Please Make a Web Build!!! :D

Not only is it super easy to do, but it will open your game up for way more people to play it. It isn't complicated at all, and adding new builds of your game (as long as you don't change the code) is allowed in Ludum Dare! If you can't figure it out, here's a nice tutorial I found: https://youtu.be/Vc6Ce1G84qA

Eclipse - Chip Hunt is available now in Itch.io to run on browser!

Is a bit late, but at least you can play without download.

Is my first HTML5 project, hope to get some feedback :)

Game Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/$187330

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/kitten-catastrophe

Hey you - yeah you.

Why not check out Gunther's Plant 😃? Voted best game with an emoji in the name during Ludum Dare 46*

"It's fine" - Sam, Developer
"Sometimes and you can see the seems between tiles" - Norris Eldridgem, Commenter
"I don't get it" - My Mother
"Sam you never fixed those typos you did" - Max, Artist
"Got really dark really fast lol" - Gray Fustos, Commenter
"perhaps the best thing in the smallest package of the last generation" - Kotaku (About Portal)

See? The people love it.

Check it out here! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/gunthers-plant

*Not verified fact but probably true

There's still lots of time to review games, over eleven days atm!

I had stopped reviewing because I've already done like 70 or so, but @slimbun told me to review more so... I guess I will!

It might take a while because my country still has school online, but I'll try to do them all today :smiley:

It's a holiday here. This weather sucks. So plenty of time to play. Write your game in the comments and I will play and rate it.

and if you're up for it, try our game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cthulhu-the-cult-must-survive

Hello everyone~

For the first time I animated sea creatures for our game 'Perish alive' and actually had so much fun with it that I spend too much time trying to make a smooth movement.. As a result, we didn't manage to add anymore enemies.. haha (sorry, team :sweat_smile:)

Nonetheless, I decided to share the 'attack animation cycle' of the jellyfish which consists of 12 frames, all handrawn..(<--- totally over scoped) :smile: Each frame is consistent to the one before and after it thus creating a 'flow' which is what makes it look smooth and not jittery.

. . .

Have you checked Perish alive?

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/perish-alive

Cogwhale will be glad to hear what you think about it~

:whale: || :whale2:

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

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

Ok, so now we have most of the ennemies, I added some land tiles, and I started figuring out how all of it will fit together visually.

We both have talked about the game play and the behaviour of all the new elements. we've had some fun ideas. This is going to work.

Tomorrow, we'll concentrate on props... That's going to be a big one. Lots of stuff to design to dress the sets. Fun work too though.

Here are the new things we've got so far:

Have a nice day everyone !

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

Come and say hi!

https://twitch.tv/thevinter

Trying to rate and play 10 games a day, and it's getting harder/slower to find new Web Browser games to try.

So being lazy I thought I would just ask you directly to link to your browser playable game and I will play and rate the first 10 today. Any additional ones will be rated tomorrow.

PS Have you tried my game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/gnat46

The world generator is built upon multiple octaves of perlin noise, which is simply multiple layers of noise stacked together to make a more detailed pattern. By stacking noise textures of different scales, you can make some really interesting patterns.

The generator begins by creating a random path, and then blocks are drawn in along that path. That's why the first step kinda looks like a brush that's drawing the world. The shape of the brush at any point is based off of perlin noise.

In the next step, big strips of terrain are removed, which breaks up the large islands into smaller, more interestingly shaped islands.

The next step has some interesting design behind it. It's important for the player to be able to get from any point in the map to any other point. Since we just removed large strips, and since islands can have some distance between them, the generator has to add smaller islands, which are like stepping stones between the big islands. The generator places the small islands to maximise the amount of the map that the player can reach.

The game then adds detail by making islands droop down a bit and by removing weird hiccups such as lone blocks floating in the air.

A colour palette is then generated, and the game sets the colour of the separate islands. It's kinda like a fill bucket was used to colour parts of the world.

Finally, the game generates a set of points that encapsulate the generated area, and place the swirly black clouds on those points. That way you'll be surrounded by these clouds that establish the boundaries of the world.

It might sound simple, but I'm very happy with the way it came together. Those few steps produce a lot of really interesting complexity, I've seen valleys and mountains, cliffs, caves and so many other weird and wonderful features. I mentioned perlin noise earlier, and boy is there a lot of it. There are many noise textures generated, which determine things like the 'brush' size, the density of islands, the shape of the removed slices and so much more. These different textures add a nice amount of complexity, and really increase the variety of worlds that can be generated. It is worth noting that the generator doesn't always make a perfect world first try. If there isn't enough blocks placed, or if all the blocks are placed in a few big landmasses, then the generator will scrap what it's got and try again.

So yeah, that's roughly how the world in my game is generated. Hopefully this was informative, if you've got any questions, please leave a comment and I'll answer. Also, if you're interested in giving the game a go, you can play it here. It was actually really interesting making the first gif of the post, the slowed down generation revealed so many interesting bugs, which oddly enough, ended up making the environments even more interesting. I also really enjoyed making the world generator, it was awesome when I finally had the generator complete and could tweak all the different values to perfection. Thank you for reading! :v:

You should probably try to stay alive as well.

Also, if you have a few minutes, there's an Entropia Post-mortem as well.

Thanks to all who have played our game and rated us.

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to share with you some of the process of making Majestic-X.

You can play Majestic-X here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/majestic-x

Thanks!

Thanks so much to game-curator.com for advertising my game on twitter and on his website !

His website : https://gamecurator.itch.io/

Play Cursor now and try to get the high score : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cursor

I was always fascinated by emergent behaviours in simulations, so trying to adapt a set of hard and fast rules to create a game that looks chaotic was a challenge I wanted to take, especially as author of the first mathematically pure simulation game "Life" (John Conway) sadly passed away from Coronavirus just before the Jam started.

LIFE:anti-viral is a 100% stable simulation - the idea is to build a Tower Defence attack/defend game like Clash of Clans where we can replay any game just by knowing how fast, when and where a player inserted a simulation particle. So the simulation is completely repeatable, yet creates crazy chaotic movements that are different every time you play, due to you as the random factor! We can still replay all of that knowing only a tiny amount of data, even though there can be 1000s of pieces in play.

To make your own levels we included a full level designer that allows you to simulate what will happen to your level before a player interacts.

Then you can play your level or share it with others...

Play it here...

Comment A Link To your Game And I'll Play It

Just Comment your game's Link and i'll Play, Rate it, and maybe Write a comment. I want to try Playing them all.

If it's ok from you, Please consider Play and Rate my Game "Message" too. it will help me alot.

played like 100 games till now lol.

Have you already tried out our game? :)

Please rate us :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-the-fox

Hello everyone!

While playing other LD46 games I was haunted by a bug which caused UI and maze of our game be cut while playing on other dimensions/aspect rations than FullHD.

Letterboxing didn't work well with PixelPerfect camera and trying to scale all game objects and child objects threw physics completely off balance - although I found out that slowing down a robot to snail pace might be actually fun... especially with low battery level ->backlog.

Anyway, I got finally idea to move camera with the robot instead and call it a day. Good that should be simple, right? Well, not necessarily. At best camera would shiver like crazy, I doubt anyone would like this seizure inducing feature.... than it struck me! Wait a sec, if I move camera around and camera is parent to virtually all other objects in the scene.... crap! Fixed, case closed. Still it's not perfect, UI scales nicely but maze wouldn't scale but that's for later. By the way if anyone has any idea how to tame this please let me know in comments.

So now official change-log: - New version is available as HTML5 - UI scales to screen size - Camera moves around with the robot

Windows version is still the original LD46 submission.

So enjoy the game, please remember to play it on full screen, feedback is welcome!

Rafal from 4Boa Team

I have played some games through rating and wanted to share some of the games I really enjoyed

What The Firetruck

• NOTE: this one doesn't have 20 ratings yet

• Really fun twin stick shooter game where you are frantically trying to put out fires. The gameplay loop is really nice on this one and I found myself playing multiple playthroughs.

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

Remnants

• You keep the ship/crew alive in this fun card game. I love card games and what's funny is that I didn't even really realize how the game worked at first, but I was having fun still. I don't quite understand how they pulled off this magic haha. Like how do you have fun but at the same time have no idea what you're doing lol.

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

Catastrophe: Wildfire Firefighters

• Ok so second game on the list about putting out fires, now this one is more strategy where the previous one was arcadey. I really liked the idea behind this one, you have to use real methods that actual firefighters use to control forrest fires. I am not the best at the game but I really thought it was executed well. I believe the devs want to continue working on the game

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/catastrophe-wildfire-firefighters

Keep It Powered

• A cute puzzle platformer where you need batteries to stay powered. Have you ever played a game where you kept failing but were also super motivated to keep pushing on and beat it. That's how I felt with this game. It's execution was very smooth and the puzzles were fun. I did make it all the way through but levels 13 and 14 wow those ones were very hard. You had to think about it and figure out how to manage your battery power, and these levels almost try and trick you into thinking which path is the way to victory but after many failed attempts I learned the proper way.

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

Leap Of Faith

• this one has you launching a fish around and keeping it alive by keeping it in the water. I didn't complete this game but I had a ton of fun playing it. I tried several times but just couldn't get past a certain part. It has lots of interesting things the fish can land in.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/leap-of-faith

CHANGES.

1. Added HTML and Android Version.

2. Added Restart button.

3. Slide Changes In the Player Model.

4. Changed the Camera angle and Added Motion (Isometric View and WASD Controls together is too hard for human brain to Process).

FIX.

1. Improved Input System (More Responsive).

2. Improved sound (Only Change in Pitch).

3. Improved Collision Detection.

Thats all for Now.

I may upload the update in two or three days. For now Stay Tuned And Play My Game(Windows Only) And dont forget to Rate and Comment on it. Enjoy . :smile:

"Your FeedBack Is Valuable"

Play Keep It Charged :video_game:

Hi everyone, I hope all of you are well and safe. After receiving ton of feedback to my game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/survivalgo I started to work on a post jam version with more robust systems and new levels. I supplied most requested features to this version. You can reach devlog from https://despdair.itch.io/survivalgo/devlog/142528/post-jam-version If you can take your time and play new version and give feedback about it, I will be very happy. https://despdair.itch.io/survivalgo here is the post jam version is playable now and you can reach jam version's html zip in the same link too.

Join us in half an hour at

https://www.twitch.tv/gamegenerati0n/

We will randomly test games but come and ask us to try yours ;)

We will be talking in french but can answer in english.

https://twitter.com/GAME_GENERATI0N/status/1256241923951595520?s=20

During submission time Game Jolt was throwing me an error on upload, so I did put up a Google Drive link for you guys to download the game and heard some complaints, and I can see why many people don't trust GD links, but now the GameJolt link is fixed! Please try out my game and give me some feedback if you could. It is only built for Windows currently.

It is my first attempt at making a horror game and it was specially hard for me to make it because I get scared very easily hahaha.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/life-line

Soundtrack released!

We just released the soundtrack of Scrambl'd on Bandcamp! Click here (or the above image) to get it!

Psst... We are working on expanding the game for a post-LD release. Here's a music teaser for an upcoming factory world!

Check out my sixth submission for my weekly games challenge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADDCVHk2MrI

1) This is an OR-gate.

2) AND it has some Friends.

3) These little friends are called NOT, NAND, NOR and XOR.

All logic gates can be used for hardware synthesis.

Check out my last entry on a simple multiplexer: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tyson-lee-keep-it-alive-edition/multiplexer

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

I made a little timelapse of my LD46 experience :) I tried to annotate what I was doing at all points throughout the video, hopefully that makes it a little more interesting to watch!

https://youtu.be/pGNzp9Q_Mus

You can play the game here in your browser if you're interested :)

Hey all! We've uploaded our UE4 project including assets and audio to GitHub if you're interested in seeing under the hood of A.D.A.M and E.V.E :smile:

https://github.com/Almax27/LD46-ADAM-AND-EVE

We also uploaded our music to soundcloud!

https://soundcloud.com/hookshot12345/sets/adam-and-eve

This is a big achievement. One i am really proud of.

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

Yooo. Streaming LD. Drop me your game and I'll play it until it's done lol. Grinds my gears that some people only play for one minute. Probs means longer queues if you're waiting but I'll play everyone's game who's still around (and eventually get to the ones that aren't)

http://twitch.tv/alexrosegames

Let's go!

The next week we are going to show a compilation of the best games we played and show it in our social networks, don't forget!!!

Check this link to sent us your game :D https://forms.gle/7XN3wQXE6wqs2QadA

Try out mine too - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/life-of-the-party-4 👍🏿

Hello Jammers!

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

• When: 2:30-6:00 PM EDT today
• Where: https://twitch.tv/cyberlightgames
• What: The next installment of Ludum Dare to Play 46!

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

Big Note All previously played games have now been cut into their own highlight! Check your's out today.

Try and give your feedback...

Game Link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-sky-land

Hey guys, I've been having a blast trying everyone's games but I tend to fall into the trap where instead of playing a bunch of games really quickly and rating them, I get super into playing them and end up spending a bunch of time playing one game before I move on to the next. And as a result this means I don't get much coolness points (even though I've still played and rated many more games than my game has ratings).

So I figured, you know. I lil bit of self promo never hurt anyone. Anyway, feel free to try it out if this looks like a fun game to you :)

Space drone guy

(don't judge me I'm bad at thinking up titles)

Hey everyone check out my game if you have not yet. Heres the link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-blaze Thanks!

In just a few minutes, I'll be going live on Twitch playing more of the Ludum Dare entries that folks have requested me to play! If you'd like me to play yours, feel free to drop a link in the chat. I might not have time to get to it today, but I will at some point play all the games that people send to me. I hope to see you there!

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

I've been watching too much Tik Tok lately... Hope you get the reference ;)

Anyways check out our game Hyperhop: Galactic Lancer

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/hyperhop-galactic-lancer

Finally finished the basic attack animation! It was a little tricky to figure out, but eventually I managed to get it where we are happy with it. I made the sword aim wherever the cursor is, while sticking to the player and matching his motion. Needs some tweaks here and there, but overall I think it's better than the single-frame rectangle it used to be! :sweat_smile: Time for combos next!

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

Check out the web version of our submission !

Elementrees : a top down shooter with elemental magic and *tower defense mechanics *

You are on the wrong path is back on track!

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

Now nothing stands between me and saving some chicks! 🐤🐤

Had to finish this gamee first https://jurik.itch.io/swear-to-god

Help our friend Elke to sleep well in this beautiful game.

Try to explore, talk and enjoy the arts and sounds :).

Game Link Here: https://fiwon123.itch.io/ludum-dare-46

I know that the easiest way of getting people to play my game is by playing others', but sadly, I don't have enough time! It would mean a lot to me if you could try my "game": Beelieve in Yourself, and left some feedback, so I can improve!

It is available for Windows, Mac and Web (fullscreen recommended) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/beelieve-in-yourself

I would like to invite you to the official Mr. Cheesy Facebook page dedicated to this game! I developed Mr. Cheesy as a solo project for the Ludum Dare 46 Game Jam and the amazing amount of feedback I got since then is just mind-blowing!:scream:

Thank you very much for all of your amazing support! :blue_heart: https://www.facebook.com/mrcheesy

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

Now that we know aliens might very well be among us (or at the very least that some strange, unexplained flying objects are a real thing), let’s give in to the hype and feature a few features that feature potential futures with future neighbors :D

A Cold Walk Home Protecc the visitor...

Planet Sitter: The Galactic Inquest ...or even be the caretaker

Fleur Defense Defend against invaders...

Hive Preserver ...or be the facehugger yourself!

Anatomic Mayhem You could also study just how alien your own body is to yourself!

It doesn’t cease to amaze me how much care and love goes into these pieces of art, I hope that goes without saying. Really admire the wonderful work that comes out of this event! <3

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

#4 #3 #2 #1

Hello guys, just launched a new update of my game!

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

This update brings a new Gamemode and a new Enemy! You can now play in Training Mode to test your skills and learn new mechanics!

The new Enemy is the Digger, he is kinda strong, can only be killed with Grenades and is immune to normal bullets because he is underground:

Also added a new Upgrade to make Grenades cheaper:

You can check everything about this update in this devlog: https://wallaby.itch.io/guns-n-violets/devlog/142645/digger-update

Hope you enjoy it!

Come submit your game!!

https://www.twitch.tv/pomothedog

We took some time out to really improve the single player version of the game, and also to make a trailer. Tell us what you think!

https://youtu.be/1VbafwjFCQI

Development Demo for the WE ARE DARKNESS VR Game, created for the Ludum Dare 46 Theme Keep it Alive. I created this trailer to showcase certain game play, explanations, planning phases, showcase the score/soundtrack and some behind the scenes footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smozGh1zpO8

We Are Darkness is an asynchronous VR local multiplayer party game in which 1 player in the headset plays as the hero trying to burn down the accursed mansion while the players on PC act as “The Darkness” trying to snuff out their light. The hero plays mansion made up of a grid of rooms setting fires that eventually spread to other rooms while avoiding The Darkness. They win when 90% of the rooms are ignited. The Darkness controls dark swarms of energy and alternates between attacking the hero to dim their torch and putting out fires in already ignited rooms. They win when the heroes torch has been completely snuffed out.

INSTRUCTIONS: VR player must start game on his screen a code will appear. PC Players must use that code to join the room (All caps) VR players goal is to light 90% of pyres Shadows must stop the player and destroy the players torch and lit pyres (RAPID CLICK SPACE BAR)

Aaron Lehnen - Composer & Sound Designer, Game Design & Project Direction

Carlos Puerta - Systems & Networking Programmer, Game Design & Project Direction

Jakob Broaddus - Audio Programming, PC Programming, Game Design & Project Direction

Zale Bush - VR Interaction Designer, Game Design & Project Direction

O’Brian Cox - Level Designer

If you want someone to play with!

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/WyTnXKW

Downloads and Links: Windows/VR -

https://the-realm-recordings.itch.io/

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

Hi guys,

Going through post jam goodness and I'm finally able to implement a basic game flow of my game from main menu to map scene to the turn-based loop scene. Game design is now solid so I can focus more on making the gameplay loop mechanics. Now onto more todo's, I have 10 days to get an alpha build running before rating finishes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkWLj-Nrn8

Hello folks! Hope your LD voting is going well! If you haven't tried it out yet, take a look at our game, Flame Over!

You'll find wood, a man with an umbrella and a lot of weather hazards!

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.

Check out what I cook:https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/floccy-land

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/campfire-in-the-dark

Thanks!

Hello guys,

With all the really nice feedbacks I received on my game, I decided to keep working to implement some of the features that I didn't have time to add during the Jam and some other improvements.

The most basic is that my game received a big visual improvement!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

If you like simulation games (like Tiny Tower) I'd like to invite you to try my small game, Beer Tavern

The game is a vertical Tavern Builder where you can Build your bar, and brew your own beer to sell to clients.

The goal is to keep the bar alive, prosper a make more money.

Be careful with your expenses and balance what is being produced and consumed to make the most of it.

Here is the link for the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/beer-tavern

Enjoy!

Hello fellow LD Jammers,

Our physics sports game - Mega Kinetic - is on 28 reviews, and we'd love to get it to 50! Please review it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mega-kinetic.

Comment with your games, and we'll review yours too!

Thanks, Adoné and Ben

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a good Ludum Dare Game Jam! I made a video of my experiences and would love for you guys to watch this! If you find the time would you please give me some feedback. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NheYW7x5FQY

Have a nice day!

It was our first Ludum Dare, we wasn't sure that we would finish and deliver our game... But here we are! Currently over 20 ratings & warm feedbacks! Thank you so much!

If you haven't seen our game yet, or you're missing office environment (in the good way :smile: ), go ahead and Deal With Those Papers by any means necessary: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/deal-with-those-papers

Also checkout Timelapse of development: https://youtu.be/AeMNstDuxPM

In conclusion, we're happy with how we managed to plan our time and build strategy, focusing on core mechanics first, and then build up other nice-to-have features&visual. But for next Ludum Dare, we should definitely pay more attention to the audio part as well as adding more gameplay elements to it.

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

Try out my game Flower Defense and help it to get 50 Ratings!

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

Hey everyone. Since participating in LD46 I've been working hard on building a first proper release of my game The Adventures of Eggbert. Getting to this stage was something I thought physically impossible just a few years ago.I hope you'll give it a whirl. The list of changes is huge. I've always dreamed of having a game on Steam so the game is in review at the moment, due to release there in a couple of weeks (presuming the game gets approved).

I'll be writing a Post Mortem about the whole process as well, in an attempt to give back too.

Thanks for all the interesting game experiences so far everyone.

You can play the game here: https://sirbattlecat.itch.io/the-adventures-of-eggbert

Hey, let's play my game and give a feedback :)

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

Thank you for playing! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-the-fox

Guys, you don't have to. You don't have to write comments like: "Stop promoting here". It's just i really wanna show you :). If you don't care, just scroll. :)

Anyway, this is it

if you like it, and wanna know more about it, go to

https://www.instagram.com/falconflyinginthesky/

:)

try to beat the scoreboard if you dare... https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/plantsnants

Hello!

Would you like your game to be streamed and reviewed?

House full of game developers here! We are living in 'Spelkolletivet' a co-living space for game developers in Sweden. We did a LD review stream last week and it was totally awesome, that's why we are doing another one today.

So long story short: comment with the link to your game here and we will play it and review on stream!!

The stream will start in 4 hours (20:00 CET) Tune in here on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/spelkollektivet There will be around 10 game developers there eager to give you feedback!

We will start with playing games, whose developers will be on Twitch chat with us! It's always fun to chat with developer while playing!

Hello all!

I've made an update to Advise the King, a chess-based deck builder.

The aim of this update was to expand on the concept of the game, adding a little more opportunity to strategize with your hand. To that end, I've added two new cards that can help you plan for the future a bit during a match.

I've also added two new board features to add a little more interest to the board. The first is chests that can be destroyed to add more potential rewards to your reward chest. I'm also experimenting with "energy tiles" that can be landed on to immediately fill your energy. It seems to provide an occasional opportunity to strategize for a "big turn".

Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

Version 0.2 - Post-Jam Update 1

New Cards

• Storehouse - Draw a card. Place one card from your hand on top of your draw pile - 0 energy
• Promote - Choose an action card from your hand. Promote it one tier for the durration of this match - 1 energy.

New Features

• Chests now exist on boards. Destroy them before ending the match to add a card to your rewards chest.
• Energy squares now exist on boards. land on them to fill your energy immediately.

Fixes & Tweaks

• Fixed a bug that would throw an error on some monitor resolutions.
• Minor changes to all levels to promote new features.
• Spacebar can now be used to end your turn if you're out of moves.
• Tweaks to card art to help differentiate between a jump move and a slide move.

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A new patch is out !

It took a while, but we finally managed to add the voice lines and improved sfx/music into the game. We also tweaked some gameplay values according to the feedback we received, and the game feels way better now. Thanks again !

You can play and rate the game here if you haven't already :

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/cardboard-frank

Have fun !

this is not even my game. few people have heard of this one.. its about keeping the ship alive and it is kind of an MMO?

the goal here is to plant trees that provide us with O2 and we can survive the year to reach our destination.

all players can help planting and taking care of trees. the game is on twitch. so you just go to the page and type one of these commands: !plant !water !cut ; followed up by the cell name that you want to do; a1 or c3 for example

anyway the ship is sad now and dying... lets keep it alive. we need more players!

also give these guys some ratings. they deserves it: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dom

to play directly go to twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/kaptowkagame

few last notes: - there is shortcuts for commands like !p, !w, and !c - you can queue multiple commands by doing something like this : !w a1 a2 b2 b3 - leafless trees are dead . you can cut these. dont try to water them.

Lets keep it alive!

The game has reached and passed 20 review! I cannot express how grateful we are for this result. Thanks so much everybody!

We have heard your feedback, and are planning to work on our flaws in future projects and events.

If you have not already played the game, check it out here. We are looking forward to get more feedback and suggestions from you guys.

This whole journey has been amazing, as it was our first entry to the Ludum Dare series of GameJams. It was really fun to join the community and create a game in such a short period of time, given our inexperience as game developers. It was stressful, but we would do it again in a heartbeat!

Again, we would like to thank you for your support and we are looking forward to future events and GameJams.
Take care.

From Learus and WilhelmStein,
Viva La Revolution! Viva La France!

Check us out on Twitch as we keep working on our Asynchronous VR game. Discussing reworks mechnanics and finding bugs. We are doin a push for end of month to have something really cool

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/we-are-darkness

https://www.twitch.tv/decarlos

Come and hang out! We are reviewing yours or someone elses Ludum Dare games! Should be a lot of fun! I am starting the stream in 5 minutes Twitch Link - https://www.twitch.tv/luss1a Google Form for games - https://forms.gle/ieHKwzeZMVBfmU3z8 Submit your games! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ I don't think ill be reviewing the games unless u guys join. its like talkin to someone about their game without them being there, makes no sense. so please >w< make sure to come join us and we'll have a lot of fun

We're overwhelmed with received feedback! Thanks to everyone who played our game.

You spoke and you were heard. The first thing we added was a feature to inspect several patients' cards before making a decision who to treat and whom to refuse.

As our game is narrative-driven we decided to add a notebook for player to collect valuable items and important information regarding main plot of the game.

If you haven't played it yet, you are welcome: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/field-hospital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNhuIrT3d20

Our programmer Carl just did a run of Scrambl'd finishing all 8 levels, collecting all feathers - without dying! Give it a try yourself! :smile:

Then you should definitely check this out

Game link : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-sky-land

We will be streaming and reviewing your LD games! We got 6 submissions from older post, but we are eager to play even more!! So we sending one more post here, to grab some more games to play!! It will be fun!!

Details below:

Hello!

Would you like your game to be streamed and reviewed?

House full of game developers here! We are living in ‘Spelkolletivet’ a co-living space for game developers in Sweden. We did a LD review stream last week and it was totally awesome, that’s why we are doing another one today.

So long story short: comment with the link to your game here and we will play it and review on stream!!

The stream will start in 1 hour (20:00 CET) Tune in here on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/spelkollektivet There will be around 10 game developers there eager to give you feedback!

We will start with playing games, whose developers will be on Twitch chat with us! It’s always fun to chat with developer while playing!

Comment A Link To your Game And I'll Play It

Just Comment your game's Link and i'll Play, Rate it, and maybe Write a comment. I want to try Playing them all.

If it's ok from you, Please consider Play and Rate my Game "Message" too. it will help me alot.

played like 100 games till now lol.

Let's keep Hisen alive.

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

Thank you for helping me reach 20 ratings in the categories Overall, Inovation and Theme.

I'm working on a post-jam version, but it won't be finished for a long, long time...

Game Page

Please, play, rate and comment... :expressionless:

On April 29, 2020 1998 OR2 just missed Earth by few miles. https://twitter.com/sumitsaurabh/status/1255761496774078465. Look at how Earth could have just had another phase of an asteroid hitting it and the species alive on the planet dying. Keep Earth Alive by dodging the asteroids by playing Earth 2.0. Hope you like it(and keep earth alive)!!

I I R O is a surreal "horror-story" that utilizes stop-motion photography.

I I R O is also the name of this gallant mask, the star of the game.

As you can see, he can be a bit shy sometimes...

I I R O features four separate mini-games, but in order to access you'll have to solve a nightmarish puzzle first!

You wouldn't exactly call this your average game, to be honest...

Mundane characterization will probably not do it proper justice, so it's something you'll have to experience yourself.

It might not be for everyone, but you might also end up loving it!

Many have.

This is a post-mortem/ behind the scenes of my game GHOSTVAC .

THEME

First things first, I did let the theme get lost in development. The game was initially about feeding balls to a creature via the hatches, to keep it alive. The gameplay has stayed exactly the same, you still have to feed the hatches before time runs out, but arcade games live and die on how easy they are to pick up. I thought the metaphor of busting ghosts was more apt. So the story the game tells isn't about "keeping it alive", but I'm ok with it. I prioritized gameplay over metaphor.

Re: people who ask whether I copied an existing machine: I would swear that there's nothing like this game in any amusement hall, BUT, searching through my reference folder this week, I found:

THIS

It's a two player game where you score goals on each other using 2 blowers! It's even ghost themed, and it's obvious to me that I totally stole those flat-bottomed ghosts that are part ball and part air hockey puck!

I was obsessively researching electromechanical games a few months ago, and it obviously stuck with me subconsciously!! That said, my game is significantly more sophisticated and gameplay is very different, so no, nothing like this exists anywhere, to my knowledge.

Game Design breakdown:

A sort of pinball-ish, sort of shooter-y, sort of tractor-beam type arcade physics gameplay. I wanted to realize the fantasy of busting ghosts like Ghostbusters or Danny Phantom. I felt it would be fun to make it a two step process: get the ghost, then a trap opens, then you have a limited time window to shoot your ghost in there. Two peaks of pleasure: successfully sucking and trapping a ghost, and then managing to exterminate it by successfully aiming it into a trap.

The ghosts would have to move around a bunch, to provide a moving target. If I had time (I did!) I wanted to implement a boss with a higher difficulty obviously, but also a slightly different mechanic: this time hatches open up and close automatically and randomly. Those same hatches that used to be ghost traps, now represent vulnerable spots of the boss.

Concept art:

Suction is an illusion!

I went about implementing a "suck" behavior. Now, real-world vacuums do not suck that far! My solution was to "engineer" one blower fan that blows uniformly through 20 small holes arranged in a half circle opposite the player. Each of those holes opens via a circuit, depending on the angle of the ghost vacuum. Probably a potentiometer, or maybe even more primitive, through 20 distinct contacts on the rotating vacuum side. The effect looks like sucking ghosts, even though it's actually ghosts being blown towards the player.

The same blower fan also periodically diverts some air to blow away from the player, so that the ghosts move around on the playfield.

But the illusion of sucking doesn't stop there: When a ghost is near the vacuum, it really does suck it in (I emulated a suction force, by making it dependent on the inverse square of the distance - i.e. it gets weak at even tiny distances from the source).

When a ball is close enough, a sensor triggers a magnet at the tip of the vacuum, so the ghost is locked. Then, in order to shoot the ghost fast, a kicker is activated that sends it flying. Just blowing it away wouldn't be half as snappy or consistent or satisfying. So that called for more fakery.

Also to keep the balls from flying into the hatches on their own, I implemented a bump/ ridge in front of the hatches - i.e. a barrier for most balls, unless they're moving fast enough to overcome the bump.

To keep the balls from spilling out of their traps, the back half of the playfield is a platform that's angled back: I apply a small force toward the top of the playfield on any captured ball. When the game resets, the platform is raised, and the slope is enough to send the balls toward the player and out of the traps.

It looks extremely simple, but it would probably be expensive to manufacture: there are sensors for the balls going in and out (so that the game knows when to score or reset). To stay realistic and keep "costs" down I didn't implement flashing lights on the playfield or other gimmicks. Those games usually rely on cheap segmented monitors (already a Dot Matrix Display is luxury), and one core mechanical gimmick (the blower).

I think it's a fascinating field of game design, and I pride myself for thinking things through and implementing real-life mechanics.

3D is also an illusion!

Then there's the fake 3D using sprites. That was a lot of work to figure out, especially since I made this in a 2D engine. The source code gives it away, you can have a look. But it's basically projection math. Dividing by Z to convert "flat world" coordinates to "projected" coordinates. Then the flat world can be used to design a playfield in 3D

2D playfield for designing and testing:

3D playfield built on the 2D playfield. For displaying the game at a more immersive angle:

2D physics on the right, sprites on the left:

The one and only sprite used for the ghosts. They get Z-sorted, based on the ghosts' Y coordinate, and also scaled depending on Z.

The combined shadow and reflection sprite, that follows the ghosts around, on a separate layer (i.e. canvas) with universal 50% layer opacity:

The ghostvac plastic nozzle is a prerendered 60-frame animation. Each of those 60 frames corresponds to one of 60 degrees that the ghostvac is constrained to.

The prerendered plastic border was sliced and placed on top or behind the ghost balls, accordingly:

The Dot Matrix Display

Electromechanical games, including pinball machines, often rely on DMDs to give out player feedback. It was surprisingly easy to get this one to work:

• I made a 48x16 pixelart gif
• I scaled it up x10 (bilinearly, i.e. blurry and janky - it helps the effect)
• I overlayed a grille with transparent holes (exactly 48x16) on top of it
• I added some horizontal blur using a shader

The reflection is just the same sprite, set to 50% opacity, flipped vertically and blurred. It doesn't even need the grille overlay, it looks fine as is.

I also made a numeric sprite font, for the time (and maybe in future for scores)

Known Bugs

thanks to all the feedback from players, I'm now aware of a timer bug. It doesn't always trigger, and seems to only trigger on slower systems or browsers. I did however track it down, and it's completely because of my sloppy spaghetti code: I'm not setting the enum state of the game properly. And because of that I had to use lots of if-statements, which is exactly the sort of thing the state machine design pattern is there to avoid. I'm still debugging this. In any case, don't emulate my mistakes!

Further Development

The things to add to this game are definitely: score and a survival mode-type gameplay. Maybe a bonus mode where you freely shoot hatches. Nothing that requires more mechanical gimmicks! It's the limitations that make this kind of machine attractive to design for.

Also an operator's settings menu, including highscore reset and timer difficulty adjustments, which also double as accessibility options. Disabled players love arcade challenges too, and giving a leeway of a few extra seconds to make the game beatable by everyone is high on my list.

Thank you for playing!

GHOSTVAC

the Isle is a game about a story

you cannot visit the Isle
you cannot even leave the cave

but listen well
ask the right questions
and picture the Isle in your mind's eye

you will learn its history, and the stories of the Aspirants who once walked upon it

I will put everyone who streaming the game and who made me have a super cool day!!!

Thanks a lot for play my game!!!

Spelkollektivet #CyberlightGames #AxelRoseGames #Birdwards #Luss1av #lacolocdesgamers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-dUHgzBmdg

I'm starting of with making the art more simpler.

What one stands out to you from the GIF below:

Here is how my game looks like now (original compo version).

It has been describes as Challenging, juicy and fast-paced.

Sounds good? Play it here

Huge thank you to everyone who played my game and to all who gave me feedback. This encouraged me to work on this for a full release.

I've documented how I managed to make a game as a beginner for Ludum Dare 46. Please check it out!

https://youtu.be/Gf1tFgmqlW4

I need to do some more rating so paste your reply here if you have a HTML5 game.

What you are seeing above is a working half-adder. Said curcuit can add two binary signals. The upper gate is the sum of both inputs and the gate beneath is the carry signal. Carry signals represent the overflow to the next digit of multi-digit addition.

Check out my last entry on gate delay: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/tyson-lee-keep-it-alive-edition/using-gate-delay-creatively

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

Comment A Link To your Game And I'll Play It

Just Comment your game's Link and i'll Play, Rate it, and maybe Write a comment. I want to try Playing them all.

If it's ok from you, Please consider Play and Rate my Game "Message" too. it will help me alot.

after playing more then 100 games (and all games from the last post from 4 hours) i just want more games to play. so just send me a link and don't be surprised if i'll already played your game:laughing:

I made a tower defense style game and it's playable on the browser! Try it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/reorb Feel free to leave your games in the comments as well and I'll check them out!

The Overstock OST is finally out! You can get it here.

Or you can listen to the game track right here :smirk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPzq57hcVOw

This was the most amount of tracks I had ever made for any jam. Even though half of it was dedicated to ending tracks, I think it's the small details that make it challenging but rewarding.

My team's game, Overstock, finally passed 20 ratings, which is a relief. I hope to play more games this week as well.

Ahoy y'all! Our lovely coder took some time to dig out and fix the main annoying bug from our game:

Curse Of Uddh

We added a Hotfix version on itch, it prevents the character you escort from getting stuck, enjoy!

Next step may be building a Web version, and integrating the comics in the game (there's even an ending!). Should that happen, we'll keep you posted...

We have now added Linux support and will hopefully soon have Mac support.

We have also fixed some bugs, and added some of the changes based on the feedback.

Don't worry, we still have the initial Ludum Dare release available, but you should try the new release as it makes the game feel better.

Also, we do need some more ratings, so if you trying to decide which game to rate next, how about this one :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/8-bit-soul-eater

My game, Bomber Escort, is at 14 ratings (in most categories), and I need to get 6 more in order to get a ranking, so, If you could, please try out my game so that I can get to 20. Here is the link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/bomber-escort-or-boomer-escort Also, please unmute the audio before rating.

Started polishing my game/post-ld version. I'm including bug fixes and some suggestions from the people who commented. You can play the og here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/unsplashed Have a good weekend! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH1TRBxNJw8

I'm at like 99 Ratings! i need only one to be the happiest man alive! Can you help me please?

Hey guys, I'm the first time participant...not sure how to get more ppl to play my game. Can someone play and rate please? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-it-alive-30

Cheers, BongoBongo