implement the drag and drop feature for the obstacles and the health system for the light orb. When I was building the level, I quickly realized that I will never finish it in time, because I spent half a day and I managed to make like 10 seconds of gameplay. The problem was that the orb had a fixed speed, so the level always took the same time to complete. At this point it was late, so I didn't want to develop the game more, because I would probably make dumb decisions that I will regret later. So I went to bed.
When I woke up something great happened. I figured out a way to make the level in like milliseconds. Procedural level generation, right? So I opened up Unity and Visual Studio and began writing the generator for the map. I knew that I didn't had enough time to generate a true random map, so the path is always the same, but the environment is different. Basically I spawn in rocks along the path on both sides. The distance from the path was calculated with perlin noise (I really like perlin noise...), so sometimes the level gets tighter and wider gradually. At first I generated the whole map, but I realized that this will really kill the performance for the WebGL build. So I only generate segments. These segments are generated when the player gets close and destroyed when the player gets far enough. Here are some generated segments:
Again, the source code is available here.
Later that day, I polished the game and published it to https://itch.io/. I thought I should make a good page this time for the game (again, expecting good traffic). I spent way too much time on the design, but I'm glad that I did. So after that, I began waiting to see how my game would do.
I had a great time developing the game. I will definitely participate in the next one, if I can. I thank everyone who played the game to this point. I really appreciate the comments and reviews that I got. I hope everyone is healthy and happy. Remember to stay at home and maybe if you want play my game :smile:
I will rate some other games too, if I have time, so that I could prioritize my game in the submissions.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/light
Come and try out my game! And if you leave a comment I promise I will review back :)
This was my first Ludum Dare and I would like to get 20 reviews, could you help me?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/pong-pong
I've received a lot of positive feedback and constructive criticism for my entry into LD46 so far. I've been encouraged enough to expand the current game and turn it into a full length title, which I have now begun working on.
For anyone who wants to watch my progress, or wishes to play it when it comes out, you can follow me on itch.io here: https://systematic.itch.io/
For anyone who is yet to play the game so far, I would encourage you to give it a look and leave some constructive criticsm here; https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/meet-god-under-the-neon-lights
Thanks so much for all the positivity I have recieved so far, it has exceeded my expectations.
Hi, I am a indie developer looking for a artist and a musician for my game the Last ones if you want to help I have made the basic movements for the game. You can improve it by adding art or music. If you want to help in the making of the game. Please contact me at abhilashpawar14@gmail.com. and if you want to view the demo of the movement please tell your mail address. So I can give you the game for editing and adding art or music through unity collab.
i can test linux version of your game! please write something here in comments.
HI Everyone, thank you all for the time taken on rating and commenting our little game The Lightwielder! Hoping more of you will be enjoying it too ;) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-lightwielder-ludum-dare-46
Looks like Pyromania will be our best ldjam-game so far! But you can judge yourself :) (We try to play all the games of everyone that rated our game as well)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/pyromania
Hello Everyone.
I’m a programmer looking for a graphic designer to team up or a team to join and maybe work on new games, if you are interested contact me:
email: m.shahiri.m@gmail.com
instagram: m.shahiri.m
my LudumDare Game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/social-distancing-for-ladybugs
Thanks.
Hi, I am a indie developer looking for a artist and a musician for my game the Last ones if you want to help I have made the basic movements for the game. You can improve it by adding art or music. If you want to help in the making of the game. Please contact me at abhilashpawar14@gmail.com. and if you want to view the demo of the movement please tell your mail address. So I can give you the game for editing and adding art or music through unity collab.
My Ludum Dare 46 Experience in one video!
Hope you enjoy and leave an honest feedback
Responding to everyone of course!⭐
https://youtu.be/z1a3K_ozaPw
Hi, I am a indie developer looking for a artist and a musician for my game the Last ones if you want to help I have made the basic movements for the game. You can improve it by adding art or music. If you want to help in the making of the game. Please contact me at abhilashpawar14@gmail.com. and if you want to view the demo of the movement please tell your mail address. So I can give you the game for editing and adding art or music through unity collab.
I know that in order for people to see your game you need to play other's people games and your stats go up.
When I played and rated about 5 games in a row today (some of them are made by the people who played my game )it didn't change the stats that much, maybe by 3 in the feedback given, and the smart/classic balance almost didn't change at all, am I missing something?
Thanks! :)
We generated around 3.4 billion gnomes to handle all the traffic over the course of the rating period, and we're still pretty much overrun. Could y'all do us a favour and take some of them out? The ducklings will thank you.
A cute little retro 8 way endless shooter.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/for-ducks-sake
If your ludum dare game on android. send it bellow I’ll play it ASAP. If U can also send android games even if it’s not yours. I’ll leave my home for few days. I want to have fun with your games guys :smile_cat: .
btw this is our game. u can play in it via phone or web
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mammoth-expedition
Control a robot Cubi and protect your friend Spheri from terrible enemies! Watch out for Spheri’s battery and make sure it doesn’t get out of control when reaching electrical terminals!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cubi-spheri
As the title says I included Linux and MacOS versions. However, I can't test MacOS one, so I would really appreciate telling me if it works fine. Link to the game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/he-needs-healing
Hey ! Come and try our cute little game, Amanita ! Feed a mushroom in a lovely world, we hope you'll like it :)! :mushroom: :mushroom: :mushroom:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/amanita
Hi, I am a indie developer looking for a artist and a musician for my game the Last ones if you want to help I have made the basic movements for the game. You can improve it by adding art or music. If you want to help in the making of the game. Please contact me at abhilashpawar14@gmail.com. and if you want to view the demo of the movement please tell your mail address. So I can give you the game for editing and adding art or music through unity collab.
Big Moment this morning! We made it to 100 downloads on Itch.io which was amazing for us. 😄 It's a cool thought that so many people have ran the little project we made. 😄 Here's to more! 🍾🍾🎉
Check out Ubergine if you haven't already! ♥
For example when constructiong a D-Latch (so called "Delay"-Latch). Input signal doesn't arrive at the same time at the AND-gates and prevents undesired behavior.
Check out my last entry on gate delay: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tyson-lee-keep-it-alive-edition/another-example-of-propagation-delay-of-logic-gates
Come tinker and play at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tyson-lee-keep-it-alive-edition
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!
Hey everyone 😃 Hope you all had a blast this game jam. We tried to combine two game jams themes, Nordic Game Jam (everyday magic) and Ludum Dare(keep it alive) to design our game. Come and give it a try and leave a comment to let us know how long you managed to survive 😈
Who's it gonna be?
The game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/meatball-vs-gymzilla
Hi Everyone ,
In my last Game Jam, I wanted to try new stuff out and I completely changed my strategy, so join me in this short video to talk all about it, and I encourage you all to try them out to have the most fun you can During Game Jams.
TAKE SOME RISKS!!
Join Our Kingdom
on Discord: https://discord.gg/GhXgBtj
The Video: https://youtu.be/DVGM1C3Rvic
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!
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.
I made an Update on my game. Some graphics enhancement, a pause menu, a new event and better controls for the player.
https://matotitou.itch.io/guardy-bird
The audio from my game is home crafted and actually audio is my first love whole game development is becoming second. The feedback on the music is almost more important to me than the game. I appreciate it greatly!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/vitaman
Check out the download links here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/chaincards
With all of the given feedback we were able to improve our game quite a bit! (like unreadable text and bugs)
We'd love to see more feedback come in for the new version, since we want to keep working on the game this would help us a lot!
Thank you in advance and I hope to see you here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-given-path
A week ago we all proposed very different games around the same theme! I look at some of your work and it's awewome !
Based on your feedback on my game i start working on a post jam version.
It's not finished yet but I already added a little more context to the basic concept of the game.
Of course, original version stay playable on my ldjam page.
Tend to the plant needs and keep it alive!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/leafy-hero
Play rate and comment :sunflower:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/duck-crossing
A high-end tech laboratory has a bit of a pest problem. Play as 4 unique character with various stats and weaponry to vanquish the bugs!
LINK: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/exterminators
Thank you to all of you for making me very nearly to reach the 20 reviews, thank you so much! If you haven't tried it yet, what are you waiting for?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/pong-pong
Do you have few min spare? Why not try this amazing game. There is no downloading needed.
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
Just now our team work on the new update.
If someone sees something wat they think can be made better, just write to us here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/zoo-keeper.
Hello there! Wanted to toss together a nice post-mortem now that my cooldown period from the Jam is over. This theme was a pretty open book!
On our first session right after the theme was announced, we got straight to work. My friend, Lurkin, immediately came up with the idea for a monster-support game. Though, it originally began as a point-and-click title.
(Screenshot snagged from Lurkin's stream at https://www.twitch.tv/lurkinmcclerkin)
We settled on kind of a multidirectional action-like game after some further discussion and I got to work with prototyping as some starting assets were whipped up. The first challenge was conveying to the player the status of the then-unnamed client. In an off-hand comment, Lurkin suggested a computer monitor.
Nimmems whipped up an absolute bop of a song which was later freshened up and implemented. I think it went fairly far in setting the overall tone for what the game would eventually become!
After that, we determined that to "keep it alive," the best way to accomplish that is by providing needs. I prototyped a few "resource nodes" which could be picked up and deposited at the client's feet, and a bar increased. At this point the nodes meanings were undetermined, aside from the food bucket-and-dispense mechanic (which was always determined to be that sweet, sweet Gormel chili)
We requested our friend Nowda put together some psuedo-antagonizing voice lines for the game which ended up going REALLY far in terms of subtly encouraging the player. It also is meant to drive home and confirm for the players assumptions as to what exactly they're supposed to do in the game to keep Mr. X alive. Turns out he had a voice filter that ended up being PERFECT for the cause, and by Build 4 things were beginning to really take shape.
By mid-day Sunday, the game was basically feature complete. I added several clues to the game in order to guide the player (The bucket silhouette at the chili pipe, for example) and we completed the fantastically drawn and animated PC reboot sequence. We needed to throw wrenches into the players' gameplay flow and not make the game boring!
The first prerelease build we put together late Sunday implemented the introduction cutscene which doubles as a sort of soft-tutorial for the player via posters on the wall - something that I had seen in several games I've been playing lately. It's a clever way to deliver nonintrusive "lessons" but I didn't have time to make it less...blatant? Either way, Prerelease 1 implemented some more room layout changes as well as freshening up the PC's player screen to be clearer.
And then... art happened.
Lurkin fired off what I can only describe as a barrage of absolutely amazing art and level layout changes that fully nailed what the game would become. It really hammered home the aesthetic of the game!
We buttoned up the title screen and game over screens really late on Monday night (after my day job) and managed to submit in time after fixing a few really nasty bugs (all of them having to do with that damn chili bucket. I swear...) Unfortunately, a few bugs remain (such as the layering issues on a few resource nodes and some funny collision nonsense with the upper part of Mr. X's head. But that's the joy of game jams!
Thanks for taking the time to read and follow our progress! If you haven't already, you can check out You Live Like This? and vote! We're all doing our best to get out there and rate other games as well.
Until next time!
Play as Lily, Guyran, Sarah and Roger in this short RPG.
Please, play, rate and comment... :expressionless:
https://youtu.be/Mh3c5Sga764
Hi folks!
We have fixed many physics related issues that let you play with Jeff better now! With the new checkpoint system you'll be able to finish the game... Or try it at least... You can follow the development in our Trello board!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/drop-the-egg-jeff
Hi everyone!
From Inside The Machinery is a short narrative experiment.
Keep a body alive and listen to its needs. Even it means to go against your own actions.
Give it a try, and enjoy a quick reflective time!
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:
I currently have a few more tutorials underway which I can't wait to share with you all! A few things on 2D lighting and some other bits I learnt during the jam. Is there anything in particular you'd like to see?
Let me know if you find it useful or if you have any questions!
I didn't use this system in my game, but the other month I made a post about procedural dungeon gen for those interested. Is this something you tackled during the jam or previously? I'd love to know how you approach dungeon gen.
https://www.tomstephensondeveloper.co.uk/post/creating-simple-procedural-dungeon-generation
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
Fast to play, simple and fun (i hope!)
Displacement is a Sokoban-style block pushing and pulling game where you activate switches and clear paths to reach the exit before your character runs out of energy. When you push or pull, every block vertically and horizontally aligned with the player moves. This means you really have to think a few steps ahead when trying to solve puzzles. The gif below is an example of a level about half way through the game.
Any feedback greatly appreciated because I may be looking to polish this up or even expand it. Thanks!
Play Displacement: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/displacement
Hey guys, last time was a blast so playing more LD games on stream - https://twitch.tv/miltage
Drop on by and send me your games for playing live.
https://youtu.be/NtzmWIM97NI
How "Rouge Connection" is born during LD46 ! (#LD46, #ldjam) Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/rouge-connection
Here is the the tutorial of the rope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcnvwtyxLds
Social networks: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/edalbung - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edalbung/
Don't hesitate to make feedback, it is always helpful ! :)
A lot of people were confused on how to play my game, so I decided to make a full playthrough video to hopefully make it more clear on what to do.
Here it is! If you've ever wanted to have stress about a fire for 10 minutes, here you go. https://youtu.be/3N-DAnsrDlU
In a where dissatisfied customers are assaulting the supermarkets, it is down to you, the store manager, to protect the shop floor from hoards of oncoming customers using whatever materials you have left in the supermarket!
A classic tower defence in a very 2020 setting.
Play Supermarket Showdown: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/supermarket-showdown
Hey, if your still playing games and haven't tried out Flower Defense, check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/flower-defense-3
Game Page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mr-cheesy
You are now able to crash into bonus boxes and receive a random power up! First on the list the Mouse Trap.
Drop your idea about another boost!
I would love to hear your opinion on that, especially from everyone who suggested this feature! Thank you!💖
**NOTE: I will upload the game tonight as an HTML GAME! ⭐
Game Page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mr-cheesy
Yesterday I asked you to play my game and submit your games too, a lot of great games go unnoticed and yesterday I played around 17 fantastic games, Let's do it again today!
You can play mine here(HTML5):
-> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ice-ice-baby <-
What I like the most about this, is that playing so many different games is giving me the opportunity to "steal" great ideas and mechanics that I can implement in my own games.
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
I would like to know your motivation to participate in game jams if you have time to share.
For me it's because I just love making games and growing as a game designer. I like every part of the development : designing the game, making the visuals, the music and the programming. I like doing everything. I could spend my life making games or prototypes like I'm doing and I'd be happy. Because it means becoming a better game designer, better artist, better programmer, better composer, better sound designer, all the roles that inspires me. I want to challenge myself and practice more to hone the craft.
Play as the Wind and help a Tumbleweed to survive and cross a Sci-Fi Far West!
Tumbleweed is a poetic and atmospheric adventure game in which you travel through beautiful landscapes.
Play Tumbleweed here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tumbleweed
I hope this post can inspire you a bit on how to get eyes on your game while also giving back to the community.
And thanks to all of you who are already doing that - it's what makes me refresh the front page, and what makes being part of this community so great!
I played your games from Ludum Dare 46! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgoA_EqZxn0
Farm kornel downloading... COMPLETED.
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INFO: Deploying code at /home/robotanic/itchio/ ...
INFO: Current version available at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/robotanic-mayhem.
For the past 3 LDJAM's (Ever since LD42) I haven't been able to finish a game. Well this time around I chose an idea with a HUGE scope and..... Finished it! Why? I think it was because for my last completed jam (LD42) it fell on summer vacation, so I had no school or sports. The next three I lost a lot of time to school and sports, this time. Well. I had a LOT more time. So either I've been lazy the past three jams, picked too large of a scope the past three jams, did'nt have enough time the past three jams, or all three.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for every feedback. Welcome to try the updated version. Now you can pick up arrow by space or A and support WASD moving. We are happy to know more. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/come-to-mama
It is all about managing the complexity.
Nodoby could play the game I've designed during the jam. What I've considered to be simple mechanics turned out to be not that simple after all. And it takes time and effort to guide the player through major systems of a space station and explain how they work. It was hard to figure that out just looking at the screen.
Amazing, that even with those severe limitations, some fellow jammers spent time experimenting and figured out how to play... No thanks to me :slight_frown:
Now, finally, I've managed to deliver an actual in-game tutorial.
So play an updated version of Station Keeping - I hope it'll provide much better experience.
I'm frustrated, that the tutorial hasn't been included in the initial version of the game. But, realistically speaking, I've spent 3 days to create that tutorial alone. Maybe not in the "jam-mode", but still, it is time consuming to create a sequence of predictable and verifiable steps. No way I could have managed to squeeze that into the initial jam version.
So I'm happy, that at least now, it is exactly the way it is supposed to be :smile:
Now learn how to kill with rain! In "The Last Guardian" you can turn the weather itself onto your enemies. Try it here (there is a Web version, as well as Windows, macOS and Linux): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-guardian
This is my first jam and I'm really happy to see such a great response from the community. Thanks guys! :smile:
If you haven't tried my game and want to, heres a link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-him-alive-5
Hello Jammers!
We're playing your games live on Twitch. If you’d like your entry featured, kindly drop it in our form or join us in chat! We love having devs in chat with us and we'll prioritize those games, but we also highlight every game in case you can’t join live.
Note: We were unable to participate in the Jam this time so we cannot officially rate anyone, but we would still love to play your game and get you some feedback!
This is the second part of a series or posts based on our project GARDEN ROYALE, which got a bunch of positive reviews (many thanks!). You can read the previous article here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/garden-royale/garden-royale-making-off-part-1
And play and rate the game on this link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/garden-royale
On this particular article, I will explation the technique I use for creating the GARDEN ROYALE graphics, which hopefully can help you to accelerate when doing of pixel art or placeholder visuals for your games.
MY TECHNIQUE: PIXEL COLLAGE
The core of the technique can be summarized as "creating a photographic collage, and then pixelizing it through a filter".
Since this methodology skips a lot of work of drawing and coloring, it allows create graphics really fast and it allows to get a passable quality even if you have low art skills (like me: I can't draw...).
The main handicaps is that it's a bit limited on what you can achieve, specially if you don't want to invest tons of time.
Usually, I divide the creation of an asset in 3 stages: COLLAGE, FILTERING AND CLEANUP.
STEP 1: COLLAGE
Usually, photo editing tends to take a lot of time and you've to be quite skilled at it to avoid it looking fake.
Fortunately, since the collage is going to go through an agressive process of loss of quality, you can get away with really bad photo collages, as long as the shapes are clearly readable.
As an example of what kind of things you can pull of, check how I just pasted a blanket on top of a picture of an abandoned hospital near my city... and it kind of worked:
Another example: a picture of a dragon toy, a photo from a friend on a medieval recreation and a shutterstock background... and you've got a very basic set of rpg assets in less than 15 minutes:
STEP 2: PIXELIZATION
There is a wide range of commercial and freeware tools that you can use transform your pictures to pixel art, though I personally recommend Pixelator (http://pixelatorapp.com/) and PixaTool (https://kronbits.itch.io/pixatool).
In my own experience, Pixelator is way faster to get results of a decent quality. On the other hand, PixaTools has a bigger amount of customization options and you can get some amazing results as well if you spend some time, even though I've never been able to make them feel as any other thing than pixelated photos.
On both tools, you will want to focus primarily on the pixelization factor and amount of colors in the palette, which will determine how big the pixels will be, and how much chromatic info will be removed.
Some best practices I've found while using these tools are:
---> Use the same parameter presets for all pictures of the same kind, so they look of a similar style. I usually create one configuration for the characters, another for objects, and another for backgrounds.
---> For characters and items, I find that a black outline improves a lot the overall readability.
---> If you are going to do multiple variations of the same element (i.e. animations, facial expressions) save the palette so the program doesn't start modifying the colors.
---> These filters manage really bad pictures that have small elements with a very different color. you can break that picture down in several pictures, and then later patch them together.
---> In my humble opinnion, anything with more than ~40 colors on the palette starts to look like an edited photo rather than pixel art.
Here's some examples (on Pixelator), so you see what I'm talking about:
STEP 3: CLEAN UP
Manually reviewing the assets and polishing them is the most repetitive and time-consuming part of the entire process, but the only way to make those low quality abominations become truly unique and appealing, and remove any trace of them looking like a photo.
I've found it's particularly hard to obtain quality character faces without spending quite some time on this stage, but if you do it they really get personality. (Original pics from shutterstock):
Another cool thing that can be achieved, is that you can generate sprites that look similar to famous or recognizable characters. A satiric magazine wanted to do a boxing minigame about a famous politician from my country... so I granted them their wish:
I hope this has been helpful for you. Let me know if you experiment with this technique or if you have advices on how I could get the same (or better) results faster.
Salut!
@JBDev, Nyameh and Tebayoso.
Finally got around to making a Windows build! As I do not have a Windows machine at the moment, I had to figure out a way to cross-compile for Windows from Linux, which was a fun challenge. Head over to my page to check it out!
Hi everyone, Ludum Dare 46 has been an awesome experience for me and @nuanda79. An occasion to work, learn and have fun. Our strategy was to opt for creating a simple but functional game. The fear of being too ambitious and not being able to finish was too great. However we are satisfied and we consider our game a good result for non-professionals in the gaming field and also a good starting point to take it to a higher level. We have learned many things from this experience and we will face the next opportunities with more awareness. You can see a short video of the gameplay and if you want to try it, here it is: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/feed-the-fire-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAiJoskZpM
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 LD46. 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
In stoke it, you try to manage an escaping spaceship. Get to dodge the fire shots and the hostile environment.
We are a 4 person team, friends in real life and enjoying creating games.
@Wegpast : graphicdesigner and developper @Arktas : developper @Lut1n : developper @Freego : music designer
There is 4 different upgrades available to pimp your ship - The collector help you to gather the precious ore, which is necessary if you want to upgrade your ship. - The propeler give you more SPEED ! - The armor can keep you alive for a few - The turret will make your opponents have a really bad time
Have fun an feel free to give a try to :
:spaceinvader: Stoke It game :spaceinvader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ngLS2Nb4tc The GAME: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-ivan-trotsky-alive
For this game I just wanted to use some simple instruments. The game itself is very simple and funny so for the main melody I picked funky electronic bells from Ableton's built-in Operator. For that reverby sounds in the background I used Dusky Swells preset from the same Operator with additional compression and delay. Somewhere in the middle there is a solo and the chords appear. Their sound is just a samples of classic Rhodes with some u-he Satin processing for that warbly vintage sounding. In the last track there are keys playing in the background made with TAL U-No-LX, which is probably Roland's Juno-106 emulation. The keys are the Mellow Piano sound from the juno factory patches back in the 1964. Piano is the Grand Piano from the Ableton's Sampler with Izotope Vinyl over it for that Lo-Fi vintage sound again. For the drums I sampled Afrique - House of rising funk and layered them with drum samples from old-school roland drum-machine cr78. Some vinyl dirt in the background and that's it!
