This is our first jam as Selkie Harbour, a small team of just two people: guille and manon. We used UE5 and it was the first time we try to do something in such a short amount of time.
We're quite happy with the result overall, we hope you like it!
We are still tired from the weekend but now we're looking forward to play and rate the nice games that have been made. Feel free to comment this post with yours if you want us to give it a go!
Here's our entry, The Lamplighter
In our entry The Lamplighter we decided to go for a dark mood. We implemented the game with unreal and the main mechanic is a torch you need to charge to make your way through the eyes that lurk in the shadows.
They had to be very simple but creepy & challenging. We ended up with a plane with a texture, and to do the blinking we only needed to scale the UP axis.
They had to reinforce the feeling of 1. danger ahead 2. being followed
Initially we tried to do the most simple AI possible: just entities that move brainlessly towards the player, to avoid creating complexity and dealing with the navmesh and behavior trees, but in the end we needed to go ahead and add a bit of complexity in this layer.
To do so, we implemented a very simple AI that just follows the player once they detect him, after a random time range. You can see the highly complex behavior tree:
This only worked to reinforce the point 1. To create the feeling of being followed, we decided to respawn the enemies behind the player once they were killed with light. To implement this, we used a simple environmental query:
This generates a circle of positions around the player and scores every position with the following tests: 1. Prefer greater distance to the player 2. Prefer greater distance to lit lamp posts 3. Get only positions that are in the navmesh 4. Get only the positions that are behind the player
All the tests work together, but it is the test (4) that made the magic.
The rating window is closing soon so we thought we should put here some of our favourite entries in no particular order in case you want to check them out!
JAM GAME by Rodrigo Sousa (@rodrigo-sousa), Gabgé (@gabge), and Legolula (@legolula)
It comes at midnight has such a fresh identity. We enjoyed its narrative and visual style a lot. We had to show it to several people outside of the jam that we knew were going to love it!
JAM GAME by protowlf (@protowlf), Loveschach (@loveschach), Ronn Fever (@ronn-fever), and LittleBlackDog (@littleblackdog)
Really clever level design and good use of the mechanics & theme. We loved the style and the vibes of the world, such an engaging story told in a succinct way!
JAM GAME by Do3naut (@do3naut), Kaiway (@kaiway), and Fudgeawsome (@fudgeawsome)
This game was something different to what we're used to. Really clever design and it was so engaging. The mechanics are simple to grasp but are surprising and fun and challenge you to think about your abilities in a fresh way.
JAM GAME by jjbug (@jjbug)
This was really something surprising. The narrative was told in a very interesting way and we got hooked. We would be so interested to know more about this story - there has to be more!!
JAM GAME by johanhelsing (@johanhelsing)
We like rythm games and this one had a different take on it. It wasn't frantic, actually rather calm and even meditative, but still with its own challenges.
A game about using your torch to light the way and keep yourself safe...
Congratulations to everyone who took part in this jam - We hope you enjoy our small round up of great games from this event! We still haven't played so many of the entries, so if you have a game we have to check out please drop it in the comments!
Here's our entry! This is the second LD we participate as a team.
"A Message for the Stone King". A game about trying to convince the king that a war is coming.
We hope you like it! 👑
our entry
("yes! I got a day of normal sleep and normal dreams!" says the Stone King after being born as a LD53 entry)
We can't wait to start playing all your games and see what you've all done. This is going to be a fun week of playing thanks to you you all! 👑
Hey! We're a small team of two from Spain and this was our second Ludum Dare together — we're quite proud of how our game turned out (even if we didn't have the time to do everything we wanted to, I suppose like almost everyone else here) and we'd love if you checked it out and let us know what you think!! 👑
As we approach the final days of the jam, we wanted to say THANK YOU!! All of the positive comments have been a huge highlight and we're so so happy that people have been enjoying our game. We really enjoyed working on it even if we couldn't bring every piece of our design to life. We still think it turned out pretty well ♥️
If you haven't played yet and want to see what it's all about, please try to deliver bad news to the immovable Stone King and convince him that you're telling the truth 👑
Fit everyone in the bed! Make sure they're happy so they can get COSY ☁
This is our third LD entry as a team, and this time we collaborated with @jmartinez-gamedev
We would be honoured if you give it a go here !
Thank you, and remember to stay cosy
I hope that you all are feeling a bit more rested now but if that's not the case, at least you can simulate that with our entry
Stay cosy ☁️
How's the jam going for everyone? We are still so tired after completing our game, can't wait to get COSY :cloud:
We've just added a fix for a bug that covered the screen in black on some older GPUs 🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMMk_he919Y
👉 https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/fit-in-bed 👈
If you want to feel the cosy and get in bed from your computer, you can try out our game ☁ https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/fit-in-bed
Fit in bed now has a linux version. We don't have a linux machine so we can't test it and it's the first time we package for linux, but if you give it a go please tell us how it works! Thank you!
Check it out here
