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 !

Chronicles of the Mattock is now playable directly from your favorite browser! Don't miss the chance to smash some skeletons with your loyal mattock!

Cheers!

Prison Escape is a platformer game where you need to exit the prison where you were forcefully pushed in! This is my first ever game jam, so please go and play my game! (You can play it in your browser!) Also, dont forget to rate it!

Link - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape (You can play my game in your browser!)

If you want to defeat the evil brussel king, you must act quickly, or you won't be able to rate the experience! Luckily for you, the game is quick to play, works well on the web, and is really fun! Try it now!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-pumpking

If you want to help me, please try playing crystal cave.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/crystal-cave //

Hey all!

It's been a while since we posted something, so I figured I could share a bit about the concepts that Frogbert went through, from the initial idea to the finished concepts we worked off to create our entry.

Concepting the beginnings of Frogbert

When we read the theme, we tried out best to put down some ideas. It was fairly hard to come up with nothing, but while we were writing down ideas, our concept artist, Giraffalope, was drawing some cute frogs. Because who doesn't love frogs? Eventually she ended up with this chef frog, Frogbert. All of us on the team love cooking games and restaurant management games such as Overcooked, or Cook, Serve, Delicious!, or Diner Bros, so we figured, OK, let's do something like that.

You, Frogbert, start from nothing. Not even your chef hat! And the idea was (is?) to build up your restaurant, to upgrade and invent new recipes and continue adding new cooking stations and difficulty, going from your humble beginnings at the pond to a fine dining establishment. What we've made is a slice of that pie. But how did we want to present it?

At first, we were thinking literal conveyor belts - much like those in Overcooked. But it didn't quite fit our theme of a frog from humble beginnings.

As we continued to develop the concept, we exchanged the conveyors with streams of water with lilypads holding the ingredients. Giraffalope continued fleshing out the idea of the kitchen, adding the different elements, from customers to utilities to UI, which we then discussed amongst the team to figure out the scope of it and if we could do it in the time frame. This is our first Ludum Dare, after all!

At this point, we still hadn't quite figured out how we would start the whole thing. Because it didn't quite fit the theme of "you start with nothing". And perhaps it still doesn't really, but at least we made a bit of an effort! So we thought, OK, what if you don't even start with the hat? Perfect.

While Giraffalope was doing all these concepts, I was working on making all the 3D elements and setting up the environment in Unity. Our programmer, mathemagician, was making progress on the prototype.

From there on out, Giraffalope was drawing all of our UI elements, many which we couldn't even get around to implementing with the time constraints and our inexperience with Unity!

Here are the finished concepts that we basically made our game around. Unfortunate that we couldn't implement a nice system for the day cycle to move from morning to night. That's something we will likely want to implement later.

If you haven't already, check out Frogbert: Road to Culinary Stardom.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/frogbert-road-to-culinary-stardom

Thanks! -trmrddr

Prison Escape is a platformer game where you need to exit the prison where you were forcefully pushed in! This is my first ever game jam, so please go and play my game! (You can play it in your browser!) Also, dont forget to rate it!

Link - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape

(Play my game in your browser!)

• Added character animation. Let's have more fun.

• I added an sound effect t when I jumped. The game is no longer quiet.

Please try this quick dungeon crawler. It has crafting as well!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/vaultsmith

Thanks to everyone who's played and commented and all your games have been awesome too!

Just a small reminder and the link to play: www.twitch.tv/friikydev.

Would be cool if you join to get the office really packed. :sunglasses:

Thanks to everybody who gave feedback in the past and already thanks to everybody who joins for the start of run #2.

Best Regards, Kalle

My video about Ludum Dare is finally out. I would love if you checked it out and gave me feedback! It is the story of how my first Ludum Dare was a DISASTER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNCCKaC-sM

https://youtu.be/9Hhl_2KfUC8

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/zen-man

Have you ever saw "Dogville", from the danish director Lars Von Trier? If not, I recommend it a lot! It was a really good movie, with a really good story.

When the theme was revealed, I admit I was very happy because it was the theme I hoped for. I already has the idea of the empty space and the scene is being revealed when the story is developing. But at the beginning I was trying to do an white scene, like the Assassin's Creed loading screen.

First I modeled all the furniture and characters.

But when I started to put everything in the game engine. I felt so sad with the result.

At this time, I confess there I had think in gave up, but instead I started to research some references and I found the Lars Von Trier movie and immediately changed the aesthetic of my game to it.

I think this is the best decision I make in the development of this game. At the end I found the game become better than I was planning at the beginning, and I'm very happy with the result.

I hope you guys liked too! If you haven't played yet, take a chance to it!

CLICK HERE TO PLAY DEAR DIARY

I've been working on the post-jam update for Millions Of Minions. Here's a peek of what I've been working on. Play Millions Of Minions Here!

More and more time passes from the beginning of the jam. More and more difficult it is to remember how it all began. On the image below – first day prototype). What we got in the end - play and rate here!)

I released the first post-jam version of my submission cakewalk. It is mostly a graphics update where the placeholder graphics for enemies are replaced by space rascals who are a fish, a shuriken, a flame and a cannon. There are also some graphics effects like a glowing line, explosion and warping level transition. All the updates are additions I wanted to make during the jam but didn't have enough time. They're meant to move the game away from a minimalist, abstract style toward something more substantial which I think makes more sense for the game since it already has a main character. And so now we know what the cake is up against!

These are zoomed in versions of very small 12x12 sprites. I didn't want to increase the size of the enemies because I would have to change the design to deal with new collision parameters, so I just made very small graphics. I like them, but well, they are tiny, and therefore difficult to both see and make. They look a lot better than the original X graphic, though.

The other graphics additions are effects generated by pygame code. The glowing line uses algorithmic generation to add a random gradient to the line each time a level loads. The portal and explosion are sprites built by looping through position and alpha parameters using ellipses. And the warp is a simple scaling effect that is generated at run time to avoid scaling a large image in real time.

https://youtu.be/cIOE2q2nspA

I started a dev log on itch (with basically the same information), and I also finally made a mac build for 64-bit OS X 10.14 (it should work on other 64-bit versions, but I haven't done a lot of testing for mac)! The OS X build is available on the jam submission page along with Windows and Linux versions.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/poor-farmer/

Thank you very much jammers! :)

Do you have what it takes to RAGNAROK?!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/futhark

Just hoping to get more eyes on our game. This was our ludum dare and would really love to get all the feedback we can get.

Huge thanks to all who tried our game out and we're definitely trying hard to try as many of yours as well! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/rekindling-of-iron

You can check out my game here! I hope you enjoy it. And good luck with all your games!: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/color-and-creativity

Prison Escape is a platformer game where you need to exit the prison where you were forcefully pushed in! This is my first ever game jam, so please go and play my game! (You can play it in your browser!) Also, dont forget to rate it!

Link - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape

(Play my game in your browser!)

Prison Escape is a platformer game where you need to exit the prison where you were forcefully pushed in! This is my first ever game jam, so please go and play my game! (You can play it in your browser!) Also, dont forget to rate it!

Link - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape

(Play my game in your browser!)

Hey, everyone! A reminder that Tech Valley Game Space will be live-streaming ourselves playing Ludum Dare games, starting today (October 20th), 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 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.

ETA: And if you missed the last stream, a recording is available below. Be sure to check the description on the timestamps and links of all the games we've played that stream!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkzhmrjM_28

Once again, come check out the Ludum Dare 45 games created from the folks who joined our real-world meeting! They are:

Primodial

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!

Kawhatzithon

In Kawhatzithon, you start with absolutely nothing. So clearly you should run around collecting things you don’t have.

Eleven Days

The Calendar Act of 1751 declared that eleven days in the following year would not exist.

And of course our very own...

Uballto

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).

Hey Jammers,

I see that you like game jams. Why not check out he philosophy game jam happening now on itch.io? We will be having prizes and all of the games will be showcased at an academic philosophy conference happening at the end of the jam.

Here's a link to check it out: https://itch.io/jam/philgamejam-2

Best,

TallShrimp

P.S. Check out my LD game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/tile-flip

Prison Escape is a platformer game where you need to exit the prison where you were forcefully pushed in! This is my first ever game jam, so please go and play my game! (You can play it in your browser!) Also, dont forget to rate it!

Link - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape (Play my game in your browser!)

Prison Escape is a platformer game where you need to exit the prison where you were forcefully pushed in! This is my first ever game jam, so please go and play my game! (You can play it in your browser!) Also, dont forget to rate it!

Link - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape (Play my game in your browser!)

Hey everyone! So, let me start by saying that this is my first Ludum Dare and it is a pure joy to take part in it :smile:

But on to my rant. I always endeavor to understand stuff I come upon. My husband even makes fun of me that my favorite way of interacting with the world is asking questions :wink: And I tried to understand this Smart and Classic Balance stats, believe me, I tried.

1) At the beginning I believed the provided description and assumed a simple correlation: Classic derived from the amount of ratings you gave, Smart derived from the amount of ratings you gave and the amount of Karma you got. But then I noticed that both those balances change over time with no additional data imputed (no additional ratings or Karma).

2) After analyzing this, I came to a conclusion that both just decay over time. Which would make sense if they are supposed to represent activity. And here I thought that I'm done, I finally figured it out!

But then I noticed these scary things: - High Classic Balance with barely any ratings given, example

• High Smart Balance with little Karma and quite a bit, but not that many in comparison to my other examples, ratings given

So, how does the above examples compare to those that have many more ratings given, much more Karma and yet much lower balances? For example:

Can anybody explain this to me? Where do those Balances REALLY come from? Are they simply alien entities beyond my puny human understanding? Will they take over the world when I'm sleeping? :wink: If anybody can tell me how those are actually counted, I will be eternally grateful.

For the theme "Start With Nothing", @rose and I made letter-unlocking dating sim Nothing to Say. We felt pretty clever about our use of the theme: you both start with limited options and have to build from there, and you literally start with the letters NOTHING.

We’re not the only ones to have that idea. I love word games, so I was happy to discover there are lots of other great games about letters/spelling in LD45! Here's some recommendations, in no particular order:

• * Fairytiles * by @catie-jo and @fre

Fantasy interactive fiction where you spell words to open new branches of the story. Cute and funny, and I love the achievements!

• * You Lose. Good Day, Sir! * by @carraka, @radonkalmor, @jayy, and @sheldonzs

You start in a void with an armadillo and have to spell your way out. The game is packed with personality and is tons of fun to play.

• * Start With Nothing * by @rubyleehs

A pure spell-as-many-words-as-you-can game with a really fun twist. I found it challenging and super addictive.

• * Reader's Encounter * by @xlomid

Progress through an intriguing fantasy story by manipulating a word to spell a new word. I appreciate that it has hints!

• * Word Crush * by @lunarDust and @minamik

A clever puzzle game where you navigate letters into place to spell words (which become cute little objects!) It's short right now, but a great idea.

• * Words With Foes * by @hyperscope, @julianbeutel, @KaiClavier, @graebor, and @MattWoelk

Spell words to attack enemies and earn more letters in this super polished RPG. Fun to play and full of great touches like amusing flavor text for letters and enemies.

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I posted these recs on Twitter, too. Anyway, I just wanted to share the games I happened to find and enjoy - if I missed a fun letter-based game, let me know!

PIXELART TIMELAPSE

At last, I got around to putting together the timelapse video of my pixelart process for our LD45 entry BOB. In this video you'll see the art and animations of our game taking shape. As reference for my animations I often have a look at tutorials by Pedro Medeiros and Sandy Gordon, so be sure to check them out if you find yourself interested.

You'll also see the creation of various assets that did not end up making it into our game due to a lack of time. (Apparently the game has to work for it to be playable, so that meant less time for features - crazy!) I especially liked my shark sprite, which sadly ended up on the cutting room floor.

Anyway, here's the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poEe9lhdnYk

Direct link here

And you can 🎮 PLAY BOB (HTML5) on our game page.

Hey everyone, I've been uploading some videos about some Ludum Dare 45 games and I'll be uploading games every Thursday and Sunday until the jam is over. This is my first time doing this kind of video so I would love some feedback and any game suggestions to play and vote for! Hope you enjoy :)

Here's the link to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1lhSv_7YoKGQ1qoGohjXBnN4CdkCU4B1

Our original Keyshot: To inspire the look we should head in.

The final look of the game

So how did we get there? What went right and what went wrong? Well, first we needed to actually program a working prototype. This involved giving they player the ability to move, direct the camera and grab things:

it was very important to us that the movement feel very fun and that the crab claws behaved in a silly way. This did make the crab a bit difficult to control, which i feel hurt the game in the end, but overall I'm happy with how it turned out :)

Meanwhile, as I programmed, JoltJab was hard at work creating the crab model, rigging it and animating it.

After building the prototype, I began work on the environment.

The lighting was a difficult challenge, because the Unity shadows simply were not behaving in the way I'd hoped. The result was either and extremely dark scene or very janky shadows.

As a solution, I implemented a directional light as the sun with faint shadows and another directional light facing directly up to illuminate the ceiling in purple tones. I set it to not interact with the crab, however.

Additionally, I created a shader that made all the objects in the scene emit their own light, so there were no pure-black shadows.

After getting the crab model in and making progress with the environment, we had to squish some bugs where you could climb at super speeds and get out of the hole in the ceiling very quickly, as well as some issues where the crab would turn into a ceiling fan. ;P

Afterwards, everything was working pretty well. I got Jolt's music in, Elysia's seashells and many other fun objects to liven up the tidepool.

However, there was...

One final issue:

How do you climb on things that you can also drag?

My solution was that large objects could only be dragged by certain points. However, this led to a lot of confusion when the jam ended and it was released. I had to put up a warning for the Jam version:

As well as a post-jam version in which it was fixed as well as some crucial camera fixes.

Overall, I'm happy with Tidepool. It has its flaws but I think it went very well for someting produced in a weekend. ^_^ If you're interested in trying it out, please head over here:

>CLICK HERE TO PLAY<

MBull Games will be taking their Ludum Dare entry Millions Of Minions and developing it further into a fully fledged game, with a possible Steam release!

https://twitter.com/MBullGamesTeam/status/1185966144915722240

So close! Tech Valley Game Space will be live-streaming ourselves playing Ludum Dare games in just 30 minutes (October 20th, 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 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.

If you missed the last stream, a recording is available below. Be sure to check the description on the timestamps and links of all the games we've played that stream!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkzhmrjM_28

Finally, come check out the games created from our real-world meeting:

Primodial

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!

Kawhatzithon

In Kawhatzithon, you start with absolutely nothing. So clearly you should run around collecting things you don’t have.

Eleven Days

The Calendar Act of 1751 declared that eleven days in the following year would not exist.

And of course our very own...

Uballto

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).

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/jumbo-throne Thank you! :)

https://www.bruteforce-games.com/post/watercolor-shader-devblog-13

And if you didn't play the game here it is: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/palely

Just bumping this one up! Please let me know what you think...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSHOofXIio

Thank you! :bow:

Discover how the game was made!

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

In a world where time is not what it seems, an inhabitant is trying to prevent a catastrophe. But can you stop what's already happened?​

A puzzle/adventure game about relativity of time.

Play (web & pc) and rate now!

Hey guys, the play+rating ends in a few days, so i decided to make a blog, presenting you my team's game!! We made a chess-based rhythm game, called "King of Nothing"

I've made a Youtube video, showing some gameplay: https://youtu.be/4FH4ry1_hOY

If you have got some time, please checkout the game! We would appreciate it a lot! :D

Play : http://ciriak.itch.io/missing-entry

I wanted to try something with a backend this time.

You can add the choices you want (up to 3 per event) and you decide the consequences.

You can even add an image to illustrate (url) !

The entry : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/missing-entry

The sources : https://github.com/Ciriak/ld45

Progress, in a way.

Play the LD45 compo game here

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/forest-ninja-wizard-ghost

This isn't pretty, I'd like to remake the game in unity so I could make all the trees as softbody physics ( and in theory, get a lot better performance on stuff like the lighting )

New tree in level, with random branch creation /size .

From level editor - with just placeholder 'tree' objects

The old sprites , with 'walkable' area highlighted -

Hey! I'm looking for games to play + rate, please link your games in the comments :smiley: (HTML5 preferred :heart:)

Would really appreciate it if you'd like to share the love and rate our game too https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/qubit

Thanks!

Please come and try our game ! 3D twin stick zombie shooter !

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/jareds-fresh-start

(Upgrades can be bought at an ammo box on the other side of the barricades)

While Doom guy preparing for his eternal battle, goose guy is defending our planet from the hordes of evil beings with his shotgun in HONK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4WCiyWu8Q

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's been rating our game! The awesome feedback we're getting will definitely go into the final version!

Also, we've been playing some incredible games, and we can't wait to continue checking out what all of you guys made! Cheers!

So normally around this time I'd be clamoring for more ratings, but somehow Unlock Everything has already accumulated a whopping 137 ratings despite me not having made many posts about it. So uh...wow. A huge thanks to everyone who played, rated, and enjoyed my game! I guess it's at least eye-catching?

Anyways, as a way to show my appreciation, I'm going to instead kick off a series of write-ups about various aspects of "Unlock Everything". We're starting off with this nifty diamond-based screen transition effect that I implemented using a pixel/fragment shader:

Screen transitions are an important part of making your game look polished! In all of my previous games I've used simple fade-to-black transitions, but I wanted to try a fancier effect this time.

Transitions based on diamond shapes are actually pretty common among games, particularly with an 8-bit or 16-bit aesthetic. Some examples you may be familiar with include Tower of Heaven, Pause Ahead, and A Kitty Dream:

I was inspired by these games to try my hand at making a similar effect. I think the end result really adds to the sense of polish that you get, even when first booting up the game.

...

Read the full writeup explaining this transition effect on my website: https://ddrkirby.com/articles/shader-based-transitions/shader-based-transitions.html

So, we've been reading your feedback and seeing the same few notes again and again - increase the walk speed, make the wires more intuitive, wasn't sure what to do at first, etc - and kinda scratching our heads as to what to do. We know how to fix it, but are hands are tied ... or are they?

Enter the POST JAM version, JAM-PACKED with fixes and little quality of life improvements, while still being fundamentally the same game we initially submitted.

So, come on by and see what you think!

Check out my game and help me get to 20 ratings!

You can play it in your browser!

click here to check it out: Entanglement

Hey guys! We are really glad you liked the mood and the art of the game, so we decided to share with you a little bit of the process of the artwork! If you haven't played our game wet, please, check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/memories-of-eleph! (and be careful, there are the spoilers below!)

Once we set the central ideia of the game, based on the concept of starting without memory, we tried to define what would be our main character. After some sketches and brainstorming we remembered about the elephant, an animal that have a great memory, and we thought that playing with this contradiction could be interesting! These are one of the first loose and not fancy sketches of the possible characters, and you can see our dear Eleph coming together!

The next step was to look up to references for the mood, colors and character design. This was really imporant to set the game art tone!

After that, a basic mockup was created with the first version of Eleph and some placeholder tiles. From this mockup I iterated some color schemes that you can see below. The team choose the third one, and then I modified it a little bit to better suit my taste hehehe

Because I had never worked with pixel art for a topdown game before, I learned a lot during the entire jam. I had never created pixel art particles in Unity and I had never made a 4 frame walk cycle before. It was really challenging, but super fun! Here is Eleph cycle in his final shape!

I forgot to say that in the beggining we built a list of the art to be done, and it was huge. So we focused on keep things as simple as possible, especially for animation. The enemies, for exemple, have only four frames, moves with an idle animation and are always facing down.

I applied the same thought for the tiles and props of the rooms, but creating variety, corners and patterns got things a little bit confusing and overwhelming. Here is the final screen of the tilemap, props and enemy design file hehehe It's a big mess :sweat_smile:

Once everything started to come togheter inside the game, we started designing the UI elements and the screens. It was pretty straight forward and fun to do! I searched for a good pixel art font(PixelMix) and aimed for a cleand an simple design, with a pinch of cuteness. These below are some mockups!

I don't really remember why, but creating the pixels coming out of the timer gave us such a headache! :laughing:

The screen below was one of my favorite parts of the initial ideia of the game.. A mind map screen where you could see and read his memories after collecting then. Unfortunally we didn't had enough time to do it... :cry:

Well, here is an actual footage of the game!

That's all for today! We would like to thank you all again for the feedbacks and kind words we've been receiving! See you in LDJ46!

Art by @fredbernardo

Code and level design by @vcesauron and @leandroc

Thank you for playing Wicked Wanderings!

If you haven't played Wicked Wanderings yet you can cook up some potions HERE. Have fun!

If you're looking for a unique puzzle game that you can play in a browser, please give mine a try, and let me know what you think.

Here's the game link

Thanks to everyone who played and rated! The chicken is happy! 🐔❤️

If you haven't played yet click the link below to check it out. I'll rate your games too!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/egg-scramble

Dave Brake Creations

Small children easily deal with such tasks, but with age skill can be lost. Are you ready to show our skills? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/sandsea

P.S. there is no lose here, only win condition. So don't give up!💪💪💪 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/sandsea

Hey Guys! I am working on another map for my game - Prison Escape! Check out my game Prison Escape, which currently has 2 levels, and many people said that they 2 levels are less, so here it is, we made another level for you guys! Check out my game if you haven't already!- https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape (Play my game now in your browser!)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/chicken-nothing

If you want to play on your phone, “Nothing is my car” is playable on Android here :

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car

or here :

https://t-bo-games.itch.io/nothing-is-my-car

( You can also play on Web, Windows, Linux or Mac OS )

It’s a game about driving … But driving nothing ! XD

I hope you will like it !

No? Then try Necrofencer Hero! Build your army from nothing! No minions to control? Maybe you might have some test subjects lying around...

Please play rate and comment!

You can place some of your own here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/hellion-is-now-finally-published

Hey Guys! I am working on another map for my game - Prison Escape! Check out my game Prison Escape, which currently has 2 levels, and many people said that they 2 levels are less, so here it is, we made another level for you guys! Check out my game if you haven’t already!- https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape (Play my game now in your browser!)

I did a major bugfix to the game which should solve the "Bluescreen" issue :) If you like my compo metroidvania game just leave me message ;)

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

Play Claimbeer here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/claimbeer

I'm taking my Compo entry and expanding it into a full game. If you want to follow my progress follow me on twitter!! If not, at least give my Compo entry a shot!

(gif of the current rebuild in unity)

Play my Compo Entry! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/garden-circuit

Hey guys, doing a little bit of self promotion because I'm really close to 20 ratings and I am pretty proud of my game. My submission is influenced by katamari damacy and risk of rain, is trying to (and I think succeeds) be a combination of the two. Check my game 'Ooze for the ooze gods' here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/ooze-for-the-ooze-gods. Only for Windows currently, but I am thinking about making it into a full scale project when I find some time. I was surprised in how little katamari like games I saw this LD, I had assumed it would be the obvious choice. Anyways, thanks so much for your time can't wait to see what you think! OOZE FOR THE OOZE GOD OOZE FOR THE OOZE GOD OOZE FOR THE OOZE GOD

Play The Game Here

We finally found the time to polish our game ! :smiley:

If you didn’t play Shuǐmòhuà yet, or if you want to test the new version, click the link below:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/shuimohua

Hope you’ll like the experience :slight_smile:

PS: We also made an Android export, but not sure it works

Be a vengeful warrior that has nothing, even without your life, take it back from death himself and follow your path towards your nemesis. Get the loot to be prepared to the final battle.

Thank you for playing and all feedback.

Hello everyone! Here is responsible for the design of the last level of the Spooky.

I have a question for you. What do you think about it? Maybe the game need to be more like that or it's too hardcore? What about play something like this on the Mobile? What things you would like to see in future Spooky?

Give your feedback about it! If you dont play Spooky, please, check our game here, we love all kind of feedbacks: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/spooky-the-one-who-lost-everything

We don't have much time to play other games, so we don't have a lot of ratings. But we're trying! Try our game and leave a link to your own for us to play!

Play as a witch and collect cat souls

Play here! ^_^

Come play a gun and zombie infested world as Sgt Jared ! He recently lost his job for advertising and now the world has come to an end ! Find the C4 and blow up the barricade to venture further into the world !

https://youtu.be/WDsik1KO1-w

Play it here

Play🎮 or draw🎨 something on sand in realtime https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/sandsea . Share you pictures in comments! =) P.S. We actually spended some time to add a lot of secret secret mesSANDges in the game… maybe you find them first)

My Ludum Dare 44 game is on Google Play !

Trailer :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UptOcgSg1w

The game :

Bill the postman lives in a world where life is time and this time is currency.

He earns time when he posts letters.

You have to help him to post letters to keep him alive.

But don't forget to feed him and beware of the dogs !

Post as letters as possible here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.TBoGames.Bill

( My LD 45 game is here, if you want to play : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car )

We have read the comments / feedback and have released an update on the game's economy. Bugs have been squashed, prices slashed, turrets went to an aim academy (better hit rate),and more! A Mac and HTML version also released.

Game link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/hellion-is-now-finally-published

Hey Guys! I am working on another map for my game - Prison Escape! Check out my game Prison Escape, which currently has 2 levels, and many people said that they 2 levels are less, so here it is, we made another level for you guys! Check out my game if you haven’t already!- https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape (Play my game now in your browser!)

Hey Guys! I am working on another map for my game - Prison Escape! Check out my game Prison Escape, which currently has 2 levels, and many people said that they 2 levels are less, so here it is, we made another level for you guys! Check out my game if you haven’t already!- https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape (Play my game now in your browser!)

Play it right now, or the ghost of the brussel king shall haunt you for eternity!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-pumpking

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/free-will

Did you play Free Will ? WebGL and Windows builds are available.

Have you ever saw "Dogville", from the danish director Lars Von Trier? If not, I recommend it a lot! It was a really good movie, with a really good story.

When the theme was revealed, I admit I was very happy because it was the theme I hoped for. I already has the idea of the empty space and the scene is being revealed when the story is developing. But at the beginning I was trying to do an white scene, like the Assassin's Creed loading screen.

First I modeled all the furniture and characters.

But when I started to put everything in the game engine. I felt so sad with the result.

At this time, I confess there I had think in gave up, but instead I started to research some references and I found the Lars Von Trier movie and immediately changed the aesthetic of my game to it.

I think this is the best decision I make in the development of this game. At the end I found the game become better than I was planning at the beginning, and I'm very happy with the result.

I hope you guys liked too! If you haven't played yet, take a chance to it!

CLICK HERE TO PLAY DEAR DIARY

And also, take a look at the timelapse of the development of the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhwRZKu9qoM

So here is what we were waiting for! The update is here! In this update, i have added a new 3rd map and the hitboxes are now a little bit smaller than before! (You can play my game in you browser!)

If you haven't played our game yet, try it out now! - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape (Play my game in you browser!)

Hey folks. Hope you're having fun with all the games! I wanted to share a bit about our development process for バクラウBloodless, specially code stuff. Here ya go!

I thought it would be cool to go over the libraries we used, as well as the modules we developed during the jam. I want to tidy up the stuff we built as separate git projects so anyone can use/contribute to them, but for now they’re all in the(not too tidy) jam repo. Let's go over all this stuff

3rd Party stuff

Unity

I guess I should include this, right? We used Unity 2019.2 . One weird thing about Unity is that it often requires you to build your own systems for stuff like audio, because it's basic audio system is weird. More on that later!

DOTween

For those who don't know DOTween, it's an amazing and easy to use code-driven animation library with a free version. Ever since I've known DOTween, I don't think I've ever had a project where I didn't use it. It's also especially great for jams because of how it allows for a lot of complex behaviours to be implemented super quickly by code, and it allows you to make all of that stuff be event-driven, which I found often leads to better code!

Code from previous projects

We used some code from previous projects, with tweaks to some of them

State Machines

State Machines are super useful(here's a really good text about them if you don’t know them )! I really like our specific implementation. It's pretty straightforward. Here’s what one of its states looks like ``` public class IdleState : PlayerStateBase {

    protected override void Begin()
    {

    }
    public override void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Player.defaultMover.DoFixedUpdate(Player, Player.DirectionInput);
    }
    public override void OnDashPressed()
    {
        ExitTo(new DashState(Player.FacingDirection));
    }

}

And the base class for player states looks like this public class PlayerStateBase : State { protected PlayerController Player { get => Context; }

    public virtual void Update() { }
    public virtual void FixedUpdate() { }

    public virtual void OnDashPressed() { }

    public virtual void OnNoHealth()
    {
        ExitTo(new DeadState());
    }

... ``` One nice thing about how we implemented the state machines is that it doesn't allow you to change, or even access states from outside. This leads you to isolate the state machine logic and communicate through events, which I find to be a good way to make the machine cleaner and easier to debug.

Character Movement

We used a rigidbody-based top-down movement code we had from previous projects. The movement is pretty simple, just a few weird forces that made the movement feel right to me, especially when changing direction. What I really liked was how the movement class is structured:

You create and configure a mover as following. Think of these as movements presets Then you Implement a simple interface public interface IMovingChar { public Rigibody2D Rigidbody { get; } public Vector2 FacingDirection { get; } } And you just call the mover every frame mover.DoFixedUpdate(this, input);

This makes it really easy to change the movement style of characters in different modes. We used this a lot with enemies to tweak their walk and attack movement speeds

Object Triggers

Because it's really common for you to have objects that trigger when they collide with an object of a specific type, we had code from previous projects for easy object triggers. You use it by extending this ObjectTrigger generic class and implement the OnTriggered function:

public class SimpleHazard : ObjectTrigger<PlayerController> { protected override void OnTrigger(PlayerController player) { player.OnHit(transform); } } There's also this functionality with the triggers where you can create "proxies", so that you can add "external" hitboxes that are detected as the class they proxy for. I really want to use this one day for a boss where it just has lots of spots where you can hit!!!

``` public class PlayerExtraHitbox: IProxyFor { [SerializeField] private PlayerController player;

public PlayerController Owner { get { return owner; } } } ```

Jam Made Systems

Audio

I always have a hard time using unity's audio system. I just find it super hard to do even simple behaviours with it, and there are a lot of recurring problems, like a sound effect increasing in sound if it's triggered multiple times in the same frame. For all of those reasons, this jam I finally built a little sound system. It's far from perfect, and not very optimized for a big scale game, but it worked pretty well for the jam!

Here's how it’s used: For each individual sound effect in the game, you create a sound effect asset like this. You can configure some stuff in it like what audiomixer group it outputs to, and a minimum play interval so you can stop it from triggering multiple times in a frame Then you add it to the audio database And you can play it in your game either by id or by the asset reference

AudioManager.Instance.Play("transition_end"); Then in the game it just creates the needed audiosources

Events

We built a nice event system for this game. It uses strings for event ids. I was a bit skeptical about using a system with strings for the events instead of just adding c# events to the each of the game's modules. In the end, I really liked how the string events allowed you to build stuff just through the inspector. I guess in the end both c# events and string-based events can coexist serving different functions!

TriggerManager.StartListening(EventName.OnBossSpawn, OnBossSpawn);

Final Thoughts

So those are the systems we used for building our game. Again, the whole code is available at the project’s repo on GitHub, so if you think any of these could be helpful, feel free to use them!

For more on our jam process, here's some other posts by our team, as well as our game

Level Design

Sound Design

バクラウ Bloodless

Have you ever climbed a piano to get the garden gnome buried under those slow cookers?

Go do it now!

Hi ludum o/

• As we said at our game page, we have run out of time at LD45 and our battle system was broke.
  But now we fix that all and glad show you our post-ld version.

• Game page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/loopathero/edit
• web-version https://fourquarters.itch.io/loopathero

• Last two weeks we've been working on our game. We've improved all elements of the game. Modified the combat system, added new sounds and music, redrawn enemy sprites and much more other things.

• #### Thanks, Four Quarters team. https://twitter.com/_FQteam

I planned to play 100 games in the first week, but some games are too addicting!! However, the mission is not over: play 100 games before voting ends!

Submit your game in the comments

This is my best Ludum Dare event since joining!

Don't forget to play my game as well!

Play Bob the Brawler

Comment your highscores:

Hi! I'm the developer of Word Wielder, a turn based RPG where your actions are completed through filling in the blanks on the actual actions, using the word "Nothing"!

It's my 4th time being part of this awesome event and I usually play this for the Compo category, just for the challenge. This game in particular is the one I've felt is the most polished of the ones I've made so far, and I'd love if you could give it a try! I really hope you enjoy it :heart: and don't forget to rate!

Compo Entry Page

Post-Mortem

Play in your browser!

Select your strategy here.

Maybe 🦀 into 🐟 into ⭐

Or 🐟 into 🦀 into ⭐

Or just ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ XD

Or find a winning strategy yourself!)

My game goal this time was 100 games!

And I'm finally here! But I'm still seeing so many fun games to play! :smiley:
So if I haven't rated yours yet, comment it below! :pointdowntone4:

Edit*

Also, if you want to play Bob the Brawler you can;

Try to beat @juan's highscore:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/dungeon-of-souls

This is a game update, I decided to do it for bug fixes that are in the originally released game.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/mission-interrupted

If you have not played the original version of JAM yet, we recommend that you do not play it. there is an error that makes the game progression impossible...

with this update fixes this bug and adds some more decorative objects and some changes in game stability

this was the first gameplay anyone has ever made of this game (at least to my knowledge) if you have a channel and made a gameplay of the game please send me the link, i always like to see reactions! :D

see you next time, byye!

https://gamejolt.com/games/Game-Mission-interrupted/445886

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cich7-E4QbY

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-blue-girl

Featuring original music by Brian Cavanaugh.

Defend the crystal. Build the ship. Fight off our enemies. Keep the crystal alive.

PLAY IT HERE: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/crystallian

I've been slacking when it comes to rating games for LD45. Time to change that! If you have a game that you are proud of and want some feedback, please comment.

If you have a moment and want to try my game I would really appreciate it. It is a tight little platformer with magical abilities, enemies, and 8 progressively difficult levels. Have fun and thank you!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/ludum-and-the-lost-pages

https://youtu.be/WDsik1KO1-w

Play it here

Small children easily deal with such tasks, but with age skill can be lost. Are you ready to show our skills?

P.S. there is no lose here, only win condition. So don't give up)

Game Page

We saw the feedback you guys left about the economy of the game. This update improves it and squashed a few bugs along the way. Check it out in the link below.

Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/hellion-is-now-finally-published

Only six days left to play my game THE LOST LETTERS OF HARRY WILLIAMS. With easy gameplay mechanics and gorgeous graphics. Lets see if you can find all of the lost letters.

Play here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-lost-letters-of-harry-williams

So here is what we were waiting for! The update is here! In this update, i have added a new 3rd map and the hitboxes are now a little bit smaller than before! (You can play my game in you browser!)

If you haven’t played our game yet, try it out now! - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape

This is the second article in a series of writeups. The previous article covered Shader-based Screen Transitions.

I've gotten a lot of positive feedback for the NES-style chiptune soundtrack for Unlock Everything, so I decided to do a writeup breaking down the basics of how these chiptunes are structured. (It's a little easier to do this sort of writeup for chiptunes since they're so limited compared to more fully-featured tracks)

The soundtrack for Unlock Everything consists of chiptune tracks in the style of the original NES. Here's a sample track so you know what it sounds like.

This is the music for the second level of the game, titled "Face Your Destiny", and is my personal favorite out of the entire OST. In this writeup we'll be dissecting the different components of this track to see how it all comes together, as well as discussing some arrangement techniques involved in each section.

Before I go into the actual sounds used in the track, I should point out that the first thing I did when starting this song was decide on a rough tempo to compose at. I settled on 150BPM for this track, because I wanted it to have a lot more energy than the music for level 1 (100BPM) but a little less than level 3 (180BPM). This would give the soundtrack a sense of progression that matched the intensity of the gameplay.

...

Read the full writeup breaking down this song on my website: https://ddrkirby.com/articles/nes-chiptunes-unlock-everything/nes-chiptunes-unlock-everything.html

I uploaded the source code of my game, Sluggish Grind to a :cool: :new: :free: GitHub repo. Bask in the glory of spaghetti, inconsistent code made in a hurry and a messy, unsafe way to store sprites, with directories keeping scenes and scripts of questionable relationships together!

The repo also contains post-jam work I'm doing so check it out if you're interested.

Nothing is my car

My LD45 game is an endless runner car game … without car !

Drive the air here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/nothing-is-my-car

We've been hearing that our game, Dumpy's Quest for Crap, has some movement issues across the board, ranging from moving too slow, to accelerating too fast, to getting stuck in the air if you stop pressing buttons.

That's not ideal, but what's done is done... and after looking into solutions, the things we've learned are going to end up improving all of our work going forward, so it's a net positive.

If you're curious what Dumpy's quest was supposed to look (and play) like, here's a quick clip I put together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAe9YalAYo

If you haven't played and rated DQ4C, why not do so now? Click here!

maybe you can make a friend in this game~ it start with nothing,but it ends with a friendship.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/there-will-be-nothing