I probably should have shared this earlier, but this year I will be participating using my own engine I’ve put together in HTML 5 over the past year or so.  As is only fair, I’d like to share with you the “blank” version of my engine I’m starting off my game with!  You may download the JS files here!

This is more or less an enhanced version of the engine I used during LD29 to make Strawberry in the Underworld.  It features MUCH better handling of sprite animations, a basic structure for Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes, and has a bunch of added functions that just make it easier for me to use.  I apologize that I have no form of documentation outside of code comments, but if you can manage to work out the inner workings in time to use for this jam, feel free!  And let me know! I would feel so honored!

Good luck to everybody who’s participating!  The theme definitely promises some interesting entries and I look forward to playing them!

-Alex Mankin

Screenshots of early development are always wonderful because they rarely make any sense at all. What’s even happening here? It’s a mystery.

My compo game is up!  If you haven’t played it, what’s wrong with you?

This is an idea I was immediately excited about as soon as I came up with it.  Probably it’s the most fun I’ve had making a game in a long time and I hope the fun I had making it carries over into the gameplay experience!

The game’s style is heavily inspired by Teen Girl Squad, from the days of yore when Homestar Runner was a thing.

Also, I hope you enjoy math.  Because you’re gonna have to do a lot of it.

Please check it out!

Look at all these exciting things people are saying about Billy McMath Solves Problems! Boy, it’s too bad you were too busy playing other games and eating bon bons to play and rate this legendary title! Darn! Shoot!

But wait, it isn’t too late!  You still have nearly two hours to tell me how much you love my game!  Your dreams can still come true!  Don’t pass up this opportunity to leave a comment on your favorite game of all time!

Play and rate Billy McMath Solves Problems immediately!

Unless things go horribly wrong within the next several days, I fully plan to participate in LD33! Probably I will use Unity again, although my heart still belongs to HTML5.

On top of that, I’m gonna try to stream my development and play a bunch of your games live during the rating weeks. I can be a very harsh critic, mind you, but I will do my best to give the most honest advice I can.  So please look forward to that, the excitement should probably be enough to keep you awake every night until the jam.

In the meantime, you can play all two of my old Ludum Dare games!  One of them won a gold circle! But could my LD33 game perhaps win even more gold circles?  Only time will tell.

I’m pretty bummed that I had to take an extra day for my entry, but I think the final product is worth it!  Following in the footsteps of Billy McMath, this baby is nearly twenty minutes long and is fully voiced.  I hope you guys enjoy it because working with all of this audio has been a crazy nightmare and it’s extremely miraculous that I pulled off something as decent-looking as this is.

Click here to play The Trial of Tyrone Rex!

Playing and rating games!  Come in and check it out!  Submit your game here!

Let’s get some viewers up in here!

Woo!

Wooooo!

Hey! Did you like The Trial of Tyrone Rex? Did you dig those sweet melodies humming modestly in the background?  Well now you can listen them loudly right up in yours ears!  That’s right, the soundtrack for Tyrone Rex is now available on Soundcloud!  Download it! Show it off to your friends!  Bang your head violently to the smooth piano verses riddled about this game’s score!

Go check it out, yo.

Tags: ludum dare #33, music, OST, the trial of tyrone rex

I want you guys to be a part of it this time!  Let’s make this weekend super fun and maybe get a funny game out of the whole ordeal!

Come see me on Twitch!
Stream goes up around 8:00 PM EST

Good luck to all participants! Let’s make LD34 amazing!

Stream starts now! Dev starts in an hour!

Come hang out!