So I think I shall be entering this, the 40th ludum dare. This will be my first time so uh... Good luck all!

Second Ludum Dare! Using Unity maybe gimp & blender and some audio tools.

This will be my second ludum dare but third game jam overall :3

Good luck and have fun everyone!

Features - Platformer - Roguelite - Kill villagers to survive

Check out the game page

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/sacrifice-knight

Or Go directly to the game

https://balgorode.itch.io/sacrifice-knight

Please give it a try and leave a review I enjoy reading all comments and learning from them!

I was reading through the comments on my game Sacrifice Knight, and I really enjoyed all the feedback and critiques, it's giving me lots of ideas on how to improve for next time. With that said I am looking for more people to play my game, and if you do, please leave a comment and critique it. I will try to get around and play your guy's games as well.

Check out the game page

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/sacrifice-knight

At some point @matank had a cool idea to just posted a list of random games they liked, mine was on it and it made me really proud of my game, so I wanted to to do the same for others and call out some games I thought were cool. So here we go!

Creepy-Crawlies

@kaunispoika

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/creepy-crawlies

Like creepy crawly bugs? Yeah me neither, but here's and rts about bugs anyway.

Battlecraft: Orcs and Famine

@sokette

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/battlecraft-orcs-and-famine

A fun, little game about managing your orc resources until something goes wrong and everyone dies horribly!

Dark Villagers

@praleks @mavne @skigfx @dimauknow @awix

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/dark-villagers

Manage a town of cultists and defend it as angry people come to kill you, the art in this game is really good.

Altitude Sickness

@antti-tiihonen

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/altitude-sickness

This one is hard to describe, you have to climb to the flag, but by using the frozen bodies of others to do so...

Astronaut's Journey

@radical-dog

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/astronauts-journey

Try and reach the moon on your rocket, I have a bit of a bias towards this one because it has an upgrade sytem like mine.♥

Feel free to suggest more in the comments!

Not that great in some areas but 43rd in fun is pretty good I think! And 102nd Overall ain't bad either, thanks guys!

Results

Overall: 102nd (3.735 average from 36 ratings)

Fun: 43rd (3.926 average from 36 ratings)

Innovation: 295th (3.074 average from 36 ratings)

Theme: 287th (3.368 average from 36 ratings)

Graphics: 151st (3.662 average from 36 ratings)

Audio: 230th (3.059 average from 36 ratings)

Humor: 97th (3.391 average from 34 ratings)

Mood: 177th (3.344 average from 34 ratings)

Not exactly the theme I wanted but oh well, let's do this! Good luck everyone!

After many hours I have made some progress, still a lot of work to do in every aspect though. It doesn't help that I scrapped my entire project and restarted like 18 hours in... XD

Just thought I would recommend some games I played that I thought were cool. I believe these are all compo games btw.

Well first I’d like to recommend my own: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/courier-of-fire

Here’s one I thought was really funny: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-creature-dies

Pretty fun one: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/my-pets-dungeon

Cool game, awesome cutscene: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-acolyte

Unique fun game (At least I think so): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/stay-away-from-my-eggplant

Very silly: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-negotiator

VERY Frustrating, but cool: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-calm

Cute: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/medusa

My puzzle game for the compo, I am proud of it so I wanted to share. :3

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/courier-of-fire

There's still lots of time to review games, over eleven days atm!

I had stopped reviewing because I've already done like 70 or so, but @slimbun told me to review more so... I guess I will!

Here are my suggestions, looking forward to this Compo :)

And some tips taken from the following posts, check them out if you want more:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/soaring/my-take-on-how-to-suggest-good-themes

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/ocean-view-hotel/how-to-improve-your-theme-suggestions

• Short and Vague you want to get the ball rolling, not lock people into a specific game. For example, "Greek Mythology" could just be "Mythology". Or "Infinite Lives" could just be "Infinite".

• Don't Suggest Light and Dark This is not a general tip, every Ludum Dare there are just way to many duplicate suggestions of "Light vs Dark", "Light and Dark", "Black and White", etc... Just don't do it.

• Don't be Subversive People are going to try and subvert the theme anyway, that's some of the fun, but putting the 1000th "You are the Final Boss" just restricts people.

And best of luck to you all <3

And frankly I haven't made a game in a while, but it's time to fix that!

I am very excited, good luck all! ;)

I for one am struggling with this theme, I really like it, but I can't think of any ideas... xD

I had so scrap so much to get it ready for the compo, sad but I didn't even have time for jam.

No big deal, I had fun, looking forward to rating games!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/stranded-trooper

Is it after the jam or is it now and I'm just not seeing it? I forget.

Wasn't sure about the theme at first, so I wasn't gonna bother, but now I just might.

Maybe...

Game is done! Very happy :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/deliver-unto-dusk

I think I got everything uploaded right...

Though I did have to skip adding sound...

Either way, good luck everyone!