Hi
This will be my first Game Jam, but I think I'm ready for this challenge.
I feel quite confident with coding and 2D art at the moment, but I'm struggling when it comes to sound :smile:
I also have little experience with 3D art, so I hope MagicaVoxel will do the trick.
Tools: - Unity - Microsoft Visual Studio - SketchBook - MagicaVoxel - Abundant Music or Bosca Ceoil - ChipTone or Bfxr - Audacity
Wish you guys all the best.
BR Backurio (FireTotemGames)
Progress was really good. Running around and gathering works for my small villagers + animations. Sacrificing to god works and if god is angry he/she starts killing your villagers. (not shown in the picture)
Day 2: - improving gameplay and balancing - Music and sound effects - improving of UI - completing start menu and game over scene - improving graphics if there is still time left
Hi fellow game developer
I'm really glad that I finished my first game jam in time with a game I'm really proud of. In between I was not sure if the gameplay will be interesting, but after a lot of tweaking I think I created a small challenging strategy game.
https://firetotemgames.itch.io/village-of-sacrifice-ld43
Now it's time to go to bed. I can't wait to see all of your results in the next days and I hope to get good feedback from you.
I hope you all finished in time or will finish in time.
Good night :wave:
PS: Here are some screenshots from my game.
Sorry for that many questions :smile:
Can anybody explain me how this metrics work? (see screenshot below) 1. I guess "Ratings given" are the ratings the user has given. Is this number only for this game jam or since he/she joined ludum dare? How can this be floating point number? 2. How can "Ratings received" be a floating point number? 3. What is "Classic Balance"? What is a good value and how do I improve it? 4. What is "Smart Balance"? What is a good value and how do I improve it?
BR Backurio
Thanks to Unity's easy porting to other devices you can play Village of Sacrifice on your Android at the bus, in the school, at work, on the toilet or wherever you want :laughing: (Sorry Iphone users)
Just download the .apk file from my itch.io page and run it on your phone.
https://firetotemgames.itch.io/village-of-sacrifice-ld43
This is just a test because I have no idea how my friend can find me otherwise :D
Second LD jam for me, third jam overall. Planned to start in a team, but life had other plans. So, I'm again alone and have to do everything on my own again. More stress and less time, good combination :laughing:
I wish you all the best for your game development and have fun.
Edit: No team this time, i'm alone again
A lot of stuff come together and additionally the theme just doesn't click for me and I can't get an idea which really motivates me.
But I will appreciate the theme of this jam over this weekend. Your life is currency, which means that your life (or better your lifetime) is what you use to trade to get money (at least in most jobs) to be able to live/survive. The only problem is that you can't really get additional lifetime. Once it is spend it is gone and you won't get it back.
So every second you trade/spend is really precious. Therefore, I will use the time I planned for the jam to really improve my skills in programming/drawing, to be in a better condition for the next games/game jams.
But I wish you all the best for your games and I'm really looking forward to playing them.
After quite some time now (9 month) I found a cool graphics designer and musician who helped me remake my game for the Ludum Dare 43 last year. If anybody wants to check it out, here is the link:
https://firetotemgames.itch.io/village-of-sacrifice-remake
Here is a small comparison between the graphics I was able to create within 48h and what a real graphics designer can create :laughing:
After having to skip two ludum dare game jams, I finally found the time for to join this one. I have participated in a few game jams on itch.io and co and I'm bringing an awesome musician with me for Ludum Dare 46. Unfortunately, our artist had to cancel and now we are looking for one (or more) artist(s). I'm experienced in 2D, but I'm up for the 3D challenge.
If you are interested, just respond to this message and we will get into contact.
You can checkout my games here https://firetotemgames.itch.io/.
Wish you all the best for the jam. Have fun and make awesome games.
Our game MyTube really started to come together at day 2.
With the graphics, music and sound effects added plus some tweaking and new feautes it starts to feel like a game and we think it will be fun to play.
Please checkout a video on my twitter page. The video refused to upload here. https://twitter.com/FireTotemGames/status/1252053037243383808
If you don't like twitter, here are some screenshots:
Choose your character, name your MyTube channel and try to reach the ultimate goal of 100 million subscribers.
Play and rate the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mytube
If you leave a comment, we will checkout your game too of course ;)
We have added the original soundtrack for our game to our itch.io page. Please download it if you want and play it all day long, or just a few times :laughing:
https://firetotemgames.itch.io/mytube
Please also stop by our game and give it a voting. Leave a comment if you want us to play and vote your games too.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/mytube
Really hyped to participate in the Ludum Dare 47 game jam with my best friends. Here's a quick break down of our roles.
Looking forward to the theme announcement and an awesome game jam weekend.
We hope that all of you have a great time and create some awesome, funny, silly, dumb, fantastic, mind-blowing, ... games :laughing:
Take on the role of an ordinary government worker who has lived most of her live with the knowledge that she has been IN THE LOOP about information that is not accessible to the public. After finding a shocking correspondence from her superiors that revealed to her how much she did not know about, she decided to act!
Will you be able to successfully navigate through restricted areas of the government building and obtain incriminating material to expose them?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/the-inner-circle
Small preview of the current state of our game after day 1.
! Get ready for janky controls and rage quits !
Desclaimer: We are not liable for any damage caused while playing our game.
Another great Ludum Dare game jam is over and we managed to finish our game in time. And boy oh boy are we proud of this one. We wish others who are not this far all the best to release their games too.
A big thank you to @merlinnsound for the awesome music and sound effects. The game wouldn't be half as good without them.
If you want to test your swimming skills in a physics-based ragdoll rage game, here is the link. We hope you have fun and don't destroy any equipment 🙈
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/how-to-swim
I just wanted to say that it's crazy how good some of your games look just by scrooling through the Homepage. Awesome job from all the 2D and 3D artist out there.
I was too lazy to get a 2D artist into my team and stuck with the unity internal sprites and systems and font. I think it still looks quite decent 😅😅
The goal was clear. Make a QWOP/Getting Over It like game where you control the two arms (upper arm and lower arm or shoulder and elbow as we called it) of a physics-based ragdoll character to dive down 100m.
First step was to get the arms move in a somewhat organic and logic manner. This was achieved within a very short time.
After that it was time to add the movement part. For this I swapped the background with an super ugly checkerboard to see the movement and I started to think about how to calculate the applied forces. For the physics calculations Unity did all the parts, but I had to come up with a clever way of preventing wrong forces so that the swimming feels realistic.
The steps above took only a few hours to finish and the rest of the jam was spent making it look cool, add some background elements to make the scene feel more alive. Then we added an objective for the player to get, main menu, pause menu and of course music and sounds which were done by @merlinnsound.
But, the main mechanic (apart from some tweaking) stayed the same. The final result you can see below.
If you want to checkout our game, here is the link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/how-to-swim
If you leave a comment, we will return the favor.
Guys and girls, it's only 100 meters.
How hard can it be to dive down 100 meters?
Don't you want to get the treasure?
