After 3rd attempt at making complex games, we finally realized what shoud be made for Ludum dare. Just kidding, the weekend was pretty busy, so half of out team couldn't participate, we even didn't post anything prior to now, we were unsure if we will make it in time. But look at this. In harshest conditions we finally finished our game in time. It's simple and has some unpolished stuff, but we can be proud of ourselves at least.

It was great expirience, I'm so happy to finally contribute to this jam. But now I'm drained and want to sleep, good night everyone!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/lava-cave

Here's some gameplay. https://youtu.be/h1Gsyb-3om0

After some rest and some time, playing other jam games, it was finally time to garther feedback and fix bugs. And there it is, Lava Cave 1.2. Made goal and mechanics A LOT clearer, also added some benefits for amassing artifacts. Made some hints on UI and added music(we opted out of audio rating, because it's post end time). A few bugs was fixed.

PLAY GAME: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/lava-cave

Bonus: funny CHAD animation bug.

How to add gif to post? I tried link - they don't embed, upload - nothing happens.

Hey, have you tried our game already? Escape lava and amass strange multiplying artifacts. Now with windows build if you preffer it this way(the other one is webgl). Also try to beat my high score(was testing game a lot, yeah...)

There is a proof of scores :P

We already tried participatig with our teem and wasn't able to finish anything worth playing in time before. But we learned some lessons, to cut features, to make easier contept, and finally we did it.

We played other peoples games and these were amazing, it was lovely to see so many people creating such great projects in such time! But without our own game we felt a bit left out and didn't really feel the whole aspect of community around event.

But now, we did happen to finish game in time and there where the best time of Ludum Dare began. It is so fun to watch other people streamig and giving feedback to your game, watch them play other games, rating them, talking in the comments, on streams, we finally became a part of this wonderous community. We already break the minimum to get a score and this was exciting. The game had some rough edges and people justly pointed them out, there was comments about how good some mechanic in game was. It whole communication made me feel like a part of big gamedev community and I liked it!

Thank you for reading through this and come play our game and we will happily play yours(in case we missed it, all games are great, but there is just too many!)

After a good sleep on the side of a globe where ld starts in the late night, we discovered the theme of this jam. Not the best thing we hoped for, but we will try and we will have fun.

Hey, play our game if you haven't already. Collect some books, get squashed by evil crystall at our game

2d graphics with 3d rendered into sprites, ~~cute~~ angry crystall noises and library full of books on athletics. Explore the Crystal Library and see how much books you will collect.

Play Game

Did you know that the more books you have, the more librarians there is?

If you didn't already, please try our game.

But seriously, thank you everyone for warm comments, it's very satisfying to see people like some aspects of the game, and they see what you were trying to show with them.

It's our second finished game for Ludum Dare and it's always pleasant to see other people entries and recieve a feedback. We are planning to add something new and polish room and mechanisms generation(actually we put a lot of thought into it, as always we had to cut it all, but now we have time AND will to implement it properly) for the post jam version, so stay tuned.

Also, I am really surprised how people handled the theme, I've seen very creative concepts and really good combinations and as always I am thankfull for being able to try out these unusual gems and for being a part of this community.

If you hadn't already, please try our game at our page

We also have fixed a few unpleasant bugs(like the first gif below) in their behavior(a remenant line of code, put by sleepy me).

This is the bug in crystall "sleepiness" after spawn, he even didn't realize he killed me. It's fixed now.

And there is some gameplay gifs.

You can play it here.

By the way, I really like new(Well, I didn't participate last time, so it's new for me anyway) "Play and rate" feature, very useful.

But enough of that, your queen awaits you!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/let-there-bee-sacrifices

If you are looking for a game to play, try ours.

It's a short game about little bees trying to defend their castle. Amass a giant swarm and defeat yolo jackets!