First time participating, absolutely psyched for this!

In 2021, I signed up by (a happy) accident.

This will be my third time on purpose.

Phew, made it! Looking forward to checking out the games! Wish I didn't have life things going on during this jam, but c'est la vie. Oh and to the whitelist thing going on, I'm human (last I checked).

Fall term LudumDare is my favorite LudumDare!

My theme suggestions (sorry in advance):

Real life overwhelmed me and ate my last entry, but that's not gonna stop me from feeling PSYCHED UP for LD55! :fire:

I was really picky this time around, my first time where my keepers were less than triple digits.

Anywhoo, quite a few themes in there really spark my imagination and I'm looking forward to the big reveal! 😄

Here's my loadout:

• :motor_scooter: Construct 2
• :art: Paint.NET
• :runner: Aseprite
• :musical_score: FL Studio

I'm pumped! :fire:

I managed to make a game! :fire:

Glad to see the site up and kicking again, thought my browser was busted lol.

Total bloodbath! :knife:

I see from other posts I'm not alone in being picky this time.

• :motor_scooter: : GameMaker
• :musical_score: : FL Studio
• :art: / :runner: : Aseprite
• :loudspeaker: : Reaper

Sticking with my regular tools this time, with the exception of Reaper for sound effects. After playing with it for a bit, it's perfect for my workflow.

Good luck and have fun, folks! :fire:

Awwww I'm so happy the community came together to give Mike a hand, it's heartwarming, really! :heart:

Time for the obligatory "I'm in!" post.

My suggestions are somewhat conflicted this time around:

Slashy slash! :crossed_swords:

I feel I get more and more picky with the themes each event. There's some real bangers in there, though.

I'm in and brought my best knives! :knife: :knife:

Last year got pretty rough for my health, so I had to miss last time. On the recovery express lane now, I could dig into a compo. :forkandknife:

I did some warmups over the past couple of weeks, and I am psyched up! Let's go! :fist:

• :motor_scooter: Engine: GameMaker
• :art: Art & Animations: Aseprite
• :musical_note: Music: Beepbox (Been having a ton of fun with this thing)
• :sound: Sound design: Reaper

Good luck over the weekend! :fireworks:

FOURTH??!! Audio tends to be my best scoring part, I expected that to be true again but like... I made it in to the top 5 for audio and like... holy eff thank you!

And now, I will share some brief notes about the tracks and links to the BeepBox songs themselves if you want to pick at 'em.

This soundtrack marks my first time really getting into the "taste" of the FM operators in BeepBox. I wanted to go for something MS-DOS sounding, as the selected palette for the game's art reminded me of the aesthetics of EGA graphics and soundblaster music.

The upbeat track started as a completely different song. It was way darker, sounded like some kind of boss battle music and didn't line up with the fun positive vibe I was aiming for, so I scrapped all but the drums because I really like the energy and the whole "marching drum" sound in the snares at the end of the intro became something of Numbus' motif (to the point where I made that the sound when Numbus is at the ready).

The more mellow track started with me playing around with one of the harmonics presets in BeepBox to get the sound of a particular flavor of Rhodes piano. I have an obsession with its sound, it just makes big chords sound cooool. I borrowed some aesthetics from Bossa Nova, while keeping it close to a Genesis/Megadrive flavor.

The third track plays in the help and ending. It was the last day, there was not a lot of time left and I wanted to channel the MS-DOS energy one more time and got this. When in doubt, go for blues energy.

Anywhoo, thank you so much for checking out Numbus Crossing! Hope I see you next time! :wave: