Another Ludum Dare weekend done, only this time with less people, and a bit less time. We've continued the tradition of using Craig Killbane as our main character, and sending him to fight another wacky enemy (Very loosely based off of our deep Killbane canon).

You can play our submission here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/nuclear-arms-4-fallout-of-the-mountain-king

With a bit less people than before we decided to use some 2D pathfinder code I've been working on. The code itself I thought was pretty solid, but quickly learned that it worked well only with the configured character size and speed I was using. So when we added in the Bear enemies it did not quite work so well as they were larger and moved faster than what the pathfinder was previously tested on. Fortunately, It did not end up breaking the game, it just shows a little bit some times when the enemies sometimes spin or get stuck in holes. It's something that I plan to work on and fix sometime later, since I thought the code was pretty solid before we ended up actually using it for something.

I usually end up taking off the Monday to finish up our Ludum Dare games, but this one crept up on me so I was too late to request some time off. So the game was mostly finished during the first 48 hours, with only some minor touch-ups before we submitted on Monday

We had a lot of fun this time around, coming up with ideas and stupid plot points to go off of. We hope you all enjoy the ridiculous slides we made to tell our story as well as the shoot-em up game we ended up making. If you liked the game, I would recommend taking a look at some of our past submissions (linked in our submission above) so that you can more thoroughly enjoy the plot ;)

Be on the lookout for Craig Killbane's next game Nuclear Arms 5 Title to be determined coming some time next Ludum Dare (or the one after that).

Since our first Ludum Dare (32, Theme: Unconventional Weapon) we've stuck with the same character and built on it in every game. It's fun to keep making some wierd random plot for our 80s style action hero character, and we generally manage to get a different genre each time. We're pretty sure we'll always try to fit our Character Craig Killbane into every Ludum Dare we do from here on out. This game jam was extra special as we managed to make a 3D model for him. A 3D artist/animator joined our team and I don't think it could have turned out better. We're pretty sure the biggest fans of Killbane is us, but we hope others can enjoy the wackyness. Shoutout to @pkenny though as he commented about previous games and really made our day!

Anyway, give our game a try. It might be our best yet

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/nuclear-arms-5-orphan-overdrive

We made a Craig Killbane Gingerbread man, it unfortunately probably won't taste very good

We also hit 20 votes for our game. Thanks to everyone who played! Hope you all enjoyed it. If you haven't played it yet you should check it out here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/nuclear-arms-5-orphan-overdrive

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/nuclear-arms-6-waste-wizards-tricks

Our latest installment of Nuclear Arms is in and it's a good one. We had a good time making it, but we have an even better time getting other people to ;D.

We messed up a bit on the final boss design and made it not entirely obvious when you can hit him. But most people seem to have been able to figure out how to do it as far as we can tell. It's got a rocking main theme and we got some pretty great art. So come check it out!

Hey is anyone else having issues with links being turned into < /link> in their ludum dare submission? I'm trying to set up a series of links to everyone's socials and our past games but the preview just eats all the links now :(