Wanted to make something cool or at least fun for a loooong, but there were not enough time or i was being lazy. Half an hour ago read a huge post from a guy, who published a cool game, starting from Ludum dare. Thought to myself "hmmm, I wonder, when the next ludum dare will be", checked when the next Ludum dare will be... 10 minutes, ok..., I'll go make coffee...

I desided to make a game with a friend of mine, cause im a terrible coder, and so we spent a couple of hours plaing games, yeah... but, hear me out, it wasn't a total waste of time, we came up with a pretty solid idea. Its quite small scale and not too complicated, so i hope we, being 2 amatures, will be able to handle.

I was going to post here from time to time, to keep myself motivated and focused, but didn't find time for that, guess I'l do it now. I haven't seen a pillow for a while, my back hurt and my hands are numb, but i finished all the visuals (almost). Thank god for my coding friend, I have no clue how would I make all this alone. The game is not finished yet, visuals are 90-95% done, coding is 60-70% done, it will probably be done before the time runs out , sounds were not been touched at all yet but i have a really bad plan how to finish all of it in an hour. Im not sure if the game will be finished complitely, we have cuted corners left and right, but it will be playable and maybe, i hope, somewhat enjoyable.

Oh, i copeletely forgot, the game, yeah... It's more a toy, or a bunch of minigames tied together, you need to do simple actions in a 10 second timeframe over and over several times in a row, the ammount of things you need to manage simultaneously will grow. We were planning to make much more variants of minigames, so the game could shuffle them and force the you to play different ones, to prevent the player from getting too much comfortable to the minigames, but again, time is not unlimited so all these features will stay in my dreams, at least for a while. Right now we have 6 planed minigames, If smthing goes very wrong, there will be 5, i hope. Oh, I nearly forgot again, one of the minigames is smthing special, smthing you have never seen before, cause to win in it you will need to press ONE BUTTON EVERY 10 SECONDS, yeah, i know...astonishing. Here is the full game field, you will have to use both the keyboard and the mouse.

an hour ago we were stressed out, we were rushing to finish all the content, turns out there is an extra hour for uploading, well, this is convenient. I did around 95-98% of the graphics i planned, sadly we had to cut out 2 games out of 6, + there are no sounds at all, whatever, It's playable and maybe even somewhat enjoyable, so give it a try: https://ldj.am/$303538

Made a game about collecting taxes. This was my third ludum dare. Really wanted to fit in to compo, but overscoped a bit and didnt fit in. Sad, but atleast i finished the game. Wanted to make a web build, but couldnt figure out how to upload. Had to settle on desctop build, because missing a second deadline would have been awkward.

Had a lot of problems with the web build, nearly missed the deadline for the jam, but after some head scratching and voodoo rituals I manadged to get it working on itch. So now there is no need to download any sketchy files)) Pls give it a try. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/crown-and-taxes Thanks Ludum Dare for existing and everyone for participating.

Usually when I plan a game, I doodle. For a collector theme I had a bunch of ideas like collecting plastic soldiers or "collector" as a huge barrel with water, but all these ideas were too hard to make solo due to the amount of assets. Short story shorter, I decided to make a game inspired by "Sort the Court" (link on itch: https://graebor.itch.io/sort-the-court ). My idea was: "you collect taxes for the king".

I usually specialize in pixelart, but this time I wanted to make something more cartoony and less pixelarty.

I tried not to spend too much time on this stage, because I planned to fit into the COMPO time limit, but I couldn't find a design I liked.

At some point I ended up with 2 kings instead of just one. Funny thing, I tried a bunch of ideas, but a couple of them were present from the very beginning and stayed until the final designs. These are the colors, the red hair, and a huuuge nose.

I was planning to make a couple of ending screens for lose and win conditions, but it had to be cut off, so I’m gonna put it here.

So yeah, I yapped about character design, pls give my game a try here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/crown-and-taxes Thanks

btw play my game pls, thanks: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/$427172

This is my clingy cat. She distracted me from time to time for the entire jam, and somewhere on the second day she pinned me down to the floor and refused to let me continue working on the game. The floor was cold and uncomfortable, but I couldn't do anything and had to endure this cruel torture. After what I had to go through, I had no other choice, but to add her to the game.

So yeah, I yapped about my cat, pls give my game a try here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/elder-signals Thanks