Hello guys!

this is my 3rd ludum dare, and i'm really excited to participate once again

i will be using:

Engine: Unity Music: Garage Band Art: Procreate + Ipad

good luck to everyone, have fun!

I’m not sure if I'm going to make it to the compo, but I finally finished all the game core mechanics. hope to make it in time. :slight_smile:

Now I can go through all the rooms, pick items and show messages.

This was a strange (but awesome) Ludum Dare. I chose to participate alone because I really wanted to develop my own idea. I wanted to make a "cute" game based on long dialogues and scenes with just one image, but I ended up doing a very dark and environmental game.

That shows me once again that I have to learn how to stick to my initial ideas and don't iterate too much.

A proof of what I am saying are the concepts I made. Clearly there is almost no direction:

As you can see, I went from "dragon ball" like characters to something more similar to what I ended doing. But was a long road and a lot of time wasted.

After finishing my game I felt a bit sad because I didn't include everything I wanted. The idea was destroy the island, get out in a boat and arrive to another island where you could interact with other entities.

But a good thing is that I managed to make a decent amount of gameplay to extend the duration of the game 8-10 minutes.

The overall reception in general have been really good! (better than I expected) It feels so good read nice feedback or comments from people who really understood what you wanted to say. That thing for me is the best part of Ludum Dare.

What worked

I spent the whole first night (about 3-4 hours) composing music. I wanted to make it an important part of the game because the environment for me is essential. It seems like for now it worked well because I've only received good comments about it.

People who have played my game said that it is really "moody", so in the end I managed to make the game feel the way I wanted it to.

Even if they are very simple I am quite happy with the graphics. I really like the 1-bit style and since the beginning I knew I was going to do something completely black and white.

What did not work

Before today the game controls were really bad. Path finding was broken and the interactions were too slow. I received lots of comments about it and I did fix some issues. I hope that after this update the game feels better.

As I said, I wanted to include a lot more content, but I spent too much time working on code that in the end was not even used. Lesson learned for future Ludum Dares.

And that's it!

I want to upload a timelapse soon (I have to guess how to export stuff with chronnolapse), so if you are interested, visit my page one of these days!

For now, here are some concepts I made: (recorded with procreate app).

Play Daydreaming Island Here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/daydreaming-island :milky_way:

It's finally here!

My game (Daydreaming Island): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/daydreaming-island

It's a short introspective story.

I want to play games too! Just put them in the comments section!

Thank you all for your feedback and for your kind words! Ludum Dare community is the best!
I hope you've had fun with my game!!!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/daydreaming-island

Thank you Ludum Dare community, your comments have been awesome!

Play (and rate) my game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/daydreaming-island

This is my 4th LUDUM DARE! I will be participating with @micho this time

we will use Unity (engine), Garage Band (music) and Affinity Designer + iPad for graphics.

good luck everyone!

You can find my previous games here: https://c4m.itch.io

Here we go again...

tools I will be using for this LD:

Shyer, my own javascript game library (code) Affinity Designer, PyxelEdit + iPad (art) Garage Band (music, sounds)

good luck to everyone, have fun! :smile:

I finally have a good idea and a working design... now let's implement this thing. hope to make it before the deadline!

I'll be using game maker 2, pyxeledit and GarageBand .

have fun everyone!

after one night of thinking and iteration we finally have an idea... let's hope it works fine now

I didn't think we could achieve it, I am very tired and there are a lot of things to solve yet, but the game is playable from start to finish and we are very happy to share it with you guys!

We had an excellent ludum dare: beers, laughs, different cool ideas, and the best thing of all is to have a game that exist and can be shared, even if its bad (hehe).

I hope you've had a great LD too!

@sebastt and @camilo

OUR GAME HERE:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/duckbucks-caffee-express

I'm in again, this time I'll go for the compo

GLHF

today I will start working on my game (busy saturday) I hope tonight + tomorrow is enough to finish it.