It is my first Ludum Dare. I will work solo, and it will be my first time to draw something for my game. It’s a challenge!
My tools:
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Since many players commented my game Birdy Bridge is hard, I decided to make an “easy mode”.
The easy mode should be much easier. However, I DO suggest trying the normal mode first. The easy mode might be too easy. I would only suggest it if you stuck in level 2 and you want to enjoy the music and graphics in further levels.
The default one is the normal mode made in 48 hours. The entrance to the easy mode is in the links. The level progress is shared between two modes.
I hope you can enjoy 
It is my first Ludum Dare (not my first game jam though). I made my game Birdy Bridge. I could never imagine I finished a game with such completeness in 48 hours. Graphical and musical effects are out of my expectation. It is a game with new ideas for the gameplay and fairy-tale-style art.
This game is inspired by Chinese folktale The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, but the ending is totally different because you are the monster. Acturally it doesn’t matter if you have no idea about the story itself.
Now here is what I’ve done in 48 hours (originally written in Chinese). I hope my English is good enough to express.
Theme
I am mostly a front-end developer, so I was prepared with HTML5/JavaScript with CreateJS. CreateJS is a good framework for prototyping games, though not perfect. I have used it before. It could decrease my coding time and solve some browser compatibility issues for me.
I voted for all candidate themes and gave -1 for you are the monster. I do not like this theme at all. I do not want players to act as monsters, and I’ve never drawn monsters before 
But I had to make it. I was considering a game “finally find that I am the monster”, something like “princess finally find the prince and eat him”. Later, the folktale came into my mind (because Qixi Festival in China just passed two day before). Then I designed a game “prevent lovers from reunion”.
Originally in the final level, players should act as the boss. However, I gave up this idea for I thought it bad for overall gameplay, so it was somewhat away from the theme. Sorry.
Graphics
40 minutes passed when I finished thinking about the theme. I thought I should hurry up. I had to do the following myself: graphics, programming, level design, texts, music, and final fixes.
I started from graphics. Here I made an important decision: using vector graphics. Vector graphics would meet the folktale, and could save me lots of time! I did not wasted much time in graphics, and improved overall quality and completeness.
In the next 1 hour, I drew a girl in pink and a bird that not moving. Both of them are replaced by better sprite sheets later. Then I spent another hour to structure basic code. Before lunch (LD started at 9 a.m. for me), I could see a girl stand on a bird.
Programming and Level Design
Coding went well for me. I met a bug about path detection and fixed it soon. Some gameplay details were decided while coding. Stars were drawn. Before dinner, 3 levels and a simple game cover were done.
Then it took me a whole night to design levels, play, and fix bugs. Code were always changing. After the first day, I could see
I had to do on next day
I did some graphical fixes and slept late. In the morning of second day, I had the background image embeded into the game.
Music
Music is important to my game. I preserved a whole afternoon to create music. I planned to make two sound tracks, but finally I made 3 sound tracks in 6 hours. Crazy?
The first sound track are used in title page. It is the most important one and took most of the time. It was a combination of imagination, sorrow, and bravery. The second were created for difficult levels, and the third were used in boss fight.
Later I decided to add sound effects. It differs when jumping onto birds with different heights.
Final Fixes
The final fixes include
I finished these late in the night.
After then…
Next day, I discovered some bugs and fixed them.
Some players suggest that the game is difficult, so I released an “easy mode” several days later.
Overall, it is a great experience in Ludum Dare. I feel greate to make this game. Hope you enjoy!
Today I made my HTML5 game Birdy Bridge works on my Android devices. Now you can try in Chrome for Android, but your device should have a large screen and good network connection to load MBs of data. I think it should also works in iOS devices. A short URL: http://goo.gl/Qvbzhf
There are some other updates for all browsers. Full screen and easy mode switches have been added. Since the game get harder in touch screen, easy mode is default.
My game is totally coded in HTML5. It was not hard to port this game. I just did some fixes for performance and touch screens.
Here is the latest cover.
I would do some other fixes next week. After that, I might build apk for android devices.
If you love it, rate for me
My compo game Leaving Room is now playable on mobile devices. The mobile friendly version is available on itch.io, while the original 48h version is here.
Although it is a WebGL game, it is still not easy for porting. I implemented this game in rust and a half-done engine by myself. All the rust code were compiled to JavaScript (asm.js) to run in browser. I needed to modify some engine code and adjust the layout for touch screen.
Mobile OSes have some limitations. I feel PC has a better gaming experience for my game.
Except for rust and emscripten compilation toolchains, other tools are:
Hope you enjoy my storytelling puzzle game!
I made a special game for this Ludum Dare: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/leaving-room
It is a storytelling puzzle game. A story goes with puzzles. In different section of this story, you would find the puzzle mechanics, the sound tracks, and the graphics slightly changed to fit the emotion of the story.
It was quite challenging to make this game. I spent last several hours for the graphics and the music details, making them go well with the story. My main tools were inkscape for the images, LMMS for the music, and rust/emscripten for programing.
Hope you enjoy it! (And I would like to read your feedbacks!)
I made another storytelling puzzle game for this LD: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/little-red (HTML5 playable)
The story goes with puzzles, and your choices influence the difficulty. You can choose to sacrifice or not, but remember: sacrifices must be made.
It was challenging to design levels, and make the audio fit it. If more time given, I would improve the animation and key controls.
Hope you enjoy it, and... HAPPY NEW YEAR!