If you could play my game it would be wonderful i spend full 72 hours, i almost thought i wouldn't make it in time, but i did - in the last hour! go play it, its on my LD Page!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/cell-defense
If so, then you can play our game Millons Of Minions
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/blindandscared
Do you want to experience the joys of work related stress in a fun environment? Do you like confusion? Do you want to get fired?
Then perhaps you'd like to try our game Space Office!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-blue-girl
*Featuring original music by Brian Cavanaugh *
I just added a Mac OS version of "Nothing is my car". :blue_car:
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You can also play it on WEB, Android or Windows ! I hope you will like it !
You can find it here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car
or here : https://t-bo-games.itch.io/nothing-is-my-car
So many, I don't have a place to put water sources for them!
If you haven't yet, go play Farm Fortress 2!
That's right!
StarLink Xpress now has an HTML5 build! It's running the same exact code as the jam version, so it's really just there for your convenience. If you prefer to download your space-themed physics games, however, you're still welcome to do so.
Come on over and check it out if you haven't already!
I've just made a small post-jam update of HONK with better camera, damage feedback and an epic death sequence!
You can play the game here
In 10 days I will choose the winner. Good luck. Also, rate the game & comment if you want. I appreciate every feedback
We did it! One weekend, two toddlers and two game developers! I'm pretty proud of what came out of it.
Thanks to everyone that's rated our game so far. If you haven't had a chance yet, please head over for some Cultivation.
You can read about our experience for the weekend on our blog.
Also, if you'd like us to play your game please fill out this form.
Thank you guys for the amazing reviews and feedback. As many of you asked for it and we totally wanted to do it, DREAMS has now a post jam version with sound effects, music and a more obvious multiplayer integration that let you throw things at other players.
🖤 Feel free to enjoy 3 minutes of relaxing dreamlike experience -> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/ideas 🖤
FUTHARK is here and needs a god to reign over its world!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/futhark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSfRhRP_ELg Deploy your own turrents and bait the humans to their demise!
Play and rate here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/hellion-is-now-finally-published
Thank you so much to everyone that played Millions of Minions!
It's hard for me to believe that we have reached the mark in only a few days. So again, thank you to all the wonderful people that played and rated our game!
Thanks for playing everyone! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/beating-around-the-bush
OUT OF THE DANGER ZONE!
I have free time to play some games but i'm out of a PC, can someone send me android games of the jam or html games that work on mobile?
Never expected my first submission would clear this. Everyone's feedback has been hugely encouraging. Huge thanks to everyone who gave my silly goblin game a shot!
@nikita-demidov beats the @itsdanidre best score on "Nothing is my car" !
Can you make a higher score ?
You can play here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-19
So we made a little game called "Nothing". The core concept is an alchemy game to which everyone can add new elements and connections. Right now we already have far over 200 Elements created by users from the ludum dare community with new ones being added all the time. We were really impressed by the quality of the pixel art that is now hidden in our game, so we decided to showcase some of the ones we found:
If you want to find out how to find them or add your own elements try our game now: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-19
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-blue-girl
Featuring eerie music by Brian Cavanaugh
we did it, we got 20 rating!! thanks to everyone who played my game and rated it!! all the love <3
Cannot believe that no one maneged to beat our game, come on, I know is hard, but where are all the dark souls lovers out here, seeking for a challenge... this game it is!!!
I challenge you all to manage to beat the game, and post a screenshot of the end in the comments so we can see it... currently no one managed to do it, will you be the first?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-but-naked
We will give you a clue, here is how the final place to reach looks like ;)
We would be glad if some of you would take up to 5 minutes and test our neat 2D platformer called New Project, we will definitely check out your creation as well!
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https://youtu.be/WDsik1KO1-w
Hi all!
We've just uploaded the source and assets for VOID to github in all their jammy glory
For anyone interested in taking a look we used Unreal Engine 4.23 and a combination of Blueprints and C++
Thanks to all the jammers who have tested, rated and commented our game !
If you didn’t try Shuǐmòhuà yet, it’s right here.
Hope you’ll like the experience :slight_smile:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-greatest-game-in-the-world
Somehow we did it! We broke 50 reviews and Dave is ecstatic!
He did play A LOT of your games and he plans on playing more and we believe you all did awesome work!
He, however, is keen on believing that your games are "mostly uncultured trash created by wannabes that will never grasp my true genius."
Let's prove him wrong! Show us your best and show us your favourite in the comments and we will play and rate ALL of them!
If you haven't already, don't forget to play, rate and comment on The Greatest Game in the World as well! Dave would be hard-pressed to say anything negative about your games afterward!
First time doing LD and would love for people to try our game!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/rekindling-of-iron/
Minor bug fixes made for darker monitors to be able to see better.
Come check it out!
Thanks Everyone! I see that a lot of reviews are mentioning enjoying the soundtrack a lot. We had one guy on our team of 4 specifically do all the music cause we feel music is what ties a game together.
We are thinking of releasing the OST on Youtube or Soundcloud after the rating period if people keep taking note of the soundtrack and we get decent ratings in the audio department!
Art by: https://twitter.com/ClaJason
Lemme tell you something being stuck in the same room for 3 days with our audio guy furiously playing his keyboard was an..... interesting experience.....
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"The pain’s always the same.”
An interrogation room. Sitting on one end of a table is a woman. On the other is you - a detective tired of asking questions, but desperate for answers.
Who is the woman? Why is she here? What has she done?
The only way to find out is to talk. Every conversation topic giving new leads to chase down. Some worthwhile. Others not so much.
Follow the rabbit hole until you reach the truth.
(Play in browser! Windows and MacOS builds as well!)
Ive updated the game to let you play Dabbo! Aaaand we got over 20! Thank you for playing and rating :)
If you dare to let Quirk spin the wheel follow the link: https://ancientpixel.itch.io/deep-station-fine
and here is my entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/deep-station-fine
If you want to play on your phone, “Nothing is my car” :blue_car: is playable on Android here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car
It’s a game about driving … But driving nothing ! XD Also playable on Web, Windows and Mac OS.
I hope you will like it !
Sentience is a roguelike story-based top-down shooter, where you are a pixel, created from nothing, bestowed with free will by your creator, the computer. Upgrade your drivers, become bigger, faster, stronger, more resilient in the face of danger, as you blast through hordes of enemy pixels. We aimed for a really polished experience, and we believe we achieved that!
Music is a big part of the game, everything happening on rhythm.
Good luck!
You’ll need it.
Hi there people! In this update and further please consider downloading the .zip file for your OS to see the changes. Because of limitations in WEBGL we won't support WebGL version further. Thus, it won't be updated. So please consider downloading the game. In this version following are done:
-Replaced healthbar
-Intelligence of dog has been increased but further work needs to be done
-Hearing system became more atmospheric.
-Minor bugfixes
LINK: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/strive-against-nightmare
HTML5: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/seedlings
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-blue-girl
Featuring music by Brian Cavanaugh and artwork by Dr. Chung.
(the HTML version stays the same - we don't want to trick anyone into accidentally rating the superior version)
We at Beebo Studios are very proud and think this is our most fully realized game to date :)
Since I was never happy with the ways the trees worked in the original, I thought I'd have a go at procedural / random generation of tree shapes.
Very trial and error. Anyone else done something similar? Did you use curves / smooth falloff, or just randomising?
I've yet to figure how to fill the gaps / recreate a similar style to the fixed trees. On the plus side, the collision will be consistent - so each 'chunk' of leaves will be a platform for some Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon style battles.
Game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/forest-ninja-wizard-ghost
Progress on post-dare
During the week we uploaded a new version of our web build with minor tweaks to the movement that some of you suggested,! I'm having a lot of fun testing this out! :D
Checkout バクラウ Bloodless in our Ludum Page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/bloodless
Thank you so much for helping us playing and being cool with us!
Already 50 rates for my first ever compo submission, THANK YOU!!!
Come try the game and help this little creature to reach the stars in Nothing In The Way.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-in-the-way
You start with nothing, but an ambitious goal of capturing all stations and getting rich.
Tips: * a station is captured, when your gang has more money then others * each captured station gives your gang +1 mob and money * at first, don't stop at stations occupied by other gangs (they are colored)
Supports local coop with 2 players! (keyboard only)
Will you step up to the challenge?
Fourteen people have rated my game already, yet no one has reported beating it yet. It actually isn't that hard (at least I think), but it's still a bullet hell game. If you want to, you can give it a shot here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/voidentropy
Want to up your aim game, but don't mind no having an audio? Then I'd be happy if you gave my game a go! I do apologise about the audio, but I hope you enjoy! It's my first ever entry to Ludum Dare so I'm pretty happy with the outcome!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/colour-shot
I love games that have a score to try to beat and improve. Tomorrow I plan on playing a bunch of games and would love to play some games that incoprorate a score system, an online leaderboard would be a major plus.
Feel free to leave links to your (or someone elses) game if it fits the bill! :smile:
Selected few from an impressive number we managed to complete this time:
You can check the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/you-broke-the-game
@AXLplosion did a great job taking what I had envisioned during the compo, and bringing it to life!
Oups, maybe I made the INSANE difficulty a bit toooo hard. I can't even get past a score of 300 =)
I am considering doing a competition again like I did with Blot with some Steam giftcards as prizes. I was going to put it on the Insane difficulty but I think that might just be a bit too hard. I will do some more testing on Hard and see if that is suitable. I would be interested in what region of scores you guys can get on Hard and Insane.
Here's the MP3 sound track of I Have Nothing if anyone wants to download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pw7a1j0tkc0es2n/Imphenzia%20-%20I%20Have%20Nothing%20%5BLD45%5D.mp3?dl=0
I'm also working on the timelapse for I Have Nothing. It'll take another few days until it's finished but I'll make sure to post it here as well as on my YouTube channel.
You can play the game here (WebGL and Windows) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/i-have-nothing-1
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-blue-girl
A fellow competitor's game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/night-lights is 5 ratings below the 20 ratings limit. It's their first LD. It would be cool if they could manage to get it through
I've updated the latest build for Master Builder Daedalus's on Windows and Web platforms with some bug fixes to the movement controls and tile visibility.
While I was sorting those things out, I also remembered one point raised by one commenter: Cancelling a block placement destroys the block. That behaviour was intended to add some heavy weight to the order in which you would reveal scrolls, but since you don't really know what scroll you're getting (on the first try) destroying the block forever punishes the player to the point of maybe losing the game just because they were unlucky.
Players can easily perceive this as a bug, so I was tempted to add it to v0.0.2. However, as I tested the change I realised it significantly improved the way to tackle a level: now a player could use it on all the reachable scrolls at any point to reveal the blocks and therefore be able to make a more informed decision. And of course, blocks will no longer get lost forever :sweat_smile:
Compare the destructive version
vs the non-destructive:
This, to me, wouldn't be so much a technical issue as iterating on a wrong design decision. The "fix" in this case would go beyond what would be allowed by the rules if I wanted to still keep this as part of the compo experience, so I've decided to stash it for an incoming post-compo version.
In any case, now I'm curious about your thoughts. Where do you draw the line in these cases?
Image found on r/ProgrammerHumor
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/gotta-bake-em-all
As we went for a Gameboy feel, I really had to go all the way and make a little overlay for the Android version... I think I spent way too much time on that whole thing, but... here it is!
I added a fake LCD look too, you can toggle it with the press of a button:
Made a gameplay video of our unconventional armada-building scrollshooter to show off!
https://youtu.be/FCNfdT689F8
And a short gif to accompany it!
We have enough ratings now but would always love more! Play Armada here!
Will make a more detailed post-mortem sometime later as well. Meanwhile, I'm having a blast playing all these other lovely games!
Hello ! I'm currently working on a post jam version on Battleground Command !
New features that didn't make the jam version : + Recoil + Sniper scope - No more motion blur effect :P + AI can now hear when you are walking/running near them + Supply drop from airplane + Allies that will follow you and defend you !
You can play and rate here !
Follow me to get notified when the post jam version is ready @gamedevklingon
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/confused
It would be great if you guys can try our game Spooky Isekai. It's a super short Platformer Game (because we ran out of time and had to simplify it LMAO) and pretty easy. Thanks and have a great Sunday!
(Here, have a jumping pumpkin)
Many of you were saying that the game was too short and should have more levels, so i have made and added a new map in the new update!
I have made the font much more readable!
Check the new map out!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape
(Play now in browser!)
We added a new map to our game as a lot of you people asked for a new map!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape
(You can play our game in browser, try it now!)
@itsdanidre comes back with a new record !
Can you beat the highest score ?
Make a try here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car
Finally I had the time to implement some new features to my game Living Forrest. The enemies' cities are now destroyable. So by destroying both of them, you can win the game and make your forrest life forever.
And there is a new enemy type that will show up from time to time: The Big Dozer.
Try it out now!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/living-forrest
Hi, I am thinking of releasing a big update for my game genesis1 after the rating is over with the help of the community.
To those of you who have not played my game: It is a god simulator, you create a world by a mix and match style selection of textures for the terrain, 3D models as trees and living creatures(some of which are animated) and 2d billboard style grass objects.
This can lead to hilarious creations like Jaguar fur textured beaches with lava textured mountains while there are forests out of swords, will smith heads as grass and roaming houses.
Check out some of the screenshots in the comments for reference: (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/genesis-1-god-simulator)
Now I talked with the creators of a few other LD Submissions and came up with the Idea of releasing a community version of the game with assets from all across the different LD entries after the rating period is over. I feel like releasing a game with contributions from maybe even hundreds of different LD creators would be something really special for the community.
I could use all 2D textures as terrain options all 2D characters and objects as grass options and 3D models as trees and animals.
Is that something you guys would be interessted in? If yes I'll come up with a way for you to provide assets and make some follow up posts about the procedure.
Please leave your thoughts on the Idea in the comments.
I made a tool to sort all #ldjam45 entries by the stats, and remember which I've voted on. #ldjam #ludumdare #ludumdare45 Perf is a bit slow, but its 2.5k rows in a browser. 🤣 https://lars-erik.github.io/ldjam-lists/
I made a tool to sort all #ldjam45 entries by the stats, and remember which I've voted on. #ldjam #ludumdare #ludumdare45 Perf is a bit slow, but its 2.5k rows in a browser. 🤣 https://lars-erik.github.io/ldjam-lists/
This is my First Ludum Dare game jam. I really like how the system works here and compels us to rate and give valuable feedback to other games in order to get rating and valuable feedback for your game.
My game is a Manual Tower Defense Game where the player have to flip all the levers and defend them from the bots by clicking on them (yeah, no towers). Each lever will empower the player: New Visuals, New Area, New Ability.
Play my game. Rate my game. Link here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/leverage-1
During this post-jam period, I enjoyed playing awesome games made by others. Some of those games made me think, "I wish I had that idea", while few of the games made me realize that my own game isn't that bad.
I did my best to give an honest and valuable feedback to those games. And in return, I received the same.
Here is the list of things that I received via feedback. I have added my perspective to the points as well. I think it would also help you to make better games in the future by considering these points and comparing them to the gameplay of my current game.
-> Very slow gameplay in the beginning. - by @tero-pulkkinen and @storrs-steelers
-> Abilities menu seems very optional i.e a part of the screen should be dedicated to them instead of right-clicking to display it. Player can play the entire game without ever noticing the abilities menu. - by @orpartlu, @danie, @landosystems and @zachary-shah
-> During clicking the bots to destroy them, you can always click the lever by mistake which can be very frustrating. Although I have considered it as a part of the challenge, having a seperate easy mode without this frustrating feature would make the game more accessible. - by @keithdae
-> Bots immediately flip the lever OFF when reaching the lever. It is not a bad thing but having a small delay with a visual indicator would give the player real survival feeling upon destroying that bot (you know the feeling, 'oh that was real close!'). - by @oneki
-> Player can play the game forever without ever reaching the win screen/completing the goal. In order to activate the challenge, the player needs to flip ON all the 10 levers. But there is no indicator to tell the player that a lever is not flipped ON (or a lever is flipped OFF). - by @humphreysmedia and @barracudadisaster
-> The arrows that lead to different areas, are not aligned. They are not in the same place which tends to create friction between player actions. Going from area 1 to area 3 isn't as simple as double clicking. I tried aligning it but there is this bug that, if the player wants to go from area 1 to area 2 and clicked just once, there is a probability that player will reach area 3 instead of area 2 which is even more annoying. I introduced a smaller problem in order to get rid of a bigger problem haha. - by @humphrysmedia, @danie, @storrs-stealers, @nisovin, @sorlok and @honey-pony
-> Taking the same area arrows into consideration, it would have been much better to have the keyboard up and down arrows used for changing the area or even better, using the scroll wheel for this purpose. - by @nisovin and @amerigo-gazaway
-> A scrolling camera would have made the game much better as compare to the area-to-area camera. The player would have a better sense of space with a scrolling camera and he/she would be more able to differentiate between different areas. - by @honey-pony
-> Even though the abilities are self-explanatory (for me only, duh), having tooltips for them or some kind of basic tutorial would have made the game more accessible. - by @storrs-steelers
-> Upon hovering over the minimap, it shifts to the other place on the screen. I did this to make sure that player can see bots or walls that are obscured by the minimap. But this can create confusion. Having a fixed minimap will do the job. A better solution would be to make the minimap more transparent upon hovering. - by @kuviman (during his Twitch stream)
-> Minimap should indicate which area the player is currently looking at. An outline rectangle on the minimap covering the area that is rendered by the camera. - by @oune
-> There is a lot of shadows in the areas which makes it hard to differentiate between roof and the paths. Having more atmospheric lights (and just better lighting) would make it clearer. Or a simple solution would be to increase the contrast between the roof and the floor. - by @psiv
-> The bots' pathfinding is buggy. They all tend to go towards some of the levers (distance doesn't matter) instead of going towards the nearest ones. - by @kuviman (during his Twitch stream)
-> The challenge/win condition is very rigid. Having all the 10 levers flipped ON in order to have a countdown means that you already have all the powers (visuals, areas, abilities). Now, all you have to do, is to stop the bots from reaching any of the levers for a certain time. Now, here's the problem: (1) any mistake would be unforgivable i.e if any bot reaches any lever or if you clicked any lever by mistake, you have to do the challenge again, from the start which can be very frustrating. (2) value/essence of all the abilities is the same i.e it doesn't matter if player prefers a particular ability more than other abilities. Having 7 to 8 levers flipped ON instead of 10 levers for the challenge/win condition would make the game much more flexible and the player can have much more interesting decisions. - by @yaen
-> There is no feeling of progression. Player can immediately flip all the 10 levers ON. These should be some delay between flipping the levers. That way, not only player will feel the progress but the player will also notice the change due to flipping the lever ON, test that change and try to use that change to his/her advantage. I wanted to implement it but I didn't have enough time to do so. - by @yaen
<<< THANK YOU FOR THE AWESOME FEEDBACK AND FOR RATING MY GAME! >>>
Drawing rooms can be a long boring task, but I wanted a believable cozy environment for Mr Raccoon. Fortunately it was a minimal one because Mr Raccoons, as we know, hates clutter!
I started by finding the perspective I needed and traced the main walls.
You can do this by creating a perspective grid or by downloading one. Something that looks like this:
Then I draw the walls: I make walls with 2 layers: one for the texture, one with the colour, I put the colour layer in multiply mode so you see through but still can change the colour whenever you want.
I used a wood texture I simplified a bit for the floor and made sure to transform it so that the perspective was ok.
Then I looked for some furniture. I use photo references and I trace on them. Sometimes if they have a special texture I use some filter to cut out the extra colour, as in the case of the cushion he meditates on.
For the shojis, the japanese doors, I built one and duplicated it wherever I needed it.
If you are using photoshop, the smart object feature lets you create templates so if you have to change something later, every window you made will change accordingly.
With time you can create your library of furniture to speed up your interior design process.
At that point everything was still a bit messy flat and random colored. What I did next was: Arranging the furniture where I needed it Adding shadows: mainly shading the corners of the room and all the edges between the walls.
Next I added the outdoor scenery: a garden that I modified to make it look bright, saturated and a bit blurred.
You see in the pictures above the final colours, but this is how everything looked like before I...
chose a color palette. This is an important step. I wanted all the colour in the scene to make sense. There are different palette generating tool you can use. I like this one: https://coolors.co/app
I decided that my main colour would be the red of Mr Raccoon’s kimono and so I chose the other colours accordingly.
Then I saved the palette and went back to my room trying to adjust the hue of everything so that it fell into one of my colours.
The final result was so much better this way!
A rhythm game with just the ticking metronome and without music is.... Weird right?
But time was short, and we don't have the skills to make music. The king was upset.
But ludum dare community is fullfilled by talents. And @derek (https://ldjam.com/users/derek-volker) gave us a wonderful soundtrack we can use for our game... So... What are you waiting for? Go try it!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/king-of-nothing
Plus...
Better feeling in getting the rhythm right and add mobile support (you can try it on your Android).
I used Chronolapse to time-lapse record the development of my game 'Shadowy Monster Land' (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/shadowy-monster-land - Please rate!).
Here (https://gofile.io/?c=RNPotJ) is the resulting video - 2.5 days of development squashed into 4 minutes! One screenshot every 30 seconds, then a couple of long periods where nothing happened deleted.
And here (because why not - let's call it art) is the average of all frames:
I'm working on adding new cards, levels and elements for a post-jam version of Heartscape (play it here!). I'll update the game once the rating period is over, but here is a glimpse at the new cards:
The Bubble, the Balloon and the Thorn Bush! They were half-coded during the jam, so I cut them before the submission. I still have a few ideas to bring the total to around 15-20 different cards in order to have more diverse deckbuilding options.
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"The pain’s always the same.”
An interrogation room. Sitting on one end of a table is a woman. On the other is you - a detective tired of asking questions, but desperate for answers.
Who is the woman? Why is she here? What has she done?
The only way to find out is to talk. Every conversation topic giving new leads to chase down. Some worthwhile. Others not so much.
Follow the rabbit hole until you reach the truth.
(Play in browser! Windows and MacOS builds as well!)
Thanks for everybody who have helped our little friend here! We had a lot of work and fun while creating this game, and we are very happy that you guys are enjoying it!!
If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do take a look. We have a Web version, as well as a Windows one
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/memories-of-eleph
https://vauron.itch.io/memories-of-eleph
Also thank you for giving us a lot of great feedbacks about mechanics and bugs! If we keep going with this project we will for sure that take it into account!
See you at LD46!
I've played a lot of really good games this LD. Now that I've played a bit over a 100 - here's 5 that I enjoyed a lot as each does something (or many things) really, really well and which may have flown a bit under most radars.
In no particular order (click on game's name to take you to the game's page):
A tight precision platformer with a full level editor included.
Another platformer but this one is all about puzzle solving, as a falling-apart zombie.
A mini universe simulation with some amazing music
A card/board/simulation game about building a thriving eco system
A very cute and very polished little sandbox
Help this little creature to reach the stars in my first ever compo submission!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-in-the-way
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-glowing-adventure
So having finished Slave: Unchained (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/slave-unchained) last weekend I quickly realised it insta crashed on most peoples systems.
First off why? Well turns out I'm a noob at GPU programming and (I'm assuming) I was using features that were not supported on older cards.
I was doing something stupid for my tile maps. I was storing all the texture atlas lookups in a big shader uniforms. Older cards have limitiations to how big these uniforms can be!
So I had to change the entire tilemap implementation. A bug that cauess you to restructure your entire backend? Those the best.
In the end I opted for using a texture as a lookup. The issue there is that openGL is pretty obtuse. I had to make sure that I understood properly what happens to texel values when it's offloaded to the GPU, and the kind of data I was sending was correct.
After wrangling that, I had additional problems. To not get too bogged down, turns out incorrectly using "flat" in shaders creates some odd behaviour in older cards but not in newer ones. Not fun.
This soon went from an afternoon fix to a substantial week long rewrite. Does that follow in the spirit of ludum dare? I dunno. I mean the game is pretty much exactly the same. It's just the behind the scenes, most of it changed.
All in all. Idk. Is it fixed on all cards? Who knows. Do I want to give up forever? Most probably :)
Hi everyone again!
First, thanks for all your feedback. I appreciate it and make big feedback-based update! A lot of changes were for fix LMB spamming and very fast gameplay.
Sooo, Chaaaange Looog :)
So, with that, you can try spam red bots for counter shots, but tentacles bots find you and kill if you continue that :) Oh, and one new enemy for you with different AI and more levels!
You can try update and rate it on this page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/ld45-cyber-tentacles
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/adventure-again
I'm only 5 ratings away of getting to 20! Please rate my small game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-universe-i-think
Hey everyone, I've heard people having frustrations about navigating the levels in my game because it's hard to tell what you're looking for. I recently made custom cursors to hopefully relieve these frustrations. It isn't in the current version but I wanna update it post-judging period for sure! This was definitely in my plans during the jam but I didn't prioritize it when I should have oops :innocent:
It's hard to believe our first attempt at a Ludum Dare with our silly little frog game has been getting so much love. I'm really looking forward to making a post-jam version, and in doing way more game jams going forward.
Hello everyone, if you do not want to play my game, you can watch the video! Watch from 9 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpHggnbAeY0
It’s a game about driving … But driving nothing ! XD
You can drive the air in “Nothing is my car” here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car
I hope you will like it !
This past Thursday, I got to playtest Draft & Doodle in person with a bunch of people. Check out some of the art that was made!
That was a very, very long road. But I managed to make it somehow. 3 days of making game - and a week of vicious bug-fixing. But today my game's got a big post-release fix.
You may call it a "Gold Edition". I've fixed tons of bugs, locks, AI errors. I've cut down parts that was considered to be too unfinished. Now game won't freeze or fall, enemy won't send their units our of map and won't steal your turns. If you start it, all parts will hold together until final scene with 99% probability.
*You may try it, Captian: * https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/lost-flagship
Hey, everyone! Once again, Tech Valley Game Space will be live-streaming this Ludum Dare, starting today (October 13th), from 3 - 6 PM EST on twitch.tv/techvalleygamespace and youtube.com/c/techvalleygamespace. As part of our regular Sunday streaming schedule, we'll be streaming again on October 20th and the 27th at the same time as well.
To have your game in consideration for playing and judging, you can sign up on this form: forms.gle/kbUdacxVfnVaGrq17
As the form states, we do enforce a Code of Conduct in our live-streams. As such, we do reserve the right to cancel streaming and rating a game for any reason.
While signing up, come check out the Ludum Dare 45 games created from the folks who joined our real-world meeting! They are:
Primordial is an interactive tale of creation in the Greek cosmology.
This is the very first game I have ever built alone! This is an interactive tale more than it is a game, but I had such a great time building Primordial that I have definite plans to continue developing it. I hope you enjoy this little game I’ve built and that you’ll follow me on Itch.io for further developments!
In Kawhatzithon, you start with absolutely nothing. So clearly you should run around collecting things you don’t have.
The Calendar Act of 1751 declared that eleven days in the following year would not exist.
And of course our very own...
Welcome to Uballto, a Linux distribution for…distributing balls. That’s right, in this desktop environment, dialog windows are used to guide balls to their target flags. Do you have the technical wits to master this distro?
Made by one individual (and a lot of royalty-free assets).
Hi folks Lately playing our last Ludum Dare entry we also noticed there is plenty of possibility for poetry creation inside its mechanics and we want to explore more of that in the future evolution of this experience. Also noticed that although we have a core message we wanted to convey, due to some buggy point and click mechanics not all players were able to enjoy the full message. The core idea behind the child like poetry we made here was to create a metaphor for the sudden deep sadness that sometimes comes out of nothing and searches for us, making a path of destruction were it walks by, but also offering an opportunity to find comfort midst the chaos and then learn a bit more about how we can cope with it.
Here is a piece we put together with the sentences we found in the last part of the game
This is also an invitation for everyone to try this piece of work we made this Ludum Dare, hope you can enjoy our art, music and perhaps extract potentially interesting messages for life and what sadness means to you =)
Hello ! I'm currently working on a post jam version on Battleground Command !
Today I added the Inventory UI that unfortunately didn't worked quite well in the Jam version :p
I will now create more different type of weapons and gun parts (scope, recoil reducers, etc.)
I made a post quite late yesterday, in case you missed it, here are a couple of features that were added:
Upcoming features: + AI can now hear when you are walking/running near them + Supply drop from airplane + Allies that will follow you and defend you !
You can play and rate here !
Follow me to get notified when the post jam version is ready @gamedevklingon
What?
Heya! We received a lot of feedback but still looking for some more :smile:
Sentience is a roguelike story-based top-down shooter. Music is a big part of the game, everything happening on rhythm.
Good luck!
You’ll need it.
Ratings: 7
Downloads: 6
:thinking:
A team playing together, so two people can rate downloading only once, right?
Hello!
For all who are interested in music: meet our really good ambient OST from the game Los Cactus: Trip with Nothing, made for LudumDare45 . The soundtrack is available on Youtube and Soundcloud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhPVv6h52As
https://soundcloud.com/polten420/los-cactus-ost
Devlog of the soundesigner's work:
1st Day of the Jam: "Ok guys, we are making game about depressed man with a scary hallucinations, who have to cope with all shit and START WITH NOTHING his new better life..." - it was our first idea of the game we were going to create. As always, I have already known that we will change it to something completely different , therefore I haven't try to make any sounds this day.
2nd Day of the Jam: "Ok guys, we are fcked up and there are no ways to complete this idea in time. SO, we need something dumb and funny, c'mon! " - 1 hour later - "OK GUYS, we are making a game about Cactus in the desert, who has nothing to start moving, because it's fcking PLANT, OKAY?". The last thing I remember - is wild laugh and that meant we have found a decision. That evening I just have taken my guitar , connected it to my DAW and recorded "Song of the Desert". In the process of work I have been thinking about all western movies I have ever watched, about Red Dead Redemption and other western-like stuff. I played guitar with my fingers to make it sound more deep and blind. Also I have synthesized the sound of desert's wind, using white noise , filter, flanger and different modulations with them.
3rd Day of the Jam: After a hard period of disputes and discussions, we have managed to make a full plot , where the second location of our journee was oasis. And 4-5 hours later the "Oasis Song" has been made. I have used downloaded sound of water and sound of palm's leaves for inspiration. Firstly, I have imagined a timbre of water and tried to make melody, based on similarity with water drop. Secondly, I've made a deep , viscous pad sound for background and that's it!
All the SFX were made in process of development throughout all LudumDare45 Jam time.
Author @loudlout
First of all, thank you all for the feedback. It was very helpful and it allowed me to make Bodyville more dynamic, balanced, and fun than it was before.
What was changed: - Camera: it is now much faster, and it can move diagonally. - Units: I overhauled the selection mechanism. Now, you left click to select, right click to set a destination. - You can now select multiple units with Left CTRL+Click! - Macrophages are now moving much faster, and they are able to actually catch up to the invaders. - Macrophages can now chase an invader that comes too close to them. No more idly sitting around while an invader literally brushes them. - Macrophages now divide after eating 10 invaders. This was done to improve balance. - A wave of invaders is now 20 invaders, not 6, per spawn point. There are a total of 4 spawn points, you start with one, and with every wave, an additional one is unlocked. This made the game more intense, but beatable. - An in-game tutorial was added.
Play Bodyville here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/bodyville. The original version is still available.
Avoid cars, rocks, trees and ... cows XD :cow2:
You can drive the air in “Nothing is my car” here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car
Hi folks ... I recently saw that Ludum Dare rules allow for bug correction and then I wondered ... what is considered to be a "bug"? We have always follow the rule "no update after deadline", no matter how many bugs we got ... but apparently we don't need to be so strict on that ... what do you think, have you updated your projects to add bug fixes? We have lots of simple bugs that would take like minutes to fix, but decided not to update anything so far ...
Looking for a chill game? Then you are looking for FUTHARK!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/futhark
Help this little creature to reach the stars in my first ever compo submission.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-in-the-way
Working on some additional cards for the post-jam version I'll release after the rating period is over.
In the meantime, you can play Heartscape here.
