I going to try to scope big, I always scope small and maybe underscope so I wanna really push myself. Take risk, this will make things fun and bring some unexpected situation =) . Try something new! again this will make it more fun.

As for tool, I will use : unity, krita, probuilder(3d), bosca ceoil, and maybe audacity

I don't know what we're yelling about!

4 months have passed already, huh? I'm pretty busy this specific weekend... but I'll make something nonetheless.

Learning from last time, the design/dev goals will be: * Short development time * Short play time * Clear ending So basically, something Short and Sweet!

While I'm at it, I might take the time to try something in Unity instead of Gamemaker too...

Hope everyone has fun!

Why is everyone saying they won't like it if they choose Unconventional Travel? As soon as I saw that theme I really wanted to do it because I'd love to see what kind of games everyone makes!

I hope everyone good luck in the "unconventional travel" theme XD!

This will be my fourth time that I will be participating Ludum Dare; My last participation didn't go so well, so I'm hoping for a much better outcome this time around! Good luck to everyone who is participating.

Hi there! I'm glad I can join this jam once again. Since I started properly working on a videogame company a year and a half ago I haven't gotten into the mood of this in a while. But now I'm ready!

The tools I'll use:

• My good ol' laptop
• Unity 2019.2.7f1
• GIMP 2.10
• FL Studio 20

I want to make some pixelart as it's cheap and a bit familiar (I'm pretty bad at it though)

Good luck everyone! I can't wait to play your future games, honestly <3

Poisons of choice - IDE: Eclipse, Eldian (custom creation, MIDI trigger-able even!) - Art: Paint Shop Pro, Pencils and Paper. - Music & SFX: Ableton - Platform: Java

Will give the 48 a shot but not overly phased if it slides in a Jam.

Wondering about mixing a text adventure with an 80's arcade game.

Best of luck too everyone.

<3

REVIEW YOUR TECH STACK!!!!!

• Make sure all your programs, plugins, etc. are updated, or still working at your preferred versions.
• Make sure your OS isn't pending an update.
• Clean your desk, keyboard, and mouse.
• Charge any wireless hardware
• Prepare and/or take your meds and/or vitamins
• Your sacrifice to the egg will be acknowledged and rewarded in kind #eggcrew
• Prepare some healthy food if you can
• Drink lots of water
• Don't forget to have fun :sunglasses:

As the title says this is my first jam. The wife and kids know im going to be locked in the office for the next few days with plans to emerge for bio breaks, food, and perhaps a little sleep. My current tools Unity Visual Studio 2019 Photoshop Pen,Pencil,Graph Paper, Ruler and Compass.

I am looking at a handful of other tools that you fine people are posting, and will likely press gang a few into service as the weekend progresses.

I too will be streaming on twitch if you want to watch a noob stumble through some game development! https://www.twitch.tv/agentKnipe

what is Unconventional Travel???????????????????????????

So I got up already to stream to day to find out my Ethernet isn't working. After spending about an hour and a half trying to get it to work and failing I made the executive decision to not put myself in a bad mood getting frustrated with it and just use my WiFi today. No idea how my WiFi will hold up under stream conditions but hopefully it won't cause to much trouble for me. Let this minor setback serve as a reminded to all my fellow Jammers. When plans go awry (which they always do) always remember that sometimes its better to just move on to plan b than waste time and energy trying to get plan A to work.

So we're in, but our Artist is getting married this month (Yay!) and has to focus on wedding plans and honeymoons. We're looking for an artist who'd be up for some remote work.

Team is currently made up of:
@occultone : Programmer, Designer, 3D Artist
@firesong-bard : Musician, Sound Engineer, UI Designer
@courtbird : Programmer, Design, UI, Writing

Hit me up on Discord: NickCrosgrove#1638

Here's my personal code library that I'll be starting with. It's not much, but I'm sharing it here per the rules so everyone has access to it before the jam starts. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/krr81phseqmlag3/AACTWXiLqSZEC17_4WYaHFmLa?dl=0

Either way dont take the theme or Jam too seriously. Most importantly Good luck and have fun!

Saturday morning

• Get up
• Check the theme
• Make coffee

Saturday till lunch

• Brainstorm game ideas

Saturday afternoon

• Implement the code for basic gameplay
• Tweak until it's fun

Sleep

Sunday morning

• Get up
• Make coffee
• Make graphics/art

Sunday afternoon

• Make sfx/music
• Polish

Submit!

Starting at 11pm for me works so much better than 2am so if I'm going to join then this is it. Last one was back for 24 so I only missed 21...

Engine: Unity Graphics: Paint.Net

It's going to be 2D, and here's hoping for a good theme...

I'll stream the whole lot as well, as well as tweet my progress :D

http://www.twitch.tv/talslain/

http://www.twitter.com/talslain/

6 events have come and gone since my last game. No more! Probably using LÖVE or maybe some JavaScript framework. Still undecided.

Me and @cyberwiz will probably be jamming together again even though we're a continent apart now (at least we're still in the same time zone)!

We want to try out PICO-8 - so not much to tell by way of tooling - we'll use whatever is bundled with PICO-8. Hopefully the severe constraints will help to curb our ambitions and help compensate for the fact that we'll each probably only have about one and a half days out of the three to work on our game.

Good luck to everyone and may the theme be less hateful than usual!

My first game jam! Hope it goes well.

Tools I'm planning on using:

Editor: Intellij IDEA

Platform: Java

Graphics/Art: Graphics Gale

Best of luck to everyone!

Super excited for this one.

Hey I'm 22 from Ontario, Canada. I'll be working solo.

There are a couple things I want to work on with this jam: visual consistency, setting a clear goal, & polishing early.

This is my first LD gamejam so I'm pretty stoked! If you want me to check out your game this weekend just leave a comment here and I'll pop by sometime and check out your stuff.

Here are my 4 solo game jam games: https://chrismulholland.itch.io/

Here is my duo game jam game (was also my first): https://www.amethystgames.com/havehope/lojam/?fbclid=IwAR2Vilwa6mEk-w4yDEKunRLQJ57asF1M1tVpL5Zp2MPCQbL6c6h9C2kJfm8

The screenshot is my first official solo game called "Scooch" which will be out by the end of October.

I hope to meet some of you. Good luck and have fun everyone!

Im think of quieting the jam im really nervous

I have a thing for choosing something different to use each time. I've never made anything with Phaser yet so here's to hoping I've practiced enough.

Opted to use the following this time around: - PhaserJS 3 - GIMP - VisualStudio Code

Probably fumble about with audio

I didn't vote for "night is coming" in the first rounds and it flew under my radar, but now its my favourite. Fits the season isn't to restrictive and allows for many different ideas...

Anyway hope i'll get done with my game again (i'm on a 50/50 finished projects rate regarding LDs) Have fun^^

Good luck everyone!

As I say we are in. Here is our team: @glicone @vladlawrence @nick-gozak @yaroslav-gozak

Wea re pretty new to this, but i hope everything will be ok.

Hopefully it goes good.

Uh... was getting ready to get a long sleep before the start and now I see LD starts in 2 hours, not it 14. Well.. no rest for the wicked. Time to close work project in unreal and open new one in Unity for the ludum dare. It's been two years since my last LD, I hope I still remember how to fast prototype :D

I've done a couple game jams before but I'm still quite a beginner. I wanted to do this in Unity, but I never had time to get into the engine yet, so I'll probably be working in GameMaker Studio 2. Aiming to compete in the Compo, GLHF everyone!

https://www.strawpoll.me/18740037

Again, like an actual election, you should never trust the polls to tell you which theme is going to win, but it should give you a good idea of which ones people are gunning for.

EDIT: Also this one only allows one awnser.

Any good streamers you guys recommend to follow in this LD? I'll probably don't participate cause I am a lonely Godoter, but I'd like to see some action

For the past few hours I've been feeling like I'm getting sick, gonna be feeling a bit under the weather 'm afraid. Hopefully I'll be feeling fine again tomorrow? (N.B.: I also have a habit of getting a bit whiny when I get sick, so thanks for giving me your precious attention. I'm sure it has some placebo effect!)

Been sitting here getting my little code base of boilerplate functionality in order, like I imagine a lot of people are. Maybe I should boilerplate m'self some tea! :tea::grinning:

I've also been jamming out to Tiny Desk Concerts all evening, trying to keep the ones I know are great for later. I've already come across some really nice new tunes to jam up my ears, as one is prone to when listening to these.

This is my first game jam. Lets do this!

And we (@inkyglow and I) are back for another ludum dare! Hopefully the gameplay will succeed this time.

Good luck all! But have fun!

I actually completely forgot about this until I saw that quill18 posted about it... Have fun everyone!!

Been wanting to take part in a game jam for years but always had something in the way, eventually that just turned into excuses, but not this time, I'm excited to see what I can do

I will be using my own HTML5 LibXOR library for the bulk of my code this time around. I've been busy sprucing up how I handle sound/music and input. I'm a little behind on my goals for drawing graphics, but hopefully that won't be too much of an issue for LD45.

Other tools I'll be using include:

• Ableton Live
• Various analog and digital synthesizers
• Visual Studio Code
• Pyxel Edit for graphics
• GIMP for graphics
• Audacity for sound editing

My github repository is ldjam45

Hey - I hope you are all super excited for Ludum Dare 45!

Sorry for the re-post, but as some of you are getting prepared, I wanted to share this video one last time about making a game in a weekend during Ludum Dare. I hope it can add to your ideas while you patiently wait for another 2 hours until the event begins :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyJ3fhNrn9g

Best of luck everyone and have fun!

Hey, I'm using my base code for gamemaker for my project.

It can be found here: https://gitlab.com/Abrooks/gamemaker-boilerplate/tree/Idjam-45

We participated in LD44 with Death Got Your Girlfriend (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/death-got-your-girlfriend), and we will be participating in Ludum Dare 45. Good Jam everyone, it's gonna be fun!!

Have created a github repository ( https://github.com/hendrikboom3/LudumDare45.git/ ) to track progress, and post semiworking versions of my game-to-be as they become semiworking. I'm now guessing I'll be using HTML5 with Javascript, possibly with WebGL (for graphics) or pure text I/O (for an old-fashioned text game). We'll see.

I've hardly ever programmed anything in Javascript, but have used OpenGL. We'll see.

Hosting may end up being on my personal website on my home server, though I fear having too many people accessing it simultaneously. We'll see.

And it may go down for a few days in the coming month as I move the site to new hardware. Again, we'll see.

I have no idea what the game will be. Though if no ideas come to me, I may end up porting one of my old games (written in Modula 3 or in OCaml) to Javascript. Something I'd like to do anyway, but I suspect three days won't be enough time for that.

-- hendrik

So my first LD was LD number 41. Since my first participation, I started every LD with party, followed by hangover through the whole day one. It is my 5th LD and this time I've decided to break this rule. We'll see if my results are going to be better this time.

I joined with LD44 and excited to join with today ludum dare, Im using Unity for a game engine, gimp for art, and visual studio 2017 for coding, see you guys during the process

1;45;10

Only a little bit of time left until it starts, and I'm in! Going to be working in Godot this time. I'm hoping that I'll have time to implement music, which is something that almost always have been left out from my previous Ludum Dare entries.

The entire development will be livestreamed on Twitch!

Me and my partner @dinorex are back for LD45! This will be our second game jam ever. Let's have fun and good luck everyone!

Just an hour till start time

The drinks are lined up

There’s snacks by my chair

And ice in my cup

The art table’s prepped

The feeling is heady.

When the theme is revealed

I think I am ready.

...is its name!

So quickly, before you even know what your game is: what's it going to be called?

Day's work? complete. Workout? finished. Dinner? on the plate. Desktop and browser? clear of distractions. Toolset? locked, loaded and shortcutted. Mind? a complete blank.

Let's do this.

Even though this is my second game jam, this is my first one for Ludum Dare. I'm ready for the awesomeness that everyone is gonna make.

Mr. Ludum Dare virgin is Here! I hope I can finish it in time. Have fun everyone!

Me and the team will be making a game from scratch with minimal assets and only using the C++/SDL2 combo. Is this a good idea I hear you ask? well probably not but that's what we are here to find out :slight_smile:

This will also be our first jam (and game) we have done, which will be quite interesting. Well good luck fellow game jammers and may windows not decide to update at submission hour :stuckouttongue:

I'm thinking it will be "Night is Coming" or "Unconventional Travel." For Night is Coming, i'm predicting we'll see lots of games with Day/Night cycles and possibly some vampire and zombie stuff due to Halloween month. I love Halloween and horror so I may go the monster route as well. For Unconventional Travel, I had all kinds of wacky ideas but not sure if they'll work. I mean what constitutes unconventional these days? Is teleportation still unconventional?

Here is my discord if you're interested in joining. Préda #2026 We have a programmer being me and a 3d artist https://twitter.com/JBL_1995.

I tried getting into video game design a long time ago, but never managed to finish my projects. But now, I just heard this from the YouTube quill18, and I’m going to participate! Is there anything that I need to know?

Attending LD45 solo this Time around

i messed up, ignore this

So, all the usual team is there... But each of us will not be there during at least half the jam... Guess I'll have to learn to code in Lua this time.

So, expected roles:

Coding : @ihamfp, maybe @reuh, probably me

Graphics : @celestegranger

Music : me

Sound design : we don't really know yet

Level design : whoever is avialable when needed ?

I hope we won't go overboard with the scope this time ^^'

Learned Unity In a Crash Course Last Weekend, and I'm doing this solo... No, you're scared...

Our first Ludum Dare :) Team of 3 people from same university. After one year of "real life", we're finally joining together again.

Godot it is!

Attending LD45 Solo this Time! So hyped. I'll Be working with Unity

im ok if theres somone who wants to team up im a beginner
unity

Title says it all!

Here's a link to win32 downloadable mesh creation tool called GameApi Builder..

https://meshpage.org/mesh_tool

https://meshpage.org/mesh_tool

All ready to go! Going solo this time! Hope the theme won't be shit -)

Back to Ludum again after a small hiatus, we're super excited! Team of two, will be using GameMaker Studio 2.

Let's go Brazil! Let's make some great games!

As always, I'm excited that it's time for Ludum Dare! Unfortunately I've caught the flu this time but I will try to make a simple game despite that. I don't want to break my ongoing LD streak =)

My tools are the usual suspects: * Unity (2019.2) * Blender 2.8 * Photoshop * Illustrator (if I flip out and go 2D again) * Cubase 9.5 + countless VST instruments * Sound Forge 11 (old, yet NOT reliable =)

I have finally, after I don't know how many years, started to use GitHub so sharing the project will be much simpler this time around after the event.

Also, please, please let me stay away from shoot'em'ups and platformers. I need to redeem my innovation rating!

This is my first time doing any game jam and I just started game dev. I am excited and scared about this. Here's to hoping I can create something

Thru teh kosmos! Mayk'n gaims 'gain!

I'm in.

Tools of the trade? This time I'm going back to Unreal, so here's the list:

| Software | Notes | | --- | --- | | Unreal Engine | Game engine | | Blender | 3D Modeling/Animation/Things | | Krita | Digital Painting/Textures | | LMMS | Music |

Good luck everyone. I look forward to seeing the games that everyone makes.

This is my 3rd Ludum Dare, and this time, we are a team! Two friends joined me, a developer and a composer, so now I can focus on art and design totally! It is almost midnight here, but we are getting ready :)

Engine: Unity or Game Maker Studio //Design: Inkscape

so I'm super new, however I am ecstatic to try something new. I will be using; -Unity 2019.2.6f -blender 2.8 -gimp or pixelart -Microsoft visual studio -bosca ceiol

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Looking forward to the Jam!

Only an hour till it starts!

I'll be using Construct 3 / Bfxr / GIMP as usual!

Hope everyone has a great Jam!

Twitch.tv/TheseusInABottle

Gonna be playing Final Fantasy one on the NES to kill time until the theme is announced. This will be my first time every streaming so hopefully I don't have to many kinks to work out.

Been a while since I've been able to jam properly. Good to be back. Here's hoping my dwindling (but not yet gone) case of tendinitis doesn't flare up and shut me down this weekend.

Tools: - Godot (with Unity and Phaser as backup if I struggle - I'm pretty new to Godot!) - Paint.NET / Krita / GIMP / Inkscape for art - Bosca Ceoil / Audacity / BFXR / ??? for audio - Trello / Google Docs / Wordpad + Dragon / pen and paper / whiteboard for writing and planning

Good luck to everyone!

It's going to be so fun! We're really excited about this event.

Good luck everybody, hope we won't have the night is coming theme!

First Ludum Dare.

Actually I still haven't found what to make yet... The themes seem to be a little bit strange. But JUST DO IT!

C'mon people! Fire up those asses :fire:

Hey guys! This is my first Ludum Dare and game jame. I'm an enterprise software developer by day, and pretty new to gamedev. Looking forward to learning something along the way, and hopefully deliver something!

Here are some of the tools I'll be using.

|Category|Software| |--------|--------| |Engine|Godot| |Art|Asesprite| |Music|Sunvox|

Here is my discord if you’re interested in joining. Préda #2026 We have a programmer being me and a 3d artist https://twitter.com/JBL_1995.

My last and only LD was LD43. I was low ranked, around the 5% lowest scores of every contestants. Now I know this is not only about the rank, but I was a bit demotivated especially giving the fact that I'm a hobbyist since 5-6 years. So I gave up for LD44, but now that I've grown up I'm ready to participe again, and I'm planning to be at least better than last time!

I'm using Construct 3, and probably will make some crappy graphics with MSPaint and/or Photoshop.

Wishing good luck to everyone :)

I think the halloween spirit is getting to me waiting for this jam, how you guys doing?

1. Get sleep early on Friday.
2. Get up early, brainstorm on the theme during breakfast while meeting the development buddy.
3. Forget about step 1 and 2.
4. On Friday at 10:30 pm decide that you do not really want to sleep. Already meet about 11:45, start brainstorming and see what the night brings. :smile:

I'm excited and impossibly tired but I'm determined​ to get one good hour in before bed tonight​. Kinda hoping for shelter now as I've had an idea brewing all day. But factory, evolve and low tech could be fun too!

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First time Ludum Dare participant. I got inspired by watching Pixel Prophecy's Ludum Dare videos!

But why 6PM!! I just got off work and barely have time to get outta my clothes... ... what do you mean I have to jam with pants on?

Here we go! To sleep I mean... 23:20h here where I live, see you in 8 solid hours. Gotta be rested for a good LD! Best of luck to you all, enjoy!

It's been ages since I made any game, going to do my first Ludum Dare to help with the crave.

Tools I'm going to use: - My own engine (that hopefully doesn't break in it's first public use too badly) - GIMP for that sweet programmer art - Audacity and Tracktion 7 for sounds and beep-boops - Blender if it's going to be a 3D game

Good luck to all

good luck ;)